I was never really able to get into that one myself, unfortunately. I should maybe try other Mystery Dungeons at some point to see if any of them click.
DSiware was a decent idea that never went anywhere and barely had any good games for it. Dark Void Zero wasn’t good, but it had decent ideas and pixel art. The soundtrack was pretty rad tho
Knights in the Knightmare for sure. What a weird, atmospheric, bullet hell strategy, game, thing
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The EO games are so great one of my all time favorite series. It’s wild how much better the gameplay is compared to basically all other JRPGs.
I’m getting antsy waiting for EO5 to get translated, it’s been so long I’m concerned it’s never gonna happen. The lack of a second screen on the Switch has me worried about the future of the series in general as well 
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I like to think that Etrian Odyssey was for me what Dark Souls was for others.
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Still don’t know why “Only at Wal-mart” didn’t become the new “Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series”
Oh man so many great memories in this thread. I used to love Contact and Lunar Knights but i sold them foolishly. Currently on the top of my “if i see em buy em” list. Now let me hit yall with the weirdest game in my collection: Freshly-Picked Tingles rosy Rupee Land
Its an oft-forgotten zelda spinoff featuring Tingle as the playable character. Everything in the game is about rupees. Theyre your health as well as your currency and you have to pay for everything. You have to pay townsfolk for information, you have to pay doors to open, you have to pay a magical tower to unlock new worlds, and you have to hire goons in the local dockside bar to fight for you in dungeons cuz tingle cant fight well himself. Then at the end of dungeons you have to decide what cut of the dungeon loot your hired thug gets. Its wild and also never came to the states. It was exclusive to Japan and Europe for some reason. Id recommend picking it up for the novelty of owning it. The game itself is a little tedious.
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It’s been mentioned a couple of times up above but Project Rub (a.k.a Feel the Magic: XY/XX) was probably the absolute weirdest DS game I owned. I picked it up right at the beginning to the DS era when there was only a few games available in the UK, but I was starting to get burnt out on Mario 64. I went in totally blind and it was absolutely glorious.
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Oh? I had no idea. I was pretty young when I played it so that may have been something I just glossed over.
Sick avatar by the way! Raccoons was awesome, I’m assuming you’re Canadian?
Surprised to find all the weird games I half remember owning already mentioned here. Pac Pix was one but I never really played much of the game, instead there was a secret notepad you could access from the main screen which reacted to and animated the things you drew. There was actually a very small list of things it responded to but I spent hours drawing things on it. I think clouds flew off, butterflies flapped and a treble clef would start playing music but I could never draw the treble clef right
People are covering most of what I would have brought up - Henry Hatsworth, Dragon Quest Rocket Slime, Elite Beat Agents - but while they might not be the most unknown or underappreciated titles I’ll take a moment to say that the DS Castlevania entries are superb, and Ninja Gaiden DS did a shockingly good job of translating both the fluidity and challenge of that series to touch controls.
I can’t remember the name right now, but there was also a Diablo-alike top down action RPG I enjoyed on the DS, and it made me wish that Diablo proper had showed up there. It might have been an odd fit thematically for the system, but now that the series is on consoles and doing well there, I can’t help but think how well it would have played with the touch screen had it been an option.
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For Austin I will shout out, Flower Sun and Rain.
I didn’t like it but was compelled to play it. Definately super niche game…
Yeah, the Switch seems neat but its lack of second screen and the generally hazy future of the 3DS has me similarly anxious. I’m still hoping that EOV comes west and Etrian Odyssey Untold III gets made.
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I’m especially anxious for Etrian Mystery Dungeon 2 since that was just announced in Japan.
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Same. I had a fantastic time with EMD. I’d love to see them iterate on it.
