Random: Hey, A Switch Online N64 Game Description Mentions Golden Sun

I never played Golden Sun but I know of it's illustrious reputation. Also, I heard this bomb battle theme (remix) from the game though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF5WeKW8wbI
Would love the play it someday..

Golden Sun is long overdue for the renaissance that Fire Emblem got with Awakening.

Seems like Nintendo is up to something, hopefully an announcement to a remake of Golden Sun 1 & 2 or a collection of that with Dark Dawn would be nice. This year is the GBA's 20th anniversary so it would fit in with that as Advance Wars: Re-Boot Camp and the Castlevania Advance Collection did.

@Specter_of-the_OLED That would seriously be awesome.

Mario Tennis actually impressed me with how close it plays to the modern ones. Pretty good fun especially getting annihilated 6-0 by the hard CPU as me and my brother repeatedly made errors in front of the cold hard stare of Bowser and DK.

I would love it if they went big and got Monolith involved to remake Golden Sun into a big 3D game like Xenoblade.

I’d love to see them remake the two GBA games into one big masterpiece.

That's not the only game from Golden Sun devs on Switch Online. Shining Force was developed by Sonic! Software Planning that later turned into Camelot and started partnering with Nintendo.

Golden Sun was by far one of the best GBA games (excluding ports). Graphic were, for me at least, breathtaking. I would love to see a remake for Switch, but only if they can capture and rebuild the spirit of the original games. If they do something like Natsume did with Lufia on DS, they better not waste time and money on it.

I'm kinda interested in what Camelot works on beyond Mario Golf Super Rush DLC. I'm fairly confident any future Mario Tennis/Golf games will be on Switch 2.

If there is any time for Camelot to be working on a Golden Sun game, it's now.

A remake of Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age on the Switch would be amazing. I wasn't a huge fan of the DS Golden Sun game. So if they leave that one out, I would be fine with it.

If they aren’t going to finish a story, don’t bother.

I so want this game to be revived.
Even if it would be in octopath traveleler style.

@Silly_G Golden Sun is long dead. The dreadful DS version was the game that killed the series. Maybe a full reboot will revive it, but I see the chance very slim.

Would love to see Golden Sun make a return. Not getting my hopes up though but hey if Advance Wars can get a remake then I think there's a chance.

Meh would much rather a remake

I remember playing the GBA Mario Tennis and Golf, then getting Golden Sun several years after the fact. I was absolutely shocked from the text boxes to say the least

One of probably 3 jrpgs I've ever played and only because i happened to have copy of it on gba (can't remember how)... Anyways it was fun, didn't realize at the time I was playing something so special and unique... never ended up beating the bosses damn second form and moved on to other games ... Still kinda salty about it to this day

I don't understand why people go on about Golden Sun so much! I thoroughly enjoyed both games on GBA, but I don't automatically think/assume playing a good game means it should become a series.

Perhaps it's because it already had 2 entries that it gives people hope of more? Seems silly to me. Think of all the games ever made that have had one or two entries across 1 or 2 consoles and have never returned.

Meanwhile, plenty of other RPGs.

Didn't Golden Sun release on the Wii U VC? What's the rumpus?

@locky-mavo a thousand times YES

Camelot has dutifully made Mario sports titles for so long, I reckon it's about time they get one more stab at Golden Sun.

I really like Golden Sun. This is one of the few JRPGs with random encounters where they don't feel overly-annoying. You can mash A to skip animations and blaze through text boxes so quickly, battles aren't long and drawn-out if they don't have to be.
(plus the overall difficulty of the game was pretty low, which helped too)

After playing the Castlevania collection, I'd certainly like to see more classic GBA games come to Switch - especially Golden Sun and Metroid and Fire Emblem.

Never understood the appeal. It felt very cookie cutter to me. Guess it never really clicked with me for some reason or other.

If they port the original games I will be very happy. A reboot of the series would also be amazing, but probably wishful thinking..

A new Golden Sun would be awesome, although I lapsed on the series I'd buy one on Switch.

Honestly Golden Sun is one of my least favourite rpg series I have played so far.

@Specter_of-the_OLED or they could release gba games on switch nso expansion pack as they did with the snes with the base tier. Who knows

Golden Sun is one of the few games i managed to finish to the end. I bought it cause i liked the cover style. Golden Sun 3 was supposed to be a big failure but it didn't sold so bad outside Japan. 800k games sold with over 500k in US. Golden Sun IV on Switch can sell much better.

Just imagine a remake.... It will be glorious

It would be nice if their Saturn and Sega CD titles got rereleased and translated .

Yes please, a remake of the first 2 games would be an instabuy for me. One of the best games I ever played on GBA, so much more challenging than Final Fantasy.

A reboot of the series would be even more awesome. Maybe a whole new story in a new world with new characters.

Just sell me Golden Sun, Nintendo. COME ON

Never played the game but always wanted too

Talk about clutching at straws.

I’d love to see Square Enix handle it with the artstyle of Octopath Traveler.

There are three Golden Sun games, go play them. This is embarrassingly desperate. Not everything needs to be rehashed until the heat death of the universe.

@CovidBarbie not everyone has an older system to play them on, it'd be nice if they were at least ported to the Switch in some way

Wow, what an honor. eyeroll

Gameboy games will be next for the switch online service. Considering they are going in order by systems with the gameboy being released by the last version which is the gameboy advanced which was released in March 2001 while the GameCube was released in November 2001. I would expect with the next two years( after all the N64 titles announced are released and about a year after) for Nintendo to release gameboy games on their service. It will probably follow suit with a new a Switch model probably a Switch Advanced or Switch 4k or even Switch Advanced4k maybe to launch close to or along side it. Nintendo says they have no plans to release GameCube or wii games on the switch online service but those games right now are being released on the store and at retailers. I would expect GameCube games to at least be on the switch online around 2025-2027 though I would say that is 20-25 years after the releases.

Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.

A Golden Sun remake with the 3D/2D style of Octopath is all I want.

Sadly this is not substantial at all. Golden Sun could have been a long-running popular series, but Nintendo completely failed to capitalize on it (with the long-awaited sequel to the originals coming out something like 7 or 8 years after the originals and on a dying platform). They couldn't even give it proper Smash representation, time and time again. But sure add more KI characters, FE characters, and third party characters that have absolutely nothing to do with Nintendo. rolls eyes

I think it's more likely evidence that they're planning to bring GBA to Expansion pack and that Golden Sun would be in the first wave (presumably alongside the 1st party mainstays).

This is coming from someone who adores Golden Sun and would eagerly eat up either a GS1+2 Remaster on Switch a la Advance Wars (or even a remaster in the style of SE's HD-2D series) OR a full-fledged GS4 on Switch. But even if it's just GS1+2 coming to Expansion pass , I'd be a happy camper. I can play them on my GBA or DS, and I can play them on my Wii U, but I'd love them on my Switch with the bells and whistles of NSO rewind and save state features.

They remember GS more than they remember F-Zero...

Well Camelot keeps on making mario sport games so when will they have a chance to work on a new Golden Sun entry?

@CovidBarbie I'd argue that finding a legal way to play them is what lots of people are having trouble doing. Nintendo's back catalog is not exactly widely available.

Don't do that! My heart can't take it. I would LOVE for them to remaster or do more with the series. I loved all 3 Golden Sun games.

Dude, it'd be so sick if they made a new Golden Sun! or a collection of all three games at the very least!

@Harmonie I hear ya. Whilst awesome to have Isaac as an assist, it would've been so cool to actually play as him, so many Psynergy options for moves/final smashes. Why so many damn FE characters hogging slots?