Top 10 DS Exclusives
Hand over your hard-earned cash for some seriously good games.
IT'S CHRISTMAS!!! And you know what that means don't you? It's time to whip out your wallet and hand over your hard-earned cash for some seriously good games. In this special series of VideoGamer.com Top 10s, we list the best exclusive games for each of the seven major platforms and tell you why they're so ruddy brilliant. Today, it's the Nintendo DS' bulging back catalogue of touch screen wonders that gets the Top 10 treatment.
10. Hotel Dusk Room 215 - 2007
Ah, Hotel Dusk. We fell in love with Karl Hyde the moment we clamped eyes on him: we adore his scruffy dress sense, his silly-but-still-quite-cool goatee, and the fact that he looks like the saddest dog in the world. Despite being set entirely within a single location, Hotel Dusk has one of the best video game plots of the last ten years - a twisting mystery that dishes out laughs and melancholia in equal helpings. For a puzzle adventure game there really aren’t that many puzzles, and yet it spins such an ace little story that you'll barely notice. The characters are wonderfully drawn, both in terms of their dialogue, and in the unforgettable hand-drawn art style - an aesthetic that recalls Aha's video for Take On Me. Oh, and it all builds up to a fantastic ending, too.
9. Mario Vs Donkey Kong 2 - 2007
Like Tom and Jerry, or Liverpool and Man United fans, Mario and Donkey Kong will always hate each other's guts. Pacifists may shed a tear over this sorry state of affairs, but if it means we continue to get games as good as this, you'll hear no complaints from us. MvsDK2 is an excellent little puzzler that resembles a cross between the original Donkey Kong and Krusty's Funhouse - the Simpsons spin-off from the early '90s. This time Mario (that's you) must defeat his simian nemesis by directing a supply of clockwork automatons, indirectly guiding their path with taps and sweeps of the stylus. It has the same just-one-more-go quality that Lemmings had - and in fact it's not that dissimilar to play… except that the Lemmings are now mechanical plumbers, on a mission to murder a big ape. Aren't gorillas an endangered species?
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SexyJams
My friend's used to come round and we'd sped our whole day battling on Mario Kart even though I was the only one with the gam. Making multiplayer a possibility with just one cartridge was a seriously awesome move by Nintendo, even if you did have to be one of those weird skeleton things in a hoody.
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