man 10 year old me must have poured hundreds of hours in flipnote. This was an amazing network of incredible talented kids and a looooot of pre-historic shitposting, the first AMV I watched was likely on my DSi screen through this software. I remember working tremendously hard to make my flipnotes, I was an avant-gard flipnote artist I swear to god, everything I made was abstract as shit. I remember once I poured hours and hours into one specific flipnote and I recall my dad turned the ds off or something? I don't know, I don't really know how or why my dad would even turn it off, let alone if he knew how, but that's how my 10 year old self remembers it. I remember crying and throwing a tantrum on the couch in my living room, and refusing to go to dinner. Man, what an annoying little shit I was.

NAH BUT THIS GAME WAS THE SHIT
mannnnn I can't even explain how recurrent this fucking game was in my childhood, holy shiiiit. Even before paying for the full version, I played the demo like crazy. I got so good at its online game-mode. goddAM I would crawl through broken glass and give up a kidney just to get Sony to put up the servers again and rock out some matches like the old times. The gamemodes were simple, but all super fun. The map design?? Incredibly intricate yet straightfoward routes, with a lot of branching paths, shortcuts, risky routes, strategic points, every single match was different even if it was played on the same map over and over again. The class system was super fun, the game had an hilarious tone to top it all off, with really tongue in cheek humour while a blood bath ensued before your eyes. I hate saying "they dont make games like this anymore" you know? it's like every game is a product of its time and new and compelling ways to aproach game design and multiplayer verbs are being made every year, but FUCKK they don't make games like this anymore. 10/10 idc

for a while this was the only game I had on my DS growing up. You know it was funny I wanted to get the console for so long and then when I did this is the game my parents got me. Classic story im sure, but honestly it was lowkey super fun. The lil dude with the glasses was actually a really cute and compelling character throughout the "game" and I had a lot of fun with every single mini game it had (except the math ones, found those ones rlly boring as a kid woop) and funnily enough I was the only little shit with this game at school and my friends actually got into it as well if I remember correctly. We would challenge eachother on the various lil minigames and the IQ result it would give you.

A GUN-WIELDING SAMURAI?? A KATANA-WIELDING GUNSLINGER?? MAN WTF WAS THIS GAME
I swear to god this shit was so batshit insane, rolling through ancient japanese dojos through a wild west setting, with ridiculous villains all whiLE SLICING A KATANA AND SHOOTING A GUN?? Like you would actually slice and shoot with the goddamn wii remote this shit was INSANE 9 year old me could not believe my eyes. This is literally a kid's dream, mashing together two historical troupes any little boy loves, with absolutely nO disregard for historical accuracy or even pragamatism in terms of combat. This is literally a kid's dream. I had so much fun with this, truly a unique piece.
I don't give a shit if I'm seeing this with rose coloured glasses and the gamplay was trash YOU WERE A SAMURAI WITH A GUN SHUT UP

Yeah I remember playing this on the PS3 and being really surprised at how well put together the game was you know? It was an entirely open world experience filled with wonderful little side activities, from the dueling club to the potion brewing mini games, the quidditch sections, and the whole area was actually really fun to explore. You know in terms of the story's gameplay it was fine, had some fun moments but it was mostly mid, but what this game really shined in was giving us an open world hogwarts to explore.