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Golden Sun Review
User Submitted Golden Sun Reviews
Date: 2008-11-10
excellent portable RPG
The Amazon editorial review for this game is pretty much spot on. This is a great RPG for all age groups. It's cute and straight-forward enough to appeal to children, but the game play is involving enough to be rewarding to adults.
I'm drawn to any story involving alchemy, but unfortunately, its application in this game is more Pokemon than Zork. The storyline itself is nothing to write home about, but the use of magic in the game makes up for it. With other RPGs, you might pick your party members based on the range of abilities you want. With Golden Sun, Isaac, Ivan, Garret, and Mia are all you get, so instead, you customize their abilities. There are a total of 28 Djinn in the game, 7 for each element, and as you assign them to a character, it affects their class, stats, and available magic. To play the game most effectively, you'll need to rearrange your Djinn from time to time to customize your characters to each situation.
The game lasts a reasonably long time, if you try to complete all quests. (I logged around 45 hours.) To get all of your Djinn and complete all of the side quests, you'll revisit past towns as you gain the abilities you need to solve each puzzle. It IS possible to back track to any place on the map, but sometimes the story has to advance before the avenue is open. (I played straight through the story, then went to the beginning and tied up all the loose ends before proceeding into the final dungeon.) The puzzles themselves aren't too easy, but don't take days of agony to solve either. The hardest take a few minutes of thought or exploration. Likewise, the battles tend to be challenging but not so hard that your enemy can't be mastered in a few tries.
It's this balance of ease and challenge that makes the game so accessible to any age group and, ultimately, makes Golden Sun such an enjoyable game.
The biggest con is the lengthy, boring dialogue scenes, as well as the repetitious nature of some of the action (for example, sailing to Tolbi). Some of them last up to 10 minutes, and when you're hitting L & R trying to speed through (which only helps so much -- you can speed over speech but not animation), that's a lot of sitting around mindlessly mashing buttons. The dialogue scenes aren't so terrible the first time through, but I found them unbearable when I resumed from an earlier save spot and had to replay them.
Even as hugely annoying as that was, I was satisfied by the game in the end and I look forward to the expanded universe in the sequel. Given the choice of a full 4 or 5 stars, I give it 4. While it's much more involving and satisfying than many other portable RPGs, it has enough boring aspects that I don't think it merits a perfect score. Let's hope the sequel improves its flaws!
Date: 2008-10-18
Awesome!!!!
I actually played the first game before the second game, but that doesn't matter with a game this great. It has a wonderful magic system and these cute little animals you can release in battle for a super powered attack or temporary stat boosts. It is an absolutely wonderful game with great GBA graphics and sound. The story is totally immersive and you can put yourself in the main character's place (Isaac). There are many different weapons and you can customize your characters by equipping different Djinn (those little animal things). This is a great game!
Date: 2008-06-12
A Kid's Review
(This is my son talking) THIS IS THE BEST TURN-BASED RPG EVER!! I don't get why it's getting any bad hype at all. If you don't like all this elemental stuff, you didn't read the box; the graphics are amazing at some points; the plot is awesome; there are plenty of sidequests to go on, i.e Crossbone Isle; and the battle system is amazing. There is only one thing I have to complain about - the automatic defense. Seriously, people, if you were planning to attack someone, and someone else killed em, you seriously wouldn't just defend. But it is still awesome.
Date: 2007-04-02
Classic GBA Game - Still one of the best
There were two great role playing series released for the GBA. Final Fantasy 1-6 and the two Golden Sun games. Both series hold up very well,
and are quite different. I would actually say that the GS games sported
better graphics, quicker gameplay, and a much longer playing time.
Date: 2006-11-18
golden sun rules
you start out as the chracter issac (u can rename him if u want) and u basically go on an adventure of the world-fight monsters and bosses and get 3 other people in ure party along the way. I loved the game and i played about 48 hours total :). I beat the game so many times over and over again by killing the last boss which is the fusion dragon. Though the fusion dragon isn't tough, deadbeard is (hardest boss in the game) i killed him in like... 15 minutes.(my chracters are lvl 44+) He just takes forever so it's like the same thing over and over again, Issac and garet attacks ivan uses luff and mia heals.
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