That's all the genres you'll be doing? How are you going to fit in strategy games(Advance Wars, Robocalypse, Lock's Quest), Rhythm/Music games(Elite Beat Agents/Ouendan, Jam Sessions, Guitar Hero, Electroplankton), Simulation games(Nintendogs, Theme Park, Trauma Center) and productivity titles(100 Classic Book Collection, Personal Trainer: Cooking, My Spanish Coach)?

Great job so far. Just asking about the low amount of genres it seems you'll be doing. Unless you just forgot about them, which is understandable. It's hard thinking of every far reaching genre on the best damn platform of all time.

Oh and in addition to the two games Words of Wisdom mentioned, you also forgot The Dark Spire under the RPG category. It would go under dungeon crawler like Orcs and Elves.

I forgot about strategy/simulation.  I'm probably not going to add anything that teaches or trains you. There will also be an others section for genres that don't have many good games or many games at all on the DS such as racing.

So now there won't be any strategy/simulation games on your list? Also, why arn't you gonna add anything that teaches or trains you?

I know that adding a list of great DS games is very beneficial to the community, but things like that require much more forethought beforehand. Perhaps a better idea would be either writing down a list of good DS games on paper or typing up a list on a word document. You can then use that list that I've mentioned in the sentence before this as an idea on what you're going to include. Ask anyone that knows a lot about the DS's library & they might help you by telling you any games &/or genres that you've might forgotten in your list for example.

You're going to leave out an entire genre of games, especially one as important and DS centric as productivity games are? That's like leaving Wii Fit off a "Why you should buy a Wii" thread. It doesn't make sense. If you're willing to put just about any damn RPG in existence on your list, regardless of general quality or regional release, then I don't see any reason why games as important as Personal Trainer, My Coach, and 100 Classic Book Collection can't make it on. They're better reasons to own a DS than half the games you'll decide to put on your list.

Also you forgot Ys 1 and 2 collection on your RPG list.

About racing, there may not be too many, but there's probably enough to warrant a small dedicated section. Mario Kart, Diddy Kong Racing, Grid and Race Driver, Speed Racer, Need for Speed Carbon and Prostreet, Trackmania and upcoming games like Dirt 2, Need for Speed Nitro, Monster Racers, Moto Racer DS and Sonic & Sega Allstars Racing.

There is so much RPG stuff there, that it makes me want to go, "But I don't really like RPGs" and have the entire thing patterned after the Spam skit from Monty Python's Flying Circus (Replace Spam with RPG) in the skit:

thats quite an OP you got there.

More RPGs/tactics that you should put on the list:
-Ragnarok Online DS (this game is being localized, why it isn't on the list?)
-Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans (this game has an excellent battle system and it's being localized):


-The Wizard of Oz
-Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales  
-The Dark Spire (the best old school RPG on the DS so far)
-Digimon World DS  
-Digimon World: Dusk
-Digimon World: Dawn
-Dokapon Journey  
-Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja
-Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns
-Eragon
-Deep Labyrinth  
-Lunar: Dragon Song  
-Spectrobes  
-Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals  
-Mazes of Fate DS  
-Custom Robo Arena (good battles, good multiplayer but bad storyline):

-From the Abyss  
-Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (people who like mystery dungeon will love this game)
-A Witch's Tale
-Steel Princess
-Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal  
-Naruto: Path of the Ninja  
-Naruto: Path of the Ninja  2
-Soul Eater: Medusa no Inbou
-SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu
-Disgaea DS  
-Advance Wars: Dual Strike  
-Advance Wars: Days of Ruin  
-Front Mission (the first version was released in the West)

I agree with the above. Please add Dark Spire. More people need to learn about that game.

Great job so far though. I can imagine how much work a list like this would take.

I recognize the genre is there, and it is a prominant one, but this thread is suppose to target the demographic that goes on forums. If you wish I will at the more popular ones like brain age, but obscure things like My Spanish Coach which are pretty much the low of the low when trying to learn something.(You could probably get much better education from any text book/class. Basically I'll add anything that has some following on the forum. That is why I left out about half the DS' RPGs(yes my list has 3/4ths at most). This list isn't meant to list every game of every genre, just the ones that at least a small group that goes to forums seem to like. Who knows though, I might add the section if enough people ask about it. I have plenty of room.

@Hisiru Some of those are going under action adventure, Strategy, or some other genre; while others I've already added and you must have missed. As for the rest I will add quite a few of them, I don't know about all of them.

No there will be a strategy/simulation section, I just forgot to mention it in my post. I already have lists in wordpad. That is why I type/copy the titles first then add pictures/links. Also like I said to Onyxmeth I'm only adding the more notable games like Brain Age, or some other game with a large forum-goer audience. Also I will only add them, if I think they will actually train or teach you as good as other education methods. For example, I have a friend who has the "Japanese Coach" game. I borrowed it to see what it taught you and it was nowhere comparable to my Genki text books + Learning the Kanji. It didn't go into enough detail at all in any of the lessons. The only good use for it was as a dictionary imo. Some of these games are just too rushed, and a waste to even think that they will teach you something. I will add RPGs regardless of Critic quality because in that area it is relative of everybodies preference. In learning games you only have one solid basis. Did you learn it good enough or not? If you didn't then it fails and doesn't deserve to be on the list. That is why I don't even want to touch learning games too much. The bigger ones like Brain Age don't even teach you anything, they just train your brain to work faster better.

@Richard I am no where near done. I still have Action-Adventure, Action, Strategy/Simulation, and a misc section to do. The reason why you see mostly RPGs because that is the biggest out of the three sections I did.