Been a long time owner of my 3ds, but i haven't really used it... except for my pokemon games :/

Anyways i'm about to upgrade my smaller 3DS for the XL and i really need some suggestions :)

So far i'm thinking off

Animal Crossing 3DS

Professor Layton

Super Mario 3DS Land

Mario Kart 7

Zelda Ocarina of time

Is there anything else that i should look at? i'm a huge fan of platformers and RPG/JRPG's

Thanks BTW :)

Kid icarus uprising
Resident evil revelations
Super street fighter 4 3d edition
NSMB2
Kingdom hearts DDD
Paper mario sticker stars

Great list :D Also, is harvest moon any good?

Im not the right person to ask, those types of games dont interest me. If u like animal crossing im sure u will like harvest moon.

Based off your tastes,

- SMT: Devil Survivor Overclocked and/or Tales of the Abyss only if you haven't played or owned the previous versions. Overclocked is a suped up version so you may want to get that one regardless.

- Cave Story (a 3D retail version and a digital one) if you haven't played it before.

- Shinobi, especially if you like a old school challenge with some modern trappings

- Mighty Switch Force (digital release), although you might be better off with the HD version on the Wii U.

- Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, not really a platformer or RPG, but a visual novel/adventure/puzzle game that normally blows people's minds with its story and the different routes it allows you to progress through the game.

- Fire Emblem: Awakening, still far off (February 2013 release) but should be a good title.

Look into Nintendo's eshop offerings. The Nintendo published games on the eshop are pretty damn good (Pushmo/Crashmo, Dillon's Rolling Western, Sakura Samurai, Ketzal's Corridors, Freakyforms, etc)

Mutant Mudds

Big fan of RPGs?  Get the Denpa Men: They Came By Wave.  I don't even like RPGs that much but I enjoyed this dungeon crawler a lot.

I wanted to add my list, but BasilZero has the better list for Retail-games and Sethnintendo the list for download-titles.

Avoid Two Towns.

Buy and play the everloving shit out of New Beginning. It's one of the best in the series, although it DOES have a slow first season.

I cannot stress enough how great Resident Evil : Revelations is. It's better than some of the "real" RE games.