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Did you guys like this series? I just beat the first game and now I'm moving on to the second, it's pretty fun. The music's really good, too.
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It was my favorite GBA game. It had some god tier graphics and music for a portable game too.
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I love it, OP. The music gets better in the second game. Also, Air's Rock is a bitch.
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I kinda like Felix more than Isaac.
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>>268456178
Finally beating the first part of the final boss was amazing for me.
Then I was even more amazed, those frustrated, when they turned into a dragon and wrecked my shit
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its a relaxing series, one of the last adventure games i enjoyed (the last one were the banjo series).
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>>268456508
Me2
Most gameplay vids I see always seem to replace Felix with Isaac when they get the old party back, but i always stick with Lost age Party primarily
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>>268456767
>not using both of them in your main party
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>>268456767
>not using both.
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>>268456178
The games are decent. 2 > 1. Don't even play 3, it's an embarrassment.
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>>268457035
>>268456986
Team two was underleveled by the time I got them.
Though I dunno if having them in the primary party levels them up faster or what, I never really bothered to tryq
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>>268456178

I like it a lot, but Christ, some of the cutscenes put Buckley to shame. Dark Dawn was one of my biggest disappointments.
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>>268456389
The first time I played, I didn't know you could loop around after going down the sand waterfall, and thought I was stuck because there was no Reveal door to get back up.
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Really good use of the hardware, I remember GS on the GBA when it first came out.

It was gorgeous and still looks good on emulator as well.
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>>268457775
Shame psp emulator cant run it well
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Never grew up with it. It felt eh. Pretty, but still eh.
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>>268456178

They're a great couple of games, shame we'll never have a sequel
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>>268456767
I made my own team, main was Isaac, Piers, Sheba and Jenna, switching out Sheba for whoever else I needed at the time. I always kept Iris ready to summon on the back up party.
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>>268456178
Played the first and second but its just too WORDS WORDS WORDS for me to go back to it or try the DS ones.
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It's actually one of the worst JRPGs I've ever played

Why would you like Maze Simulator?
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It was good, I liked it.

Mia was my waifu for a little while.
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>>268458526
>using Iris
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>>268458492
Too bad they never made a DS one. Imagine, going from TWEWY and DQIX to a masterpiece like that.
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>>268456767
Best Party:

Isaac
Felix
Garret
Piers
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>>268458631
Maybe you should go back to loli pantsu quest XV then
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Bought it when it came out. It was ok, I guess. I never finished it. I'm more of a PC guy anyway, and that had nothing on the RPG's I played.
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Describe the characters of Golden Sun without bringing up their appearance, their powers, or their role.
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Generic but fun and fast-paced battles
Nice music
Nice graphics

Mediocre dungeons

Shit characters and story
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>>268458927
>not Isaac, Felix, Jenna and Mia
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>>268456178
loved it in 7th grade
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>>268458927

No, Piers is bad. And you should feel bad for using Piers. In general, good equipment pool, but all of his classes are the Water/Wind mage style classes EXCEPT for his pure water class. Which, btw, is completely shit compared to Ninja/Samurai/Dragoon series of the Fire/Earth adepts. Hell, Jenna with Tisiphone Edge was better than Piers.
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>>268456178
Sure, too bad people forgot about them.

>there will never be another golden sun game
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>>268458606
>WORDS WORDS WORDS

I will never understand why the made it so wordy when they had the most boring and generic story ever.
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>>268458927
>No healer
whats wrong with you
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>>268459138
Literally no one is praising Golden Sun for its characters; the first two are good because they're fun.
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>>268459138
Isaac: Bound by duty to his friends, often to a fault
Garrett: Headstrong, brash young man looking for adventure
Ivan: Trying to prove himself
Mia: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Felix: Forced onto a dark path by forces out of his control, while still trying to do the right thing
Jenna: Similar to Felix, but more committed to the right thing
Sheba: Trying to find out who she is and what she's meant to do
Piers: Lost scion of an ancient society trying to find acceptance in the outside world after being rejected by his home
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The only thing I absolutely fucking hated were the gold codes, they were like 3 pages long and took forever to fill out
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>>268460363
and sometimes you would get a plus sign instead of a t and wondering what the fuck you did wrong
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>>268458985
I don't see why it gets so much praise. It consisted of piss easy combat and retarded inventory based puzzles with those dumbass stones you had to carry everywhere.

