20 Best Nintendo DS Games Of All Time

A generation-defining handheld. What's the best DS game??

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0:29 Sonic Rush
1:34 Warioware: Touched!
2:34 The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
3:29 Kirby Super Star Ultra
4:23 Advance Wars: Dual Strike
5:20 Animal Crossing: Wild World
6:24 New Super Mario Brothers
7:28 Super Scribblenauts
8:12 Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
9:17 Tetris DS
10:14 Super Mario 64, DS
11:05 The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
12:03 Pokémon Black & White 2
13:01 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations
13:55 Mario Kart DS
14:45 Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
15:40 The World Ends With You
16:28 Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
17:34 Professor Layton And The Lost Future
18:17 Pokémon Heartgold & Soulsilver

[rushbenjamin]

I remember being a kid at my grandmother's house on christmas with all my cousins and our DS' playing Mario Kart DS and talking on Pictochat. Miss those days

[AdamStevens-rxbc]

Why are videos being edited to removed pauses between punctuation? It's making affected videos sound like one giant run on sentence.

[dtmdudegaming]

Came here after the Delta app came out on iOS 👾👾👾

[joeldfisher]

Hotel Dusk is incredible, a hidden gem. It's basically a noir thriller novel, but the gameplay makes you use the DS in ways that you never thought were possible - mind blowing and because of the unique gameplay it can never be on any other console.

[lightningvini]

love how the narrator assumes anyone is actually paying for these games lol

[LazrCat]

HeartGold is definitely my favorite DS game, and I love Super Scribblenauts too. Personally, I would've also included Drawn to Life and Nintendogs.

[Vook]

999 and Ghost Trick needed to be here.

[conmensol]

I was just talking to my brother of Phantom Hourglass the other day. I was talking about how long we were stuck on that puzzle that the solution was to close the DS. I forgot what it was about. I just remembered thinking how clever that was and the whole blowing into the mic.

[Frellyouall]

Okamiden?
Mario Kart DS?
GTA Chinatown Wars?
M&L Partners In Time?
Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes?
Fire Emblem?
Dragon Quest IX?
Resident Evil Revelations?
Chrono Trigger?
999?
Elite Beat Agents?
Spirit Bubbles?
The Trauma Centre Games?

[tirthasimanta]

I recently revived my DSi.I'll be sure to try out some of the games on this list.

[GeosVideos]

Elite Beat Agents didn’t make the list?!

[SpanishFly]

Seeing TWEWY and Dual Strike get some well deserved love is great. And as much as I love Order of Ecclesia, my favourite handheld Castlevania game is always going to be Portrait of Ruin.

[edboi]

Part of me feels sad that none of the Megaman Starforce games were mentioned because they’re all amazing, especially Black Ace/Red Joker. At least a little acknowledgement of them would’ve been nice.

[ianlotts]

I get the feeling that this video is like 2 or 3 years old and just now posted. Jess talks about waiting for Advance Wars to come out on Switch(been out for almost a year now) and mentions the next Castlevania collection being the GBA games(Castlevania Advance Collection came out in 2022).

[jhsounds]

0:54 and if ya don't know, now ya know...

[madmonkeymcknight]

Yes! Thank you for acknowledging Order of Ecclesia as the best DS Castlevania game and one of the best if not the best ever Castlevania games, it sure is my favourite one.

[sharnaeltro]

Okamiden and golden sun 1 and 2 love them games still have them today

[hyperteleXii]

You are showing some weird footage rendered in high definition on an emulator.
I wanted to see what these games look like on a DS!

[Brockcold]

My 2 favs aren’t there. The Suikoden game on it and I think it was called Radiant Historia.