[GBA]Golden Sun (Rated 7.5/10)

The good:Solid gameplay, graphics (for it's age), and strategy. Good, but simple puzzles give you some nice brain teasers.

The bad:You go through so many side quests that you feel like you're going off a completely different track in the game, but these side quests are really important to leveling up as they often take a long time. You get lost very easily.

This game has you starting out as children, but this rock is going to fall off Mt.Aleph. You are attacked by some mystery people, preventing you from saving someones life. Then you study "Psynergy", special powers that are essential to solving the games puzzles. You go to Mt. Aleph and recover some mysterious stones, and then the mystery couple come back and steal your stolen ancient artifacts. This sets you off on a quest to stop these people from abusing these stones to reenact a terrible power.

Throughout the game you will get Djinnis who give your group of characters different classes, pynergy, and stats. These different psynergys open up the games trillions of side quests and brilliant strategy.

I suggest you take every side quest you can, it will make you bored, but they make you explore new places and eventually find the next path in the story. Endure as much as you can, but some of the side quests are very interesting.

Anyway, this game is a lost gem from a long time ago. It depends on your taste of RPG, and this is the type of RPG I don't like, so you may like it better than me and my opinion.
  • gokulives
    I absolutely LOVE this game =)
    I'd probably give it a 9 myself, but good game to rate! Not enough people played it... ^_^
    by gokulives at 08/27/07 12:48AM
  • swiftedge
    9/10 because of the boredom of lvling up to 99 in GS2.
    by swiftedge at 01/23/08 5:51PM
  • trebor
    I've been thinking of this game lately. I just got lost a lot, and I got bored of doing the same fight sequences over and over again.
    by trebor at 03/22/08 8:35PM