3DS

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• I have a thing for the Nintendo 3DS. I'm talking borderline obsessive here. You see, it's not just some gadget to me; it's a slice of my personal history. The 3DS was a big player in my journey from a kid with a wonky vision to a grown-up who finally saw the world in all three dimensions.

• Yeah, you heard right. I was the kid who used to stumble into walls, a real-life Picasso portrait with a bilateral visual impairment. Then came surgery. The doc said I'd see things differently, and oh my, was she right. One of the first things where my full-blown vision started to work? You guessed it - the Nintendo 3DS, with its weird 3D mode.

• Now, I'm no sucker for popularity contests, but the 3D mode? That was the real deal for me. No, not just real - it was like my first gulp of air after years underwater.

• Fast forward to the present, and you'll still find me, from time to time, eyes glued to that small rectangular screen. Whenever I find a pocket of time free from the chains of daily life, especially when I'm up in the clouds or holed up in some nondescript hotel, I use part of this time to fire up the 3DS.

• Ok. Time to talk shop - the games. The ones I'd rescue from a burning building, the cream of the crop:

• Played (a lot)

  • Bravely Default

  • Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers

  • Devil Survivor Overclocked

  • Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth

  • Fire Emblem Awakening

  • Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer

  • Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse

  • Shin Megami Tensei IV

• To be played

  • Devil Survivor 2

  • Etrian Odyssey Nexus

  • Strange Journey