What are some of your favorites? A few months ago I pre-ordered a Retroid 5, and while my old 3 is no slouch, this one is better equipped to smoothly run more demanding titles like Smash 3DS or Dragons Crown.

Never had either system, so pretty much totally new to them. Just please don't list any Pokémon games, they're not my thing. Action games/metroidvanias are my preference, but I've also been on a huge racing game kick lately.

Thanks all!

  • Taster_Of_Treats [none/use name]
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    19 days ago
    • The legend of Zelda: a link between worlds
    • Kirby: planet robobot
    • Kid Icarus uprising was a fantastic launch title but it's best played on original hardware due to gyro and touch controls
    • Starfox 64 3D is arguably the best way to play SF64
    • Metroid Samus returns is pretty good, although it's a bit polarizing because you have to stop moving to 360 aim and has strong emphasis on waiting for enemies to attack and doing a counter
    • Kirby superstar ultra has a mini metroidvania in it
    • VVVVVV has a 3ds port, but it's also natively on Android if the retroid is android-based.
    • Steamworld Dig 2
    • Cave Story or Cave Story 3D, depends on your preference of visual style.
    • Shantae: Pirate's Curse
    • Honorary mentions to Ocarina of Time 3D and Majora's Mask 3D

    DS games:

    • The three Castlevania games on NDS are great.
    • Mario Kart DS is my favorite in the series. There's a lot to do in single player with all the developer time trial ghosts and a hefty missions mode.
    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      19 days ago

      Honorary mentions to Ocarina of Time 3D and Majora's Mask 3D

      MM3D is probably worse than the N64 game - OoT3D is pretty cool, though

      • Taster_Of_Treats [none/use name]
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        19 days ago

        Majora's Mask 3D is different, not strictly worse. And graphically it's better than N64. I wouldn't have a preference if I hadn't played Majora's mask on n64 as a kid.

        • dannoffs [he/him]
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          19 days ago

          As someone who's beaten Majora's Mask a dozen times on n64 and emulator, I played all of the way through MM3d and thoroughly enjoyed myself before learning people didn't like it.

          • Absolute@lemmygrad.ml
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            19 days ago

            I feel like the differences are negligible if you aren't hardline about it. The complaints I have seen people make are fair but I definitely don't think they detract from the game in a substantial way. Majora's Mask is one of my all time favorite games and I've also played the original dozens of times and nothing about the 3DS version was an issue for me.

    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      19 days ago

      Metroid Samus returns is pretty good, although it's a bit polarizing because you have to stop moving to 360 aim and has strong emphasis on waiting for enemies to attack and doing a counter

      It's me I'm polarized. AM2R is better.

      Also I'm upset that Dread took everything I didn't like about Samus Returns and doubled down on it.