Golden Sun 2001

Is it still worth playing?

Camelot Software Planning's 2001 role playing game for the Game Boy Advance, about teenagers called Adepts who protect the world of Weyard from alchemy. You control a cast of four characters as they quest, talk to others, battle monsters and gain abilities and equipment, exploring towns, caves and dungeons from a top down perspective. Their magic is called Psynergy and comes in four elements: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury. Environments often hold puzzles that use it, such as pushing logs into rivers to make bridges, and you can return to earlier places to finish puzzles you could not solve before. An optional arena mode lets you pit a saved team against computer enemies. Puzzles solved with magic, in places you can return to with new powers, still give exploring a reward of its own.