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GS and you;; a love story
Topic Started: May 18 2015, 08:21 PM (2,689 Views)
Nikki
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Tell us the story of how did you come to know and love the Golden Sun games! How did you got the game? Was it a present (and who got it for you) or did you choose it (and why?)? Was it love at first sight or did you replay it a few times until you came to like it? Was there other people playing it with you with whom you could share experiences? What kind of person where you there and how did it affect your life?
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Oh man. I first encountered it at my friend's house. He always got the latest and greatest games, that I could never afford to have. One day he let me play a file on his copy of Golden Sun - and it was love at first sight! The only other video games I had played up to that point was Pokemon, Mario Kart, and Super Smash Bros. This was a whole new world to me!

I finally got it for my birthday a couple months later. That whole entire time, I just couldn't wait to have my own copy (my friend deleted my file after a while on his cartridge :( )
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I don't really remember. I think my mother randomly got The Lost Age for me (I had never heard of it) as a present. It seems out of character for her to get me a game I didn't specifically want though.

I enjoyed it on the first playthrough, even if I got lost in the ocean bit. Once Isaac and co. joined the party like 15 levels below me it was like "wtf is the point of these people" and although I liked Isaac a lot from the first few scenes I never used the other party.

I liked the game well enough that I hunted for the first one, and didn't really like it as much.

I remember near the beginning, where Kraden effectively asks if you know what happened in the first game, I said "yes" beause I figured of course Felix remembers. So the beginning was a bit confusing...
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I thought the commercial for DD looked cool, and asked for it for Christmas. ::P:
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When I was first exposed to the game, I was super little. Like, 7 or 8. I was at a day care and all of my friends were fans of Pokemon, Sonic Advance, Spyro, and all the cool Gameboy Advance/Game Cube games at the time. One of the kids, a 10 year old whom I really looked up to, was playing a cool game one day. I look over to what he was playing, and there was giant boulder crashing down and killing three or four people on a deck (I also have a weird memory of seeing Dora's chat icon and thinking it was Isaac... that was very bizarre). Part of me was genuinely sad that those people died in the game, but another part of me was equally intrigued. He tells me that it's a new(ish) game called Golden Sun. He told me a bit more about it and I really liked the whole idea of using the four elements to beat up baddies and stuff.

My dad got it for me on a road trip up to Tennessee and I was ecstatic! Ever since then, I became a die-hard fan of the series. I would always try to draw the official art, which eventually inspired me to become an illustrator.

As I grew older and moved around, I was never able to find another person who had previously known about Golden Sun irl, but they certainly know about it now!
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I think I never fully told the story, but idk this is how I remember it.

So like one day I was a young lad, in a very young land and the days were golden and warm, and I was had gotten an Gameboy Advance SP. Now I did not own any Advance games yet and I was like I could play my brothers games and be a giant lame-o or buy my own and I had heard of RPG like games and I sort of liked the idea of those and they were cool. So I went and did my research, i think I might have been looking up Final Fantasy, but this was ten years ago and i can't even remember what I ate yesterday, so I think it's fair to say I was just surfing like a radical on the internet. And I saw this trailer for an RPG game and it looked hella and I was like I want to experience the hella so i looked it up and it was Golden Sun The Lost Age. And thus as a young boy I went and bought this game and I loved it quite a bit.

And that is the story, it was one of my more random purchases really, as a young lad. No regrets though, but it did set me on a dangerous course through the internet. IT IS ALL THIS ONE CARTRIDGE'S FAULT. EVERYTHING. But many good times so I mean very good, well done.

Still don't have Golden Sun though.
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I got a GBA for Christmas the year they came out. They got me Mario Kart Super Circuit and Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone.

We were at the store a few weeks later and I got a copy of Nintendo Power Advance. It had a guide for Harry Potter, plus Golden Sun and one of the Breath of Fires. I was reading through the magazine and Golden Sun looked stupidly amazing. My birthday was a few weeks later, so I asked for it. :D
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I owe it all to subscribing to Nintendo Power (Oct. 2001) back in my day. It was during my puberty and suddenly it happened. Mia was hawt. I had to get DAT game. ::D:
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alice
May 18 2015, 10:16 PM
I owe it all to subscribing to Nintendo Power (Oct. 2001) back in my day. It was during my puberty and suddenly it happened. Mia was hawt. I had to get DAT game. ::D:
YES. Club Mia woot woot!
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I remember I was reading the unofficial Aussie Nintendo magazine and showed my friends the previews (I've always loved gamer magazines), and it did look like a really good game, so we all decided to get GBAs and grab our own copies. My friends got it first right after release, and were playing it at school during lunch breaks racing each other. I joined the race as soon as I could, and my friend introduced me to Golden Twilight because he was an RL friend of Formina Sage.

Golden Sun was just one of those things we'd talk about everyday at school, where we were up to now, tips, strategies, endgame gear sets and so on. When GS2 came out, the same happened again. It was a really social experience to play that game for me, which was unusual for a JRPG. In my world, Golden Sun really brought people together.
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I was like 7-10 and hated girls (they still have cooties I swear)

Someone had the Lost Age and I stole it. I got caught, obviously. Then like 3 years later remembered it and bought my own copy. Played the first game a bit after.

That's my (honest) story on how I found the franchise.
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I think I was 10 when I learnt about GS. I had been buying the Nintendo Action for several months, even though I did not have any console, just because video games were so cool, and I read the GS guide with the most interest. I had no Gameboy and no money to buy one, nor did I have an Internet connection strong to download the ROM. In the end, my neighbour bought the game, and I convinced him to lend me his Game Boy and his Golden Sun.

The first time I played I thought it was great, though not too much. I had to play it quickly because I had to give him his Game Boy back soon. I didn't listen to the music either because speakers used a lot of power and I had promised not to use up the batteries. Several months after, I bought my own batteries, and earplugs, and he lent me again the console, and I played it again. But this time, with music. And boy... WHAT AN EXPERIENCE. It was pure awesomeness sublimated. The music made the game 1000 times better.

When I was 11, I knew TLA was coming, and I attempted to borrow my neighbour's GBA once again in order to "refresh" my experience. But he also wanted to do it, so I couldn't. Nevertheless, now I was more savvy, so I downloaded an emulator and the rom, and I re-played it in the computer. It was even greater than the previous times. I even turned the cover of my school agenda into a small grid where I used to write everyone's classes, weapons, and djinn. I was drawing pictures of GS everywhere. Finally, in my 12th birthday, I had managed to gather enough money to buy my own GBA. And in Christmas that year, I managed to convince my parents to allow my aunt to buy me TLA (my parents had always been against video games, and they refused to buy me any console or game). And of course, I enjoyed it a lot. Happy ending ::D:
P.S. With the years, the views of my parents with regard to video games relaxed. Finally they redeemed themselves giving me GS:DD for christmas the year it came out.
Edited by Nikki, May 19 2015, 03:02 PM.
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Nikki, are you younger than me then? O_O
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Nikki I feel your struggles of trying to get that sweet sweet vidya game action as a kid.
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Nikki
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@Sagie: I'm not sure of how old are you ... *spies Sagie's profile* ... No, we are the same age. But GS:TLA came one year later in Europe, if that is what confused you.

@cipher: gosh, my first real battle was to convince them to allow me and my sister watch Pokemon and Digimon! They thought they were "too violent"!
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