Reminder that if no new Golden Sun game is announced at E3...

Progression is more natural if you go Kolima first… from a level and gameplay perspective. Ironically, from a story perspective of course the first thing you would do is bumrush the lighthouse because that is where you know Sarturos and Menardi are headed.

Wyrm Shield
Drake Shield
Drago(n)skin Shield

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What if she was generic innkeeper
Which reminds me

In Nipponese the Wise One's name is "Wiseman". In Nipponese the Philospher's Stone is called 賢者の石, literally the Wiseman's Stone. That's where the big floating stone with super powers came from

Oh speaking of Dark Dawn's encyclopedia, there's an unused image of Anemos

You can also use the retreat glitch to get Iris as early as the western sea part of The Lost Age opens apparently.

I always thought either the weapon vendor's portrait made it look like Carl from ATHF got a job.

To be fair, if it was between games, they might not have been that aware of when the TLA would be out in Japan, or what equipment names it might have, and it's more in retrospect that the first one would warrant a weaker name compared to the second. Personally I'd say something like "G. Dragon Shield" or something might work for the latter to better symbolize it's improved stats, but I'm not sure what the character/line crunch for the name would be like.

One last bump for her, but there's not much else to discuss

If I was talented in any way I'd get the originals and give them a modern face wash (change nes ff1 menus for something better, improve sound quality, improve dungeons since almost every dungeon room except the entrance is just empty, maybe add some dialogue fluff around…)

I always thought he used the stone at some point to become a god, not that he was the stone. Oh well

Which is a shame, since any gs character has enough moves to make a real fighting character instead of what they do with most characters already in smash, they just have their signature move and the rest is filled with generic land/air punch/kick

I forgot:

I always thought the correct order story wise was to go the forest, defeat the boss then go to Imil to find a cure. It doesnt make much sense now that I think about it since your goal is to defend the lighthouses and mercury is the closest. That explains why the forest was always so hard and saturos so easy

The movesets they make up for characters are generally nice. The real problem is wasting time and effort that would literally be better spent on anything else with filling the roster with clones nobody asked for and having third-party caharacters that have barely anything to do with Nintendo take precedence over some first-party ones.

Sakurai is a fucking shithead.