Topic: DS Recommendations Thread

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Last January or February I near 200 percent-ed (if that's what you call completing a story and most of side content,) a DS game perhaps some people have not heard of here before. The game's called Nostalgia. Has anyone here played it? It's an underrated game, and I would be delighted to read about anyone who has enjoyed it. If Nintendo ever includes a DS collection on NSO EX I would love for them to have Nostalgia as one of the playable games, just so others can find out about it and play it. In fact, I recommended the game to a friend of mines on a discord server. Here's what I had to say him about it actually:

"I would highly recommend you play the game. Though, I must admit, you're probably have too many games right now in your backlog, haha. But if you ever wanted to get your hands on it, it's decently affordable. If you're looking to buy just the cartridge, it'll likely be $30 online. But is a little more expensive if you're buying it with the box which will likely cost $50 for some weird reason. Nevertheless, though, I would love it if you played the game and gave thoughts on it brief written or not! It is a fantastic game with the best parts being the characters and feeling of exploration in the overworld that has all the makings of an exciting time - because of almost all the themes you can think of that would make an adventure like its soundtrack you can hear. Like how the title combines fantasy with the real world's fantasticalness, mystery and wonder in its lore and setting - it is already establishing a fascinating and thrilling world of its own before we even get to see how it's used to create narratives and journeying.

Navigating the overworld by ship also contributes to that feeling as well. You hold onto the A button to make the ship accelerate and the world reveals more and more of itself - more and more of the fog gets cleared in the distance, and because of that, there's this sense of discovery and going into new experiences, whether that be World Treasure to find, (side content where you track down unexplorable wonders of the world and read up on them,) the story to progress in with its meaningful and heroic characters, the dungeons and cities to explore with its environments, and again, real-life fantasticalness and lore.

Even the World Treasure, which require you to search for in game based on hints given from NPCs, and you can learn about after finding them, contribute to what I'm attempting to describe.

The airship battles too where the party members pilot different weapons on it, thus playing like turn traditionally based battles, where you can attack enemies located at different angles of the sailing ship, and certain weapons do more damage depending where they are being fired or charged from. They kind of simulate real airship battles.

The characters are a little better written than what you would normally expect from an average Nintendo game (this is not made or published by Nintendo in case you weren't aware). They have really likeable storylines and personalities.

Overall, Nostalgia is a game I'm glad I got to play all the way through. 🙂 I'm thankful I got to learn all about it and recognize it as a note worthy and beloved title to me. Next thing I would like to do, aside from completing a couple of the side content I'm interested in completing, would be to own a strategy guide showcasing the game's artwork and creative ideas. I know I haven't played a lot of RPGs other Pokémon in my life time, but I would like to use it as another example of a game I love, look up to, and show to others why I like adventure games and the potential I see in them."

Here's footage of the beginning of Nostalgia for anyone interested in seeing that : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz6XQuy-GLk

And this flyer that was given out at E3 actually: https://www.ebay.com/itm/326682143133?_skw=Nostalgia+Nintendo...