Thanks for all the replies on the last entry, that helped tons. I'm not exactly bathing in money right now, so I'm only picking up a couple.
Right now I think the games I'm most interested in are Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, Kid Icarus Uprising and Ocarina of Time 3D. I've looked around a bit and those definitely look interesting.
However they're all parts of franchises and, like I said in the last entry, I haven't really touched anything video-game wise, as in, ever. So if they're part of series, I'm wondering if they also work standalone? The internet isn't overtly clear on that.
I would try to get Pokémon SoulSilver or White too, but right now 'm still trying to convince my mother that Pokémon isn't the work of satan. It's that kind of household.
Anyway, thanks.