History Headscratchers / GoldenSun

** Or maybe he simply doesn't have the PP for long-distance teleporting at the time.

* Konpa Ruins have a way for Kraden, Nowell, and Rief to inside (With with the water puddles and vines), I can understand that they used Cold Snap to get there, BUT don't you need the Ice Queen's Gem to use Cold Snap?
** Kraden mentions specifically that it was Nowell's Psynergy that got them into the ruins, so presumably Nowell knows Frost/Cold Snap/equivalent.
*** Alright. Also, What happan to Frost's Utility? In fact Why did Frost got replaced by Douse?

* Konpa Ruins have a way for Kraden, Nowell, and Rief to inside (With with the water puddles and vines), I can understand that there used Cold Snap to get there up there, BUT don't you need the Ice Queen's Items to used Cold Snap?

* Konpa Ruins have a way for Kraden, Nowell, and Rief to inside (With with the water puddles and vines) I can understand that there used Cold Snap to get there up there, BUT don't you need the Ice Queen's Items to used Cold Snap?

** Because it's not intended as a MeaningfulName. After all, "Isaac" means "he who laughs", and [[HeroicMime we don't really]] [[SilentProtagonist see Isaac laugh a lot]].

** Garet bemoans Isaac's acceptance of the quest, the Mayor berates Garet, the Wise One offers cryptic instructions and advice (including to look for Djinn), partly through the Great Healer, the Great Healer and the other Healers wander off, and Dora and the Mayor decide to send the boys off "Tomorrow."
Nothing in that about not coming back.

*** Because Kraden is [[BadassGrandpa Badfreakingass]].

**** That's not my point, my point is, even knowing this Isaac's party is still willing to go on the mission he gave them, as if the fact that the person who gave them it was a twisted old tyrant didn't come into the equation at all.

**** Completely unrelated, but I remember having a fun time writing fanfic in which Garet was highly suspicious of Babi and kept calling him an evil twit.

**** GameplayAndStorySegregation. But if you want justification, well, it's probably easier to do the proper healing techniques in a calm building then it is in the middle of a field surrounded by monsters, or worse, actual combat. Mia learning Revive is just learning how to do it ''fast.''
***** Or the kid just has the right material... like a bunch of Waters of Life, and that's what he makes you pay for.

**** Above is a good enough explanation, but it's really GameplayAndStorySegregation. Your party has access to Dijinn, so there is not guarantee that Garet hasn't slapped on a bunch of water elementals and Ivan is the party's go to fire starter. Programming all the possibilities probably became a headache.
***** Point of minor nitpicking; no matter what powers you give the Adepts, they remain the same "kind" of Adept.

** Didn't trust that Isaac would [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl choose Sheba instead of the world]]? Isaac doesn't know what the Shaman Rod is for, it doesn't sound as bad as giving over the star.

*** ValuesDissonance also plays a role. If Agatio is anything to by, Proxian warriors are ''very'' imperialistic. The guy wanted to TakeOverTheWorld. It can be assumed that Saturos and Menardi have similar mindsets.

** There's a line of Mind Read dialogue at the end of GS2 which you can only get if you cheat (since you wouldn't normally have Mind Read accessible at that point). I paraphrase heavily, but in it, one of the Proxians refers to the storms at the northern rift clearing up, allowing them to see the "other side."

*** The Wise One never actually tried to ''kill'' Isaac. It was a SecretTestOfCharacter. [[spoiler:Also, the Wise One [[DoingInTheWizard isn't a god, but rather a living Philosopher's Stone]].]] [[FlatWhat Yeah]].

[[WMG:Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]]

* Not really a JustBugsMe, but rather something I'm curious about. What exactly would [[spoiler:the Grave Eclipse]] mean for the Anemos, since we know that there are still people up there thanks to Sheba's existence? Do they just put on extra-strength sunblock, or something?
** One assumes they have buildings they can retreat into.
*** [[ItGotWorse Or worse]], ''[[spoiler:[[KillItWithFire they all burned to death from the moon absorbing so much light]]]]''.

* As much as I loved ''Dark Dawn'', one thing really bugged me. Why do we never get any exposition on what is happening ''presently'' until it's ridiculously late into the story? Okay, yes, we all guessed that [[spoiler:Arcanus was Alex]] but the heroes didn't know that. Neither did they know that [[spoiler:the Umbra Clan]] existed until the last twenty minutes. Seems to me like we could've gotten this information earlier.
** Related to that, why the hell didn't Kraden answer any of the party's questions about what was going on? He'd just go "Oh, I'll tell you later", and it turns out that "later" meant "two minutes before fighting the final boss". Screw you Kraden.

* How did Ryu Kou know that the energy inside the Magma Orb would destroy them all? He'd never even seen it before. Even if it's true, he has no reason to know that.

** 4. When he learns he may soon die of old age (At 150 years old!) he invades another city, kidnaps its Messiah (a 14-year-old girl), and uses her to blackmail the population into working as slave labor to build him a tower atop that city's sacred ruins on the off chance that looking from high up the tower will allow him to see where Lemuria is so he'll have a slightly increased chance of returning, so he can steal more immortality potion.

* To whomever put the new info for Stella, may I please see your sources indicating that she is a member of a new race, as opposed to being from the ''canon village of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Jupiter-Adept werewolves]]?''
** Does [[http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/776/partymembers.png this]] look like a werewolf to you?
** I can't read Japanese, so I'm relying on the word of people who have said that her character description on the site says she is a member of a new race that evolved after the Golden Sun rose. You want to go to the site and take a stab at translating her character description yourself, [[http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/bo5j/character/stella.html be my guest]]. I will gladly concede if you can state otherwise.
*** Also, remember we can only definitively state that which has been given to us. If the site actually ''does'' say she's from Garoh, great. But as far as I know, they haven't said that and so we can't assume it, just as we can't assume that Alex will be the BigBad, or that Karis is Sheba's daughter, or even that -- before it was revealed a few days ago -- the blond man in the blue trenchcoat was Isaac. Even if it seems ''blindingly'' obvious, it would be speculative and jumping the gun, behaviors which are frowned upon in this wiki.
*** But by the same token, assuming she's from an entirely new species would also be a faux pas, which was my point.
*** That's why I ''wasn't'' assuming, I was taking someone's word for it.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqSp-xw6F_M Here's the evidence for the new beast people.]]

* Isaac is directly labeled almost 17 after the prologue ends in the first game ("You're almost seventeen. You're so much like Kyle was when he was young.") The storm was 3 years ago, Isaac looks nothing like the 13/14 year old he should be at that point.

* ...namely, why don't the Lighthouses [[ElementalRockPaperScissors weaken your opposite-element party members]] like Mercury Lighthouse weakened Saturos?

** Because that would be too easy and then you wouldn't be playing Golden Sun now would you?

*** They did try to reason with Vale, as noted by several Proxians in The Lost Age. The Valeans didn't believe that Weyard was decaying and refused to allow Prox to break the seal, so the Proxian party turned to raiding Sol Sanctum.