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.
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’d also recommend Lufia 2, Chrono Trigger, and even Secret of Mana and Shadowrun (SNES version especially) in the same vein.
One of the best RPGs of its time, and absolute banger soundtrack too.
I played it when it first came out and it was a lot of fun! Highly recommend!
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.
It my favorite GBA game and I’m still waiting for it to come to Nintendo switch, like we where promised.
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.
As a kid i loved it, as an adult i liked it!
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’m playing it right now, it’s pretty fun! Playing on the Miyoo Mini+, having turbo and fast forward is a huge plus for battles.
Played on the GBA many years ago. Weirdly I have not been able to appreciate a jrpg before or since, for whatever that means. Great style, great music, I recall a fun story but maybe that’s just the rose glasses. If you have a hankering to try it is say go for it.
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.
Wow I never expected to see golden sun pop up just randomly in the wild like this, but the game has a lot of sentimental value to me. The class system is amazing, this visuals are stunning if not a little dated, the soundtrack is top tier even to this day. I also moderate the magazine here, though the majority of the community is on the Golden Sun discord.
