| Wyrdness said: One franchise I feel needs looking into again is Golden Sun, the Djinn system is one of the deepest as is the story. |
The Djinn system is good and varied in theory, but it's completely undermined by an incredibly unbalanced combat system. The fact that you can summon rush literally every boss in every game makes the whole class system pointless. Why waste your time trying different Djinn/Class combinations when you can just set almost all of them, vomit your summons and watch even the strongest superboss get dunked on in a few turns?
Not to mention Psynergy, which is the main attractive of trying different classes, is mostly useless or quite ineffective against bosses. You are better off just doing normal attacks and hope for weapon unleashes... which surprise surprise, are also broken (Meggido, Legend, Vengeance...).
Djinn themselves are cool for their different effects... but using them will weaken your class. So you end up only using the ones that are... broken. Like Petra, Humus, any Barrier one, the ones that seal enemy psynergy, etc. Relying on Djinn to actually battle is only good in the early game, when your summons and weapons are weak.
That being said, I really want a new Golden Sun game that fixes these problems, as well as the plain characters and the terribly boring dialogue.
Last edited by Vodacixi - on 15 June 2026
