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Finished the primary story of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn and I gotta say...

 Plot spoilers+ etc.

...God, WHY the cliffhanger!?!? For the longest time, I was like, "Aren't we forgetting something here? Something that needed investigating and nearly took the life of a friend?" When I finally finish, I'm thinking, well that was a plot hole. Of course the credits sorta leading into thinking otherwise, but dammit, the game seemed kinda short to me, so why couldn't they have just stuffed it into a single game? Was it actually a better idea to aim at Sol Sanctum like the "enemy" wanted? Would that have prevented all this? What happened to Alex? Too many unanswered questions. And speaking of; what was the motivation of these kids in the first place to activate every ruin they entered? I mean, I knew as the player I needed to in order to progress, but weren't their parents clear enough teaching their kids that this whole thing is questionable business? Why did they REALLY need to activate that ruin where you got the grip crystal? I mean, you were passing though some hills, just move on. Did my exploring areas before I was intended to make me miss some plot scene? But I digress.

Also took out Ancient Devil prior to beating the game. While he wasn't necessarily strong, he took quite a bit of time after I learned something the hard way. Last turn before major summon assault. Possess fastest character/healer on team. Unleash Golem Nuke summon on myself followed by Devil Claw summon (finished 10 mins ago; NEVER expect me to remember a name). I'm not dead, but not happy either by the end of that. Because of that, I didn't use Djin for the rest of the battle.

Despite those little moments of being peeved and a few other things, I still think this was/is a very solid game. Maybe my memory is fogging up a few things, but I still think the originals were better. At least for the point the driving force for the exploration. All said, more games like this need to be made. I need more world maps to explore, rather than insta-dungeons.

I plan on wrapping up the extras within the next week or so, depending on when I catch up with certain things.

And yes, I have problems, since before finishing this; I went and jumped into another game. And if you remember, I was RIGHT before the final boss in GSD. Focus issues never really go away...

Anyway, jumped into a game I had bought during the steam holiday sale and have been pleasantly impressed so far. Overlord. It's basically Dark Pikmin with Dark/Light affiliations and added RPG elements. Very fun, and hard to put down, and has lasted a decent amount of time for a game of this genre and I'm still not finished with it. I do think the controls are a bit off for the PC though. I'm often required to mutli-manage the minions, but I have a bit of a time getting them where they need to be without them dieing or me having to drop control to get some baddies off me. Although you won't have to worry too much about that since compared to Pikmin, you are FAR stronger than your minions.

Despite how much I avoid emulation and pirating these days, I also threw Link's Awakening onto the smart phone I got over the holidays for free with a contract. I sold my GBA so I can't play GBC games anymore. BUT I still own the cartridge to Link's Awakening, so I don't think I'm in the wrong in this case. The nostalgia is nice and all, but the whole "no button, just touch" thing is hard to get used to.

Anyway, I have to rise in the morning far earlier than normal tomorrow, so I'll stop going on and on.

this is old, but i am replaying this game, and i must ask if you played the original 2, i did, and when i got to that cliffhanger of an ending, i was actually happy, the game was waaay too easy, and the only dungeon that really pushed the DS to it's limit and that was real fun, was the last one, everything else could have been solved by a 10 year old kid. then again, this game is the continuation of a game that came 7 years ago.

but the first two had much more plot to them, and dificulty too, the only "truly" difficult battle was the darned wizard from GS2, that guy in GS3 wiped the floor with me before the final boss fight.
then i went in with lolsummonrush :S

but the cliffhanger made me happy, hopefully we will see a better story and better dungeons in GS4, not to mention the cliffhanger MEANS there will be a GS4 (there better be goddarn)