Mine has to be Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime, a DS spin off of the Dragon Quest series that sees you playing as a slime operating a tank and rescuing the people from your town. You run around the overworld, collecting items to use as ammunition and saving money to upgrade your tank. The art and music are just as great as you’d expect from the Dragon Quest series. It made fantastic use of the DS’s dual screens. It’s also written for a younger audience, so a lot of it is just really silly and fun! Try it out for sure, I’m so sad there’s no sequel :(
Trash Panic for the PS3. It’s a downloadable game where you try to fit things inside of a trash can. You try to compact things down with force (e.g., cracking a plate into a bunch of pieces) and saving good things called “mottainai” (“what a waste” in Japanese). It was a fun challenging puzzle and I boot up my PS3 or RPSC3 from time to time to play it.
Great description, this sounds fantastic.