Recommendations: 3DS games

Games
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So, I’m now the owner of a 3DS XL. I have Monster Hunter 3U and really love it (especially with the Circle Pad Pro XL). Are there any other really great outstanding games that you think I should obtain?

PErsonal Likes:

JRPGs (Tales of ***** series, Final Fantasy, etc)
RPGS (Skyrim, Fallout 3, etc)
Strategy Games (Advance Wars, etc)

I’m game for any suggestions. Titles I’m currently looking at:

I was told one of the recent pokemon titles was basically a remake of the early Gold/Silver titles and I enjoyed the early pokemon games. I’m trying to find a copy of the Tom Clancy game that was released at launch for the 3ds. I’m also eyeing the Shin Megami Tensei titles that are already out (I kind of like the series, PErsona was great, Digital Devil Saga 1 was fun to play.) Hit me with your best ideas.

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Fire Emblem.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon if you like Shiren series
Etrian Odyssey IV.
Professor Layton.
Mario Kart
Soul Hackers
Persona 4

HUGE list of must-plays on DS.

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Most of the SMT games are very different than most of the other entries in the series. I’d suggest giving Devil Survivor Overclocked a go. Other than that, I’m afraid I have little to contribute, as my 3DS has largely collected dust since the system came out. I’ve heard good things about Fire Emblem.

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I had a lot of DS games, and a chunk were stolen. I only have

Infinite Space
Advance Wars Ruin
Castlevania: Portrait of Sorrow
Panzer Tactics
Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon

And one or two others now.

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That’s a Vita game. There are no Persona games on DS or 3DS at all.

Recommended DS games that mostly fit your given genres:
-999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (visual novel)
-The Dark Spire
-All the Dragon Quest games
-All the Etrian Odyssey games
-None of the Final Fantasy games except Tactics A2 (FF3 is crap, FF4 has better versions elsewhere, and the DS Crystal Chronicles games weren’t much fun)
-Ghost Trick (crazy-cool adventure game)
-Retro Game Challenge (video game based on Japan’s Game Center CX TV series; you play full NES-style games in various genres, completing assorted challenges in each, and one of them is a decent-length JRPG)
-Rhythm Heaven (easily one of the best games Nintendo has ever made)
-Rune Factory 3 (Harvest Moon action-RPG spinoff; the third numbered game is probably the best in the series so far)
-Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (I wouldn’t recommend Devil Survivor, but others like it)
-The World Ends With You

Recommended 3DS games:
-Code of Princess (beat-'em-up/RPG hybrid by the key developers of Saturn beat-'em-up classic Guardian Heroes)
-Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
-Etrian Odyssey IV
-Fire Emblem: Awakening
-Kid Icarus: Uprising
-Theatrhythm (rhythm game/RPG with Final Fantasy music)
-Virtue’s Last Reward (sequel to 999)

When they come out later this year:
-Rune Factory 4 (July)
-Shin Megami Tensei IV (July)
-Pokémon X/Y (October)

If you’re prepared to slog through a terrible story for pretty good gameplay/are already invested in the series:
-Every Kingdom Hearts game on both platforms

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Sorry, I bought both a Vita and 3DS XL at the same time recently.

Bought Code Princess but it was a bit laggy and not fun at all for me.

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Dark Spire was the Atlus title on the DS correct? That was one I lost… had a collectors edition. Need to buy it again.

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Based on this, go get Fire Emblem Awakening. It will keep you busy for a long time. If you’ve never played a FE game, it is basically Advance Wars the RPG.

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Final Fantasy IV was an excellent remake - I’ve owned/played the original SNES version (FF2), GBA port, and the PS port (FF Chronicles) and my favorite version was the DS version. The FF3 remake wasn’t bad either, for what it was: a remake of a very early FF/NES game, though I’d skip it. But the FF4 remake is one of the best JRPGs ever made. Devil Survivor was good too if you like Atlus’ SMT franchise and strategy RPGs (the DS Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre ports are also worth playing).

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Another vote for Fire Emblem: Awakening. I haven’t checked recently, but I must be pushing 100 hours into that game.

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Those are both on PSP.

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I’ll second the votes for Fire Emblem and Etrian Odyssey IV.

SMT: Devil Survivor Overclocked is great if you didn’t already play the DS version.

You might also look at Crimson Shroud, which is a short downloadable RPG that takes some cues from pen-and-paper RPGs.

Oh, and you mentioned liking the Tales of series, and I know there’s one of those on 3DS, though I haven’t played it myself.

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Tales of The Abyss, a re-release of a PS2 game.

It’s fine. It’s a Tales game, if that’s what you want.

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I think the following are great gamer type titles that make a 3ds worth owning:

Etrian Oddysey IV (grindy JRPG dungeon crawl with virtually zero story)
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars (great top down TBS game that feels miniature game-ish)

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Fire Emblem: Awakening is fantastic.
Etrain Odessey IV: is pretty good too. They reduced the grind compared to some other jrpgs by having easy farmable gold mobs.
And Monster hunter of course but u already have that :)

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The actual FFTactics and Tactics Ogre remakes are on PSP. There’s Final Fantasy Tactics A2 for DS, and there was a GBA Tactics Ogre (which would not be playable on the 3DS). Maybe that’s what he was thinking of?

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Animal Crossing when it releases this June!

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So, who here picked up Soul Hackers? Any thoughts? I’ve played a number of the SMT games, but I’m not totally clear on what the mechanics of this one are.

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I was enjoying it, but got pulled away from it by Soul Sacrifice and the anime convention I was at this weekend. I’ll get back to it sometime, since I don’t have anything coming out on 3DS until July.

Soul Hackers is pretty different as far as MegaTen games go, but it’ll also be very familiar to anyone who’s played the Raidou Kuzunoha games and/or the main-series games.
-First-person perspective, grid-based maps.
-Like the main-series games, you can talk to demons to recruit them; you can also get loot or avoid combat this way.
-You get a party of up to six members, which at the point I’m at consists of the main character, Nemissa (the girl on the cover), and up to four summoned demons; your team is divided into two rows, and most attacks can only be used from/target a single row.
-Demons themselves do not gain levels, which I kind of like for how it forces you to recruit and fuse new demons constantly to remain combat-capable.
-As it’s a Devil Summoner game, you need Magnetite to summon demons and keep them in your party while you walk around, with them incurring damage every step you take if you don’t have any MAG; this can be pretty painful early on, but I guess there are sidequests later that give you loads of the stuff, and you can always convert between yen and MAG.
-I somehow didn’t get a single StreetPass hit for the game while I was at the aforementioned convention, so I don’t know how useful the feature is; however, it’s nice to finally have something to spend Play Coins on again.

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I picked this up for some train travel I have in store for me this week. It’s a lot like Strange Journey, only a little rougher for being a couple years old. The complete lack of explanation some of the systems get is kind of charming, although the menu navigation is a little wonky. I think that Strange Journey didn’t have the magnetite drain, but otherwise it’s very familiar.

I was kind of hoping for something a little more different-er, but I’ll take it as a time-killer for a while. Now I’m kind of wishing I’d put the money towards a PSV and a copy of Persona 4G though.