Dragon Quest 9, stunned that Golden Mediocrity is in the lead by a few votes. DQ9 has a fantastic story, the a/v engine is nuts for the DS, and while tried and true though finally with random fights out the combat engine is fun to work with. Saddled with an overly long and chatty pointless story, stupid design decisions that even dated the RPG combat engine in the originals, and as others said dumbed down difficulty makes not for a game of the year GS in the lead is sad as it's a fanboy vote much like those gamefaqs character/game battles where the ff7 psychos come out of the woodwork.