Nintendo DS Import Blog Launched!!!

Yo, sup? All you DS fan boys out there. There is a wacky world out there in the east. People there ride in bus and train everyday, with their DS on their left hand and the touch pen on their right hand. Heads down. Big smiles on their face. They are not playing the same games as we do in the States. They are much more loaded, with fun.

The Japanese are indeed a bunch of creative people. And they really know how to put it to use in this little DS platform. Too bad most of us here in the States have no hope of getting showered by these creative juices. That's right. We are screwed out of the DS gaming heaven.

And I am here to make it right for all you DS fan boys out there. To start things off, these are 3 of the very outstanding and impressive Import DS games from Japan.

Sangokushi Taisen DS - A very popular card-based realtime strategy game. It is actually ported from arcade. In the arcade version, the players actually collect real cards and play against the computer or other players on a special arcade platform. This game is vastly popular in asia and the DS provides a platform that allows a very faithful port of the arcade version. This game is really deep and keeps balance in mind in many aspects of the design. Oh. You can also go online with your own deck and play against your friends or random people.

Jump Ultimate Stars - This is the ultimate fighting game on DS. Period. There are over 300 characters from over a dozen Japanese comics. You can put up a deck of these characters based on certains rules and fight it out against the AI in story mode or battle mode. Oh. in case you can read Japanese, there is also a quiz mode in which you will be asked about the details of some of the most memorable comics in the legendary JUMP magazine. Or if you are bored, you can always go online to test out your fighting skills, too.

Ouendan 2 - This is "Elite Beat Agents" in Japanese. Actually this is already a sequel. And the sequel of the American version should be out early next year, too. Same thing here. The game play is exactly the same as "Elite Beat Agents". So you can actually just pick up this game and get right into it if you have already played EBA before. Great music, funky stories and lovely cheerleaders at the final part of the game.

My brother, this is just a sneak peak. I am going to drill more into these 3 games above in the coming weeks. And I will also be crawling through all Chinese, Korean and Japanese forums, getting you all the latest and greatest DS import game news. Whether it is the good, the bad or the ugly, as long as it is fun, I am going to talk about it. So that us US kids are not screwed as bad in the Nintendo DS heaven.