Weird Shovelware DS Games

what's your favorite DS game?

There's a hell of a lot more DS games that are entertaining than people think, it was a pretty fantastic console.

Fun fact. Peanut butter gamer asked on twitter on how to beat a level in the game. One of the actors that played Cody. Responded with: the best way to beat that game is to eject it and physically destroy it.

I think the Tinker Bell DS games really turned out well. It sticks to a lot of girl game tropes but it’s gotta be my favorite licensed DS games

There is so many anime styled games that were originally from Japan but an American company took over to translate it and put a new title on it. My favorites are the imagine series, which are Otome styled games where there is so much depth and care in each game. Imagine Ballet Star is a classic. One that is so amazingly beautiful you cannot ignore it. There is so much plot, different clothes to buy and wear, practice, mini games, and you can choose between 3 girls. It’s an amazing series.

God, I love the Bakugan DS game. I spent so many hours trying to 100% it and jamming to music that goes way too hard for no reason. The gameplay is a bit repetitive at times, yet Bakugan and card combinations keep every playthrough fresh. It is a bit of a shame that Masquerade and Hal-G are less threatening than the Subterra tournament, but I genuinely love this game

i see bakugan in the thumbnail and I click

I love that you treated these shovelware games with respect and gave them a fair shot. This was a nice positive video and I loved hearing about all these games. You have gained a new viewer

As someone who was obsessed with both bakugan ds games thank you for giving bakugan propaganda. Bakugan deserved so much more than it got as a franchise it was so incredibly good

Great vid! I have so many fond memories of the Bakugan DS game. Although as a little girl who liked “boy games” it always sucked being locked into a male character haha. Fossil Fighters, Dragon Quest Monster: Joker, etc. etc. It always took away from the immersion just a little bit. Glad that it was mostly done away with during the 3DS era. Also happy to see some Toree footage during the video! Such a fun game.

I was OBSESSED with Dolphin Island as a kid and still found it super enjoyable as an adult. The first Dogz was another favourite, but the shovelware that sticks out to me the most was Pony Friends. Hear me out here - it's a pet sim where you have to take care of and train a horse, BUT the actual bulk of the gameplay is a touch-based photography game done entirely on horseback trails. It's like a spiritual successor to Pokemon Snap but with real animals.

what’s interesting to me about the petz franchise is how different the games are from each other. i had both dogz and hamsterz life and they were worlds apart, hamsterz being more like nintendogs but with hamsters and dogz was more rpg like where you had a character and could do tasks in an isometric pixel world. i‘m pretty sure dogz used to exist under a completely different name and was just bought by ppl from the petz franchise and they stamped their name on it. it’s still one of my favorite childhood games though edit: i remembered a video i watched about this topic (the rise and fall of petz by you’ve got kat) and dogz ds really was just a reskinned game/different game bought up and sold under the petz style name, something ubisoft apparently did frequently with this franchise

when i was a kid and obsessed with bakugan i had been playing the hell out of the ds game from a bargain bin for $3 at target. i had played it all the way to completion and discovered a hearty amount of post game content suprisingly and was enjoying it day in and day out thoroughly. that christmas my relatives who didn't really know me at all coincidentally had found out i liked bakugan, and knew i had a ds. as a poor child that year i was excitedly awaiting what could be inside the two ds game presents underneath the tree, only to be suprised upon opening the first one. a second copy of bakugan on ds, as i saw it i wondered if the local gamestop would trade anything for it, a while passed before i opened the second oddly ds shaped christmas present. it was a third copy of bakugan on ds.

The DS really was the pre-mobile game platform now you mention it. With some long-term games like pokemon mixed in. I still have Dolphin Island somewhere, I remember really liking it :)

DS has so many hidden gems that just end up being forgotten about. I'm so excited to see you went out and bought a bunch from the thrift store and shared them! I'm now thinking of trying the dolphin game.

as far as i'm aware, EVERY MySims game that was on the DS had a version for the Wii and as far as i can tell, the Wii and DS versions are so far removed from each other gameplay-wise that the only reason they share the same title is because they have the same environment and/or similar stories

As someone who ADORED the bakugan game (had both the wii and ds version as a kid) you essentially wrapped up everything i love about it into a neat little bow! Only thing you really missed was mentioning the ost and how it went WAY HARDER THAN IT EVER HAD ANY RIGHT TO. One of my favorite game osts of all time I also had the zack and cody game and honestly? I was mixed on it, but generally thought positively of it (though i dont think i ever finished it)

Just to be clear, Toree 3D isn't a shovelware game despite being the background footage for this, it's an awesome $2 platformer.

I think you and I have different definitions of shovelware

As a kid I really liked the Imagine Cooking nds game, they somehow managed to add a storyline about a plush rabbit and other stuffed toys coming to life and teaching you life lessons in between cooking mama esque gameplay lol