• ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I came back to golden sun a decade or so after release and realised that it actually kind of sucks. It captured the feeling of bigger jrpgs on a handheld, which is why I poured so much time into it as a 12 year old, but it’s riddled with potholes, cliches, and ellipses, and the battle system is nowhere near as deep as it thinks it is. If it had been released for full consoles it would have been considered unremarkable.

    And then I bought and played Dark Dawn and enjoyed it anyway, because it does the feeling really well. Fucking dumb and largely incoherent plot that mostly consists of “…”, but so inexplicably fun.

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      1 year ago

      I think there are a lot games that we glorify when we played them as a child and later we think they probably not that good. I want to replay golden sun, but i can’t tell you anything about the story, i played the game in english and can’t really speak english back then. So i’m interrested to see the story the first time to be honest. I think what i have best in mind, that i like the dungeon design with it’s riddles and you interact with magic to your soroundings. But even so, it could be not as fun as i expect it to be, well i will see.