#7 Jump Super Stars
Where Smash Bros. has always taken popular characters from established Nintendo franchises and thrown them into platform-based battle arenas, Jump Super Stars for the Nintendo DS does the same thing with popular characters from the shÅnen manga digest magazine, Weekly Shonen Jump.
There are 27 popular manga series represented in the game, including several that have been major hits in the U.S. and Europe: Naruto, Bleach, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Hunter x Hunter, and Dragonball. You have the usual Smash Bros.-style fighting game action for 2-4 players, with the added ability to build a custom manga using a deck of differently-sized koma, or illustrated panels, on the 3DS’ bottom screen. Each koma provides different buffs or healing to the characters onscreen, and you’ll arrange them into a page layout prior to each battle.
As terrific as all this sounds, there’s almost no way it’ll ever see an official western release: There are simply too many properties represented in the game, and licensing would be a legal and financial quagmire for Nintendo. The good news is that since physical copies of DS games aren’t region-locked, you can fairly easily import the game and use it on a western handheld.
