by Glenn47 » Thu May 01, 2008 1:56 pm
Have you played Golden Sun? I'm honestly hooked all over again.
For those of you that haven't, let me explain one of the badassitudes of the game. Djinn. Throughout the game you find them, and they come in 4 elements: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water. When you find one it'll usually fight you, you kill it, it's yours. But if you find one in town (usually after an actually challenging puzzle) they'll join right away.
So then in fights it goes like this: You have a Djinn named Gust on your character. You use him in one turn (oh yeah, it's a turn-based battle system) and he attacks for uber damage. Then he's on standby. Next turn you use Zephyr, another Wind Djinn, and he ups your speed. Then on the third turn you can re-use those djinn as a summon, which triggers a sweetass cinema and then every enemy gets hit for shitloads of damage! Then ever turn after the summon, the Djinn reset to your character! (Summons are one of the most badass part of the game, you get 12 of them, and even more in the sequel).
If you don't want to use your Djinn, every one attached to your character gives you a stat boost! And THEN they affect what kind of magic you have! If you attach a wind djinn to Isaac (who is an earth element character) you lose the spells Ragnarok, earthquake, and cure, but gain the spells Astral blast, gaia, and Impact! I like to mix up my djinn on every character and see the weirdass magic I get to use.
Aaaaand THEN! Okay, any time you find a weapon outside of a shop (which is a lot) they'll have a magic attack with them. It'll say "Light Blade, unleashes Rapid Slash" or "Longsword, unleashes Blizzard." If you're using one of these weapons and attack with them you have a percent chance every time for it to say "Bandit sword let out a howl! RAPID SLASH!" and the graphics are shizzy. Like SNES shizzy, but better.
Final tidbit, your magic is called Psynergy, and you'll get new psynergy periodically throughout the game. Push, Force, Lift, Frost, Douse, Growth, Reveal, etc. And every single one of those is used to solve the puzzles in the game, which means you sometimes will get stuck for a while solving something (unless you use walkthroughs, you bitches). Great fucking game.
Great fucking game.
Gil212 wrote:ps. I'm a girl btw
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