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This franchise's dialogue has maybe the most painful combination of being long and dull of anything I've ever played and it's all in the service of such a nothing plot. Golden Sun's story largely felt like JRPG boilerplate, which wouldn't be that bad if it could just get to the point, but instead the dialogue takes like at least 5 times as much time as it should to convey its uninteresting narrative. I don't think the playable cast in this one is interesting or entertaining at all. Some of the other characters are better but anything they set up here doesn't end up panning out to much of anything cool in The Lost Age so it's hard to care much. I guess Saturos is okay?

I like this game's battle graphics, music, and dungeons a good deal and the battle and class systems are "good enough" but I'm pretty "eh" on the game overall and this franchise's story being for me a uniquely significant active detriment is why. I played this game a lot back in the day and on my second time through I made a dedicated save file just past the Flint tutorial so that I wouldn't have to play through the opening again in the future. I don't recall doing something like this for any other game that lacked branching paths.