tell us your stories of how you got into golden sun

Got it when I got my GBA, sometime back in 2003/4. Completed that one, heard of a sequel, waited for it to come out, got it, played it. That's it :\

Totally wrong board. But anyway, I just saw it in EB one day, and I bought it. I think 2002.

I saw an ad on TV. Nothing more exciting than that.

that's cool and i got into golden sun by in 3rd grade after i had gotten my game boy advance my friend really wanted to borrow my Spiro season of flame so in return he let me borrow his golden sun. now that was back when i had no idea what an RPG was so i had no idea what to do in the kiloma forest so instead i went backward to vale. i eventually gave it back but the memory never left even after he moved away 2 years later i got golden sun the lost age thinking it was the same as the first. little did i know that it was a sequel so i made it to Lemuria and got stuck. I stoped playing for a while then i bought a used copy of golden sun and beat it. and after 2 years of wandering around in Lemuria i found the staris in Dopa's house. after about a year i beat the second one and it has been my favorite game ever since.

Holy bananas, there were ads for it on tv?

Some friend of mine was obsessed with it at school so I went and bought it, but I actually bought tla first (because it looked badass and I'm retarded). Then when I got to jupiter lighthouse I went back and played the first one so I could have a save file to put in. But then the code was too long anyways so I just didn't bother.

Anyways, I ended up obessed with it, so I went back to school the next year to rant about it with my friend, but apparently he had changed schools so I was alone with an undying need to talk about it. Sooo I joined gssf

One of my friends had it on his GBA and I thought it looked like an awesome game.

I got a GBA myself one Christmas (I'll let you know now I used to be very deprived), and so I bought it. And then a sequel for it came out not long after, so I played that. Don't know what year this was, most likely 2003.

I actually know a bunch of people personally who have played Golden Sun. Despite what people like to say, the game was very popular.

I played the first GS at a friends party several years ago. After that I pretty much forgot about the game until I eventually remembered it for some reason. I wasn't aware that there was a sequel at the that time, so I got the second one by mistake. When I noticed the game opened differently, I went to Ebay and got the first one.

For some reason there are tons more copies of TLA than the original game, which is probably why everyone bought it by mistake. :S

I fell into the same trap. I got GS next Christmas though, so it all worked out.

I got it for Christmas the year it came out.

My story is strikingly similar. Except it happened sometime around '05, or sometime after TLA came out.

Friend had it on his GBA and suggested I try it. I had actually been watching a lot of Ed Edd 'n Eddy lately, so I used "Toast" as my name (yeah, that's where my username came from). Anyway, I played it occaisionally when I went to his house, and then I believe I got an SP that Christmas. Bought the first one used, finished it, bought the second one new, and fnished it sometime later.

And I know of at least three other people besides my friend and I who've played the games. And I got someone else interested in the series back in January/February-ish on a church trip thing (long drive to where we went).

I bought it at Big W cause I could.. It was in the "New Releases" section, and my brother told me to get it..

Lookin' through K-mart, saw a sick lookin' box, said "I want that game!", saved up for a few months, and then bought it. Then bought the sequel 6 years later.

this commercial did it for me

Got the first game played it, liked it a lot beat it.

That ad is so awesome. Even if it has nothing to do with GS until the game appears.

Well, I guess you could argue it's about alchemy... chandeliers coming to life, then turning into a bunch of white roses, red dress turning white, etc...

Ooh, but I don't think there was one archer in Golden Sun, or any bows for sale anywhere. Kind of odd.

I got Golden Sun roughly a month after Christmas of '01. My cousin got it for Christmas, so I decided to get it month later and it completely immersed me. I then got The Lost Age when it came out.

By the way...!MOVED~

Well, you may laugh all you want but this is my story on how I was hooked.

It all started when I wanted to go to my grandma's house and spend the night, I was around 14. I acted on some strange impulse to clean under the cushions of the couch. I found a purple GBA, generic, I know. It had Golden Sun in it. I didn't even know what a GBA was until now. Anyway I turned it on and as I said before I was hooked.

Why the f*** would we laugh at that? And why are you putting your hands underneath your grandma's cushions?

Why does your grandma have a GBA?

Maybe one of her other grandchildren left it there and experienced the worst day of their life. (losing a GBA and GS)

If that was infact the childs worst day of its life then it deserves to die.

I don't remember exactly how I got into it and wanted it, but I bought it while I was at my grandparents' house in the summer of 2002.

I don't remember when I got The Lost Age, must have been in Spring or Summer of 2003.

I also had to buy the original two times, because I lost the first one like forever. I don't have any clue where it went, I searched everywhere. D:

Under your grandma's cushion.

some dude had it and i played it a bunch and i ended up getting my own copy of it. dont think i even knew about the lost age until i saw it at a store, and figured i should buy it.

so i did.

it's strange how things become stuck in your brain though. i haven't played the games in about two or three years and i still remember about every little detail about them.

pretty cool ways to get into golden sun (epically the couch at grandma's house)

IT was actually my cousins, he left slash lost it there. Naturally he wanted it back. So I gave it back and went up to Gamestop an hour or two later and started to play it again on my spaking new SP!

Well this topic caught my eye.

Anyways, my brother let me borrow his GBA and he had a few games. I popped in GS and had no idea what I was doing, but then he let me create a new save game and I started playing it. I'm not sure where I got hooked, I think somewhere around TLA, but I became obsessed.

