Golden Sun: The Lost Age

Publisher: Nintendo

Platform: GBA

Category: RPG

Rating Info

Release Date: 19/09/2003

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Number of Players: 1-2

Golden Sun: The Lost Age Description

The well-respected RPG from Nintendo's second-party dev studio, Camelot, receives its much-anticipated sequel with the release of The Lost Age. For those of you not familiar with the game, Golden Sun is an involving, Final Fantasy-esque role player that follows a group of Adepts on the quest to recover a stolen artefact that is threatening the world. The Lost Age is basically more of the same, continuing the adventures of the gregarious group and picking up where the original left off. According to ancient legend, alchemy wrought the base elements of humanity into thriving civilisations. But, after its unbridled power began corrupting the hearts and minds of men, four elemental lighthouses were built to seal it away. After the adventure in the first game, two lighthouses remain, and so The Lost Age sees the quest to light these two and thus return the power of alchemy to the world. The thing is, it's still not known whether doing so will bring forth another golden age or the destruction of the world. In true Japanese RPG style, the game sees players explore vast landscapes, visit an assortment of diverse locations, and solve a host of puzzles, whilst being continually confronted by your typical random battles. Your group grows in size as you meet and join up with new characters throughout the epic journey, each one in possession of his or her own unique attributes and abilities. One of the main sources of power for our heroes is called Psynergy. This is a form of psychic energy that imbues each character with various magical abilities, which can be used both in and out of battles. As well as Psynergy, you can also take advantage of Djinn, which are element-based creatures that you meet along the way that aid you in battle in much the same way as Materia does in FFXII - by offering various different attack moves and summon options via different elemental combinations. The Lost Age delivers over 40 hours worth of gameplay and spans a massive seven continents - quite an impressive offering for the Game Boy Advance. Camelot is an extremely experienced team when it comes to RPGs and it clearly shines through in this title.

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Reviewed by: sillysmilie	Date: 19/07/2006	Rating:
its a good RPG. didnt play the original (despite requesting it first!) but i got the jist. run around fighting monsters randomly and solving block puzzles to get to the next room as u travel around the world collecting little Djinn, beating monster bosses and generally saving the day. i'll admit it tho, i got lost several times and when i couldnt work which country i was meant to be in to progress i looked it up in a FAQ. its also how i learned how to get all the Djinn. if uve played final fantasy u'll recognise the idea. u collect lil monsters who improve ur stats and can be "summoned" to unleash havoc in battle. sometimes u characters will rather have innanely idiotic conversations which u can say yes or no during, usually making no difference to the plot, but sometimes they just wont shutup! and they have annoying highpitched digital screeching voices when they speak (they dont make words, just noise, u still have to read what they say) - but all in all thats probably the games biggest fault, which is pretty good. although sumtimes i thought i was doing my own thing & exploring it turns out i had to explore and go random towns i thought id found by chance in order to do something setting off a chain of events to progress the story, but that didnt compromise the adventure too much. definately worth a go if ur sick of ur usual RPG clones.

Features

Meet and join up with new characters along the journey-all characters have abilities unique to them, and party members come and go as the plot evolves.

Master the abilities of the various Djinn and use them both in battle and to solve various puzzles.

Open a story far more expansive than Golden Sun, boasting a much greater emphasis on Psynergy-based action puzzles.

Find more exciting action outside of the battle sequences than there is in standard, menu-based role-playing games.

Collect Djinn with different abilities and use them both inside and outside of battle, then assign different Djinn to your characters and change their abilities as well.

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