Attention DS owners – you’re going to have to immediately scrape together $5. Dig under the coach cushions, search your car’s cup holders and check every coat pocket and old purse! Capcom’s announced that certain preordered copies of Okamiden the sequel to the PS2 and Wii game Okami will come with a paint-brush shaped stylus and a screen-cleaner white featuring Chibiterasu and Kuni. Curse you Capcom for only making 20,000 available…

If you own a DS, then chances are at one point or another, you’ve been burned by the standard stylus that came with it. It’s happened to the best of us.

Perhaps you reached into the stylus slot one day, only to find that it slipped out when you weren’t looking and you now need to use your fingernails to play your favorite game. Maybe your hands were a bit slippery, and the tiny pen flew from your grip and made a bid for freedom. Or you could just be one of the many who succumbed to stylus-induced hand cramps.

Japan has a wide variety of DS stylus alternatives available, all designed to (hopefully) make gaming easier. So today, Important Importables tests four DS stylus options, in the hopes of finding one which will make gaming easier.