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'''''Golden Sun''''', released in Japan as {{nihongo|'''''Ōgon no Taiyō Hirakareshi Fūin'''''|黄金の太陽 開かれし封印||literally "'''''Golden Sun: The Broken Seal'''''"}}, is the first installment of a [[Golden Sun (series)|series]] of fantasy [[Console role-playing game|role-playing]] video games developed by [[Camelot Software Planning]] and published by [[Nintendo]]. It was released in November 2001 for Nintendo's [[Game Boy Advance]], followed by a sequel, ''[[Golden Sun: The Lost Age]]'', in 2003. The game is notable for certain distinctive game elements, such as the use of special "[[Jinn|Djinn]]" that empower the player and can be used against enemies.
'''''Golden Sun''''', released in Japan as {{nihongo|'''''Ōgon no Taiyō Hirakareshi Fūin'''''|黄金の太陽 開かれし封印||literally "'''''Golden Sun: The Broken Seal'''''"}}, is the first installment of a [[Golden Sun (series)|series]] of wow [[Console role-playing game|role-playing]] crabs in my pants games developed by [[Camelot Software Planning]] and published by [[Nintendo]]. It was released in November 2001 for Nintendo's [[Game Boy Advance]], followed by a sequel, ''[[Golden Sun: The Lost Age]]'', in 2003. The game is notable for certain distinctive game elements, such as the use of special "[[Jinn|Djinn]]" that empower the player and can be used against enemies.


''Golden Sun''{{'}}s story follows a band of magic-attuned "adepts" who are sent from their home town into the wide world of Weyard to prevent the potentially destructive power of [[alchemy]] from being released as it was in the past. Along the way the adepts gain new abilities, help out the local populations, and learn more about why alchemy was sealed away. The story continues in a sequel, ''[[Golden Sun: The Lost Age]]''.
''Golden Sun''{{'}}s story follows a band of magic-attuned "adepts" who are sent from their home town into the wide world of Weyard to prevent the potentially destructive power of [[alchemy]] from being released as it was in the past. Along the way the adepts gain new abilities, help out the local populations, and learn more about why alchemy was sealed away. The story continues in a sequel, ''[[Golden Sun: The Lost Age]]''.

Revision as of 18:17, 10 November 2010

This article is about the original Game Boy Advance game. For the series, see Golden Sun (series).
Golden Sun
North American box art
Developer(s)Camelot Software Planning
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Producer(s)Hiroshi Yamauchi (executive producer)
Composer(s)Motoi Sakuraba
SeriesGolden Sun
Platform(s)Game Boy Advance
Genre(s)Console role-playing game
Mode(s)Single player, 2 players via Game Link Cable

Golden Sun, released in Japan as Ōgon no Taiyō Hirakareshi Fūin (黄金の太陽 開かれし封印, literally "Golden Sun: The Broken Seal"), is the first installment of a series of wow role-playing crabs in my pants games developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo. It was released in November 2001 for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance, followed by a sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, in 2003. The game is notable for certain distinctive game elements, such as the use of special "Djinn" that empower the player and can be used against enemies.

Golden Sun's story follows a band of magic-attuned "adepts" who are sent from their home town into the wide world of Weyard to prevent the potentially destructive power of alchemy from being released as it was in the past. Along the way the adepts gain new abilities, help out the local populations, and learn more about why alchemy was sealed away. The story continues in a sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age.

Upon its release, the game was highly praised; IGN's Craig Harris said that Golden Sun could "arguably be one of the best 2D-based Japanese RPGs created for any system."[1] The game went on to sell over one million copies in Japan and the United States. A second sequel, Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, was released October 2010 and is scheduled for release outside Japan later in the same year.

Gameplay

Golden Sun's form of magic, Psynergy, can be used in battle and in dungeons. Here, a cold spell is used to create a navigable path of frozen ice pillars from puddles of water.

