Affordable DS & 3DS JRPGs Worth Owning

Don’t say Radiant Historia.
Don’t say Radiant Historia.
Don’t say Radiant Historia.

Welp, there goes my days loose change.

Check out Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon on the DS, guys!! While it may not be the easiest on the eyes, it has a very well written yet grounded and straightforward story as a remake of the first entry. It also has plenty of new mechanics and strategical twists that the later entries after Awakening would borrow, so its very much worth playing.
Don’t sleep on it if you have any interest in FE or even just Marth specifically!!

I was in a hard time financially almost 2 years ago and had to sell my copy of Tales of the Abyss to scrape by. Fortunately things have stabilized and I'm doing much better. I think the retro video game store that I sold my copy to accepted it for around the same price shown here, give or take $5 or so. Perhaps now is the time to buy back that underrated 3ds port and reclaim an item that was previously in my modest 3ds collection. Do you think these prices you've showcased in this video will fluctuate relatively soon?

The hack G.U background music is INSANE

Fantasy Life was soooooo good! I loved that game and I’m so glad they are finally doing the sequel! Chef by day, paladin by night!

I'm surprised Dragon Quest VIII didn't get a mention (or maybe I missed it).
Glad you mentioned TWERY – I remember selling an extra copy of that DS game (a colleague was getting rid of some of their child's stuff so gave me the game for free) on eBay for $80 before the Switch version was announced

Thats not games.thats artifacts

I missed out on the DS and 3DS generations but I'm impressed by the library there

Hey there! French viewer here if i can bring up a few differences between you guys in NA and us in Europe :
– megami games cost way more here dont ask me why ! Devil S2 is around 100 euros cib and Devil S1 oh boy i cant even say how much because it never pops, but i think around 200 euros (for reference, euro right now is more or less the same as USD)

– yokai games is the contrary : expensive for you and cheap for us. Except 3 which is expensive everywhere

– pokemon games blew up those last 3 years. Black 2 white 2 where like 40 euros back in 2021. Now they are 80 at the very least (cib in France for reference)

Lastly, as for the systems themselves, interesting to note you guys had amazing versions we never had and vice-versa. For example, you had the amazing 20th anniversary pokemon new 3ds which is very sought after, and the new 3ds xl pikachu yellow edition. While we had in europe the 3 best 2DS systems : red, blue and yellow pokemon editions never released in NA, and another bundle you guys never had and was limited even in europe is a pokemon alpha sapphire new 3ds pack with exlusive cover plates.

Just a few interesting differces i thought someone wud be interested to know!

I was today years old when I learned the DS was region free 😂. Good to know!

Hah, no thanks, I'm not interested in paying for Fire Emblem games who were mistranslated on purpose and heavily censored, causing the famous Nintendo Treehouse purge (thgey fired the entire team). Bravely Default and Bravely second are the same, both were censored. in Bravely Second in particular they cut entire parts of the game. Did you know that Second has branching storylines and several endings depending on your choices? The japanese version that is! For america and Europe they censored everything down to the ARTBOOK and only left 1 ending, removing all choices, branching paths and multiple endings. I bought those 2 games used from a friend for 15 bucks for the pair. Fuck giving square enix money for those practices.

Great Vid but now I'm mad at myself because I didn't know the JP version of Chrono Trigger had an English option 😭. I wanted the game but never got the NA one because of the price. I hope I can find it next time i'm out game hunting. Thanks for the heads up

Wow, and you finished almost all of these 3Ds games 😮?

I'm always conflicted when 3ds games come to switch. I hate that it loses exclusives because i want to continue having experiences unique to the console. However, im happy that good games will be more accessible to people.

I've been looking to add more JRPGs to the DS/3DS so thank you for this! I just got Fantasy Life finally and I'm enjoying it quite a lot. Sad that the new game got delayed but just gives me more time to play the first game before that one comes out

Probably one of the most underrated game on the 3DS Ever Oasis is such a gem. 😊

Of all the collecting I've done, there are 2 platforms I truly enjoyed: The PS Vita and the Nintendo DS/3DS.
The latter has probably been the most unalloyed pleasure (some frustrations around Vita collecting). Just looking at my stack of 3DS and DS games still brings a smile to my face. 😊

That it's a great list. Enjoyed the video because I have ADHD had you were talking about games I was getting ready to write a comment and you covered everything I was going to say in this comment It's hard for me to concentrate on things And I know every time I wait till the end of the video I forget what I was going to say Thank you and I enjoyed the videos you put out sorry for any misspelling, i also suck at that

The 3DS and DS are probably my favorite handhelds to collect for. A lot of it is still very 'gettable' like some of your suggestions! Others not so much 😅Great video!