man i bought a first gen 3ds and quit playing as it hurt my delicate little hands but that might make me bust it back out
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 29 September 2016 05:55 (seven years ago) link
The lack of hand comfort is one of the excuses I give myself for barely having touched the system
― Nhex, Thursday, 29 September 2016 09:08 (seven years ago) link
Never had any comfort issues, can play for hours at a time. Maybe I've got weird hands tho.DQ7 is a total treat if you like old school JRPGs, love the way you visit an island in the past, solve a problem and then visit it in the present to see how it changed - not all happy endings either.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 29 September 2016 09:39 (seven years ago) link
1st gen system is very boxy and has sharp edges, they promptly rounded off and made it more grabbable for the update
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Even the XL I have still feels like you're grasping a slippery cigarette case
― Nhex, Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link
physical copies of River City Tokyo Rumble sold out in less than an hour, although it appears that fart-huffing ebay flippers bought a statistically significant number of copies. luckily I managed to get my order in during that brief window (although they're pressing a second run, complete w/ the Kunio keychain that came with initial copies); it showed up today so I haven't gotten to sink my teeth into it yet. unfortunately no co-op mode, though.
in other news, a game I've been playing a bunch lately is Gotta Protectors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHv0TbTUG4s
― thos beads (jamescobo), Friday, 30 September 2016 06:39 (seven years ago) link
Tokyo Rumble is the shit, it's basically a Yakuza game drenched in 8/16-bit charm. hopefully the demand is sufficient to convince Natsume to bring other Kunio games stateside; there's already a 3DS collection in Japan compiling basically everything as well as romhack translations of a few titles (although not the basketball game, unfortunately) that they could use as a reference:
http://nintendoeverything.com/kunio-kun-nekketsu-complete-famicom-compilation-coming-to-3ds/
― thos beads (jamescobo), Thursday, 6 October 2016 03:17 (seven years ago) link
thanks for making my decision easier! i can' tell from the list, but i hope the samurai version is in that comp
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 October 2016 03:24 (seven years ago) link
I hadn't even heard of the samurai Kunio, but from what I understand the collection is pretty comprehensive so if it came out on NES it should be on there
― thos beads (jamescobo), Thursday, 6 October 2016 04:19 (seven years ago) link
ok i checked and it IS on there. man i hope this comes out here
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 October 2016 04:30 (seven years ago) link
to the great surprise of nobody, Kirby: Planet Robobot is pretty great. I'm only a couple of worlds in, but so far it's at least as good as Triple Deluxe (which also rules).
― thos beads (jamescobo), Monday, 6 February 2017 06:09 (seven years ago) link
From a few years back: http://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-emergent-heartbreak-of-tomodachi-life#
― Nhex, Sunday, 7 May 2017 04:42 (seven years ago) link
I played through the demo for Miitopia (the Tomodachi Life RPG) in one sitting; that game appears to be extremely my shit.
― thos beads (jamescobo), Sunday, 25 June 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link
https://www.polygon.com/23024014/atlus-nintendo-3ds-sale-store
I already picked up Radiant Historia - haven't played any of these though. I'm surprised the SMT IV games haven't been ported to Switch already
― Nhex, Wednesday, 13 April 2022 21:35 (two years ago) link
I picked up a 3DS XL recently. Hacked it and have been dumping 3DS, DS, and GBA game on it. Lovely, fun little device.I mostly just wanted it to play Dragon Quest 8, but there really is a wealth of other great stuff in those libraries to explore. I’ve kinda scoured the “best games for _____” lists, but if anyone has any good recs I’m all ears.
― circa1916, Sunday, 26 February 2023 22:41 (one year ago) link
any preferred genres?
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 26 February 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
Not particularly. I picked up a bunch of Mario, Castlevania, and Metroid stuff, always a safe bet. Got some DQ games, Fire Emblem, Shin Megami Tensei 4, even some Pokémon. I suppose I should just take the time to just read through this thread too. Just curious if anyone had any in particular that stuck out for them.
― circa1916, Monday, 27 February 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
OK some less obvious 3DS games off the top of my head:Pocket Card Jockey - very addictive card based horse racing game, made by Pokemon peopleFantasy Life - Level 5 action RPG, has become a cult hit and a Switch sequel finally got announced recentlyEver Oasis - a Nintendo published action adventure game that somehow passed everyone byNES Remix - kind of like a Warioware game that takes NES games and mashes them up for quick challenges Attack of the Friday Monsters - really charming adventure game made by the "My Summer Vacation" guy. explore a small town in 1970s Japan as a kid, play card games, investigate giant kaiju footprints on the edge of town etc. makes you nostalgic for a childhood you never had.
could go on for hours about the incredible weirdness that can be found in the DS library, almost rivals the PS2 for the amount of creative madness that went on
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 27 February 2023 01:02 (one year ago) link
i second the ^ pocket card jockey & attack of the friday monsters recsassuming you have FBI running, it's pretty straight forward to find a QR for mother 3 kid icarus: uprising is good funsega arcade classics and things like 3d outrun are worth an installinazuma eleven is a high school soccer rpgdillon's dead heat breakers is a lot of things mixed together in a fun weird wayon the DS bangai-o spirits is something to behold, i mean again i'm repeating what zappi says but there's a ton of great DS games
― bridge of donkeys, Monday, 27 February 2023 02:16 (one year ago) link
I'm just finishing Devil survivor 2,both of those games are decent smt x tactics games, not mind blowing but solid
― Potemkin Mystery Dungeon (Will M.), Monday, 27 February 2023 08:16 (one year ago) link
thanks all! will be checking all these out. it is kind of a crazy library, 3DS, DS, and GBA all together, figured there had to be plenty of off-the-beaten-track titles worth exploring.
― circa1916, Monday, 27 February 2023 13:25 (one year ago) link
not to derail but zappi, i'd love to hear your DS recommendations
― bridge of donkeys, Monday, 27 February 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
I'll do one later! was thinking a lot last night about the DS library before falling asleep: playing stuff like Ouendan, Trauma Center, Layton etc for the first time and how amazing that was. also Bangai-O Spirits is a good shout, forgot about that one
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 27 February 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
also just checked and no one has done a translation patch for the Mushishi DS game ;_;
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 27 February 2023 18:21 (one year ago) link