Golden Sun is a contemporary presentation of the traditional console role-playing game formula, where the player guides a cast of four characters as they journey through a fantasy-themed game world, interact with other characters, battle monsters, acquire increasingly powerful magic spells and equipment, and take part in an ongoing, predefined narrative.[2] While many actions the player takes are compulsory, Golden Sun often allows the player to complete certain objectives out of order, and to visit previous locations, which can advance minor story elements.

Much of the game's time spent outside of battle takes place in dungeons, caves, and other locales that feature puzzles integrated into their layout.[3] Among the various activities one must perform to make progress through the game world and story is pushing logs into rivers to cross them, or shifting the track of a mine cart to allow access to new areas.[3] Many of these puzzles revolve around the usage of the game's form of magic spells, "Psynergy" ("Energy" in the Japanese version).[4] Successful exploration of the game's world and conduction of the game's battles is heavily dependent on the strategic usage of the extensive pool of Psynergy spells available.[5] Whereas many other RPGs limit the usage of their forms of magic to battles as offensive and defensive measures, Psynergy spells can be used outside battle for solving puzzles in the game's locales.[6] For example, the "Whirlwind" spell that can be used to damage enemies in battle is also used out of battle to clear away overgrown foliage that may block the player's path.[7] Psynergy comes in four elements: Venus (manipulation of rocks and plants), Mars (revolving around fire and heat), Jupiter (based on wind and electricity), and Mercury (concerning water and ice).[8] Players can return to previous locations in the game to finish puzzles which they could not solve earlier because of the lack of a specific Psynergy spell.[3]

Battle and Djinn

Battles in Golden Sun have many special effects. Here, a weapon specific attack is unleashed by the sword Gaia Blade.

Golden Sun contains both random monster encounters, featuring randomly selected enemies,[9] and compulsory battles involving set enemies, which advance the story. When a battle begins, a separate screen is brought up where the player's party and enemy party face-off on opposing sides. During a battle, the characters and the background rotate to give a pseudo-3D effect.[10] In each battle, the player is required to defeat each enemy by a variety of measures while keeping the player's own party alive through items and supportive Psynergy that restore life and supplement defense.[11] If the player's entire party is downed by reducing their hit points to zero, it is considered "Game Over", and the party is returned to the last Sanctum that the player visited, with a monetary penalty impose. The successful completion of a battle yields experience points, coins, and occasionally items.[12]

In addition to the main game itself, there is also a competitive battling mode accessible from the menu screen. In this mode, players can enter their currently developed team from their saved game files into an arena environment where they battle increasingly difficult CPU-controlled enemies with their full parties, or select three of their four party members to do battle against another player's three-character team. In neither case is there a reward or penalty for winning or losing.[13]

One of the most distinctive features of Golden Sun is the collecting and manipulation of magical creatures called Djinn (in the plural; the singular is "Djinni"). Djinn, based on each of the four classical elements, can be found scattered in hiding throughout the game and are allocated to each character. The Djinn form the basis of the game's statistic enhancement, as well as the system that dictates the character's Psynergy capabilities.[14] Attaching different Djinn to different characters modifies that character's character class, subsequently modifying hit points, Psynergy points, and other statistics, as well as determining what Psynergy the character is able to perform.[15]

In Golden Sun, Djinn can either be "turned on" ("Set") or "turned off" ("On Standby"). When a Djinni is "Set" to a character, that Djinni exerts influence on that character's class[9] (and therefore, his or her statistics and Psynergy collection) relative to both the character's innate element and that of the Djinni's.[14] As there are twenty-eight Djinn encompassing the four elements that can be mixed and matched to the four characters, a large array of possible class setups for all four characters are potentially available, allowing a variety of combat options.[16]

In combat, a Djinni has several primary uses. Each Djinni has its own special ability which can be invoked during combat by the character it is attached to, which can include enhanced elemental attacks, buffing or debuffing spells, healing/restoration spells, and other effects. After a successful invoke, the Djinni shifts to "Standby" mode until it is "Set" on the character again.[17] While in standby, the Djinn do not contribute to character classes or statistics, but can be used for summon sequences, which are attacks where the player summons a powerful elemental monster to inflict damage on every enemy. This is the game's most powerful method of attack, and also the riskiest, as it requires Djinn to be on Standby and therefore not be available to bolster the statistics of whatever character the Djinn are on.[18] Once a Djinni on Standby has been used for a Summon Sequence, it must rest a number of turns before it restores itself to Set position on a character. There are sixteen Summon Sequences in Golden Sun, four for each element, and each summon sequence takes between one and four Djinn of the same element on Standby.

