Legacy of Ys, Cooking Mama 3

My introduction to the Ys series of games was Ys III: Wanderers from Ys on the SNES. I thought it was a fun game, basically a cross between RPG and side-scroller, but insanely hard--I could hardly get through the first dungeon without both level-grinding and a Game Genie for invulnerablility. ( The details of Ys follow. )

Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop has some lovely improvements over previous incarnations, and some additions that don't quite work. ( Changes to minigames, additional sections. )

It's been a very DS weekend. I have Nostalgia and Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story to add to my list, too.