Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Gets The Golden Sun GBA Games

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Nintendo has added Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, available on the Game Boy Advance app.

Both games were originally developed by Camelot Software, spearheaded by a group of siblings who all work in Camelot. Hiroyuki Takahashi and Shugo Takahashi are often credited as their creators.

The games were released in 2001 and 2002, respectively. With that vintage, you’ll probably believe the Takahashis when they state that they conceived of the first game as Nintendo’s answer to PlayStation’s prodigious RPG library.

Because Camelot wanted to be competitive, the Golden Sun games reach distinction for having complex design and gameplay systems compared to its predecessors. Much of the game does match up to what fans are looking for in a Japanese RPG – playing not as a single character, but a multiple character party, dungeon crawling, and random encounters.

But there’s one particular gameplay element, referred to as Psynergy, that makes these games stand out from the crowd. Psynergy is a particular form of magic, which is needed to progress through the game. While some Psynergy spells can be used in combat, other spells are put to use in puzzle solving on the overworld and in non-combat situations. Some Psynergy spells do both

Your main road to progress in Golden Sun is acquiring more and more Psynergy. Some of it you can get as a result of finding specific items. You can also gain Psynergy spells as a natural result of leveling up.

In terms of combat, there is a variety of compulsory storyline battles, and random battles, against a group of randomly generated enemies. Aside from using your regular magic and Psynergy, you can summon Djinn. In the Golden Sun games, Djinn are