Synopsis

Setting

Golden Sun takes place in the fantasy world of "Weyard"—a massive, earth-like environment with several major continents and oceans. It is revealed in the game's sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, that the setting is based on the flat Earth concept; it is a flat, roughly circular plane whose oceans perpetually spill off the edge of the world's perimeter into an endless abyss.[19][20] The plot progression of Golden Sun spans the two largest continents in the world's central region Angara to the north and Gondowan to the south.

Weyard is a world governed by the fictional, ancient concept of the classical elements. All matter on Weyard consists of any combination of the four base elements: Venus, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter.[21] These four building blocks of reality can be manipulated by the omnipotent force of Alchemy, which used to reign supreme in the world's ancient past. Alchemy was sealed away in the past, however, and the world in the present age has become seemingly devoid of most magic. Various individuals throughout the world, however, each demonstrate an aptitude to manipulate one of the four elements through a form of magic called Psynergy. These Adepts, as wielders of Psynergy are called, generally refrain from displaying their talents to outsiders.

Characters

Main article: List of Golden Sun characters

The player controls a total of four characters of Golden Sun. Isaac is a seventeen-year-old Venus Adept from the village of Vale, who serves as the game's silent protagonist. Garet, a seventeen-year-old Mars Adept also from Vale, is Isaac's closest companion. Ivan is a fifteen-year-old Jupiter Adept who has lived with a famous merchant in the town of Kalay all his life. Mia, a seventeen-year-old Mercury Adept from the wintry town of Imil, is a gentle healer from a heritage of Mercury Adept clansmen. A fifth character seen and playable in the game's exposition sequence is the 17-year-old Mars Adept Jenna, another childhood friend to Isaac.[22]

The primary antagonists of the game are Saturos and Menardi, a pair of immensely powerful and talented Mars Adepts of a foreign race hailing from Prox, a town in Weyard's frigid north.[23] Their aim is to restore Alchemy to the world, and they are assisted by the powerful and mysterious Mercury Adept Alex, of the same heritage as Mia, and Jenna's older brother, the 18-year-old Venus Adept Felix, who is indebted to Saturos for saving Felix from death.[22]

Plot

The force of Alchemy was prevalent in Weyard's ancient past, allowing for the development of great civilizations, but this eventually gave way to worldwide conflict that had subsided only with the sealing away of Alchemy.[24] The keys to unlocking Alchemy, four magic jewels named the Elemental Stars, are hidden within the mountain shrine, Mt. Aleph, which in turn is guarded by the town of Vale at the mountain's base over the ages. Three years prior to the start of the game in the game's prologue, Saturos and Menardi, along with a raiding party, raid Mt. Aleph with the intent to take the Elemental Stars for themselves. They fail to solve the riddles guarding the stars and are driven away by the mountain's trap, a magically generated thunderstorm and rock slide.[25]

In the present, Isaac, Garet, and Jenna join their teacher Kraden in his research of Mt. Aleph,[26] but this coincides with a second raid of the sanctum by Saturos and Menardi, now assisted by Felix and Alex,[27] who coerce Isaac into giving them three of the four stars.[28] However, before they can retrieve the final star, they are forced to escape from an erupting volcano,[29] with Jenna and Kraden as their hostages.[30] The guardian of Mt. Aleph, the Wise One, appears before Isaac and Garet and instructs them to prevent Saturos' group from achieving their goal of restoring Alchemy to the world by casting the Elemental Stars into their respective Elemental Lighthouses across Weyard.[31]

