dredge up your ancient golden sun feelings with me

MIA/ISAAC OTP. That sums up a lot of my Golden Sun feels. The rest of them were my endless confusion and frustration as to why it looked so much like Beyond the Beyond. I was a stupid child who couldn't figure out that they were made by the same teams.

 

i admit i did not get any strong Ship Feelings until late in lost age and then FULL FORCE in dark dawn

Spoiler: MANY SHIPS

oh man. Okay so for lost age it began with sheba/piers and then it was a downward spiral. Felix/piers. Felix/piers/Sheba. Jenna/Isaac? SO VANILLA but i shipped it by default. Jenna/Sheba?? PROBABLY.

AND THEN CAME DARK DAWN, and thus, my DOOM. was it a mediocre game with too much goddamn dialogue? yes. did it cause Feelings within me nonetheless??? unfortunately, YES.
the first ship was karis/tyrell, followed quickly by karis/sveta, and then karis/sveta/matthew. the One True OTP is amiti/eoleo. chalice/everyone she speaks to. Alex/getting some goddamn chill

i'm so sorry ive been pretending like i'm somehow not super pumped about shipping but the truth is out!! i am in fact SUPER pumped about shipping, all the time

 

I wasn't much of a shipper back then, so even now I'm pretty meh about any ships. Like, Felix/Piers and Jenna/Sheba seem fine, but I'd rather just mash everyone together in a poly moirails/found family sort of way.

Karst/Agatio and Menardi/Saturos feel especially diamonds-y for some reason.

 

i have this same problem with anything that i consumed when i was a little. harry potter, for example? i cannot find it in me to ship anything beyond the canon stuff and a general feeling of 'well remus was clearly gay'. if i didnt ship it at the Time of Consumption, i don't ever really care. how sad. i clearly missed out on the most dramatic of fandoms by not shipping anything in harry potter

 

Amiti is my BABE, okay, I love this dumb blue haired child.

 

AMITI IS MY SON!!!! my small, naive, pirate-racist son. he is so dear to me. i spend the first quarter of the game resenting rief for not being amiti, and then he gets shuffled away never to be used in the main party again. sorry rief! if you can't use a sword, you're basically dead to me.

 

also rief is incredibly squishy like. he dies so much.

 

exactly. i appreciate the need for a healing character, but i also follow the philosophy that i don't need to heal as much if my team can 1) take a hit and 2) kill things very quickly, with swords. squishy mages need not apply.

 

wait hold up other people like and remember golden sun?? i'm ecstatic :D

i will confess that i never actually FINISHED either game on account of being a filthy casual with no attention span but regardless oh my god

ivan was basically my Small Son (why do i love tiny psychics so much), and i loved mia so much that i spent several years of my early internet life partially naming myself after her soooooooooo....... (also the kolima forest music is the only thing i've ever learned to play in any way decently on piano. again, not all of it because no attention span and also i can't read music. but still!!) a

i can't be the only person still moderately horrified that the people who got turned into trees were still sentient while being trees

 

@Socket YES!! the tree people. the treeple. reading their minds was always a mix between hilarious and horrifying. and then of course there were the trees by the river, one of whom straight up DIES if you didn't move them correctly before they turned back into people. FUN!

 

@applechime oh NOOOOO i had forgotten those little trees - weren't they kids as well?? they were children D: (pretty sure i failed to recognise the imminent peril of turning them back into people when one was still in the water the first time i played, the second time around i knew better and got them safe)

 

yes yes they were kids.... And saturos and menardi fuckin knocked them over for funsies. like. I respect your endgame goal, dudes, but you are the WORST at not being villains. just THE WORST

(I always made sure to keep them all alive for the line "[girl] gave isaac a Hard Nut!" because I am 12)

 

I KNEW I RECOGNIZED YOUR AVATAR @applechime ("Is that a Djinn? That's a Djinn, isn't it!! Should I say something? *indecision!*")

Sadly, Golden Sun is a blur to me, and also I only played Golden Sun: The Lost Age because it turned up in my house for some reason (probably my brother borrowed it from a friend and never gave it back).

I mostly remember the Djinn and the werewolf village, and also that I sucked real hard at videogames at that age.

 

@Avery omg i'm CACKLING, it brings me SO MUCH JOY every time someone recognizes the venus djinni cause that is EXACTLY why I chose it. Literally the entire decision process was me thinking wistfully, barely daring to hope, 'maybe someone, somewhere on this forum will know what it is.... Maybe.........' (followed by extreme makeover: djinni edition)

ANYWAY!!! you should try playing the first game and replaying the lost age!!! I promise it is Good Times

 

*busts into this thread a year late to talk about Golden Sun*

I was actually not allowed video games as a child so my first experience with this game was as an adult on an emulator with someone who'd played the games multiple times sitting next to me, which probably contributed to me not rage quitting when I couldn't work out a puzzle. Although I'm still halfway through Lost Age because what is an attention span. It's one of my boyfriend's favorite games and for an anniversary one year I actually commissioned a set of djinn plushies.

Anyway, I just... Love the puzzle elements and class system so much??? You can make anybody anything through different combinations of cute creatures! Although it was occasionally annoying when you had to unset djinn from a character because a particular dungeon required a psynergy you weren't set up for. Also I love the music, the elemental stars theme is my ringtone actually!

Also iawtc so much.

Edit: the plushies in question

Spoiler: Image

 

EEEEEEE I LOVE THOSE PLUSHIES!!!!

i have such a love-hate relationship with the puzzles in Golden sun...... on the one hand it is SO SATISFYING when you figure them out!!! on the other: fucking rolling logs SCREEEECH especially the rolling log puzzles that involve strategic flooding of an area at JUST THE RIGHT TIME AND....!!

oh oh another gripe: permanently missable djinni!!!! always slightly a problem but REALLY a problem in the 3DS game, which i gather you haven't played? it is fun!!

quick everyone tell me your favourite adept or djinn or dungeon i am vibrating with repressed glee

 

There is a 3ds Golden Sun game??? Omf I know what I'm getting boyfriend for his birthday!

Like I said I'm still halfway through Lost Age but Sheba is absolutely my favorite. Fave dungeon is Shrine of the Sea God I think!

Edit: oh I have a copy of Dark Dawn if that's what you're talking about, I just haven't played it.

 

those plushies are so goddang cute!!!

wind adepts are fav adepts always and forever, ivan and sheba were my sweethearts!! (especially ivan. i said it like a year ago and i'll say it again now, he's my sweet mindreading son. i highkey had a crush on felix AND alex AND piers when i was a tiny human as well ahahaha) also locationwise i always really liked that village of werewolf folks in Lost Age? they were nice, idk.

and jupiter djinni are all PRECIOUS. and the earth djinn is so chubby and adorable.... ;A;

.......i am desperately tempted to replay these games now.

 

I loved the puzzles in Dark Dawn, someday when I'm a Pro Game Designer I'm gonna make a game that's nothing but GS style puzzles I swear