The Shrine

The Father of Final Fantasy who left square a few years ago to form his own company. Not much is known about the game so far, but it looks like it is fairly far along and will likely be out within a year. I do not think anyone has gone to such lengths to make a DS game this pretty looking (aside from Nintendogs which obviously has great graphics).

Here are some shots

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0510/game051030e.shtml

here are some shots of Dynasty warrior DS

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0510/game051030c.shtml

And some shots of Secret of Mana teams DS RPG "Magical Vacation"

They look very Secret of Manaish, not a huge advancement over Sword of Mana it seems. But I wonder how the game plays? Again, not really any info on this yet.

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0510/game051030b.shtml


And some Resident Evil Shots

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0510/game051030d.shtml

Hmmm...looks like they took them down. You have other shots?

My mistake, looks like Magicbox blocks their shots from people like me; so I just edited and posted the links instead.

Mwa haha! Dynasty Warriors with SD character models!? I can't wait!

I love my DS. Castlevania has shown me that there is hope for exceptional games appearing on the system (yes yes, nintendogs and Advanced wars are good, but cmon, it's Castlevania!).

Castlevania's golden age is still way back during the NES/SNES days. That doesn't mean that these ones aren't good as well. That being said, I still think that this one is an amazing game, my favourite of the post Metroid clone days.

Currently I would rank the games like this (according to my tastes:

1) Kirby Canvas Curse
2) Advance Wars Dual Strike
3) Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow
4) Phoenix Wright
5) Nintendogs
6) Mario 64 DS
7) Bomber Man DS
The Urbz

I don't actually own Nintendogs, but I have played enough of other peoples copies of it to know it is a very good game. The Urbz is really the only game that I was dissapointed in, and that is mainly because it seemed like an upgraded GBA port of the title. Kirby, I absolutely loved Kirby Superstar, and this game reminds me a lot of it, that is probably why it is my favourte. Advance Wars DS is a close second, I absolutely love strategy, that is why I rank it high. Will Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, or another game top the list before the years end. It shall be seen...