Dragon Quest games on DS (IV, V, VI and IX) all feature old school turn based combat. The Final Fantasy games (III, IV, 4 Heroes of Light) on DS also have turn based combat. Radiant Historia is somewhat turn based, but it's more about strategy and manipulating the flow of trns. Basically, on the top screen, you can see the turn order for the next ten turns. You can change the order as you see fit. The reason for this is because battles take place with enemeis on a 3 by 3 grid. Using special attacks, your goal is to make it so you have as many enemies on the same spot as possible in a given set of turns (where your party members attack once in a row) and try to finish them off with a powerful attack all at once. It's not as complex as I amde it sound, but it is a hell of a lot of fun.
Although, if you love old school mixed with new ideas, Dragon Quest IX is the way to go. It has a very old school turn based battle system, but a lot of modern features, like addictive item hunting, customizing appearance with armor, and other things. Really, the game is a god send if you love old school grinds. The entire post game is pretty mch an endless grind; grind for levels, grind for money, grind for rare alchemy items, grind for good equipment, grind for quests, etc. It has infinite content since each random dungeon you find gives you a map to another random dungeon, plus there are 184 quests to do (120 to begin with, the other 64 available after downloading them for FREE) and the main story has a deent length. (Took me 55 hours.) I'm 122 hours into the game and I still have plenty of things to do, monsters to kiill, tiems to find, etc. If you love the idea of old school JRPGs but would like some modern cnveiniences (no random encounters. Instead monsters appear on the field, which really helps the pacing of the game a lot) then you must play DQIX.
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