I know this is a 3DS forum, but these questions are DS related....throw me a bone, eh? Its close enough!

I am really into the Resident Evil/Silent hill sort of games. Does the DS offer any of these? (I know of the two for 3DS...) Also, my wife is in love with the Kingdom Heart games, I need to know if there are any for DS/3DS? One more question, (for now) in terms of BUILD quality and FEEL only, that is to say how it feels in your HANDS and nothing to do with a given system's FEATURES, which DS do YOU prefer? These are the ones that we are aware of/own:
(I need one of those "XLs"....my hands are way too big for the Lites...)

Standard DS
DS Lite
DSI
DSI XL
3DS


....And just for fun:
(I might screw up a bit, but I dont believe so, this is from memory...I am listing HARDWARE, not things like housing color...)

GameBoy Model 001 ("fat" OG...spinach-green dot matrix display...)
GameBoy Pocket
GameBoy Light
GameBoy Color
GameBoy Advance
GameBoy Advance SP
GameBoy Advance SP Model AGS-101 (BRIGHTER screen model...a personal sweetheart of mine...LOVE the display/resolution....)
GameBoy Micro

.....and that brings us to the other-worldly DS, daddy of the modern Nintendo hand-held!

My gratitude,

Swampslop

You can play all the old DS games on the 3ds.

And dont bother with any RE games in the GB/GBC/GBA era, the one for color was awful and I dont think there were any even MADE for gba

Well, all games that don't require the GBA slot.

Amazon.com: Resident Evil Deadly Silence: Video Games

thats the remake of RE1 for DS, the only RE game I am familiar with for handhelds. Honestly you would be better off getting an old PS2 and playing re 1-4 on that. RE 4 is by far the pinnacle of the RE series and you should NOT pass it up if you love RE.

DS

3DS (not out yet)

....Oh, and I prefer the feel of the original DS phat.

Added after 7 minutes:

Also for a decent horror game on DS, Dementium and Dementium 2 are supposedly pretty good:





I think they are more like horror fps games rather than being anything like Resident Evil.