What to Play on the DSi XL

A little over a month ago I wrote about whether WarioWare D.I.Y. was the game to finally get me to upgrade to a DSi XL from my sad, original DS Phat. You can read it here if you want.

The sad, original DS Phat in question.

To cut the suspense, I decided to get one. Look at it! It's pretty!

The shiny, new DSi XL in question.

So here's the deal: as you can see, I have quite the collection of games. If you can't read the cards in the image here's a list:

  • Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
  • Advance Wars: Dual Strike (better than Days of Ruin)
  • Animal Crossing
  • Chrono Trigger
  • Final Fantasy 4 (never finished)
  • Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (never started)
  • Guitar Hero: On Tour (such a mistake)
  • Henry Hatsworth
  • Mario Kart DS
  • Meteos
  • Metroid Prime: Hunters
  • Naruto: Path of the Ninja 1 and 2 (don't judge me)
  • New Super Mario Bros.
  • Ninja Town
  • Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: And Justice For All (never finished)
  • Pokemon Diamond (489 of those bitches caught!)
  • Pokemon Soul Silver (decidedly fewer caught)
  • Professor Layton and the Curious Village
  • Retro Game Challenge
  • Scribblenauts
  • Sonic Chronicles: Dark Brotherhood (never finished)
  • Sonic Rush
  • Space Invaders Extreme
  • Trauma Center: Under the Knife (never finished)
  • WarioWare D.I.Y.
  • Yoshi's Island DS (never finished)

There are six of those I've never finished. So should I go back and finish any of those or is there something I've missed? Spirit Tracks perhaps? Any game that really benefits from the extra screen real estate?

I love turn-based RPGs (not that Active Time Battle crap from the Final Fantasy series,) but with Dragon Quest 9 and Golden Sun DS on the horizon, I'm probably set in that genre.

I'm open to your suggestions.

Comments (3)

How was the Naruto Games? 

@Toby You know what, they are actually pretty satisfying. The story isn't as bad as it could be and it's balanced pretty well. No replay value whatsoever though. The sequel adds online play and when people actually played it (which I'm sure that time has passed,) it was really enjoyable.

Make sure you have a screen protector on your touch screen though because the special moves mostly require you to scribble hard to power them up. 

Thank you and maybe I will try one of these after I pick up the Japanese Goemon Game :) 

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