I’ve played all of them and I really enjoyed 1 and 2! I have played and beaten 3 but I can’t possibly tell you anything about the plot because I literally don’t remember it. I just remember farming levels on the last map at the end of the game because it was amazing experience. Definitely give 1 and 2 a chance and just forget about 3.
It’s amazing, and highly recommended. I will say for the best experience, play it back to back with it’s sequel Lost Age. They are basically 2 halves of the complete story.
Big fan! Jrpg combat with zelda puzzles
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It’s a great game. I enjoyed it back in my gba days.
It’s a great game until you get sick of the characters twitching and emoting every 2 seconds while they talk!
It was my first GBA game and it blew my mind. I loved that game so much as a kid. Even revisiting as an adult, nostalgia aside, it’s a great game. Def one of the best RPGs on the GBA.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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’m hoping it comes to the NSO service soon. Of course there’s nothing wrong with emulating, but it would be cool to play it on the Switch too.
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.
I’d also recommend Lufia 2, Chrono Trigger, and even Secret of Mana and Shadowrun (SNES version especially) in the same vein.
