Golden Sun and its sequel Golden Sun: The Lost Ages are two of the greatest RPGs made for handhelds let alone the greatest in the genre. The story for the games revolve around the basic concept of saving the world but tells it in such a way that it will bring tears to your eyes when its all over.

In Golden Sun, the story follows the path of 4 characters (Issac, Garet, Mia, and Ivan) whose goal is to stop the lighting of the elemental light houses that will allow alchemy to be reintroduced into the world.

In Golden Sun: The Lost Ages, we start with a new cast of characters with the main character (Felix) coming from the same town as Issac, wishing to find him and 3 other characters (Jenna, Piers, and Sheba). Their goal is to stop Issac from stopping the lighting of the light houses, and light them. Sometime towards the middle of the game you finally meet up with the original cast of characters and decide that they must continue Felix's quest to light the rest of the lighthouses in hopes that it will save the world.

The battle system is a tradition turnbased game with a special timing system to do multiple attacks or special super attacks. You can also summon incredible attacks by using your djinn's abilities. 

The gameplay is of a traditional go here and there style. The major difference is that you can and in order to get the special enemy boss fights and secrets have to find and capture the djinns. Each djinn adds something to the character equipped. Some adds health while others attack strength.

The music in the game are a great complication of melodies that fit each stage and battle no matter if your casting a summon attack or just swinging your sword but sadly they do tend to get annoying when you have some of the massive dungeons to get through, especially in The Lost Ages. The sound effects in the game are also spot on.

Graphically both games look amazing for a Gameboy Advanced game. The Lost Ages slightly pushes past the original but thats to be expected.

Overall both games are nearly perfect. The Lost Ages is a tiny bit worse then the original but doesn't fail to deliver what you are expecting. 

Golden Sun:
Graphics:  8/10
Sound: 10/10
Gameplay: 9/10
Story: 9/10
Replay Value: 9/10

Overall: 9/10

Golden Sun: The Lost Ages:
Graphics: 9/10
Sound: 9/10
Gameplay: 9/10
Story: 8/10
Replay Value: 9/10

Overall: 9/10

Dude do not forget about the password, link cable transfer system. It was the first (or one of the first games) where you could transfer the quest of the first game on the second - items, levels, Djins. That made the games even greater.

I like the effort, but we have game pages for this. Just write a review and submit it.

All these are are flame magnets and invitations for people with no spelling/grammar skills to write their own. For the love of God, stop this before it gets any further.

 true, and I didnt rule it out, I dont want to reveal any major bonuses. I did say secret boss fights and having all djinns from both games unlocks a boss fight that makes sephiroth look like a panzy. 

 get lost you nub. I have every right to do this and it wont cause flame wars. You saying that could start more flame wars then me writing a review. 

Don't worry about him ssj, it was a good, well written review, and i agree on most counts

thanks 

Yeah, it's good ssj12, keep it up. Now I want to 'get' Golden Sun.

Now, where was that "we are pirates" flash?

 I have yet to find an emulater that enables transfers of data from another save to another game so I'm hoping just for that reason you "get" the real GBA version of both games, couldnt be no more then 5 bucks each on ebay. lol

Good review SSJ12. You should also submit each review into the Game Database.