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Golden Sun

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c/GoldenSun is the community dedicated to the video game franchise "Golden Sun", originally released on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance.

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  1. Posts must be Golden Sun related.
  2. Be kind to others. You are expected to follow the Code of Conduct in Lemmy and the Fediverse. No hate speech, slurs, derogatory stuff, NSFW, bigotry, etc.
  3. Keep this community PG-13. Swearing is fine but don't be vulgar. Golden Sun's audience is an "E for Everyone" game.
  4. You can't reveal links or explain how to pirate the games.

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Why is Golden Sun one of your favorites? (self.goldensun)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CatZoomies to c/goldensun
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Welcome Golden Sun fans! I figured let's get the ball rolling on this new Golden Sun community!

  • What makes this game series so special to you?
  • What's your favorite memory about this game? Doesn't have to be specific to something happening in-game, but maybe where you were in life when you were first playing it.
  • Have you played all three Golden Sun games (Golden Sun, The Lost Age, and Dark Dawn)?
  • What are your thoughts for this franchise? Do you think Nintendo/Camelot will ever bring it back?
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[–] electrogamerman 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I dont know.

I remember a random day my dad took me to GameStop and told me to pick up a game from the used section. I somehow picked up GoldenSun and I have liked it since then.

I have played other RPGs, but nothing appeals to me like goldensun.

[–] CatZoomies 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's weird that it works that way right? Must just be the nostalgia.

My brother and I chose this game many years ago for some reason and we struck gold. When some of my friends back in the day would ask me about this game and why I recommended it, I found it kind of hard to explain to them why it was great. For some reason, it hits the proper balance between puzzles, RPG, classes, and random battles. Hunting for Djinn was fun and incentivized you to find them all. While the dialogue in the first two games is lengthy, the story is incredible and makes you hunger to learn more as you progress. I didn't find much time-wasting parts of this game, or areas that made me dread going through it.

So maybe for me it's the nostalgia, plus the balance of everything in the game that makes it great. I last replayed the trilogy about 7 years ago, so hopefully I still have the same mindset when I replay it again.

[–] electrogamerman 2 points 1 year ago

I agree withe everything you said! To be honest I havent played these games for a very long time (im hoping we get a new game soon!), but I remember everything was really appealing, the puzzles, the story, the characters, the djinn hunting. Even exp farming was not tedious, nor repetitive. I think ny favorite part was using the powers (forgot the name) outside of battle to solve puzzles