Why is there so much dialogue? I literally just don't give

>>285347346
golden sun's story is absolute garbage to take in and you need to read an encyclopedia.

A combination of Japanese games (JRPGs in particular) liking to tell you information you already know, and the story being really paper-thin so they just text-dump you so you don't read any of it and assume the game has a more complex story than it actually is.

Or Golden Sun just kinda sucks.

Golden Sun is a shitty JRPG. Go play a better series.

Why even bother playing? It's an RPG that's plot and character dialogue driven. If all you're interested is the turn-based combat system you might as well just bust out an Excel spreadsheet and play with numbers.

>>285347747
A combination of Japanese games (JRPGs in particular) liking to tell you information you already know
>jrpg hero has just lost his love interest, has a sad look on his face, sad music plays, other characters keep their distance while weeping, lighting a set design produces a melancholie atmophere.
>Background characters: "jrpg hero must be so sad!"
>Jrpg hero: "I'm so sad"

>>285348121
Nostalgia. I remember missing a lot of djinn and skipping a boss area. I want to beat the final boss like cake now that I'm older and I want to see what else I missed. That's all really.

>>285348121
Do it yourself pen and paper RPG's are awesome. There are enough charts online to roll up any kind of encounter you want. Just choose a system you like and set out for adventure.

>>285347346

Golden Sun was the babby's first JRPG (at least for a lot of Nintoddlers and as such received a lot of praise. It's actually pretty shit. The whole script is twice as long as the script for MGS2 and you're reading that dialog 5 words at a time since it's on handheld.

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>>285347346
>playing a gba game in fullscreen

>>285348575

I hate this shit.

> Every emotion is over-dramatized to the point where it's not even relatable to real humans any more
>0 subtlety
>Treat the audience like they're fucking retards (though there's a good chance they actually are)

Why do weebs love this shit so much? JRPGs are the video game equivalent of soap operas.

>>285347346
Currently playing this game too. I don't remember the dialogue being long in the intro but at the part I' m at now, the dialogue as reached it's peak. I feel the same way in that I speed it up and it's still too slow.

What's worse is that I enjoyed the gameplay elements a little earlier on in the game but now it's gotten kind of stale. This combination has made me stop playing for the time being as I don't really have a motivation to keep going.

>>285350261
We were young and didn't know better. Yep I'm 30 minutes in and I already feel like quitting. If only I was still a kid and didn't have better games to play.

>All these people with less than 400 WPM reading speed

Are you even trying?

the dialogue is pretty heavy, but you can scroll through a looooot faster than most other games, so it was never really an issue for me.

You play JRPG's for story. Enjoy it man. Its a fun time

>>285347346
It's definitely a nostalgia game, the ds version proved that the formula they used sucks.

The only interesting things about it were the magic shit going on like reading minds and shit.

I honestly can't think of too many other rpgs on the GBA, there's tales of phantasia if you don't mind the botched translations.

>>285347346
I feel this about Okami, I like the game but as soon as I start getting into it there's a new cutscene with infinite pointless, slowly scrolling dialogue.

I tried playing this but the sound is so fucking bad, who thought putting JRPGs on handhelds was ever a good idea?

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>>285350525
For me Golden sun is one of the few games using a classic turn based JRPG battle system. There just are not many of them without some shitty ATB, Tile and what not gimmick

>>285351115
The intro's pretty bad, but at least the rest is mostly skippable.

The game was made to be played in an emulator with autofire.