Golden Sun
Camelot were once a PlayStation developer. Then Nintendo took them under their proverbial wing and helped them create Mario Golf, possibly the finest golf game in existence. They then followed this up with Mario Tennis, possibly the finest tennis game in existence, and Camelot's greatest achievement to date, ranking them alongside the genii at Rare and even NCL's very own EAD division. To go alongside both their N64 games, Camelot have produced a Game Boy Color title. And now, they've turned their attention to Nintendo's new Game Boy Advance.
Golden Sun is an RPG of the kind much needed by Nintendo at the moment since Squaresoft decided they'd be better off making games for inferior systems (hehe!). Little is known of the game's storyline. It seems to concern the adventures of a young boy (as so many RPGs do) who sets out to save the world from the technology created long ago that has, for some reason best known to itself, decided it would be fun to go berserk and start killing people. The game is a very traditional Japanese RPG with plenty of "talky-towny" scenes and a proper turn based combat system.
Despite our doubts when we first reported on Golden Sun, the game has now been confirmed as a definite western release. Nintendo have obviously noticed how popular RPGs are over here nowadays. It could be very good, judging by Camelot's perfect Nintendo developers' record and past experience with the Shining Force series...
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