The class system was interesting, but ultimately pointless because of how easy the game was. The graphics were alright but nothing to write home about. The story was balls terrible and the characters, for the most part, were dumb as rocks. Isaac was silent, Garret was a dipshit, Ivan was a 'push the plot forward' man, and Mia might as well have been mute.

The second game's characters are a bit better, except Felix just becomes Isaac, Jenna is a retard much like Garret, and Piers feels out of place. I don't remember much of Sheeba though.

So why the praise?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrbPftHQJNM

Can't hear this without thinking of 5th grade
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>>268460535
the music mostly

also it was a lot of kid's first RPG
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it was the rpg of my childhood but havent played in years. i still own the gba cartridges too
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>>268460535
Baby's first JRPG mostly. At least that's what I'll alway remember it for.
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What was this kid's roll in combat?
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>>268459616
Well Jenna was just a hostage for all of GS1
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>>268459616
>>268461080
Also Isaac turns out to be a kinda angry guy in Lost Age. I mean its kinda justified but I was surprised
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>>268461005
to be the worse
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>>268461005
Being a slightly less awful Sheba.
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>>268456178
I loved the first game. Didn't play the second one though.

I did however play a pinch of Dark Dawn, and besides the points of no return and dumb story, I thought the game was alright.

Certinaly nice looking for a DS game.
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>>268461903
Well you should play the second one, it was basically just the first one on a grander scale
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>>268462054
> it was basically just the first one with less direction and even worse story

Fixed.
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>>268462384
>with less direction
>implying that's bad
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>>268456178

Best RPG series of all time. 3rd was kinda meh compared to the first two but holy fuck I hope Nintendo doesn't abandon this series.
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>>268462673

It is when you're just forced to aimlessly walk around the random-encounter filled world map for hours looking for the right event flag to move the plot forward, especially when it takes the game about two thirds into the story to even tell you why your party is doing what it is doing.
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>>268462967
>Best RPG series of all time

I genuinely can't understand how people can have so much shit taste.
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>>268463186
Nostalgia
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>>268462967
>>268463186
I wouldn't say it's the best by far but it has a unique and fun combat system, items were cool and looked impressive on the GBA
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>>268459315
Jenna is better than everyone not named Felix and Isaac.
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Heavy nostalgia involved, but holy fuck if isn't comfy.

>Stupid big overworld with tons of stuff to explore
>Puzzles and combat are very enjoyable
>Psynergy is actually used outside of combat for progression, and also for useless but fun shit like mind reading NPCs
>Djinn system is fucking based
>Kickass graphics
>Soundtrack is Motoi Sakuraba on fucking steroids
>No seriously why are his GS soundtracks way better than anything else he does

It probably helps if you're playing it as one of your first RPGs, but back in fourth grade or whatever it felt like I was a proper adventurer on an epic quest. Cool shit.

<spoiler>I even enjoyed Dark Dawn. It wasn't as great as the first two, but hell, just walking around the world map with Sakurabas tunes filling the headphones was enough to take me back. </spoiler> Would be legit excited to play a new Golden sun. We'll have to work on getting Samurai to get Isaac in.
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>>268464069
>No seriously why are his GS soundtracks way better than anything else he does

They sound exactly the same as his Tales soundtracks which all sound the same among each other, too.
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>>268464069
Eh, Camelot's not really an RPG company. They just want to make tennis and golf.
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>>268460535
The game doesn't get anywhere near as much praise as you people claim it does. I'm starting to suspect it's a convenient strawman to justify hating on it.
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>>268463186
I don't know how anyone can say it about any JRPG. I hear it a lot about Xenoblade these days from Nintendo fanboys, despite it failing to execute most things that FF12 did far better.
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>>268456389
First time is a pain, can be pretty frustrating and is a longass dungeon. You start outside, then climb the mountain, then you are inside of a huge dungeon going up and down and all around. 2nd time you play this is actually pretty comfy and a good feel of adventure
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>>268456178
Very mediocre games, the dialogue is shit and it goes on forever
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It's fun how the names were translated in other languages, in french we have :
Isaac = Vlad
Garrett = same
Ivan = same
Mia = Sophia
Felix = Pavel
Jenna = Lina
Sheba = Cylia
Piers = same

Somebody knows why ?
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>>268467382
They just liked to fuck with names. Isaac is Robin in Japan, and Garet is Gerald. There's other ones too.

