#fun fact: it’s actually my first time playing a game where yuri lowenthal talks for a decent portion of the game

[dobercorgis]

Finally finished p4g

Character thoughts under cut

Yosuke- I like him but also at the same time I need a 10 foot pole between him and every character that’s not the protag. Also how are you so homophobic when your level 10 social link was one of the gayest things I’ve ever read

Chie- Not a huge fan. Galactic punt go brr? Oh I liked her third semester convo ig

Yukiko- I liked her mostly bc of her social link just bc it was kind of similar to what I was going through at the time. Also good design (I just like characters with black/dark hair)

Teddie- Dunno why everyone hates on Morgana when he’s like a hundred times more annoying. Probably my least favorite character but I also hate that they made me feel for him around the end of his character arc

Kanji- Second favorite character. Aside from how they handled(?) his sexuality I liked everything else about him. I wasn’t a really big fan of the accepting their shadow scenes but I did like his.

Rise- Hi it’s my favorite character. Maybe I just like nav’s I liked her from the moment she claimed her persona and was like I’ll back you up. The whole senpai adoration was bit of a whiplash from that but I loved everything else about her. Also cute design and good voice acting was a plus

Naoto- Again not gonna delve into how they handled the gender issue, but I also liked her. I couldn’t get too far into her social link, but I still enjoyed the parts from the story. I like how she kicks the enemy when she crits lol. Also solid design one of my favorites from the game

Kou- Actually got pretty invested in his social link. Good character

Ayane- She was there ig. I liked her farewell conversation

Sayoko- I’ll see you again

Nanako- sweet baby child

Dojima- I prefer coffee dad but he was solid

Adachi- Unfortunately got spoiled while looking up the deadline for Marie’s social link, but I probably would’ve been mindblown if I wasn’t spoiled. Also unfortunately stuck at level 2 social link bc I just gave up on checking up on him after the first few months

Marie- Standard 2000s tsundere. Didn’t care too much for her including third semester

Ai- She’s… interesting. She’s alright

Fox- a fox

Margaret- wtf was that kiss at the end

Shu- Sorry it took me too long to raise my understanding I barely know you

Lady from the daycare- Didn’t know that you got social links from working until later so I kinda gave up on raising hers after getting her

Death- Sorry abt your husband…? (Didn’t get too far with this one)

#sorry in advance for comparing it to p5 but that’s the only other persona game I played #I think this group dynamic is more like friends/close buddies while p5’s is more of found family #I like p4g’s soundtrack a bit more although I think p5’s soundtrack is more fun/interesting (but not my style of music for the most part) #overarching story for p4 was more interesting but the individual story beats were a bit weak i think #the whole wait don’t say it thing got kind of old and the randomized dungeon crawling didn’t really help make those experiences unique #unlike palaces but tbh this part is just a minor gripe I didn’t mind it that much #you can definitely tell this game is dated from the script and some of the acting #fun fact: it’s actually my first time playing a game where yuri lowenthal talks for a decent portion of the game #I do want to replay it to get adachi’s social link tho #so yeah I get it now #misu.txt

[steeltypeloverbecca]

Golden Sun feelings

Lately I’ve been watching videos discussing Golden Sun/ listening to the soundtrack and I’ve been wanting to replay it for years but unfortunately I loaned it to a friend a long time ago and they seemed to have lost it at some point, so my current choice would probably be an emulator. Except that I want to throw what little money I have at the series as I remember liking the series a lot and want to bring back financial hope that Nintendo/Camelot would try to revive this series. As well while the first two games were praised and sold okay for their time and Dark Dawn sold a little less than. So I don’t think they sold the numbers Nintendo needed making this series heavily neglected with a dedicated fanbase that is still wanting more (I mean especially after that Dark Dawn left soooooo many loose ends).

Unlike other things I may have obsessed over in high school that I said were super underrated and deserve more love Golden Sun actually does deserve that more love. It’s a game that pushed the GBA to it’s limits with its graphics, soundtrack. and game play. Okay sure the story of the Golden Sun games are not the best as I feel even the weakest of some modern JRPGs have stronger stories but it is very much serviceable with the first two being fairly open ended to the point where there are very little points of no return and you can skip some events outright and it wouldn’t hurt your progress through the games story. However the real appeal in the games would be the dungeon puzzles and battle as both require you to use various magic or as the games call it psynergy to solve them but with the battles there is a lot of freedom with customizing your party for battle as each character has a set of weapons that they can equip and there’s the djinn system which can allow you to mess around with your party’s classes as well as thy psynergy everyone can learn depending on which djinni you equip. Oh and like other RPGs the djinni are used for summoning fucking gods ... and a meteor for tons of damage even if it temporarily lowers your stats.

