The World Ends With You

Certainly it was popular when it came out, and I guess a lot of young-ish people actually look back on this with some nostalgia. I will admit that the characters and story are pretty interesting, but personally I always found it to be kind of a pain to actually play. Like a lot of DS games this was designed around making use of the touch screen. The result is one of the most utterly strange combat systems I've ever seen in a game. Nothing about it really works for me. Just feels like chaos. Every weapon has its own attack style. For some you just maul the touch screen, others might make you hold the stylus down in one spot, etc. It's always tough to get used to one after having used another for a while, and some are just annoying to use no matter what. You've also got the other screen to worry about. There's a backup character up there who fights enemies at the same time as you. The characters keep changing over the course of the game and they each have different attack styles as well, controlled by the buttons rather than the touch screen. There's so much going on I just end up mashing buttons while focusing on the bottom screen, or blindly running in a big circle around the walls while focusing on the top. I'm sure mastering both is possible (and it may even be fun) but the game is easy enough just blundering through everything.