The first game is good, not too big of a fan of Lost Age. Pacing is fucking terrible in that game and they somehow managed to do things worse than in GS1. Fuck the boat, fuck the long ass time it takes to get around the world map(glad they give you a teleport power in the LAST FUCKING DUNGERON) and fuck the plot. Decent game, though.

dark dawn never happened
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>>268467382
No idea, but yeah, some are different in German as well.
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Best song reporting in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEIYmaeqSN4
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>>268461005
To use sleep on kraken

Go try it
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>>268467382
The French are just really shit at translating things. You must be familiar with the Hokuto no Ken hilariously bad translation
The French just really like to ruin everything
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>>268468062
I implore you to reconsider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HgkGmZA-cY
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Hello, I am this game's main villain.

My entire achievements over the course of both games' plots are convincing two people who wanted to save the world to go save the world, opening a door and trying to buy a boat. You could cut me out of the plot and the story would still progress and end exactly the same.
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>>268456986
>>268456767
I seriously hope you placed Jenna in the leadslot for her battletheme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgIjcGYmoyc
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>>268468062
how could one anon be so right
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>>268468293
>how could one Anon think the only piece of music anyone ever remembers and posts as a memorable theme could be the best theme
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>>268468408
All the music is great, anon, no need to get upset.
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>>268468062


Maximum Comfy incoming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLDlTI8WvMw
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>>268467382
>Isaac = Vlad
>Felix = Pavel
The fuck?
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What I loved most about this game which is usually overlooked and not commented on is the level and puzzle design.

The constant usage of psynergies to get through different levels and then going back to older ones when you got a new psynergy definitely made the game stand out from other Jrpgs.
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>>268463061
it's not like there's dozens of places to go to, it's pretty easy to find things
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>>268462967
>>268463602

>Best of all time
>Unique combat

I love the series but come on.
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>>268464338
They created Waluigi too. Take that as you will.
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>>268469497

What other games use a system similar to spending djinn for a powerful spell at the cost of stats?
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>>268468062
somehow you got it right.

Isaac's battle theme and the Saturos battle theme are also great. They did some crazy shit with the GBA soundchip, and rather early on too.
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>Golden Sun
Loved that game.
Played it through 2 times.
>Golden Sun 2
Best GBA Game ever.
Played it through about 5-6 times.
>Golden Sun 3
Casual crap for children.
Played through 1 time, forgot about it afterwards.
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>>268469646
They need to make a Waluigi Sun then.
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>>268469682
They really stepped their game up by adding upgradable weapons in Dark Dawn.

I just wish the game wasn't so easy, ended on a cliffhanger and didn't have some retarded design decisions.
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>>268468258
That's actually something I really like about the plot. Can't say I've ever seen a game where none of the antagonists are "bad", and the actual villain is just a pushover that wrecks himself in the end.
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>>268467771
I liked Dark Dawn and I've been a diehard fan of the series since they came out.

Fight me.
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>>268470116

That's because the writing of most games isn't that shitty.
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>>268469682
that djinn class change thing was new, i suppose

the actual combat system is just typical jrpg combat

and class change was done ages before

summons aren't new either

you can't really say it's unique because it added something like that

game is original in many other ways though, i'll give you that
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So, would you light the lighthouses?
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>>268470391
I forgot. What did that actually do?
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>>268470003
What cliffhanger? Are you spoiling Dark Dawn or something?
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>>268470369

It's not revolutionary, but it's highly polished for what it is.

I really loved the cone-targeting system.
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>>268470219
well, i like GS1 more than 2 so I get that my opinion is different than most. DD isn't even a bad game, it just feels kinda there, you know? It took steps backwards in terms of improving the flow of the game. I do like it a bit, but just feel like it made the same mistakes GS2 did.

we still haven't fought alex or gotten a conclusion to the plot

think of how stupid that is.
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>>268456178
So do we just pretend the ds sequel doesn't exist? If there ever is a proper sequel I hope that the retcon the hell out of that pile of shit. To top it off besides Isaacs son character design was balls compared to the original games.
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>>268470583
Cone targeting system?
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>if a party member kills an enemy, all other members targetting that one will sit on their ass for the rest of the turn

