Indeed the only alternative left for gamers, besides exploring the hacked ROMs of Japanese Super Nintendo RPGs, is to turn to the Game Boy Advance. Venues that provide old-school gamers with their 2D RPG fix are fast drying up as the switch to 3D is all but complete. Yet among RPG fans, who are at heart a conservative bunch and resist change like the old man on the porch with a shotgun, there is a significant faction who maintains that the best RPGs were the old-style games that featured flat, 2D perspective sprite-based graphics. Ever since the polygonal characters and rotating camera of Final Fantasy VII, this pseudo-3D perspective has steadily become the norm in virtually every genre of game coming out on the current generation of gaming consoles. Innovation may come slower to role-playing games (RPGs) than to any other genre, but it does eventually happen. It’s clear that if a fourth game were to happen, its game mechanics and core RPG elements would have to receive a facelift - the story will no doubt be engaging and excellent as always, but those are things that seriously held “Dark Dawn” back."Despite the attractive environment that the game immersed me in, what dawned on me quite early on into the adventure was that Golden Sun actually seems to purposefully conspire to make the process of playing it as mundane and drawn out as possible." We’re past the age of obligatory tutorials and in one where developers have more room to take risks and experiment with game mechanics. The Switch could be a great home for a fourth “Golden Sun” game, and I think the gaming landscape is such that Camelot can make the type of game they and the fans want - if made today, I think “Golden Sun” will find its niche. “Golden Sun: Dark Dawn” ended on a cliffhanger, one that should be resolved. The potential is still there, like many other worthy shelved franchises Nintendo does shockingly little with, as they decide instead to milk well-known franchises like “Mario” and “Pokemon.”
Whether it be its charm, unique sound or the way it plays, “Golden Sun” is distinctly unique from other games in its genre, and given enough development time, care and support especially on the advertising front, the franchise still has the potential to make a smash hit if given another chance. “Golden Sun” should have been allowed to live on, learning from the mistakes of “Dark Dawn” by building off the story of that game, and fleshing out its game mechanics and particularly battle system to the point where it could cater to both casual gamers and hardcore RPG fans. Virtually every one of their franchises has at least one entry that was just OK, if not outright terrible. It was once one of Nintendo’s best franchises and should not have been shelved because one of its entries was met with a mixed response.
Perhaps allured by the haul Camelot’s previous Mario Sports games, the company no doubt thought it would be more financially prudent for them to focus on those games instead of “Golden Sun” - it’s not like the company has any lack of RPG franchises.īut it doesn’t change the fact that “Golden Sun ” deserved better. Not every game needs to be a smash hit - it’s OK for a game to just do OK.
Everything Nintendo did set up “Dark Dawn” for a middling sales haul, and a middling critical reception, which should have been fine.
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