Hidden Gems!

[Aziamuth]

Mario and Kirby hidden?

Mario and Kirby, per se, are not hidden. However, I think Mass Attack is amongst the least known Kirby games. Hoops 3 on 3 might be me jumping the gun, but I've never head anyone talk about it

 

[GeraVet106]

Curiously, I just acquired one and I put several interesting games on it,

 

[Dr.Kisaragi Dr.Kisaragi]

Man I love that Mario hoops 3 on 3 is really unquie even I am not a fan of video game basketball but this one I had a blast epically playing the FF group but I play them all


To be honest I really like all mario and Kirby games on ds they have a attachment because I don't have N64, GameCube and Wii at that time I only have Nintendo handheld and ps console.

 

[ThirteeTooBeets]

Nice little list! I may check out one or two I wasn't aware of.

Ni sabia que en España les gustaba tanto Shin-Chan como para traducirle juegos, que privilegio jajaj

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Ni sabia que en España les gustaba tanto Shin-Chan como para traducirle juegos, que privilegio jajaj

Lo iba a decirlo en Inglés pero lo diré en Español: Es debido a la alta popularidad del anime de Crayon Shin-Chan que estaba teniendo en España y por eso se hicieron juegos de Crayon Shin-Chan tanto los de GBA y los DS para el mercado español también.

 

[ThirteeTooBeets]

Lo iba a decirlo en Inglés pero lo diré en Español: Es debido a la alta popularidad del anime de Crayon Shin-Chan que estaba teniendo en España y por eso se hicieron juegos de Crayon Shin-Chan tanto los de GBA y los DS para el mercado español también.

Alguna razón por la que pego tanto? Lo pasaban mucho en la tele o el doblaje era chistoso? Esas suelen ser las razones por las que los animes vintage pegaban acá en LatAm

 

[TentaclesMod]

It's been quite a while since I played Okamiden, but you got enough wrong that it hurts.
First, this is subjective but I would say that it's a bit more than just fine, it's probably the best game of it's kind in the DS. While overall inferior to the original (inevitable, giving the inferior platform), it has one thing that it does much better than the original and is it's main gimmick of the brush (probably the only reason why they made this game for the DS, honestly)

There are six total partners, although the first one is Issun and he's truly useless. Chibiterasu CAN fight on his own, there are even different kinds of weapons, like swords and disks which play differently. The partners add to your damage significantly, but there are even short segments where you have no partner (when you lose a partner due to story reasons and before you get the next), for not mentioning that Issun seriously does nothing, is not until Kuni that you get your first real partner.

 

[Deleted member 660650]

Cool games. I still remember when the Nintendo DS came out, I always thought it was a pocket laptop.

Yes I started to think so because of GBA SP lol.

 

[YoshifreakZX]

Solatorobo mentioned!

 

[Blueskunky]

I have Mario hoops 3 on 3 but I haven’t played it yet tho

 

[SherionVane]

ty

 

[Don Patch]

OKAMIDEN!!!!! =

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Ahhh this takes me back. I remember the original article almost like it was yesterday. Nice picks! I really should finish last window haha.

 

[Narisucks]

You ever think about how Sonic Chronicles will never be a thing again because its trapped in the Ken Penders Legal Purgatory with 90% of Archie Sonic

Cause I do

Still can't believe Sega lost(?) that lawsuit...

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Still can't believe Sega lost(?) that lawsuit...

seems like an impass atm, or like both are awaiting the other to fire the first shot, or that Sega just doesn’t wanna bother. It all seems like a huge mess considering it stemmed from an alleged contract and a ton of he says she says. There’s probably some good faith arguments to be made but considering penders has a bizarre history with nepotism, I wouldn’t put it past him that a lot of it was also likely done in bad faith. Shame cuz i really like a lot of Archie stuff.

 

[Deleted member 660650]

You ever think about how Sonic Chronicles will never be a thing again because its trapped in the Ken Penders Legal Purgatory with 90% of Archie Sonic

Cause I do

Still can't believe Sega lost(?) that lawsuit...

Wow I forgot about that funny situation but that's how law works.

Simply put, artists are protected in a very okay way. So despite it's a fan fiction about a universe a company owns like for example Persona video game series, the artist has legal ownership over the original characters, situations and events they wrote therefore fan fiction cannot be owned by the company and cannot be used without the permission of the artist. What matters for the artist to be able to prove they indeed wrote the fan fiction. Date of creation matters a lot. In the end if no one can prove who wrote the fan fiction and if multiple people claims ownership so if no one can prove a date of creation then things get funny because fan fiction itself become a "protected artwork" so no one can use anything about that fan fiction until it hits its copyright expiration date which varies depending on the country's law.

