Your favorites on the DS and PSP.

ebagg

Finally got my hands on a PSP and a DS. I was wondering what are your favorite games on these two portable pieces of gaming goodness. So far I'm loving Brain Age on DS, the Sudoku puzzles are so addicting! And I've always been a huge GTA fan so I'm very much lovin some Liberty City Stories!

Uly

The Castlevania series on the DS has lost the charm of the old art style it retained up until Aria of Sorrow, and has been replaced by some generic anime bullshit, but the gameplay is still superb. A welcome substitute for the departure of Metroid. New Super Mario Bros wasn't bad, albeit a tad bit easy. I hear Meteos is an excellent puzzle game. Another popular one I haven't tried yet is Pheonix Wright, looks funny, worth a peek. But don't forget, ANIMAL CROSSING.

As for the PSP, there's a limited library with shitloads of half-assed ports. There are a few gems though. As forementioned, GTA, as well as Lumines, Metal Slug Collection, WipEOut Pure, and Metal Gear Portable Ops.

Handhelds are great. : )

Nilium

DS: Animal Crossing, Final Fantasy 3, Brain Age. That's all I've got. I hear Metroid Prime Hunters is good too. 'Fraid I don't have a PSP though, so I can't suggest anything on that front.

LoTekK

The Phoenix Wright games are both great. Meteos is a lot of fun. I can vouch for Metroid Prime Hunters, though if you don't have the thumb stylus, be prepared for hand cramps with play sessions lasting longer than, oh, half an hour?

No PSP, but there's apparently a huge collection of PS2 games that run on an emulator on the handheld.

hawken

animal crossing

Joao Sapiro

Lumines for PSP = must , for the DS - the new mario bros

War_Destroyer

Killzone liberation, Syphon filter, if your into fighters guilty gear, Street fighter alpha 3, and tekken are very well done for the PSP. Daxter and Ratchet and clank are among the best games on the system. Oh and Lumines and Loco Roco are great if you can get them for 20 dollars or less. For Ds Games Try Custom Robo there's a shit ton of dialogue to click through at times but its like a portable Armored core, Age of Empires fucking rocks the system. I personally didn't like the Metroid game for DS to each his own.

blankslatejoe

yeah, the castlevania 'cut-scene characters' have dripped into hohum anime, but the actual game art is some of the best pixelart ever made, and the gameplay is amazingly addictive--like a sidescrolling diablo. both of the games rock.

Xenobond

Only game I bought for my PSP was Monster Hunter. Go get it and support the cause!! *_*

Keep your eye peeled for SimCity DS. Should be here sometime this summer? And, if you like strategy games Advance Wars DS is great.

Peris

The only game I keep playing on the DS is Tony Hawks american wasteland. It plays exactly like all other tony hawk games and has surprisingly good graphics.

bearkub

Cooking Mama for the DS!

jgarland

I haven't been playing my PSP much, and currently only have two games, but Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is phenomenal. The story has incredible depth (just as one would expect from the series), the graphics are just about as good as it's PlayStation 2 counterparts, the gameplay is in realtime, like other Metal Gear games, it's got online play, and there's an added element of strategy when managing your Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta teams.

I sound like a walking advertisement, but it really is a great game. Check it out.

Joshua Stubbles

PSP
- Archer Maclean's Mercury
- Mercury Meltdown
- Wipeout
- Burnout Legends
- Vice/Liberty City Stories
- LocoRoco
- PQ

AstroZombie

True Swing Golf on the DS

vahl

definitely the castlevania series on DS damn awesome gameplay and as Joe said, some of the best pixel art ever done, great music too.

on PSP, I'd say Daxter is one fo the best platformers out

Nogan

Mariokart for the DS (as long as you're playing with 2+ people with a DS)

I don't play a lot of PSP games, but Daxter's fun if you're a fan of the Jak & Daxter series, but Star Wars Battlefront II is really good too.

Joshua Stubbles

And Metal Slug Anthology on PSP

KDR_11k

Too bad they don't sell Bleach DS in the US (at least as far as I know), that's a neat little fighting game.

New Super Mario Bros is a no brainer.

I liked Megaman ZX.

Many people seem to like Trauma Center and Kirby: Canvas Curse.

Castlevania PoR seems somehow weaker than the other Cvs on the handhelds, no idea why. I like the gameplay system but the levels are less interesting. Worth playing but I'd go through the GBA Cvs (yes, even Harmony of Dissonance) and DoS first.

animatr

advance wars for the DS is the best. you can easily sink 100+hours into that game.
i'm also diggin FF3.

snemmy

if you like pokemon, then get Emerald for GBA. Pokemon Ranger was fun and you can get an exclusive by playing through the main and then all the extra missions, leading up to Diamond and Pearl for the DS this month.

New Mario was ho-hum.. not even interesting enough for me to care about finishing.

Phoenix Wright is pretty interesting, but be prepared to read A LOT!

Brain Age is good for your noggin.

Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (if you are a big fan of the old PS version)

i hear the Castlevanias are awesometastic.

avoid Diddy Kong Racing like a rabid spider monkey...

Trauma Center is a bit nerve wracking sometimes. lol

blankslatejoe

you know kdr--I felt that way about portrait of ruin too...but then I REALLY got into it..mostly its the sidequests (a great addition!) and all the OCD collectable aspects--which they really fine tuned for this game (100% the skills, items, poweringup skills, quests, map, it just keeps going..!)

nacire

I know it's not out or anything but there is hope for the psp!

Castlevainia Dracula X Chronicles looks to be sweet!

I also really want to play Pirates on PSP since I've yet to play it on any system.

Luxury

I just picked up a DS myself, so this is a good thread to read over. Although there haven't been any surprises yet.

I bought mine with Hotel Dusk (great game - probably a lot like Phoenix Wright which I haven't played yet), and Lunar Knights, which I'm holding off on playing until I beat Hotel Dusk. I hear it's great though.

Rhinokey

ELITE BEAT AGENTS. and the original game from japan ouse tatake ouendan (butchered spelling) fantastic fun games.

almighty_gir

favorite games on the psp:

sonic the hedgehog
sonic the hedgehog 2
streets of rage
double dragon
earthworm jim
mario kart
super mario world
doom

Jeff Parrott

I gotta say on the DS there's:

Elite Beat Agents
Animal Crossing
Mario Kart
New Super Mario Bros
Final Fantasy 3

On the PSP:

Syphon Filter
Metal Gear Solid
Wipeout
Lumines 1 or 2
GTA series
and of course the best game Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters is the best platformer (sorry vahl).

LoTekK

Puzzle Quest is surprisingly cool. It's basically a HOMM-style rpg (not sure how the companions thing works since I've just started playing and don't have any), where the battles are played out in a turn-based variant of Bewjewelled. I haven't played the PSP version, but I'd imagine the DS version would win out just on the fact that Bejewelled really needs a touch screen to be played properly.

Wahlgren

DS:

I love puzzle quest. Must buy it as soon as I can. It's out of stock on play.com and it's not even released in Sweden yet.

Bought castlevania por today to have something to play while I do my commuting of hell. Need to stay sane!

So far it's pretty nice.