*fades back into lurking and waits for GS3 news*

My story is pretty detailed on how I got into it.

Me and my brother got Gameboy Advances and 3 games, 1 for each of us and 1 to share. He got WarioLand, I got GoldenSun. I freaked out, because the short commercial showed Issac using Ragnarok, which I had no idea how that worked at the time of course and I thought that was badass!!! Beat the game by the end of December and started the game over again. This time around, me and my brother found out everything about the game and then started the grind to leveling up. I got to lvl 52 with everyone around March and then lost it on the bus. Needless to say I was fucking pissed.

Saved up some money and got it in May, around my b-day, with my b-day money, and got them up to lvl 50 and took a break.

Once GS:TLA came out, I bought it with the money that I was saving up for the band trip to Branson, Missouri and played the shit out of it. The Band Trip was boring as hell, so it was well worth the buy. That was my Sophmore year.

On the last day of my Junior year, I brought my GBA:SP to school and linked up with people on GS and GS:TLA and proceeded to pwn everyone that came my way with my lvl 30 group on GS and lvl 45 group on GS:TLA. I came home from school and found out that someone stole all of my shit, which was 8 games and my GBA, all racking up to over $300 and a shit ton of hours of gameplay lost down the drain.

Got another GBA:SP with the brighter screen and got the first GS because GameStop didn't have GS:TLA at the time. Basically the short end of the version, it was stolen from me by 1 of 2 people that I was living with at the time.

Finally, after getting another GBA:SP used, I found someone on Ebay selling them for cheap with the actual guides which came up to about $30 for all of it.

I now have played the shit out of both of the games and gotten all of the best gear for them that I know of. Going to look at the lists on the GS:TLA subject forum and start building them up like that and see how much they mess Doom Dragon and Dulahan (SP?) up.

So in total, I lost 4 GS's, 1 GBA:SP, and 1 GS:TLA.

Sorry for the wall of text =D

Edit: Reeeeally sorry for the wall of text, it seems I've killed this subject =(

I bought the first game when I was seven or eight thanks to my mom, though it was an impulsive buy-- I just saw the boxart and was like, "MUST HAVE." Ah, the joys of being 10- years old.

Anyway, I bought it, and played it non-stop. I got the second one a few months after it came out, for my birthday, and that's pretty much all there is to say.

2 parallel stories...

1. Definitely remember seeing this commercial and thinking "this looks awesome": TLA commercial

2. I started playing when I was in high school. There was this girl in my English class who wrote GS fanfiction and was going on and on about this game and how she was a "mudshipper" so I got curious and picked up a copy of GS. HOOKED. I injured my knee and was invalid for a month in the summer so I got TLA. We've been in love ever since.

I remember quite a few years back before I even owned a GBA, I saw the older brother of a friend of mine fighting a dragon in some game for the GBA that looked pretty cool (the dragon was the serpent from Izumo, the game was obviously TLA), and I asked if I could play it. Obvsiously his older brother was busy with it, and he's always been a stickler for making sure people play games in the order of the series, so he let me play the original GS.

Of course, I named my Character Tost. I wanted Toast, but I remember not being able to use 5 characters for some reason at the time otherwise it would've been Toast (in reference to Ed from Ed Edd 'n Eddy being obsessed with buttered toast. This is also the birth of my screen name, and what lead to a nickname used by a select few people irl).

Anyway, I played the game as often as I could, much to the annoyance of my friend who wanted to do other things when I visited. He somewhat regretted introducing me to the game, but oh well. :P

I believe I got a GBA SP that same Christmas, along with a copy of Pokemon Crystal (the first Pokemon game I ever owned, also my personal favorite), and some other game. I want to say AW2, but that's probably wrong. Either way, I eventually got my hands on a copy of GS, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I later went out and bought a new copy of TLA, which I beat, and then lost, and then after buying another used copy, found it again. And then beat it again.

I later lost my copy of the original GS, bought another used copy, and beat it a second time. This time, my friend (who originally introduced me to the game) and I got together so we could use eachother's GBA's to transfer data from our GS1 copies to our copies of TLA. After that, I went and beat TLA again.

Having discovered GSSF sometime amongst all of that, I also became a bit acquainted with the password generator. So I went and gave Isaac and Co. the best stats possible, and set them to level one (along with giving Isaac a Sol Blade for a total of two Sol Blades). I then went on to slaughter Dulahan in the most ridiculous possible way by metaphorically *****-slapping him with regular attacks. He was dead within 5 turns without ever switching party members, iirc.

I think I might still have the save file with those mutant adepts. Dunno.


Anyway, upon hearing actual news of a new GS game a year ago, I went back and replayed GS1. Haven't finished grinding to level 4 something yet though, but I also haven't touched it in months. /:

I remember getting an SP for my 11th birthday. I had just gotten some Harry Potter Quidditch game, and I went over to my cousin's house. He just beat the first Golden Sun game and told me to try it out. I tried it and loved it, so we ended up trading games for a while. He got bored of the Quiddich game and asked to trade back, so we did. I knew I had to buy GS1 so I could fully beat it, and I eventually found out about GS:TLA in 2004. Went to Gamestop and bought it for $9.99. I've beaten both games several times since then, waiting for the next Golden Sun to come out.