Isaac and Garet pursue Saturos' group to the first Lighthouse, Mercury Lighthouse, joined by Ivan[32] and Mia.[33] However, in spite of their best efforts, they fail to prevent Saturos from activating Mercury Lighthouse with the Mercury Star.[34] Saturos' group leaves for the next Lighthouse while Isaac's party resumes its pursuit. In the chase that follows Isaac learns that Saturos has taken another adept hostage: the female Jupiter adept, Sheba.[35]

At Venus Lighthouse; Saturos and Menardi activate the lighthouse with the Venus Star, before being confronted by Isaac's party.[36] Attempting to annihilate their opponents, Saturos and Menardi magically merge to form a gigantic two-headed dragon,[37] but Isaac's party slay Saturos and Menardi for good.[38] The remnants of Saturos' group, headed by Felix and Alex, continue their quest to light the remaining two Lighthouses, with Jenna, Sheba, and Kraden still with them.[39] The game ends as Isaac's party boards a ship and sail out into Weyard's open seas to continue their mission.

Development

Golden Sun underwent a development cycle of between twelve and eighteen months by Camelot Software Planning, considered a long period of time for the development of a handheld video game;[40] the finished product was described as a testament to the positive results a long development cycle can bring to a game.[1] It was shown in early, playable form at the Nintendo Spaceworld Expo in Japan on August 2000.[10] North American previewers received the game a few weeks before the release, and IGN noted that the experience of developing Shining Force for Sega helped Camelot develop a gripping RPG for the handheld.[41]

Originally, Camelot planned to create a single title instead of a series, and in the extremely early stages of their project they had created a game design document for the one Golden Sun game to be on the Nintendo 64 console. When it became apparent the N64 was to be superseded by the Nintendo GameCube, Camelot shifted their focus to making a game on the handheld Game Boy Advance.[42]

As a handheld title, Golden Sun was intended to be a single game, but due to the hardware limitations of putting the game on a single Game Boy Advance cartridge and the developers' own desire for what they wanted to do with the game, it was expanded to become two successive games, Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age. Scenario writer Hiroyuki Takahashi and director Shugo Takahashi had previously designed Shining Force III, where the story involved playing through the perspectives of both the "good" side and the "bad" side of the characters. Thinking that it was an effective way of conveying the full story of a fictional game world, they incorporated elements of this storytelling methodology into the two-game setup of the Golden Sun series, having the player control the "good guys" in Golden Sun and members of the antagonistic party in The Lost Age.[43]

Reception

Golden Sun sold 740,000 copies in the United States[51] and 338,000 in Japan.[52] It was positively received by critics; the title is ranked 91% and 90% on the review score aggregator sites Metacritic and Game Rankings, respectively. Many reviewers praised the game's graphics, sound, and varied, refined RPG gameplay, with particular emphasis on the Battle Mode and Djinn system.[53] Certain critics noted that, despite the technical limitations of its 32-bit cartridge, the game's graphical quality was still extremely high; GameSpot wrote that "Golden Sun is a throwback to some of the SNES's best."[54] Complaints generally focused on a perceived overuse of text dialogue in the game's cutscenes—particularly during the prologue section.[1] Some faulted it for relying on the "wander around, get into a random battle, win battle, wander around, random battle, etc." mechanics present in other many role-playing games.[47]

G4 TV stated, "It's the best original (nonport) GBA RPG to date",[44] while GamePro called it a "huge, fantastic, creative, and wickedly fun RPG that doesn't seem to care that it's 'just' on a GBA".[45] Game Informer called Golden Sun "a visual treat", and said that its graphics "would have amazed Super Nintendo owners back in the day". Noting the game's similarity to previous Japanese role-playing games, the reviewers believed that it was "easily the best original RPG on the GBA", and the "new ruler in the GBA RPG realm".[46] Advance compared the game to the Pokémon series, and noted its "luscious graphics" and "incredible cinematic sound". Despite describing its plot as "Cliche City", the magazine hailed the game as "the best handheld role-player ever".[48]

