Nintendo Expands Switch Online's GBA Library with Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age

Don't be afraid to backtrack when you learn new abilities, there's a ton of stuff hidden everywhere, including things you can't even see. Sometimes random NPC give you valuable information on how to progress or find a treasure.

If you get stuck, try to use your parties outside battle abilities, there certainly is a spot you missed.

Don't mute the audio, the soundtrack is fantastic and addicting. Put it on loud.

The original games had a world map included each, I found it quite helpful to not get lost in the world map travel. You might want to find them online, best the original, even if it's just a photo, as to not spoiler more than the original game did with it's paper map. It just had you displayed the cities and geography but not more.

Sometimes backtracking can suck, especially if you walk all the way back from x to y through z, but don't let it get you frustrated, it shouldn't happen too often for the main story. Look at it as training, money farming and invitation to test for hidden paths you might have missed the first time. It's always worth it.

Don't expect to 100% the first time, stuff is really hidden well, but in a fair way. The game rewards experimenting by a good bit.

Enjoy and take your time. It's my most favorite game ever.

Don't be afraid to mess around with the class system and try out things beyond the default mono-elemental classes. There's no penalty for changing your class setup every so often, or even after every fight

The second game has a secret dungeon that is unlocked by collecting all Djinns in both games. No Djinn is missable within their own game, but this obviously doesn't apply across games. You can miss 1 Djinn of each element in the first game and the second one will give you an opportunity to encounter them there to help you out, but that's the end of the leeway.

Nah, just go in blind and enjoy the ride :)

NSO is still such a piss off. The only way to back up your saves is by paying. No other console requires that.

It's really one game split into two. There's some new tracks in The Lost Age, but if you weren't a fan of the first OST, the second isn't any different.

The story continues in the sequel and rounds things out a bit more. If I had to pick between the two, The Lost Age is my favourite, but you can't have that without the first.

The story worked well for me as a kid, but every time I tried to replay it, I felt like there was WAY too much dialogue. Not that dialogue is a bad thing, but they were using way too many words to say something, and never seemed to get to the point.

But the soundtrack had a lot of memorable hits. I haven't played the game in more than a decade, but I can still remember a few of the tracks. The GBA itself didn't have the best sound production capabilities, but the compositions in Golden Sun are fantastic from what I remember.

They did fix the N64 emulation issues, but the GBA emulation never had those issues to begin with