liquidsnakehpks: crap i guess im late i just wanted to suggest buying any of the harvest moon series games, they are absolute fun :D specially if you like farming games excellent story, in short it pwns the facebooks farmville any day

Runehamster: I ended up with Rune Factory 3 - I have played the original for countless hours, but had grown tired of the dull villagers, lack of quests, and completely uninspired battle system. All of which they've corrected! <3

Thanks everyone for all the advice - I'll be referring to this thread in the future for more DS recommendations :D

orcishgamer: You may also like to refer to the following threads (a lot of retread from here, but you might find a gem we all forgot):

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/nintendo_ds

Well, crap, could only find the one, it seems to me we've had more, though.