Great system.
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>>268471064
Gotta plan ahead, anon.
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>>268471064
They defend.
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>>268470583
cone-targeting? wtf is that?
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>>268470453
Basically the lighthouses were sealed to take away the power of alchemy from people, because humanity was misusing it to wage war or something.
But the thing is, when the lighthouses were sealed, the alchemy that held the world together was gone, so the world started to slowly decay and fall apart from the outside. Keep in mind Weyard is flat, not spherical like Earth.
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>>268471325
AoE system.
>>268470453
Come on anon, it was the plot of the whole first game to don't turn them on.
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>>268471481
well in that case its pretty obvious that not lighting them is retarded, isnt it
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>>268470959
>>268471325

When you use a 3-5 target psynergy, it will do more damage on the main target you choose and splash for less damage onto the monsters next to it.
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>>268471064
>It doesn't want me to mash the A button forever! GAH
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>>268471684
well that seems pretty basic
i dont play many JRPGs, none really, but that seems like the kind of thing that would be really common
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>>268471710

That's all the combat is, though.
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>>268471631
Of course most people in Weyard aren't aware of the spoilered part. Saturos and Menardi knew because they lived in the northenmost part of Weyard, and so were among the first ones to be affected.
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One of Nintendo's best JRGs. I fucking love this series, and I wish they'd do more. I dont care if its a new game, a smash rep DLC, or even some BS toy. Seriously this game is one of my favs.
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>>268471796

99% of JRPG's don't have this system, spells just do the same damage on every monster.
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>>268471906
Yeah, I think I remember that part.
What did Wossname Bluehair have to do with the whole thing? Did he just want the advantage of being the first to get his hands on the stuff?
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>>268471986
>implying smash is going to have dlc, let alone character dlc
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>>268471986
>One of Nintendo's best JRGs

Literally all of Nintendo's RPGs are better than Golden Sun except for Partners in Time and Sticker Star.
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>>268471796
Usually they deal the same damage, i only have seen KRPGS to do this.
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>>268471865
Honestly if that's how you play JRPGs, you should probably just watch a longplay on youtube instead.

And you can't beat the game like that anyway, not unless you grind for weeks, and even if you do, some enemies might fuck you over. Don't be silly.
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>>268458863
Yeah it's a real shame no DS game was ever made. Maybe we'll see a 3DS game at some point but I bet that day will never really come.
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>>268472106
Yes, he believed that if he sat at the exact point in Mt. Aleph where the light of the 4 lighthouses converges while the golden sun event occurs, he would obtain INFINITE POWER or something.
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>>268472307
There is still hope whit the new 3ds right?
Step it up camelot.
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was it me or were wind adept useless pieces of shit?

neither of them seemed worth using at all
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Man, I never did get that one weapon the guy in the remote village could craft you from the stuff those dragons or whatever in the secret dungeon never fucking dropped.
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>>268472172
I disagree, but thats your opinion.
The setting really does it for me.
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>>268472416
I should stop reading those spoilers talking about im still searching for a original Golden sun 2 cardrige to play it for first time.
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>>268456178
>playing dark dawn
>get to giant winged werewolf
>get stuck, end up losing my copy
I know who he is, but other than that I don't know how the game ends, I've been meaning to emulate it.
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>>268472416
well, he almost did, but the wise one screwed him over. deus ex machina if i ever saw one.
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>>268472552
I liked being able to run around and read everyones' minds. That was fun.
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>>268470391
The plot of the games was really weird.
The antagonists wanted to light the lighthouses.
Isaacs party wanted to stop it.
The antagonists, as well as Felix party in 2 wanted to light them, yet they still fought each other for some reason.
In the end Isaac and Felix lit all lighthouses and saved the world, getting rid of everyone who tried to light the lighthouses as well in the process.
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>>268472619

What setting?

Generic medieval with four elemental things?

What fucking setting are you talking about, it barely goddamn has one.
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>>268472552
Stun/sleep addept, someone had to stun the kraken somehow back in Golden sun 1.
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>>268472721
The urge to read this is killing me.
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>>268472619
>marth has edgy belts on his arms

>>268472669
don't bother.
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>>268472645

None of the plot threads built up in the first game get resolved in a satisfying way.
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>>268472552
Sheba's garbage but Ivan becomes surprisingly competent later on.

