#and discovering that it was all riffing off this ad made it all the moreso but like it is a good diversion

[regallibellbright]

Oh, also:

GOLDEN SUN DUOLOGY DROPPING TOGETHER IN A WEEK!

So I will once again drop The Most Inexplicable Ad Possible In Terms Of Actually Having Anything To Do With The Game’s Contents, But Which Is So Weirdly Awesome The Sequel Proceeded To Directly Reference It.

No one can offer any explanations here. I’m ASSUMING the Crystallux Summon in Dark Dawn wasn’t planned a decade in advance and therefore the causality here is what I laid out? Which would, you know, be sensible. But like it’s such a DEEPLY SPECIFIC and striking design for a minute-and-a-half long ad that has nothing to do with any of this. Also probably super expensive, this was like 2002. Look at those effects. This was for a GBA RPG from the developers who made Mario Sports Games.

There’s not even an opera house in this game and while there IS a dragon, it has nothing whatsoever to do with *gestures* any of that.

It is generally a very awesome game with impressive music though, you got me there.

So anyway, play Golden Sun. It’s good enough to distract you from an epic orchestral battle with their own hall as the wall cherubs come to life and the orchestra launches flaming bows at them while continuing to play until the chandelier turns into a dragon, is tamed by the conductor, and turns into glass shards that turn into a rose? It feels like that?… Like I said. Inexplicable.