Haven't been playing games lately (reading books.. and to some extent still recovering from the sprint of IGF judging) but I didn't have anything written down for Golden Sun. I was looking over the guidebook to Golden Sun at my parents' place last year and I was reminded of what an approachable JRPG series this was for kids! But that aside, what I want to draw attention to is more how much I like (and still like) the field psynergy mechanics. The puzzles are only lightly challenging, but they lend a richness to the world: dungeons aren't just defined by treasure boxes and monsters, but they're physical places with rules and ways to manipulate the environment. Sure, the ways this is expressed is through simple puzzles, but it's still a neat idea that I thought was tied together really well and exciting to discover. The small plant? You can grow it! A secret passage might be there if you cast reveal! Move things around to hop over passages. I would love to see more of this kind of inventiveness on the field in narrative-focused RPGs.
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@sandonoval whoa that's an interesting exposure to the series. I think I agree although it's been forever since playing through either of them - golden sun 1 feels a little slow overall and with TLA they really go all in on the rpg tropes, different psynergies and stuff
bukowski and golden sun 2 biggest personal influences in terms of getting to the meat of things https://youtu.be/fo9CQT3hXu8?t=75
which bukowski novel should ir ead @Sandonoval
post office and a couple of his poems are alright; most of it is about being a gross old man who drinks and jacks off and shits hot beer shits
insofar as american novelists go i prefer vonnegut (bluebeard esp, slaughterhouse 5 goes p hard + inspired a lot of satoshi kons stuff)
insofar as american novelists go i prefer vonnegut (bluebeard esp, slaughterhouse 5 goes p hard + inspired a lot of satoshi kons stuff)
Sandonoval
2 months ago
i played it without any context and i think the experience was better for it