Nintendo Announces Golden Sun DS

[Jordan Deam]

Nintendo Announces Golden Sun DS

Nintendo has announced the first title in the Golden Sun franchise in six years: Golden Sun DS.

It's little more than a trailer at this point, but Golden Sun fans can rest easy - the DS will be getting the next installment of the popular Game Boy Advance series. No word on whether your save file from Golden Sun 2 will transfer to the new platform, but we'll hopefully get some answers later this week.




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[blackadvent]

Can I get a 'Thank you god'?

 

[mintfresh]

Hell yeah! That's what I'm talking about. If nothing else surprising comes out of E3 I'll still be happy with this! ^_^

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

No matter how many times I read it, I just keep getting more excited.

 

[SamuelT]

Damn...I've got no DS, but I love the GS series. I hope I can borrow it from a friend.

 

[Milkatron]

I was hoping for a console game, but 6 years in the waiting has made me just want another one. I am so happy.

 

[Abedeus]

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

God damn finally. It's been 3 years since I gave my Golden Sun to a repair... and they never could repair it. I got my cash back, but I'd rather have the game :/

I CAN'T WAIT DAMN IT.

 

[Samuari Jim]

Time to steal my brother's DS again.

 

[Aura Guardian]

Can I get a 'Thank you god'?

Thank you God

 

[Andaxay]

This is the best news I've ever seen on the Interwebs. I can't believe it, I honestly believed the franchise had died. Time to replay GS and GS:TLA in preparation.

 

[The Great JT]

Nice.

 

[Rimefrost]

Looks like I need to buy a DS now.

 

[Fruitloops89]

Possibly the best thing to come from Nintendos confrence today

 

[KimMR251]

YES YES!!! I too have to replay the others. ahhh *^_^*

 

[Earnest Cavalli]

Fuck yes! The Golden Sun games are the best unknown RPG games in history.

I just hope Nintendo doesn't fuck everything up by making it "casual" or adding stupid DSi-centric camera gimmicks.

 

[Melancholy_Ocelot]

Fuck yes! The Golden Sun games are the best unknown RPG games in history.

I just hope Nintendo doesn't fuck everything up by making it "casual" or adding stupid DSi-centric camera gimmicks.

This is my one greatest fear next to sentient spiders.

 

[Andaxay]

I just hope Nintendo doesn't fuck everything up by making it "casual" or adding stupid DSi-centric camera gimmicks.

This. And my one biggest fear is that the game will centre around the Adepts' children.

PLEASE, NO. It's so cliche that it will actually put me off buying the game if that's how it turns out. But the previous two were so awesome that I have faith.

 

[The Great JT]

Y'know...looking back at my previous comment of simply saying "nice," I'm excited at the prospect of a new Golden Sun, but then I remembered what system they're releasing it on: The Nintendo DS. Inevitably, they're going to throw in some asinine, useless, moronic touch-screen gimmick for shits and giggles. Now if it was maybe for alchemy and you use the stylus for crushing ingredients in a mortar and pestle, that might not be bad. Actually...lemme write that down, I might want to hold on to that idea. But chances are they're going to incorporate it into combat by making you wildly slice away at the touch screen to swing your sword or some shit.

Plus, if I know Nintendo, the entire time the game's going on you're not once going to see the main character talk in cutscenes. Think about it, in all of Golden Sun, all the dialogue from your party came from Garet, Mia and Ivan, hell even Jenna spoke more than Isaac, and then in The Lost Age you never heard Felix talk and all the exposition came from Sheba, Piers (SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH HIS NAME?!) and and Jenna. Hell, once Isaac's party joined Felix's, he finally took the cork out of his mouth and spouted more dialogue than Felix.

One other leery look I have against GSDS (Golden Sun DS) is they're going to turn it more into a typical JRPG. What does that mean? Horrible cutscene-to-action ratio, characters are androgynous 12-year-olds in pajamas who don't have any personalities and all the bad guys' motivations are "because I feel like it," among other complaints. Oh, and all the villages are transformed into sterotypical japanese towns in JRPGs.

Anyway, enough mean-spirited naysaying. We're getting more Golden Sun, bitches!