Golden Sun DS, finally an old school style jrpg that isn't a complete pain in the ass to play.

I recently got addicted to Dawn of Discovery (Anno 1404 in europe). Civilization 5 was a huge disappointment for me, so this game serves as a nice replacement.

The game pretty much have you maintain a fiefdom and you advance through it by providing the population with what they need. The people require basic necessity such as food, religion, community and drinks. They advance in rank from peasants at the lowest to noblemen at the highest and each tier has it's own set of requirement that get more complex as you progress. Peasants only requires fish for food, but citizen will wants spices too and also require new category such as entertainment. There's also trading with the orient (middle east mostly) for rare resources like spices.

The campaign pretty much function as a giant tutorial and there's a continuous mode where the game becomes a big sandbox and let you build your own island city and fight other people.