Golden Sun still manages to appeal to our nostalgia, however. GS attempted to compensate for its paint-by-numbers storyline by having it take up roughly the amount of space as Finnegan's Wake (and make about as much sense ), the characters are less than one-dimensional, the battle system is so simple that meaningful strategy is impossible and unnecessary, and the game only follows half of its own storyline before making you pay up for the next installment to find out things like, say, the significance of the title. The novelty of being able to play a halfway non-horrible game while on a car ride (or, more accurately, while squinting into the GBA screen during a supernova so as to make out the details) led to many ignoring the game's crucial failing: It wasn't particularly good. Released near the very beginning of the GBA's lifespan, the game initially stunned audiences by virtue of having graphics and audio that were only five years out of date instead of ten.
Golden Sun is, second only to Phoenix Wright and every single Pokemon game, the bane of this subforum. Slowly better games crept into my GBA, and I could enjoy them again, but something else had changed inside of me. I was terrified, alone in having withstood that game. My friends didn't know if my judgment of quality would ever heal. My sense of good taste shrunk to nothingness and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood.
I kept looking, forcing myself not to remove the batteries, and then the horror began to dissolve. At first the poor design was overwhelming, but I had seen that before.
So once when I was starting an LP, I did. Introduction When I was a little kid the moderators told me not to play Golden Sun.
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