DS co-op?

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MeanMuenster

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My mom has displayed interest in Brain Age, so I'm planning to get her a DS and the two brain age games for Christmas.

I'm wondering if there are any good co-op wifi DS games that I could also toss in there that we could play together. We live in different cities, so I guess I mean "online" as oposed to "wifi", but I've never messed with multiplayer DS stuff, so I'm not exactly sure what I'm talking about.

Anyway, any suggestions are appraicted.

Thanks!
 
pokemon has various co-op elements (poffin making, underground, maybe more) available on wifi but only battling and trading online, that's too bad.

castlevania PoR has some type of co-op, but i've never used so maybe someone else knows how it works.

clubhouse games? team tetris?
 
Mario Kart has co-op and I think Elite Beat Agents has versus play.

Also, not co-op but many moms like Pheonix Wright.
 
Clubhouse is co op online?

I have owned that since release and did not realize that.

Clubhouse is so nice to have around as well.
 
[quote name='Justden']Mario Kart has co-op and I think Elite Beat Agents has versus play.

Also, not co-op but many moms like Pheonix Wright.[/quote]
I was acutally thinking mario kart, as I already have it, that makes it cheaper.

I knew it had multi-player, obviously, but how does co-op work (gameplay)?

Thanks again for all the suggestions!
 
[quote name='MeanMuenster']I was acutally thinking mario kart, as I already have it, that makes it cheaper.

I knew it had multi-player, obviously, but how does co-op work (gameplay)?

Thanks again for all the suggestions![/quote]
Looks like Mario Kart DS is just versus play. I must have been thinking of Double Dash that had co-op. One player was a driver and another shot a gun.

I think Lego Starwars II has co-op.
 
[quote name='Justden']I think Lego Starwars II has co-op.[/quote]

Yeah, but it's wi-fi only, not online.

There honestly aren't that many online co-op titles for the DS. Plenty of versus stuff, but co-op pickings are pretty slim.

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin does have online co-op, but it's just a basic enemy/boss rush mode that you can play with someone else. You can't play the full game with co-op. And since you'll be using your characters from the main game in the co-op mode, you'd still have to play the main game a lot to be any good at it.

As for Clubhouse Games, you can play together, and it's a hell of a lot of fun, but I wouldn't really call it co-op (though I guess you could team up against the computer on some of the games). Nevertheless, it's still a great title, and I imagine you'd have fun with it even if you are playing against each other.

If you could play over local wi-fi there would be a lot more choices, but those are really the most notable online co-op games I can think of, and it's not very exciting. Contra 4 might have online co-op (co-op is confirmed, but whether it will be online or not isn't), so keep an eye out on that.
 
Clubhouse games rules.

I would just get her brain age 2 - having both would just be more complex, and no more fun ... so I claim ...

My wife and grandmother are absolutely ADDICTED to a game called 'Touch Masters'.
 
Unfortunately coop play is pretty much non-existent on the DS, or effectively so. C:poR's coop play is pretty dull, and isn't playing the actual game, only a series of boss fights. Why isn't it true coop play? It would have greatly enhanced the game. Oh well - there's always hope for the future....
 
co-op play is pretty overlooked across the board in video games. it's too bad, because for a lot of us, we're not playing video games with all our video-game-playing guy buddies as much as we are playing with our wives or SOs or family or kids or whatever. i don't like playing against my wife because i whup her in everything (she doesn't like it either), but we like playing co-op stuff like gauntlet (she calls it the i-follow-you game).
 
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