And the setting of the world isn’t just some stock whitey European fantasy world like so many others all right your party is pretty white but don’t worry the third game does somewhat rectify this with half of your team being various flavors of Asian coding (Like two of the characters are south east Asian coded, one is more Mongolian coded, while one is Japanese coded) but the rest of the fantasy world you end up saving has a large variety of settings that resemble fantasy places of east Asia, south east Asia, the middle east, sub Sahara Africa, India, Aboriginal Australia, the Americas and even fucking Antarctica making this one of the most diverse fantasy worlds I’ve run into. And did I mention that soundtrack like holy shit if you ever play this game play it with the sound on because the soundtrack is fucking amazing like some of Matoi Sakuraba’s best pre-Zestiria work. Hell even if you don’t have the game listen to the soundtrack because it is so good! And it’s not just the world but the dungeons come in many fun varieties like there’s this one where you need to go up the outside to get an item before going inside the dungeon itself or the one where you are using a healing spell to activate traps and the like a literal fucking healing spell that just heals you for the rest of the game outside of this one dungeon and then there’s the one where you’re grabbing a big ass bird’s kidney stones.

Okay enough gushing as it does have its flaws like the story, the dialogue heavy first chapter of each game. I honestly can’t tell you much about any of the characters outside of Isaac is different from Matthew because he has silly looking boob plates, Mia had a job before she joined the party, Sheba was worshiped as a god, and Piers is probably immortal with my gay ass admitting that he has nice thighs. Dark Dawn being really flawed even if it does have the nice addition of adding the weapon skill upgrade system and that cool easter egg from the north american commercial for the first game (which by the way has absolutely nothing to do with the game but still looks pretty cool). Hell one of the biggest flaws is the main character of Dark Dawn isn’t really the hero of the game’s story but that title goes to a character that you meet like halfway through the game, and before you meet her the main character is just kind of bumming around going on various fetch quests. With the puzzles and battles honestly being way too easy. Dark dawn is just really the weakest of the games that kind of came as a result of most of the original team leaving right after the second game and the series being on hiatus for almost a decade. I wouldn’t say it’s awful but I feel that it failed to live up to the previous two games and the baggage from those games caused major set backs for newcomers. Plus the development hell that it suffered through it kind of is a miracle that Dark Dawn is even out.

So now Golden Sun is at the point again where no one has heard from it for almost a decade and people are starting to lose faith that Golden Sun 4 will never come out. However with the Switch being early in its lifespan I think there is a glimmer of hope for Golden Sun to return. But I do feel that it needs to return through a reboot of the first two games hell maybe combine the two into one game like it was originally planned, though Isaac and Felix being silent protagonists would have to be scrapped as it would be just jarring for someone who talks in one part of the game suddenly ends up being completely silent in the other game. Heck I think it would be cool to push the switch’s graphical capabilities like the original GBA versions did for their respective systems, like give some tweaks to the story and characters give the game styleized character models and hell why not some voice acting as I think Laura Bailey would totally nail Jenna and/or Sheba, Robbie Daymond would make a good Isaac, and either Matthew Mercer or Yuri Lowenthal could work as Felix. But then goes the issue of the fact that Nintendo reboots tend to not sell as well as the original even if its something the franchise really needs to hook in new gamers for a Golden Sun 4 and that remake needs to about four times as much as the just under 2 million copies that the original games each sold. So I feel that Nintendo and Camelot when dealing with Golden Sun should first give the reboot of the first two games whether they be one or two games, a remake or updated rerelease of Dark Dawn, a few spin off games still dealing with the world of Weyard then give us Golden Sun 4 and after that they can do what they wish with it like make spiritual successors, or make it like a Final Fantasy or Tales series where everything after 4 could be unrelated to the main 4 games. However I have no idea on how to ensure that the first part of this idea, the reboot, would rake in the 10 million plus copies it needs to not kill Golden Sun. Maybe updated graphics and voice acting would work maybe it won’t. Though in anycase I do encourage buying the first two games on the Wii U virtual console and I’m pretty sure you can get Dark Dawn for cheap as DS games are still selling as they still work for the 3DS. And if you like the games enough I encourage trying to bring in support ... or ask for Isaac to be playable for the new Smash.

#Golden Sun #long post #gushing #like tons of gushing #and ideas on what could be possible for the future of this great franchise