I enjoyed the beta, and I enjoy the game at launch a lot as well. Last night I was aided in a fight against a huge mob of feral ghouls by some friendly yeehaw from tennessee, and he and I partied up and stuck together, doing some quests and venturing into areas that we were significantly underleveled for, for about…

okay

The first two games are both available on the Wii U’s Virtual Console. I also couldn’t give a shit if people just straight emulated them or not. I just would love for more people to experience the game in general.

Lost Age ended open-ended but with Isaac/Felix’s quest complete. They restored Alchemy, Alex was left in a status of fucked up by a rock???? maybe he’ll come back??? and that was that. I never considered TLA’s ending to be incomplete. The fact that Dark Dawn ends the way it does with the “to be continued???” nonsense…

For me, as a hardcore fan of Golden Sun, I’ve always pointed to things like... Ice Climbers, Duck Hunt, ROB, Marth/Roy (on their Melee inclusion)... hell, even Ness. Did anyone know who Ness was when the original Smash came out? Did anyone know who Lucas was beyond “ness but yellow” when he was first introduced? Not…

Oh, I don’t disagree with any of that. I definitely consider Golden Sun to be a ‘cult’ series, and I’ve got a half-sleeve tattoo from the games, lmao. Just wanted to address the actual number of units sold - I think across the series, it’s about 2 million-ish, which (especially given the amount of people who actually…

That’s really all I want as a fan. I’ve been streaming the first two games on my Twitch and it’s been fun to chat with folks about the game and whatnot. I genuinely really enjoyed Dark Dawn too, for all its issues. What I’d love is a Golden Sun Trilogy port that includes some sort of playable epilogue that resolves…

The first game sold a little more than a million worldwide. The second I think hit about 750,000 iirc, and the third really underperformed. But in terms of the first two titles (AKA, the GBA games that people have at least heard of) they sold pretty solidly for GBA JRPGs.

Golden Sun is my favorite game. I’m pretty sad that Isaac isn’t playable. But I’m glad he made it in, in some capacity, even if it’s a much smaller role than I would’ve wanted. My hope is that people will see him in action as an AT, wonder what his deal is, and then play the Golden Sun games. And maybe someday I’ll…

It’s also an anagram for “unrelated”

That’s fair. I saw the movie Bats when I was a kid and I’ve had a bat phobia ever since. 

God, the Tingler. My dad told me about that film... never seen it myself. What a weird premise, though

Be sure that you’re checking online auction sites. I’ve been lucky on some cheap, good-condition box-only lots to replace some old GBC/GBA game boxes that my youthful indiscretion sullied 20 years ago. 

Oooh, Terranigma.

Do you plan on discussing the rise of video game grading companies and the potential impact that they’ll have on the collectors market? (because you should)

I’m still so mad that they’ve never done a true HD remaster of Skies. It’s so good and so deserving.

This is everything. Thank you for all of it.

Yeah, I think that’s the bigger issue. The games may have sold okay enough, but they weren’t making a profit because they were spending so much money on licensing rights.

They didn’t sell like hotcakes. That’s kind of the problem.

that’s not golden sun 4