Golden Sun vs. Shining Force II

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poor golden sun got no <3 here but its a pretty good game too although i remember being SO ANGRY liek that w/all caps about lost age which required a lot of pointless retracking in order to get crappy items

Golden Sun was pretty decent, but totally agreed, I quit halfway through the second one because it was so boring and I just totally lost track of where I was and/or where I was supposed to go. It felt a little too much like an old school Dragon Quest game in that regard!

"discovering that u could get all the characters after all. at the castle where u can only pick one new character at first if u revisit u can have ALL the available chars join the party pointless as it is"

When I discovered this it made me SO happy, despite the fact that they were pointless characters now.
I'd always have such a hard time choosing which one to take.
Shining Force II is just one of the greatest games ever. i still regularly replay it and get the same amount of enjoyment from it.
Shining Force I is also absolutely amazing.
My dream is that some day all three Shining Force III's will get a US release... I've still never played the one English one.
it's a shame that the franchise went to shit.

And Golden Sun is pretty great but yeah, i never got through the second one either

one thing that really disappointed me about golden sun was the changeable classes which ended up being pretty lame most of the time, and never seemed to make the game as interesting as it couldve been. it was always a) painfulyl obv which set-up was best and b) that was usually the default set-up

i remember being really pysched that lost age would allow you to continue playing w/yr old characters that youd spent all this time leveling only to actually make you start at lvl. 1 with basically the exact same characters except their sprites and namers were different

SFIII is: AN AMAZING GAME!!!! i sold off a bunch of saturn games last fall assuming that the price will fall once they start getting vc/xbla/ds2 rereleases but im holding on to that one.

http://forums.shiningforcecentral.com/index.php?showforum=34
These guys are working on translation patches for emulations of the two Japanese ones
The second one is supposed to be pretty playable now but I think I'll wait to play them until they are all finished.
It might take a couple more years until they finish but I'll be quite a happy man when they do

I loved golden sun tbh

i liked golden sun though i recall it being generally maligned by jrpg fans

i think i really liked golden sun? i remember getting it for xmas the same year i got the vespertine CD (or maybe it was bjork greatest hits, cant rmeember now)... and then i got sick, and played it in bed & listened to that cd a whole lot for like 2 days with a fever.

i remember it being hella generic and styleless

i remember liking the first Golden Sun despite it being excessively talkie with endless conversations that went nowhere and those emoji-like things. never got round to the second one (and the DS one is generally loathed as far as I can tell)

Liked it, got about halfway through the second one. Solid mid-tier JRPG imo. zappi and thomp's criticisms are fair. Thought the game had a good reception when it came out

xp thats just basically it being realistic mannnnnn