Well, the DS is pretty much at the end of its life. It's unlikely that there's going to be (m)any more big adventure games released for it; so, I suppose now's a good time to ask what people's favourite DS adventures are.

Personally, I would pick Ghost Trick, with 999 and Layton 1 as runners up.

Diabolical Box, because it's the only one I've played.

So many good DS adventure games... I think Professor Layton and the Curious Village is my fav, followed closely by Phoenix Wright and 999.

I had a good time with a lot of those games but chose Trails and Tribulations.

I'm surprised at the amount of these I've played.

Um, I'll go with Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 1 because even though I love all of the games in the series, I had never played something like the first one before. Plus, Prosecutor Von Karma was probably the best "final boss" in the series to date.

Hard to not vote for Ghost Trick, though.

I absolutely love the three Ace Attorney games, but Ghost Trick is probably the most engaging from a gameplay standpoint.

No 999. What kind of list is this?

@Deusx said:

No 999. What kind of list is this?

It's listed as Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors.

I'd say one of the Phoenix Wright games, but I wouldn't be able to be any more specific than that. They all kind of mesh together in my mind as a catch-all "Phoenix Wright memory."

999 is real damned good, too.

999 is one of my favorite games ever. Ghost Trick comes close though.

@BeachThunder said:

@Deusx said:

No 999. What kind of list is this?

It's listed as Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors.

You are right, I am an idiot.

Hotel Dusk is pretty ace. Ghost Trick is more of a puzzle game with a great story. I really enjoyed both of those.

Hotel Dusk. The game's art style and writing are both top-notch.

What A?!

999 by far, with Ace Attorneys coming in as runners up.

Edit: also ghost trick is amazing.

I'm maybe one of five people total that played Time Hollow, but I enjoyed it a lot. That being said, Hotel Dusk is my favorite DS adventure game.

I guess I'll go with Ghost Trick. I love the Phoenix Wright games, but they tend to wear me out with all the reading and putting things together.

Hotel Dusk. Not just one of my favorite DS games but one of my favorite adventure games across the board.

I really like 999 but Trials and Tribulations was so good that I have to pick it.

999 is designed by Kotaro Uchikoshi, co-writer who worked on Ever17. I guess that's meaningless to most people on Giant Bomb, but it was the sole reason I picked it up, and it turned out to be fantastic. It's hard to make a call on "best" when I've never touched most of the other games on this list, but that would easily be my winner.

Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (?).

I love me some Layton, some Phoenix Wright (especially Trials & Tribulations... hated Apollo Justice, though)... but, man, 999 is amazing. I'm so fucking disappointed that the sequel is not coming to Europe, and can't import it from the US because the 3DS is region locked. Bummer.

@JoeyRavn said:

I love me some Layton, some Phoenix Wright (especially Trials & Tribulations... hated Apollo Justice, though)... but, man, 999 is amazing. I'm so fucking disappointed that the sequel is not coming to Europe, and can't import it from the US because the 3DS is region locked. Bummer.

Rising Star Games is publishing it in Europe, but I don't think a release date has been given. Since it's being based off of Atlus' English translation, I'd say some time after that.

@AndrewB said:

@JoeyRavn said:

I love me some Layton, some Phoenix Wright (especially Trials & Tribulations... hated Apollo Justice, though)... but, man, 999 is amazing. I'm so fucking disappointed that the sequel is not coming to Europe, and can't import it from the US because the 3DS is region locked. Bummer.

Rising Star Games is publishing it in Europe, but I don't think a release date has been given. Since it's being based off of Atlus' English translation, I'd say some time after that.

Atlus isn't doing the localization of Virtue's Last Reward. That's being released by Aksys.

@Hailinel: You're right. I just had Atlus on the brain when I wrote that.