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Minus FFIV Advance, FFT Advance, and Tactics Ogre which I have.

I must get some more use out of my GB Player.

Metroid Zero Mission is a good choice. I haven't played The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, but I would think that it's a safe bet too.

The Castlevanias are solid bets if you enjoy the SoTN style.

Megaman Zero 1-3.

Zero Mission is a joy to play. Minish Cap brought back memories of Link to the Past, which is always a good thing. I think I've enjoyed those games more than the PS2 and GC games I've played recently.

Don Wang wrote:Megaman Zero 1-3.

Yes, but warning: the first two games are fucking hard, especially the second, which rivals Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts IMO (the hardest game I've ever beat). Great stories and excellent extensions to the X gameplay and world. An actual proper evolution of the MM side-scrollers.

Other games: Castlevanias Circle and Aria (Harmony sucked, but the best thing to do is pick up Circle on its own, there's tons, and get the double pack of Harmony and Aria when it comes out), Metroids Fusion and Zero Mission (both rule), the Advance Wars games are excellent, Pokemon Pinball Ruby and Sapphire, Wario Ware (both, but especially Twisted), Astroboy is amazing, Minish Cap rules ones you get past some annoying stuff in the beginning, Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga is awesome, Mario Golf, Mario vs Donkey Kong, Phantasy Star Collection for old-school goodness. That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Zeus wrote:Wario Ware (both, but especially Twisted).

I don't think he'd have a whole lot of fun with Twisted on the GB Player unless he wanted to spin his entire Gamecube (though there's a FAQ on GameFaqs about how to do it).

Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 - Probably the best game on the system until Final Fantasy III's release.

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, easier game with less linearity to it, and several side quests including two REALLY large ones.

Fire Emblem Advance: The earlier one, much more difficult, but in my opinion, much better story.

Overall, the Fire Emblem games are MUCH better than FFT.


Castlevania Aria of Sorrow (best of the Metroid Clones in the Castlevania series, it takes all the good points of all previous Metroid Clone CV games, and then adds to them).

Castlevania Circle of the Moon if you can get it cheap.

Advance Wars 1 and 2 definately,

Super Street Fighter 2, if you like Street fighter games.

Lox wrote:

Zeus wrote:Wario Ware (both, but especially Twisted).

I don't think he'd have a whole lot of fun with Twisted on the GB Player unless he wanted to spin his entire Gamecube (though there's a FAQ on GameFaqs about how to do it).

Hmm, I might have to try playing that on my GB Player. Should be interesting :-)

Z1 expects you to either be a gaming god or play it on an emulator. Z2 is a bit more forgiving. You can always use a bunch of cyber elves and trash your score though and beat it that way. Z3 isn't necessarily easier but Ultimate Boots do not count against your score, and the triple slash combo actually does full damage on just about anything instead of having most of its damage canceled by invulnerability frames.

Oddly enough the Hard mode of the Z series isn't that much harder. In the case of Z1 it's probably easier because Zero's forward slash does not trigger an invulnerabilty frame if you hit them at the edge of the saber which lets you do something like take half of Leviathan's life bar off whenever she stands still.

As far as the Z games go, they're not all that hard to beat - they have their frustrating moments, sure - but if you care about your score then yes, they're damn near impossible.

Personally, I've played through all three hovering at a D/F level (or whatever the lowest one is) and I haven't particularly cared. They're good games, and if you want to be obsessive about it and give yourself a ridiculous challenge, it's there.

After the X series where you get treated like garbage despite having 8 save the worlds on your belt, I tried to keep my rank on at least A since people actually talk to you as if you're a living legend that way.

Don Wang wrote:Z1 expects you to either be a gaming god or play it on an emulator. Z2 is a bit more forgiving. You can always use a bunch of cyber elves and trash your score though and beat it that way. Z3 isn't necessarily easier but Ultimate Boots do not count against your score, and the triple slash combo actually does full damage on just about anything instead of having most of its damage canceled by invulnerability frames.

Oddly enough the Hard mode of the Z series isn't that much harder. In the case of Z1 it's probably easier because Zero's forward slash does not trigger an invulnerabilty frame if you hit them at the edge of the saber which lets you do something like take half of Leviathan's life bar off whenever she stands still.

I found 2 to be harder. The levels were completely unforgiving. You had to do trick moves to get through the levels (such as slide down a pillar and jump across to another while dodging both the upper and lower spikes AND go up the second pillar while dodging the spikes perilously close to you as you're going up forcing you to make itty bitty jumps; that shit's normally reserved for getting hard-to-get items). 3 was a complete breeze compared to the first two.