So why he "won"?: While he was working for the company, company had legal right to sell his artwork because it was considered as "the artist gave permission" for it but it turned out after he was not working for the company, company had no legal right to use his artwork to make money because the company couldn't prove his work done in the context of "work for hire" status by legally establishing such an agreement in a proper way that's acceptable by law. It seemed like he was "commissioned", therefore naturally the artist owns their creation. However the artist can transfer copyright by properly establishing a legal agreement by making the agreement proper for law to the person who wants it, which in his case to the company paid money to the artist for his creation but Ken Penders didn't transfer the copyright. Naturally unless he gives permission or his copyright expires no one is legally allowed to use his creations lolol.

 

[MegaManJake]

Solatorobo remains to be one of my absolute favorite DS games. It is such an underrated gem.

 

[Aziamuth]

Alguna razón por la que pego tanto? Lo pasaban mucho en la tele o el doblaje era chistoso? Esas suelen ser las razones por las que los animes vintage pegaban acá en LatAm

Yo apunto a los siguientes motivos:

1. El humor de Shin-chan encaja mucho con los españoles, aparentemente
2. El doblaje es muy bueno
3. Aparte de ser doblado a español, también fue doblado a gallego, catalán, valenciano y vasco, lo cual aumentó su popularidad

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It's been quite a while since I played Okamiden, but you got enough wrong that it hurts.
First, this is subjective but I would say that it's a bit more than just fine, it's probably the best game of it's kind in the DS. While overall inferior to the original (inevitable, giving the inferior platform), it has one thing that it does much better than the original and is it's main gimmick of the brush (probably the only reason why they made this game for the DS, honestly)

There are six total partners, although the first one is Issun and he's truly useless. Chibiterasu CAN fight on his own, there are even different kinds of weapons, like swords and disks which play differently. The partners add to your damage significantly, but there are even short segments where you have no partner (when you lose a partner due to story reasons and before you get the next), for not mentioning that Issun seriously does nothing, is not until Kuni that you get your first real partner.

Thanks for the info. I did probably get a lot of info wrong (or outright missing) because it's been a long time since I last played it so I don't remember much. Should have played again before writing about it. My bad!

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Yo apunto a los siguientes motivos:

1. El humor de Shin-chan encaja mucho con los españoles, aparentemente
2. El doblaje es muy bueno
3. Aparte de ser doblado a español, también fue doblado a gallego, catalán, valenciano y vasco, lo cual aumentó su popularidad

Gracias por los Motivos Amigo.
Thanks for the Reasons Friend.

 

[Aziamuth]

You ever think about how Sonic Chronicles will never be a thing again because its trapped in the Ken Penders Legal Purgatory with 90% of Archie Sonic

Cause I do

Still can't believe Sega lost(?) that lawsuit...

I'd say it's a pity but I think SEGA should try making a new one rather than fighting for this Dark Brotherhood

 

[YakisobaSteak]

《Doki Doki Majou Shinpan》 and 《Kumatanchi》 are so underrated nowadays

 

[Rocket2049]

you want an "interesting" DS game, check out Lost magic, you draw every spell you use, while that sounds fun and very unique, be prepared to practice a LOT, especially going fast since it's a RTS kinda game,

 

[GAMEandRODO]

Serious question, how dare you put Sonic Chronicles and Mario Hoops: 3-on-3 on the same conversation!?

 

[Aziamuth]

《Doki Doki Majou Shinpan》 and 《Kumatanchi》 are so underrated nowadays

Never heard about those, which, as always, proofs there's always something bigger

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you want an "interesting" DS game, check out Lost magic, you draw every spell you use, while that sounds fun and very unique, be prepared to practice a LOT, especially going fast since it's a RTS kinda game,

Played that one, had to drop it because it became too hard (as a kid)

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Serious question, how dare you put Sonic Chronicles and Mario Hoops: 3-on-3 on the same conversation!?

This is not a list of recommendations, but rather of discoveries. Granted, Sonic Chronicles and Mario Hoops aren't exactly the most obscure games, but as I state on the article, I also like to talk about the lesser known fellas within franchises

 

[DevilBusterAkemi]

great list! i did adore Mass Attack.