In 2001, Golden Sun won the Nintendo Power Award for best Game Boy Advance game of the year. Golden Sun was ranked 94 on IGN's Readers Choice Top 100 games ever.[55] In 2007, it was named 24th best Game Boy Advance game of all time in IGN's feature reflecting on the Game Boy Advance's long lifespan,[56] as well as its Game of the Month for April 2003 because it had "amazing graphics and sound presentation, as well as a quest that lasts for more than thirty hours."[57] It was rated the 31st best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Power's Top 200 Games list.[58]

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  26. ^ "Dora: Where do you all plan to go today? / Garet: We're going to Mt. Aleph with Kraden. / Dora: Mountain climbing with Kraden, eh? Kids and their games... / Jenna: No! It's part of our studies... / Dora: Ah, yes... Alchemy."—Camelot Software Planning (2001-11-11). Golden Sun (Game Boy Advance). Nintendo.
  27. ^ "Felix: I know I've caused you much grief, Jenna. It was a miracle that I survived that day... / Saturos: We are the ones who saved him. / Menardi: We saw him floating unconscious in the river as we passed. / Felix: I've been with them ever since... I've experienced a lot."—Camelot Software Planning (2001-11-11). Golden Sun (Game Boy Advance). Nintendo.
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  30. ^ "Saturos: Forget about them. They won't make it out alive. / Menardi: But Saturos, there's still a chance they might survive. / Saturos: Anything is possible... So what do you suggest we do? / Alex: We take this "Jenna" with us... If they survive, they will want her back. And if they want her back, they will bring us the Star."—Camelot Software Planning (2001-11-11). Golden Sun (Game Boy Advance). Nintendo.
  31. ^ "The Wise One: The world will be exposed to the threat of Alchemy. / Garet: Alchemy? A threat? / The Wise One: It can be a dangerous power if it is misused... If the Elemental Stars ignite the flames of the four lighthouses, that power will be released. As long as the four lighthouses remain unlit..."—Camelot Software Planning (2001-11-11). Golden Sun (Game Boy Advance). Nintendo.
  32. ^ "Ivan: Your quest has been on my mind ever since I left Vault. Remember? I read everything that happened in your minds. I couldn't just leave, not with all these terrible things happening. If I can't rescue Master Hammet, then I want to help you... Please, allow me to join your quest."—Camelot Software Planning (2001-11-11). Golden Sun (Game Boy Advance). Nintendo.
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  35. ^ "Iodem: There were seven? Is this the same group you were following before? / Soldier 2: I'm certain of it. One of them must have been...Sheba. / Iodem: Sheba, you say... Is this true!? / Soldier 1: The scholar Kraden was protecting her. I'm sure it was Sheba... / Iodem: Did you hear that, Isaac? What do they want with Sheba?"—Camelot Software Planning (2001-11-11). Golden Sun (Game Boy Advance). Nintendo.
  36. ^ "Saturos: I hope you don't think you've finished us off. / Mia: You may not be finished, but you can barely stand. / Menardi: Right now, yes... But we'll be back on our feet... as soon as we do THIS! / Saturos: (Throws the Venus Star into the Venus Lighthouse well) / Ivan: Oh, no! He threw the Elemental Star into the lighthouse! / Mia: How could this happen... We couldn't keep them from lighting the beacon! / Saturos: That's not all... The energy of the beacon will restore our power."—Camelot Software Planning (2001-11-11). Golden Sun (Game Boy Advance). Nintendo.
  37. ^ "Saturos: Heh heh... Felix is the least of your worries right now. / Mia: Oh my-they're glowing! / Menardi: It's time you learned what true power is! / Ivan: Their Psynergy is overflowing! / Saturos: Hya ha ha! It's too late to run! / Garet: Uh-oh... They're fusing! / Ivan: They've merged into one another! Everyone get back!"—Camelot Software Planning (2001-11-11). Golden Sun (Game Boy Advance). Nintendo.
  38. ^ "Saturos: How... How... did we lose? / Menardi: We are superior in every way, but still we were defeated..."—Camelot Software Planning (2001-11-11). Golden Sun (Game Boy Advance). Nintendo.
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