How is it?
Oh yeah the game is great. Get both of em so you can transfer your save from the first to the second.
I never played the DS game so I have no comment on it, but the GBA games are really good classics.
I’ve heard mixed things about it, but my sister who the GS fan in my family swears by it.
I liked Dark Dawn (DS one) but it didnt quite have the charm of the originals. Still worth playing though in my opinion.
Great game, 10/10. I don’t see many people talking about the ds games, but they are also very good.
Sounds like I should give it a try. Thanks, everyone.
I’m excited for you! If you like it, that is. There’s a lot of game to enjoy, and if you do dig it you can carry over the save to the sequel. If you don’t like it though, no pressure. There are so many other games out there to try. :)
I won’t deny that it’s a fun game. But… If you think it was well-written, it’s the rose glasses. The story is really nonsensical if you think about it…
… or you could let an SA goon tell you about why, instead.
This review is incredible. XD
I’d also recommend Lufia 2, Chrono Trigger, and even Secret of Mana and Shadowrun (SNES version especially) in the same vein.
My childhood. Played golden sun and the second one. Never played the third. I probably played those games 3 or 4 times through. I’m pretty sure I have one and an SP around my place somewhere.
I remember playing the first Golden Sun very close to its release thanks to emulation. But my rom was bugged so the game crashed when the final boss used his ultimate attack. At the time I didn’t know I could transfer my .sav file from one rom to another, and that it would probably work if the roms are from the same game/region. I was just a teenager. 😅
The second game I played on cartridge and the wait was very painful because, contrary to what’s costumary nowadays, Golden Sun The Lost Age released on the west a few months after its japanese release date. The japanese rom was floating around the web, with some very preliminary stopgap fan-translations, but it was not a good experience and most people chose to wait.
Golden Sun holds a place in my heart as the first JRPG I played that had me do more than just click Attack for the majority of turns. A lot of older titles suffered in that regard, but Golden Sun addresses it with regenerating PP and free Djinn actions to encourage you to explore your toolkit. Puzzles were also fantastic.
Skip the DS game though, it’s bad.
It my favorite GBA game and I’m still waiting for it to come to Nintendo switch, like we where promised.
One of the best RPGs of its time, and absolute banger soundtrack too.
I think it (and its sequel) is the best original RPG on the GBA. It’s a little slow to start and it suffers from mountains of unskippable dialog at certain parts but the overall experience is just so damn good I can let that go. Especially the class system, it has one of the most novel class systems I’ve seen in an RPG.
Big fan! Jrpg combat with zelda puzzles
I only played the first one, very solid game. You actually remind me I should get back to that… I wonder if it has retroachevments?
As a kid i loved it, as an adult i liked it!
I played both one and two when I was pretty young. My parents found gba games to be a lot cheaper on eBay. Turns out they were bootleg copies. Because of this the character transfer didn’t work from one to two. I was pretty bummed about it. Still a fun series! Ragnarok!
