GBAtemp Recommends! Golden Sun

[MasterPenguin]

What an awesome game to recommend. Awesome idea too. =D

 

[silent sniper]

byfar the best gba game I've ever played.


I like this idea =D

 

[JPH]

Added a link to an online Guide. Enjoy!

(Also, feel free to PM anyone on the staff with your ideas on how to improve the new idea, and what we should include for next week's G.R! game. However, we should change up the genre each week for obvious reasons).

 

[Diablo1123]

I sorta seen my friends play this in P.E. class.
Seen meaning saw them playing the game, not the game.

Heard that deaths are permanent
Which kinda sucks.

Love the idea of recommends, but eventually you'll run out of that too

Might try this after Mother 3.
which should have been first

 

[arctic_flame]

Camelot games on the GBA have the best soundtracks there are to be had.

If you're an RPG nut, You'll probably find Golden Sun short. This is coming from me, who played Golden Sun 2 first, which is far too long. I've spent over 100 hours on Golden Sun 2...

Heard that deaths are permanent
Which kinda sucks.

Wrong, but near the beginning of the game you're going to have to walk back to towns and pay the healer to revive "downed" characters.

 

[Psyfira]

Absolutely love this game, it's perfect for playing while travelling. Although playing on the bus means I'm *still* playing it, lol I'll finish it someday. Kinda wish I'd picked up the second one when I saw it in GAME before they emptied the GBA stuff from their preowned shelves. I wonder what they did with it all.

 

[Law]

Absolutely love this game, it's perfect for playing while travelling. Although playing on the bus means I'm *still* playing it, lol I'll finish it someday. Kinda wish I'd picked up the second one when I saw it in GAME before they emptied the GBA stuff from their preowned shelves. I wonder what they did with it all.

Probably attempted to reuse the Nintendium, since it's so hard to get hold of these days.

 

[GamerzInc]

The Golden Sun series is one of the best and my most favorite and memorable games. Everyone should give it a try.

 

[CockroachMan]

*loves the idea*

I actually bought a used copy of Golden Sun recently, and I'll be playing through this sucker soon. :yaygba:

Also, what do you guys think of having a IRC channel about GBAtemp Recommends - you can share tips, give each other different challenges, and generally just discuss the game while playing through?

I think we could do that in the forums.. every month, select a game and define a weekly objective, then every Monday or something people go to the thread of the game and discuss about it..

 

[BestIntrest]

I used to play this game ALL night while I was in junior high. I'd stay up and not sleep lol

 

[Dirtie]

Presentation wise it's top notch, and it started out awesome, but after getting further into the game it started getting kinda grindish.

 

[r0ni]

Not a good RPG. And if this is old school, then your too young. Really GBA was the last portable before NDS, that don't make it old school.

This game is full of RPG cliche's and rip-offs of other SNES era games (read: Tales series) if you want to play those games, get them, not this crap.

 

[ojsinnerz.]

I tried playing it, and I liked it.

Though I lost my save file after awhile, so I stopped playing from then......

 

[juggernaut911]

never been a fan of RPG's. play a few every now and then. but when I beat Golden Sun (along time ago!! 4 years I think) I loved it!!!! preordered the second one. LOVED THAT ONE 2!!!!!!


GREAT series. GBAtemp recommends Golden Sun 2!!


Fire Emblem

 

[Edgedancer]

I have to say that this is a great idea for anyone that is remotely interested in classical RPG. I do hope that the Lost Age will also get a mention as it is even better. Felix>Issac

 

[Vague Rant]

The Lost Age was horrible. In the interests of being "non-linear", nobody ever told you what you were supposed to be doing. So you would just sail all over the globe dropping into any place you saw and hoping a cutscene would start. And there was no reason to do this once you'd explored the world once, but you're forced to do it over and over just to figure out where to go next. Completely lame.

 

[Hadrian]

I've always fount this series to be just ok and kinda genric.

I do hope there is a 3rd game one day just to shut the fanboys up.

 

[Toni Plutonij]

Not a good RPG. And if this is old school, then your too young. Really GBA was the last portable before NDS, that don't make it old school.

This game is full of RPG cliche's and rip-offs of other SNES era games (read: Tales series) if you want to play those games, get them, not this crap.

When people refer to this game as "old school" it actually means what you mentioned, that it's cliche RPG with old school plying style, not that it's actually an old game..
And this game has better graphics than some NDS games!!

I've played trough many RPGs, and I found nice balance in this one, and since, this is my favorite game I've ever played...together with The Lost Age..

 

[shaunj66]

Just to reiterate... With GBAtemp Recommends!, the games aren't in any order. They are random, this isn't the top game, this is just one of many games we're going to recommend. The #1 just refers to issue 1 of G.R. (GBAtemp Recommends!)

 

[Wabsta]

This is the best game on the GBA imo.
I sold all my old GBA games, because I just didn't play them anymore, but I couldn't sell Golden Sun, I just couldn't. It's too good!