Of course Hard mode wouldn't be that much harder, it's insane already! The games would just go to almost unplayable

Of course, you get an excellent sense of accomplishment when you beat them :-)

I was thinking difficulty in terms of bosses. The bosses in Z2 weren't too bad, but yeah you had to some pretty fancy stuff to get through the levels like lassoing platforms with the triple rod and whatnot.

Don Wang wrote:I was thinking difficulty in terms of bosses. The bosses in Z2 weren't too bad, but yeah you had to some pretty fancy stuff to get through the levels like lassoing platforms with the triple rod and whatnot.

I think the only reason the bosses were easier in Z2 is 'cause you played the ones in Z1 so damned much, being your first go at the bosses in a Z game, that you got used to doing wild and crazy stuff to beat them. If you played 2 first, you might find the bosses in 1 easier.

I think in Z2 and later you start out able to use the charged saber attack and the triple slash combo as opposed to Z1 where you got to level up the saber first. That might account for the boss difficulty because those moves do an insane amount of damage when connected.

I just got Trace Memory, I've only played 50 minutes of it, but I can already tell that it is a game that I am going to like. I have heard that it's a shorter game, I am not sure how long it is first time through.

Anyways, the game is quite unique in that it uses the bottom screen for navigation, conversation, and tasks; the top screen is used for viewing things in a very similar style to the game Myst, but none of the actual gameplay takes place on the top screen; only viewing.

Overall, it's like an RPG without fighting and improved gameplay.

Just got a Nintendo DS for Christmas, along with the new Castlevania game. I tend to not play on portables except when I need to (ie: on the road), so it might sit for a while. Besides, with the 10+ games I got for the PS2 and GC, I'll have plenty to play.

Just finished Metriod Prime, so now I'm starting on RE4.

SineSwiper wrote:Just got a Nintendo DS for Christmas, along with the new Castlevania game. I tend to not play on portables except when I need to (ie: on the road), so it might sit for a while. Besides, with the 10+ games I got for the PS2 and GC, I'll have plenty to play.

Just finished Metriod Prime, so now I'm starting on RE4.

If you liked Prime at all get Prime 2. It built on what they did with the first and made it better IMO. The whole light-dark world thing worked really, really well.

Hmmmm, woops, I just noticed this was a GBA thread, Trace Memory is a DS game.

Anyways, as for Prime and Echoes, Echoes is a better game, but it is more like an expansion or Semi-sequel to Prime than a true sequel.

On a side note, you might want to play Aria for GBA before playing Dawn of Sorrow.

Zeus wrote:If you liked Prime at all get Prime 2. It built on what they did with the first and made it better IMO. The whole light-dark world thing worked really, really well.

As a counter-point, I adored Metroid Prime (I bought my GC to play it), but I was underwhelmed by Prime 2. I stopped playing about 15% into it. I found the light/dark thing tiresome, and I felt like I had done it all before.

Kupek wrote:

Zeus wrote:If you liked Prime at all get Prime 2. It built on what they did with the first and made it better IMO. The whole light-dark world thing worked really, really well.

As a counter-point, I adored Metroid Prime (I bought my GC to play it), but I was underwhelmed by Prime 2. I stopped playing about 15% into it. I found the light/dark thing tiresome, and I felt like I had done it all before.

That's actually how I was at first too, I came back to it at the beginning of this summer and enjoyed it thoroughly though. Overall if I was to play one over right now, it would be Echoes. If you feel you have had enough with Prime, then it's probably best to skip part 2. It's kind of like me and San Andreas, San Andreas is a better game than Vice City, but I didn't enjoy it nearly as much. Then again, I didn't really enjoy GTA3 much either; but you get the point, unless I nulified it right there =P

Kupek wrote:

Zeus wrote:If you liked Prime at all get Prime 2. It built on what they did with the first and made it better IMO. The whole light-dark world thing worked really, really well.

As a counter-point, I adored Metroid Prime (I bought my GC to play it), but I was underwhelmed by Prime 2. I stopped playing about 15% into it. I found the light/dark thing tiresome, and I felt like I had done it all before.

It was a bit of a gimmick in the beginning but man, they used it well, especially after you get the first armour and your health decreases at about 1/5th the speed. Then you can actually explore in the dark world, which is pretty freakin' neat. It is a bit tiresome in the beginning 'cause you basically are just barely surviving there but it gets MUCH better later. It's been done before but it's done extremely well in Echoes.