#goldensun

[kdinjenzen]

Your friendly and fun reminder that I'M A VTUBER!

And I'll be doing a SUBATHON STEAM EVENT starting April 24th @ 2pm PT and we'll making our way through Golden Sun! :D

I'd love to see y'all there!

www.twitch.tv/kdinjenzen www.youtube.com/@TheKdinJenzen

[neshirys]

Venus Lighthouse, the Elemental Lighthouse of earth.. 🌳

It’s another illustration of my Golden Sun background series! I've had this intro scene and other places in my mind for so long and.. ✨

My creative plans were sped up thanks to TandA (InspectorJ) who needed an album cover for his new music release:

🎵 Golden Sun: The Lost Age (Orchestral Arrangements)! Check it -> [here] ! 🎵

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If you’re interested: My social media list and stores 🎨 (this design is available there too!)

[goldensunartinitiative]

Rhy's Dark Dawn 15th Anniversary Zine

Hey, remember how I said you should keep an eye out for Dark Dawn's anniversary (North American release was November 28th) and then mentioned Pillowfort? Well, a longtime artist in the Golden Sun community decided to celebrate by putting a zine together in less than a month, and there were some guest contributors! Including yours truly, Jass Kells (this zine being an independent venture, so don't think that it is affiliated with GSAI if that means anything anymore).

So, you can find the zine for free download here: https://4happydose.itch.io/golden-sun-dark-dawn-zine

Just don't copy, trace, upload, feed to AI, or claim it as your own. Or repost it to another website. Please post the link if you want to share this, nothing more. Credit it's creator, Rhy (AKA Rah, AKA Happydose, AKA RahmenNoodlez) who was a contributor on the Golden Sun Travel Zine back in the day, among many other wonderful pieces over the years.

By the way, the proof of concept images related to Vipershipping are coming to a close tomorrow. While "The Viper's Perfume" will wrap up, do you remember all of those SFW one image story pieces that got previewed? Well, with 2025 almost over, and running those one image beauties through Glaze being an on again off again process...

2026 is the 25th anniversary of Golden Sun being released, so I suppose that's a happy accident. I sure am taking forever to shut down the Golden Sun Art Initiative considering I've been flying solo since the dismissal and then breakup, but next year, expect to see a lot. Just don't expect it here on Tumblr; find GSAI on Bluesky or Pillowfort, unless those platforms also go to hell. Alright, with all that in mind, take care!

[ashiribe]

My BF has started playing Golden Sun. I sketched Isaac because I thought he had a neat design and looked cute

[doodles-of-a-nerd-kid]

i prolly should share these elsewhere, lol

(Reeeeeally wanna draw more Golden Sun stuff,, the series means a lot to me so i should openly express that more)

[jackitk]

I want to breathe some new life into the Golden Sun hashtag but I rarely really had the time to make anything Golden Sun related. So how about some rambling instead?

Do you think the series was better off ending off on Lost Age? Or do you think it was worth the terrible cliffhanger that never gets resolved in Dark Dawn, if it meant we got another game's worth of puzzles to solve, Djinn to collect, and battles to master?

I really dislike the cliffhanger in Dark Dawn, especially since that's essentially been the end to the series for the past 10+ years. But I still find myself leaning towards it being worth it to get to play more Golden Sun. Helped by the hype of "Golden Sun coming back" essentially being a nostalgic memory at this point.

I actually was going to do Dark Dawn as my next playthrough series. But I just couldn't get past the first couple hours of the game. Not out of hating the game, but because it just felt impossible to make videos of decent quaility with how dialouge heavy that portion of the game was. There was so much to explain but no proper place to explain it without completly dismissing the plot and/or just making that portion of the game drag on even longer.

So who knows what I'm gonna do about that? I feel bad that it's the only game in the series I never coveted. But I rarely have time to make videos anymore with shifting my hobbies more towards game development. So I can only attempt to make a video so many times before feeling its not even worth the effort. I've considered streaming it, but I am far from a consistent streamer. So I rather have my streams be more of the one off variety these days. That way you don't have to wait literal years for me to finish streaming a single game.

Point being, I'd love to cover Dark Dawn in some shape or form, but I was having a hard time committing to it long enough to really make anything for it. Being an RPG, it is a large time commitment and I can't just use some "magic Gamecube magic" to breeze through the parts of the game I don't care as much about these days, like I can with the GBA games.

Maybe I'll go back to drawing the characters or something. Tangent aside, Golden Sun Dark Dawn gets a bit of a bad rap. Some of its critiques are deserved. I would consider it the weakest in the series by a bit. But if you are a huge fan of the gameplay loop of the previous 2 games, then Dark Dawn could be enjoyable as well. Would be cool if the games got re-released in some form so that they aren't trap on decade old hardware. But at least I still have the means to revisit these games, even if I'm struggling a bit to get myself to.

[the-art-alchemist]

[starlightmango]

A sketch I did on stream to celebrate the release of Golden Sun on the switch!