I'm really struggling to justify buying handheld for monster hunter alone, as good as it might be. I don't need the hardware to play DS classics like ghost trick and order of ecclesia. It seems the best games are RPGs but I'm burnt out on blobbers at the moment. Are there a handful of games worth getting?
Out of top of my head:
- trauma center games (playing as surgeon using stylus, suprisingly good, DS)
- all castelvania games there are including all metroidvania ones mostly on DS. Aria of Sorrow is Symphony of the Night quality. Order of Ecclessia is worse than it a lot.
- Shim Megami Tensei Devil survivor overlocked 1 and 2 - SRPG with SMT monsters. Actually better than most of SMT games
- Fire Emblem games Awekening (currenly playing and actually it is quite good) and Fates
- 3 Monster hunter games, 3U, 4U and Generations. Despite usually going for latest each MH game have worthy single player campaign.
- Rune Factory 4. Great harvest moon with fantasy mix (i have like 80 hours in that and finished it, great humor btw)
- Zero Escape trilogy. 999 on DS and VLR and ZTD on 3DS. Fantastic mix between Visual novel and puzzles with very strong story (by dex standards not casul standards)
- All Ace attorney games. First 3 games are fucking awesome especially first one, later 2 still are great but less so. They are mostly adventure games light.
- Ocarina of Time is great
- Once your dungeon crawler burned out sydrom passes you have only best of the best blobbers to play: Souls hackers on 3DS which is remaster of DS game and Strange Journey. Both of them are waaaay above most of SMT games.
Once you finish you can sell your system and be in black.
Oh and 3DS is currently best emulation platform outside of PC. NES, SNES, GBA, DS, 3DS on sigle system all in native form.