Why hasn't anyone mentioned The World Ends With You yet? That game is AWESOME! It ROXXX! It'll give your little brother a wedgie so hard, his grandchildren will feel it!

Ohh, most of the people mentioned it already... well, it still ROXXX!

The World Ends With You. It'll be a solid two years or more before we get another perfectly innovative, fun, original, stylized game such as this. Like I said in the other topic, the DS has some wonderful games in it's own back catalog with the wonderfully fun and innovative Kirby: Canvas Curse, but their time seems to be running thin as more and more traditional gameboy-like games are covering a higher percentage of the DS market. Oh, and you can't forget about Elite Beat Agents. Crappy song selection (about half the songs are sub-par, but it seems like they were all picked by some japanese developer who never actually lived in America... need Guitar Hero for some better song choices), but the game itself was wonderful enough to get passed that.

That being said, we're never gonna get to see a Kirby Canvas Curse 2, or another EBA (seeing as how the *** one went over so much better over there... in Japan.) Maybe Squeenix'll throw enough money at Jupiter to come out with another The World Ends With You game (or something vaguely similar). In any case, the DS ROXXX!!!

O...over... rated? Umm... What DS game has come out in the last year that has been nearly as innovative, original, and fun! Kirby: Canvas Curse and... umm... a few other really shockingly innovative and good titles lined the first year or two of the DS, but then it went back to being a gameboy. This game was so spot on, it's unbelievable!

As much angst as Neku shows early on, it's not... the depth of his character. His relationships with the other players (especially Shiki) help provide strong insight into the varying values and views of other members of the same city. I may not be an angsty teenager, but I'm sure as hell a city-dweller, and I could instantly relate to Neku's attachment to his headphones (which weren't even pointed out until over halfway through the game). His character, and most others, save for the horrifically annoying Beat (and mind you, people DO actually talk like that, but I'd prefer not to see it in a video game), and the rest of the story of Shibuya are very well written. The dialouge may be lame, but the characters aren't.

Somebody made mention of Persona 3 earlier in this topic, I think... (it was over an hour ago I read it). I haven't played P3 yet, but I played the first two (err... the first one and the second half of the second one, since the first game called P2 never made it here), and I loved 'em. In fact, this game reminded me that Persona 3 is still out there, waiting for me to go through that too. The expanded version's down to $30 now, so I might just move from TWEWY to that afterwards... But with no uber-awesomeness of Persona on the DS, The World Ends With You just so happens to be one of the greatest RPGs/Stylus-driven games/handheld games/Squeenix games/etc. to come out in a LOOONG time, so to say a 9.0 or a feeling of instant cult classic status endowed upon it is... overrated... is just not enjoying this game for the greatness that it's worth.

Ahh, won't it be great when FFIVDS or DQIVDS get put out over here, though? Seriously, you want something more cool to be put out on the DS, that's it. Voice acting in FFIV? We've got plenty of good games to look forward to for the DS!

To answer the question at hand, depending on the game I'm messing around with at the moment, maybe 3 or 4 days out of the week, 1-3 hours or so on said days... But I also use it for music, so nyeh. I get use out of it almost every day thanks to that (dropped my MP3 player in the rain a few years back, laser ended up dying out a few months later).

Yes.

It's actually easier for them to be lazy and put out games with bad graphics than it is to put a lot of polish into one game, but Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3 had a lot riding on them, therefore they look really good. Hopefully they'll go crazy on making the next Zelda/Star Fox/ F-Zero/etc games that good or better. And more people buying Wii's meanmore audiences those games'll eventually reach.