Guild McCommunist said:
I don't know, I don't think Dark Dawn sold like hot cakes and it got significantly lower scores than GS and GS: TLA. It's Metascore is 7% lower than TLA and 12% lower than the original, for reference.
I never thought the series was as compelling as people made it out to be. It was a good GBA RPG outing but very little stood out to me.
How do either of those count as "significant"? If it were 20 or even 30% lower, then it'd be significant.
Anyway, the sequel is a no brainer. The game still sold impressively well and they know the main complaints everyone had - it being too easy and lacking many of the features of the previous titles like Hard Mode and the Arena. Even if we forget that Takahashi admitted they're working on something and that he's excited to challenge himself with the project, they once said that the first two Golden Sun games were prequels to the main story and a much greater adventure. Nintendo isn't going to cancel an RPG series that hasn't had a release in seven years yet still pulls in more copies sold than anything most other RPG developers get (Dark Dawn sold about 300'000 I think and neither Atlus nor Nippon Ichi consistently get that much from their best sellers).