History Headscratchers / GoldenSun

** Nobody cares about [[ButTMonkey Yallam]],not even the creators themselves.

* In the desert, why couldn't Mia, who is shown to be able to summon ''ice'' at will, just cool the party off? They never said the oasis were magic, so why couldn't she just summon ice to remove the heat?

* In the desert, why couldn't Mia, who is shown to be able to summon ''ice'' at will, just cool the party off? They never said the oasis were magic, so why coulden't she jsut summon ice to remove the heat?

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* Why does Felix have the Jupitar Star from the outset of the game? Saturos clearly didn't trust Felix so why give him the super important artifact that was necessary for their entire quest to succeed? For better or for worse he seemed to trust Alex. I understand how he might be cautious and only want to bring the right star to the top of the tower especially when predicting a fight (he admitted he left the stars with Menardai at Mercury Lighthouse) but why hand it over to the member of their party that is actively being black mailed and showing signs of rebelling? Thins would have made much more sense if Alex had the Jupitar Star and gave it to Felix and co in Champa when he pressures them half way through the game.

* In Jupiter Lighthouse, why did Alex heal Karst and Agatio? He knows that Felix and co. are the only ones who can solve the lighthouse puzzles, and the recent boss fight clearly proves that K&A aren't powerful enough to strong-arm the party to finish restoring Alchemy, which they already have more than enough reason to keep doing (parents hostage, world dying, etc). Since he has no goal keeping K&A alive serves, the best explanation I can think of is to take him at face value (that he's doing it so that the Proxians won't hurt the families held hostage) but if so they really should have made that clearer; the only I see to support it is that he seems to care about Mia if you mind read him, but given that he's otherwise manipulative, callous, and power-hungry, this humane side of him begs to be investigated. Is there another explanation for his behavior, and if not, why did Camelot ignore an interesting opportunity for exploring Alex's conflicting desires?

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** That's just the elements themselves, as far as anyone's resistance, that varies from individual to individual. Dullahan and Deadbeard both resist Mercury both one is weak to Jupiter and the other to Venus, for example.

* In Jupiter Lighthouse, why did Alex heal Karst and Agatio? He knows that Felix and co. are the only ones who can solve the lighthouse puzzles, and the recent boss fight clearly proves that K&A aren't powerful enough to strong-arm the party to finish restoring Alchemy, which they already have more than enough reason to keep doing (parents hostage, world dying, etc). Since he has no goal keeping K&A alive serves, the best explanation I can think of is to take him at face value (that he's doing it so that the Proxians won't hurt the families held hostage) but if so they really should have made that clearer; the only I see to support it is that he seems to care about Mia if you mind read him, but given that everything else about him screams "power-hungry megalomaniac," this humane side of him begs to be investigated. Is there another explanation for his behavior, and if not, why did Camelot ignore an interesting opportunity for exploring Alex's conflicting desires?

* In Jupiter Lighthouse, why did Alex heal Karst and Agatio? He knows that Felix and co. are the only ones who can solve the lighthouse puzzles, and the recent boss fight clearly proves that K&A aren't powerful enough to strong-arm the party to finish restoring Alchemy, which they already have more than enough reason to keep doing (parents hostage, world dying, etc). Since he has no goal keeping K&A alive serves, the best explanation I can think of is to take him at face value (that he's doing it so that the Proxians won't hurt the families held hostage) but if so they really should have made that clearer; the only I see to support it is that he seems to care about Mia if you mind read him, but given that everything else about him screams "power-hungry megalomaniac," the regretful side of him begs to be investigated. Is there another explanation for his behavior, and if not, why did Camelot ignore an interesting opportunity for exploring Alex's conflicting desires?

** Apparently, the next game will feature the Golden Sun characters' descendants, and given TheLegendOfZelda's take on shifting landmasses over time...

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*** 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.

*** [[AWizardDidIt Psynergy did it]].

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* Did anyone else think that TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter with Himi?

** Jenna named Matthew.

*** Yeah, they mention it's Tret in the training grounds. One of the signs you can read for prompting specifically says to burn away Tret's anger so his nice side will show again, or something like that.

*** Visitors are mentioned, and it's mentioned that the Vale residents have to keep Psynergy a secret from them. Psynergy is such a huge part of their lifestyle that one would think it hard to hide from visitors, especially with that huge honking crystal in the middle of town, so maybe everyone's creeped out by the apparent LittleTownWithADarkSecret.

*** Probably because everybody in Vale is keeping some kind of weird secrets, and it bugs the visitors too much to stick around and try to pry it out of them. Presumably Kraden's been around for years (his house is present during the prologue) and has earned their trust.

*** It's also possible, since the attempted negotiations with Vale happened before the events of the prologue, that Saturos and Menardi were not specifically the ones doing the negotiations-- presumably their diplomat was one of those killed in the failed attack on Sol Sanctum in the prologue.

*** Actually, I think it just has something to do with the Proxian ''race'' as a whole. Extreme cold is shown as being extremely debilitating to them in their town. Given that the Mercury Lighthouse is in a frozen region, and Saturos was ''literally'' standing next to the beacon during the fight, he was probably suffering some kind of extreme frostbite. Garet doesn't have that problem because, being from Vale, he's "human" than the draconic Proxians.