Objectively best team in 2 is Isaac, Felix, Jenna, and Ivan.
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>>268472678
Why was the dragon actually their parents again?
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>>268472726
if they expanded more on weyard, that would have been interesting. the whole alchemy holding together flat world thing was nice, but i agree, it wasn't very heavy on that.
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>>268472271
Etrian Odyssey does it in certain cases
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>>268473034
I thought it mainly looked and sounded damn pretty.
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Golden Sun felt too quick for a JPRG, can't tell how dissapointed I was when I found out I wouldn't end the quest in the first game. Also being a grind loving autistic faggot,it felt terrible having to level my party to 99 solely by killing Storm Lizards and Tempest Lizards in Suhalla Desert.

But! Everything was worth it when TLA was released, the game was basically the original, but 10x bigger with a few nice small additions, such as the blacksmith. Also it was nice to have a decent way to level the party with the Phoenix enemy line.

That's why by the time I got the original party in TLA I started using:
>Isaac
>Garret
>Jenna
>Piers

Isaac and Garret basically carried everyone.

Few things still stick with me till today, like soundtrack, weapon names, unleashes names and animations.

Best track right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HgkGmZA-cY
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>>268472998

Because Camelot can't into writing.
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Golden Sun was action.
Golden Sun: The Lost Age was shit long dungeons.
Also,
>Air's Rock
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>>268473354
I liked Air's rock.
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>>268472726
I kinda like all the cliché towns and themes actually, and the way the side-plots just shove themselves in your way, pulling you away from your oh so important main quest for a few hours more. I thought it was pretty charming.
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>>268472726

>Flat world
>Just a more adolescent version of earth with the land just about to shape our current continents
>Ancient Civilization of demigods
>Anemos never properly explored.

I think a Prequel of this game like Tales of Symphonia would be fantastic, it's one of those cases where the pre-setting of the game sound way more interesting than the game itself.
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>>268473659
What was Anemos? Is that one of the names that were changed in translation?
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>>268473449
what the fuck is wrong with you
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>>268473449
Die.
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>>268473354

Air's Rock truly felt like a mountain that needed proper rest and 3 days to scale.
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>>268472726
Setting being Avatar The Last Airbender the video game. I'm sorry you don't like it.
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>>268473779

Anemos Sanctum was the city of Jupiter adepts who:

Built the Jupiter Lighthouse
Floated their whole fucking city into the sky
Dropped Sheba like an unwanted child and never went back to pick her up.
Where you fought Dullahan for the Iris summon
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>>268473817

Except Avatar has a consistent world where each elemental nation has its own distinct architecture and culture, while Golden Sun has a bunch of JRPG tropes like "the ninja village" and "the thieves hideout" randomly scattered around the world map with no regard to geography.
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Didint camelot said yes to golden sun 4 back in 2013?
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>>268474140
Again, sorry you didn't like it.
I did.
I thought it was charming, and I loved the 4 elements motif.
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>>268474140

There was a Ninja Village in Golden Sun?
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>>268474435
Not him but i did really liked it too, Korra is shit, dropped the first 2 caps.
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>>268474497

Yes, the one where they randomly decided to have a reference to Yamata no Orochi.
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>>268474497
I think it was either the one where you learned the kamehameha, or the one at that mountain where you had to wake up that dragon with light beams.
Or were those the same thing?
It's been damn long since I played the games, plus I'm really tired.
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>>268474621

But there weren't any ninjas in that village.

Also that island is suppose to be Fantasy medieval Japan.

Just like how Northern Hesperia is filled with Native Americans and Eastern Angara is filled with chinese monks.
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>>268474621

>Randomly decided to have a reference to Yamata no Orochi

But it's not randomaly inserted in, because Izumo is geographically Japan.
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>>268475106
>Val
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>>268474163
even if they did, they either wouldn't follow through with it or make it shit again
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>>268473659
Tales of Symphonia was a prequal? To what?
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>>268475831

4000 year prequel to Tales of Phantasia, I believe.
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>>268475672
Leave me alone anon, i can dream.
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Is it possible to have game over in any of the GS games from anything that isn't Dullahan?
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>>268476285
Yeah.
When you decide to not go save the world in 1.
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>I just wanted to revisit old locations in GS2
>mfw they just put cliffs and mountains around the old continent to prevent me from docking
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>>268470917
>not liking Matthew's design
Dark Dawn's artwork was fucking gorgeous and WAY more detailed than Golden Sun or Lost Age's.
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>>268476446
Well, at least the 2nd excuse sorta made sense.
And then you remember you could just have Sheba explain everything.
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Hey guys, remember me?
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>>268476683
it's a shame that's literally the only thing it has going for it
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furry village
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>>268476683
>Tyrell's baby face
Every fucking time.
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>>268456767
>named all the characters after the people that were nice to me in grade school, and one kid that wasn't but was 100% garret so there was no getting around it
>rearranged the team constantly around the interpersonal relationships reflected in the real world
goddamnit i'm such a fucking autist all the time
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>>268476894
But...THE MUSIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VF3FZF3WBs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_MmhTRg4w
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>>268476446
You can get on the old continent at the beach south of Loho, pic related.

