Golden Sun
by Nintendo
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Video Game Reviews of Golden Sun
Customer Review: golden sun is great fun
Summary: 5 Stars
This game is perfect. Ive beat it a few times and its never the same. What i like a bout it is that it will keep you busy for a long while and that the graphics r perfect,the sound trak is great but to really enjoy it get some headphones.Story play is origanal some one you loved dies get beat up three years later youre saving the world.But what i dont like about this game is that it just leaves you with a to be continued.... at the end. over all its the to be continued sign and the to-origanal story play is what made me give this game four stars.three words BUY THIS GAME TODAY.Customer Review: a flawless RPG
Summary: 4 Stars
one of the best games to ever hit the gameboy advance.The ongoing storyline that deserves to be made into a movie,3D graphics,colorful backgrounds and screens,and creepy or cool looking monstrs that seem like it will pop out of the screen,what more can u want from an RPG.Customer Review: how can u say that bout the storyline?
Summary: 5 Stars
how can you diss the story line of golden sun?!!!!???ok - whoever wrote that review, play the game properly!!!
it is the second best storyline i have ever seen in anything!
play the 2nd golden sun - the lost age. the story on that is the best ever, in anything.
golden sun graphics and 'that were good yeah but thats nothing compared with the story
do not diss it!
Customer Review: THE GREATEST RPG OF ALL TIME?? No. Not by a long-shot.
Summary: 3 Stars
Maybe if you've never played any other RPG in your life you'd consider this the best there is, but c'mon, it's nothing new at all. And for once, I agree with Amazon's editorial review in that the story is incredibly basic and cliche. I've played quite a few RPG type games in my day (since 1994), and this one definately doesn't stand out one bit. While it has good visuals and some good music, it's missing the things that matter in this genre- good characters and a compelling plot.It's up to a group of 4 kids to save the world from evil. Yeah, 'cause that hasn't been overdone. Not at all. And what's worse, they actually take a step down, and throw in the elements as a "major" part of the plot (well, what plot there is). What's funny is the first 20 minutes or so: the villagers in the town seem to forget that 2 of the main characters actually brought upon the potential destruction of the world.
The characters are all just incredibly stupid. I haven't seen such boring, linear characters like this since Final Fantasy 7 (read my review of that for the whole story). You have the main hero, who doesn't talk...which I don't have any problem with, but others here seem to. Garet, who never has anything smart to say, and the suggestions he brings up would bring death to the party immediately. And then there are the other two members of the party: Ivan and Mia, who aren't as dumb, but they don't have much to say after you first get them. All the additional characters never seem to do anything useful. Most of the time, you know where to go next without having to ask anyone...even if you're required to ask someone in a town in order to move on in the game. Reviewers that praise Golden Sun for "great character development" must've been playing some other game, or been on medication, because there's none of that here.
But there were two things that really irked me. One of them being the dialogue. Don't get me wrong, I always take my time and pay attention to the dialogue in other games, but here, it's damn-near useless. For every 30 minutes of dialogue, you only need to pay attention to maybe 2 lines. Everything else is just filler. And it doesn't help that there aren't any plot twists or double-crossings that you should be on the look out for. The other thing that bugged me big time was that the characters were all 'bouncy'. Whenever one would say something, the other characters sort of bounce up and down a few times while standing still and act excited. That got old fast. If it weren't so comical, I probably wouldn't have been bored so fast.
Golden Sun tries to be innovative with the use of Pok?mon...I mean Djinn. They're creatures that represent each of the 4 elements, and you equip them to boost your stats, change job class, and unleash great summons. You can go into a fight with your Djinn set to 'standby' and unleash summons right at the start of combat, and take out most enemies in one turn.
As I said, the visuals are [even still in this year] impressive. It looks like a late-generation PSone game during the fights. I was amazed that the GBA could handle some of the summons here. The music is 50/50. Some tracks are good (especially in caves) while you'll forget others after you leave the area it plays in.
Ignore everyone that goes "OMFH THIS IZ TEH BEST GAME EVAR!!11oneshiftone1!!1" and don't expect it to blow you away, and maybe you'll get into it. I hope the other games in the series aren't as linear as this one. Maybe I expect too much from games these days, but look to one of the many other SNES ports for the GBA to fulfill your RPG needs. Heck, import Mother 1+2 (EarthBound) while you're at it. Golden Sun developers could learn a thing or two about a good game from that.
Customer Review: The Greatest?
Summary: 5 Stars
This game was one of the greatest games in the world. Nintendo really worked their butts off for this game. Nintendo and camelot really make a good team working on both golden sun games. This game is a great RPG game with a little bit of puzzle and adventure in it. I absolutly love this game, even though with the Djinn looking like pokemon and acting like it. This game is kinna like mid-evil times only not. You travel the world trying to light 2 lighthouses while fighting a ban of your enemies.