Curated playlist
Nintendo DS games
- Final Fantasy Legend IIFinal Fantasy Legend II shipped in Japan on the 14th of December 1990, carrying a name that was, in its home country, entirely different: SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu. That gap between identities tells you something about the game's unusual…
- Final Fantasy XII: Revenant WingsFinal Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings began its life with no connection to Final Fantasy XII at all. Producer Eisuke Yokoyama and Japanese developer Think & Feel were building a standalone real-time strategy game for the Nintendo DS. Only…
- Final Fantasy IV (2007 video game)Final Fantasy IV (2007 video game) arrived on the Nintendo DS on the 20th of December 2007 in Japan, timed precisely to the Final Fantasy series' 20th anniversary. The game being celebrated was not a new entry but a rebuilt one: a full…
- Final Fantasy Legend IIIFinal Fantasy Legend III arrived in Japanese stores on the 13th of December, 1991, carrying a secret: in Japan it was called SaGa 3: Jikuu no Hasha, a title in a series its creator had already decided to end. Series creator Akitoshi Kawazu…
- Final Fantasy III (2006 video game)Final Fantasy III sold 500,000 copies in Japan in its first week on the Nintendo DS, surpassing Square Enix's own prediction of 350,000. That figure is striking on its own. What makes it more remarkable is that the game behind those…
- Dementium: The WardDementium: The Ward dropped on Halloween 2007, the last day of October, and the timing was no accident. A survival horror game for the Nintendo DS, it placed players inside an abandoned hospital crawling with creatures they had no name…
- Star Wars: The Force UnleashedStar Wars: The Force Unleashed opens with a small child wrenching Darth Vader's lightsaber from his grip. Vader kills the boy's father and takes him as a secret apprentice. Released in North America on the 16th of September 2008, the game…
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed IIStar Wars: The Force Unleashed II dropped into players' hands on the 26th of October 2010, and immediately posed an uncomfortable question: what does it mean to be a person if your very memories belong to someone else? The game's…
- Suikoden TierkreisSuikoden Tierkreis landed on the Nintendo DS in December 2008 in Japan, arriving as something unusual in a long-running franchise: a game that asked what it would mean to fight for your own future. The central villain, known only as The…
- Lucky Star (manga)Lucky Star began, in its creator's own words, as nothing special. Kagami Yoshimizu told Newtype USA in June 2005, "I don't really think my production process is anything special." He added that "my personality is very well suited to doing…