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  • Havebananawilltravel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Pope-King Joe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      I liked Dark Dawn (DS one) but it didnt quite have the charm of the originals. Still worth playing though in my opinion.

  • Lurker@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Great game, 10/10. I don’t see many people talking about the ds games, but they are also very good.

  • raktheundead@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    Actually used to be a member of a forum focusing on the Golden Sun games. I was very impressed with them back in the day; they felt like a prime SNES-era JRPG designed for the GBA. I especially liked how the Psynergy system was used for puzzles outside of combat; non-combat uses of magic is something I’ve considered to be lacking in JRPGs generally, so it was a nice curiosity.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    I’m currently playing it for the first time (never had a GBA back then), I’m just a few hours in and so far so good.

  • nivenkos@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’d also recommend Lufia 2, Chrono Trigger, and even Secret of Mana and Shadowrun (SNES version especially) in the same vein.

  • missingno@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.