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My DS Collection

* Updated 01-25-11 *

In alphabetical order (more or less):

1. 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors
2. Advance Wars: Dual Strike
3. Animal Crossing: Wild World
4. Assassin's Creed II: Discovery
5. Batman The Brave and the Bold
6. Beat City
7. Blood Stone 007
8. Boing! Docomodake DS
9. Bomberman
10. Brain Age
11. Brothers in Arms DS
12. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
13. Call of Duty: Black Ops
14. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized
15. Call of Duty: World at War
16. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
17. Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
18. Chrono Trigger
19. Contact
20. Contra 4
21. Cooking Mama
22. Cop The Recruit
23. C.O.R.E.
24. Dawn of Discovery
25. Dementium II
26. Dementium: The Ward (US, Europe, and Japan)
27. Diddy Kong Racing DS
28. Dig Dug: Digging Strike
29. Dirt 2
30. DK Jungle Climber
31. Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter
32. Dropcast
33. Elebits The Adventure of Kai and Zero
34. Elite Beat Agents
35. Exit
36. Fast Food Panic
37. Final Fantasy III
38. Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time
39. Final Fantasy Fables Chocobo Tales
40. Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - Imagination Invaders
41. Ghost Trick Phantom Detective
42. GoldenEye 007
43. GoldenEye Rogue Agent
44. Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars
45. Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure
46. Hotel Dusk: Room 215
47. How to Train Your Dragon
48. Impossible Mission
49. Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
50. Insecticide
51. Intellivision Lives!
52. Ivy the Kiwi?
53. James Pond Codename: Robocod
54. Kirby Canvas Curse
55. Kirby Squeak Squad
56. Kirby Super Star Ultra
57. KORG DS-10 Synthesizer
58. Lego Batman: The Videogame
59. Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure
60. Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
61. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
62. Lock's Quest
63. Lunar Knights
64. Mario Kart DS
65. Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story
66. Mario & Luigi Partner's in Time
67. Mario Party DS
68. Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2 March of the Minis
69. Megaman Battle Network 5  Double Team DS
70. Megaman Zero Collection
71. Megaman ZX
72. Metal Slug 7
73. Meteos
74. Metroid Prime Hunters
75. Monster House
76. Moon (US and Europe)
77. My Sims Racing
78. MX vs. ATV Untamed
79. N+
80. Namco Museum DS
81. Nanostray
82. Nanostray 2
83. New International Track & Field
84. New Zealand Story Revolution (Europe)
85. Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword
86. Nintendogs Dachshund & Friends
87. Orcs & Elves
88. Petz Dogz Pack
89. Phineas & Ferb
90. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
91. Pipe Mania
92. Plants vs. Zombies
93. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
94. Pokemon: Pearl Version
95. Pro Evolution Soccer 2007
96. Professor Layton and the Curious Village
97. Rayman DS
98. Resident Evil: Deadly Silence
99. Retro Game Challenge
100. Ridge Racer DS
101. Scooby-Doo! First Frights
102. Scurge Hive
103. Sim City DS
104. Sonic Classic Collection
105. Sonic Colors
106. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
107. Soul Bubbles
108. Space Bust-A-Move
109. Space Invaders Extreme 2
110. Spider-man 2
111. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
112. Star Fox Command
113. (New) Super Mario Bros.
114. Super Mario 64 DS
115. Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll
116. Super Princess Peach
117. Super Scribblenauts
118. Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop
119. Tetris DS
120. The Legendary Starfy
121. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
122. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
123. The World Ends With You
124. Tomb Raider Underworld
125. Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
126. Trace Memory
127. Ultimate Mortal Kombat
128. Viewtiful Joe Double Trouble
129. Viva Pinata Pocket Paradise
130. Wario Master of Disguise
131. Wario Ware D.I.Y.
132. Wario Ware Touched
133. Wire Way
134. Yoshi's Island DS

Jools

Alan Wake Impressions

Based on the positive reviews that Alan Wake received I blindly purchased Alan Wake for the 360. I purchased Red Dead Redemption the same way. I love RDR.


This is by no means a fully fledged review of the game; just the initial impressions of a spoiled gamer (spoiled by the goodness that exists out there).


I really liked the approach the team took with the narrative, and how it takes you through the game not only in cut-scenes but also in gameplay. But, I felt it was a little heavy handed in some places, taking some of the surprise out of me discovering things. The engine is fantastic. Some of the visuals are simply stunning. But, I experienced small game pauses when data was being loaded, which I assume must have been enemies or a new segment of the world being loaded/unloaded. C'mon guys, really? Our DS games don't even do that! I appreciate the amount of script and acting in the game, this is something I really like about RDR too (I use present tense because I am still playing RDR), but in Alan Wake the acting felt like acting for the most part and not natural. The concept of the enemies was pretty cool, the axe murderer angle is pretty freaky, but I found the repetition required to kill the first 20 enemies made the experience dull and ironically left me wanting to just sit back and watch the movie... oh wait, this is a game. Hehe.


Overall I was impressed by many of the things accomplished in Alan Wake, but I simply lost the desire to continue playing it. This rarely happens to me, I like to give games a chance. But, I guess I was expecting something different and expectations can be a products' enemy sometimes. The reason I mentioned RDR above is due to the hype that I had heard about the game before playing it myself, an it lived up to that hype. With all of the positive buzz around Alan Wake I was expecting something more than what I experienced.


For me, Silent Hill 2 is still the King of psychological thrill.