For Nostalgia's Sake: Golden Sun. Part 2.

Alright, so where was I before? Oh yeah, I was about to talk about the game itself and not the story. Okay, then here we go. 

When you’re not in battle, things are standard fare. You travel throughout the world in the insanely huge world map, going to towns, forests, dungeons, etc, and get into the occasional random battle. It is also outside of battle where you use this game’s form of magic; called Psynergy. Psynergy is the harness powered used by those in the world of Golden Sun that can use Alchemy. Think the Force combined with the Elements of the world…and you can see it with your naked eye. Psynergy is the bulk of many of the Puzzles in Golden Sun and some moves used outside of combat can also be used during combat as well. A few examples of Psynergy would be: Catch – where you can see an object on the ground out of reach and you use Catch to pick it up and bring it to you. Or Carry – which allows you to lift heavy objects. Or Frost - which you can use to freeze puddles of water and use as a bridge or platform. There a literally dozens more Psynergy spells in the game, but I just don’t have it in mean to name them all.

Oh, and remember those ‘Din-Jin?’ You also find the outside of battle, but you have to fight them to claim them…just like Pokémon. And some of them are hard. (No, I don’t mean legendary.)

For Nostalgia's Sake: Golden Sun

A young boy and his mother walk into their Borders book store. The boy, who is 10 years old, is upset at his mother for not letting him get a toy from their local toy store. He’s pouting, but keeping his mouth shut because he knows better, whiles his mother goes on about her business not worrying about he son being upset with her.

They split up inside the book store and the boy goes to the magazine section. While skimming through the magazines, one magazine catches his attention. It a Pocket Games magazine and features Sonic the Hedgehog and Crash Bandicoot on the cover. It interests him greatly (he loved Sonic Advance) and picks it up, and without even looking through it he goes to his mother and asks if he can get it (with her paying for it of course). He begs and begs and even tries to negotiate, and then finally his mother allows it. So they proceed to the checkout, books in hand and pay for their things. The boy is extremely happy as they leave the Borders and head to their car; he’s even talking more now as his mother points out because he got something in the store. He knows she’s right, but he didn’t care about that too much, he was a kid, and as long as he got something in the store: He won.

Days later the boy is going through the magazine again due to his slight boredom and he comes across a complete walkthrough to a Fantasy RPG for the Game Boy Advance, but it isn’t the characters that grabs him, it’s the four, cute little creatures on the side of the page. They remind him of Pokémon (and he was a huge fan of Pokémon). He reads the name above them and he learns that they’re called “Djinni” but he isn’t sure how it’s really pronounced, so he ends up calling them, “Din-Jin.”

He’s ten, leave him alone.

So he goes through the walkthrough, actually reading it word for word (F-ck Spoilers), and he becomes obsessed with this game, ‘I must have this game!’ he says to himself. So he goes back to the beginning of the walkthrough to learn this mysterious game’s name: Golden Sun.