DS Game of the Year

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Inspired by DSFanboy’s recent poll, what Nintendo DS game do you feel has been the best of 2005? There are so many, I know, but you can only pick one.

So what’ll it be?

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20 Comments

  1. 1.) Mario Kart DS
    2.) Animal Crossing
    3.) Advance Wars

  2. You forgot Nintendogs!

  3. animal crossing. mario kart is fun or whatever for the first few hours, but then the drifting and drafting just get soo monotonous. online play is dull and boring, too. animal crossing is really engaging. it’s like the original, but more polished and accessible. definitely a hit.

  4. Right now, AC is the best game ever.

  5. ZOOKEEPER Game of the Year

    This may sound like a funny choice, but it’s the only game out of my “collection” that I go back to again and again and again. A bit like your favorite album.

    Amongst others I own (like most people) the likes of Mario Kart, Metoes, AdvanceWarsDS, Touched, ElectroP, SM64DS, Nintendogs and they are all exceptional games, which suck you in like a bad skag habit, in the short to medium term, but then leave you a bit over-saturated and immune to their charms.

    Zoo keeper is the drug, the dealer and detox programme. A very vicious circle.

    It’s nowhere near as popular, or as technologically proficiant as the names listed earlier, but this game sums up all that is great about the DS. Short and long play modes, single card multiplayer, touch or dpad input, sound/visual presentation that get the job done at no expense to the gameplay. I’ve even seen females with no interest in games play it like cats on heat, pawing vicously at a carpetted post.

    There you go.

  6. ZOOKEEPER Game of the Year

    This may sound like a funny choice, but it’s the only game out of my “collection” that I go back to again and again and again. A bit like your favorite album.

    Amongst others I own (like most people) the likes of Mario Kart, Metoes, AdvanceWarsDS, Touched, ElectroP, SM64DS, Nintendogs and they are all exceptional games, which suck you in like a bad skag habit, in the short to medium term, but then leave you a bit over-saturated and immune to their charms.

    Zoo keeper is the drug, the dealer and detox programme. A very vicious circle.

    It’s nowhere near as popular, or as technologically proficiant as the names listed earlier, but this game sums up all that is great about the DS. Short and long play modes, single card multiplayer, touch or dpad input, sound/visual presentation that get the job done at no expense to the gameplay. I’ve even seen females with no interest in games play it like cats on heat, pawing vicously at a carpetted post.

    There you go.

  7. I knew I should have kept it to one line.
    Fecking comments boxes.

  8. It’s a toss up for me.

    1. Kirby Canvas Curse
    2. Animal Crossing WW

    Honorable Mention:
    Trauma Center: Under the Knife
    Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!

  9. Advance Wars: Dual Strike

  10. Meteos, for the sole fact that it has literally never been done before, and it showcases how the “other” portable systems cannot expand outside of the monotonous norm gaming has become. I guess that’s two things, so sole fact doesn’t apply, but who cares.

  11. Nintendogs is GREAT – but the fun does wear thin.

    MarioKart is awesome too – but one player mode get’s old once you’ve earned all the golds / and online sucks when you’re pitted against jackass-snakers. Online mode against friends and Time attack are really where it’s at.

    Animal Crossing is way cool, and incredibly deep, but I can’t play it for extended amounts of time without getting a little bored.

    Advance wars is Excellent, but it doesnt have an online mode, which would make the game an absolute number 1 choice. If it got Online mode with Chat, that would be it.

    Those are my top favs, and I think that I’m going to pick

    Mario Kart

    granted I have not played ElectroPLankton yet or Trauma Center or Sonic – which I want…

  12. I don’t I can just pick one. But one game that I don’t see many talking about that is just filled with eye candy, funny, excellent gameplay, innovative and just all around a great time is Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time. I think this is one of the best looking (graphics/art style) game the DS has to offer, it’s kind of been drowned out by Mario Kart and Animal Crossing though. A lot of reviews have said it’s just the same graphics as the first one…but I disagree, it’s oozing with style and polish no other DS game has (best looking sprite based game I’ve played).

    Mario and Luigi: PiT is currently charming the pants off me, and is getting my top vote. though a close 2nd and 3rd goes to Mario Kart and Advanced Wars.

  13. While I know that it will never be voted as game of the year, here goes my choice: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan is my favorite game of the year for the DS.

    Followed closely by Mario Kart, of course.

  14. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow

    Great game, loads of replay, action, and nostalgic values.

  15. This is good. Now I gotta try Meteos and Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time.

    Silent K, Electroplankton is pretty. It’s more of an app than a game though.

    And Greywolf I did mention Osu! I wish they would port that one over so it could get a wider audience. I really love that game.

  16. 1. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
    2. Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!
    3. Animal Crossing: Wild World

  17. Animal Crossing: Wild World
    Kirby Canvas Curse
    MarioKart DS
    Castlevania DS
    Meteos
    Nintendogs
    Advance Wars DS
    Sonic Rush
    Mario and Luigi PiT

  18. Advance Wars DS is the clear winner in my mind. But I love in the UK and havn’t got the likes of AC:WW yet… One of these days though!

  19. METEOS!

  20. I’d Have to say Nintendogs. it really took advantage of the DS’s stylus and microphone

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