All the towns and caves were removed so it's just the overworld.
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>>268476285
Yes, Fucking Kracken.
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The Lost Age is my favorite game of all time. Golden Sun may have its flaws, but no game before or after got me so invested. My first playthroughs of the first two games were magical.
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>>268476683
Really, Dark Dawn wasn't that bad.

I'm personally under the impression that people are just experiencing Star Fox syndrome and dislike it for not being the same or for being easier, perhaps.
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>>268461005
He used status effects that didn't work on bosses. Mobs rarely took long enough for it to matter even rushing the game.
>wish i had the free time to get a speedrun time down
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>>268461005
To keep my other characters alive during combat.
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>>268477546
>There will never be Tales of Golden Sun, a retelling of the original two games with a battle system that combines the strengths of both Golden Sun and Tales.

Fuck.
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>>268477686
No, it was shit. Here, I'll tell you why it was shit.

>Points of no return. Absolutely inexcusable and completely went against the entire feeling of adventure that the first two games establish
>One new summon
>Overall too easy
>Abandoning the geography of the first two games, replacing it with shit areas
>Forcing eight characters to join the party in the most unnatural way possible
>Replacing the interesting elemental conflict with "muh edgy DARKNESS" plot
>Alex, again

I could probably go on, but the game was so terrible and an insult to everything that made the first two so great.
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Any of you fags ever played link battles? Never seen that in any JRPG before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOU9GFABVew
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>>268477957
No thanks, I hate the real-time shit.
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>>268478391
>linked battle
The fuck is that?
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>>268478417
That's, like, your opinion. Tales has a pretty fun battle system, and it's one of the only RPGs you can play couch multiplayer with bros.
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>>268478527
Battles between two players on two GBAs.
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>>268477686
What I don't get is why people dislike DD and like TLA despite them sharing many of the same basic issues.
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It's hopelessly generic. Good intro to JRPGs though.
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>>268478629
Couldn't stand it during the PS1 era, can't stand it now.
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>>268477957
god damn id play the shit out of that
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>>268472157
>Go back 5 months
>implying Mario Kart 8 will have dlc, let alone character dlc
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>>268478678
TLA didn't have points of no return, for one thing.

Also introduced loads more summons.
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>>268478678
>Huge sense of adventure, with tons of islands to explore and djinns to find, both in dungeons and in the wild, and with little to guide you
>Tons of new summons
>Not too easy
>Interesting and unique areas require the use of numerous types of syngery
>Weaving together the stories of the first game's party and the second game's party, making their team-up reasonable
>Interesting elemental conflict

See how it's the exact opposite to >>268478383
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>>268478847
That's why I said many.
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>>268463186
People always hold extremely high opinions of their first games, especially if they haven't played it in years. Also the GBA was seriously lacking JRPGs that weren't ports/remakes so it made it look even better by comparison.
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>>268479440
Everything else was relatively small in comparison
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>>268472726

Actually the setting itself is deeply based on the world we live in. The continent Angara is based on the name of a river in Russia, so you could say that Angara is based of that whole part of the world. Osenia is Australia, Izumo is Japan, Atteka is South America, Hesperia is North America, Gondowan is Africa, and so on. Literally the entire map is based of the real world. And you can see this with the types of NPCs you encounter in each continent.
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>>268479739
TLA's fucking retarded plot is bad. The pacing is bad. The fucking trident quest being something you'd need a walkthrough for is bad. Sailing is the slowest and most boring thing, and that is bad.

>>268479379
TLA is better, but still has its own glaring issues.
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>>268478795
mario kart dlc means nothing. smash characters take more work to make.
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>>268456178
How are you just now playing GS?
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>>268480552
i still have no idea how people defend this poorly designed mess of a dungeon
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