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First Impressions: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

Dec 3rd

Posted by Moofey in First impressions

I waited nearly seven years for this game.

If you ever wanted to see a retro-inspired turn based JRPG done right in today’s age, you don’t have to look any further than Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age on the GBA. Everything about both those games; The story, how it plays, how it used the hardware and how it add onto the barebones hack-and-slash formula made them masterpieces in my eyes. At that time, there wasn’t any other game like it that you could take with you wherever you go.

Camelot and Nintendo’s Golden Sun series garnered a respectable amount of followers. (Though this is nothing compared to another certain Nintendo RPG involving monsters being carried around in balls and fight at your command.) Back in those days, it was said that the series would be made into a trilogy. However The Lost Age ended up finishing the story and hopes of a third game were dashed after a couple of years.

A year and a half ago I thought this game was dead. Then, Nintendo dropped a bomb at their E3 2009 press conference by announcing that Golden Sun DS was coming out in the Spring of 2010.

I did things that I don’t think I’d go into detail here. Let’s just reference a certain satirical song by The Lonely Island and leave it that. In a nutshell, I just ate a grape.

Today, the golden sun rises again. The newest installment of this game is in my hands. Does it stack up to what the original two were like so far?

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It’s Funny Where Inspiration Can Come From

Nov 25th

Posted by Moofey in Uncategorized

Even if it’s from a commercial for an earlier game in the series nearly ten years ago.

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is a game that I have been waiting for since it was announced at last year’s E3. Now out in Japan and hitting North American stores on Monday, I keep looking back to my preorder receipt, anticipating the game that it will get me on the day it arrives.

Earlier this week, I found an article on Destructoid where the developers seemed to draw inspiration from the commercial for the US release of Golden Sun back in 2001. For those that remember the style of GBA commercials around launch time, they usually took real life scenes and created them into something out of the game they’re advertising. The one for Golden Sun was quite bizarre:

Quite sure I’ve never gotten attacked by an opera house chandelier that turns into crystal dragon.

Now, as far as Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is concerned, Camelot seemed to have had a good memory, (especially for a commercial that didn’t even air in their country) and decided to make something of it.

And the rest is all history:

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