In the past few years many once thought lost Japanese games have been localized in the West. It took Trials of Mana over two decades to come out from the Super Famicom to the Switch for example. The DS is an odd du꧃ck out though. It is s𝔍till the best selling handheld of all time, and yet many of the system’s greatest treasures remain trapped in Japan.
Some of the following games have received fan patches,꧙ which is always nice for research purposes, but others on here were more elusive. In no par🔜ticular order, these ten DS games are in need of an official release. It is never too late for a good game to come out.
10 Fire Emblem: Sh💯in Mons🌟ho no Nazo: Hikari to Kage no Eiyu
Fire Emblem: Shin Monsho no Nazo: Hikari to Kage no Eiyu, or Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem: Heroes of Light and Shadow, launched in 2010. It is the fourth remake, or enhanced version of the original 𝓡game with additional content.
And here is a big piece of trivia. The biggest inclusion was the first implementation of the Casual mode, which turned off permadeath. The first time the West got a taste of this was the game that changed it all, Fire Emblem: Awakening. Despite never coming over, it too is great, and fans have even t💖ranslated🎃 it into English.
9 ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat
ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat released in 2007. It was developed by Mistwalker, the studio Final Fantasy creator, Hironobu Sakaguchi, ꦅstarted after he left Square Enix. It is the one console a🎃nd handheld game from this studio that never came to the West, but fans made sure to rectify this with 🐬a full English patch.
It is also a tactical RPG, but one that is less punishing than Fire Emblem.
8 Jump Ultimate Stars
Jump Ultimate Stars launched in 2006. Forget last year’s , this is, as the name implies, the ultimate celebration of Jump comic stars like Dragon Ball, One Piece, Naruto, and about thirty others.
The 2D pixels and animations are great and stages even pay homage to their comics better, looking like actual pa🎃nels from a book. One can’t enjoy the story, but there is a partial patch out there to help out with some menus at least.
7 Ganbare Goemon: Tokai Dochu Oedo Tengu ri Kaeshi no Ma♐ki
Ganbare Goemon: Tokai DochU Oedo Tengu ri Kaeshi no Maki released in 🥃2005. It is notably the last main game in the Goemon franchise. There have been some mobile games and a few Pachinko slot machines since, but that is about i﷽t.
It plays like the rest of the series, which is to say like The Legend of Zelda if Link was a ninja and had the art style of Okami. Like many games in this series, i🍒tܫ does not have a fan patch.
6 Gyakuten Kenji 2
Gyakuten Kenji 2, or Ace Attorney Investigations 2, launched in 2011. This is the second Miles Edgeworth focused spinoff to the Phoenix Wright games🌃. Compared to the main series, these are actually more heavily focused on true adventure game aspects with more exploration.
The late release is probably why it di🌠dn’t get translated officially as this was the same year as the 3DS’ launch. Fans of the franchise should be happy to know there is a full fan transitღion though.
5 SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu Goddess of Destiny
SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu Goddess of Destiny, or SaGa 2: Legend of the Relics Goddess of Destiny, released in 2009. It is a complete remake of what Western fans would know as Final Fantasy Legend II, which is actually part of the SaGa series.
It was rebranded in the West to try and get it to sell more. Anyway the art style is very reminiscent of other DS remakes of Square Enix games like Final Fantasy IV. This also has a 🐎pretty ꦅcomplete translation from fans.
4 Tales of Innocence
Tales of Innocence ✃launched in 2007. It is one of very few main games in the franchis🍨e that never get localized. Why? No idea.
The DS was selling really well globally by 2007, two years into its life cycle, so it is really anyone’s guess. Thankfully there is a complete English patch of the game for die hard Tales fans to get a hold of yet another classic ⛄action RPG.
3 Mugen no Frontier Exceed: Super Robot Taisen OG ༒Saga
Mugen no Frontier Exceed: Super Robot Taisen OG Saga released in 2010. It is the sequel to a game the West actually got, which was Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier. Similar to its main counterpart, Super Robot Wars, this is a tactical RPG crossing over many different properties like Xenosaga.
Two main things are different. One, the focus isn’t on mechs. Two, when characters initiate combat on the map, the game turns into sort of like a fighting game with a combo system very similar to Project X Zone. Th♕e fan pꦰatch is pretty much done, but there are a few missing bits.
2 Xenosaga I + II
Xenosaga I + II launched in 2006 and retells the events of the first two games presumably to get fans ready for the final chapter late🦩🌜r that year in Japan. Instead of a remake, this is more of a de-make as it were.
While it roughly follows the same story, mechanically it is a bit different than the PS2 versions. This is why fans of the series have been itching to play it for over a decade now. Sadly there are no fan patches for 🌼it.
1 Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn
Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn released in 2010. This is a bit of a cheat, but is too cool of a concept to pass up. Like the DS version of Xenosaga, this is actually roughly the same game as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch on PS3.
In this case this game came first and was remade into 🌱the PS3 edition. The biggest difference between the two is the꧒ magic book. In order to cast spells, players would need to look up runes and trace them into the DS’ touch screen. Both the game and book have been translated by fans.