Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
After going dark six years ago, 2010 will see a new dawn. Golden Sun DS updates the popular portable Golden Sun role-playing series with an impressive graphical style. This installment follows the story of the…
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Camelot Software Planning, released 28 October 2010 on Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 25 hrs to finish.
What Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Camelot Software Planning and released in 2010. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is a 2010 role-playing video game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. The third entry in the Golden Sun series, it is set thirty years after the events of the first two games and follows the descendants of the earlier games' heroes. Players control characters as they travel through the fictional world of Weyard. The game utilizes gameplay elements pioneered by its predecessors, primarily the use of magic called "Psynergy" to defeat enemies and discover new locations, help local populations, and find elemental djinn which can augment the player's powers.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Golden Sun series
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn is the third of 3 entries we hold in the Golden Sun series. It arrived 8 years after Golden Sun: The Lost Age. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 84 is almost exactly the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Golden Sun at 90.
How it was received
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 79% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 25 hrs.
What it launched against
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn launched on 28 October 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Call of Duty: Black Ops. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Golden Sun: Dark Dawn yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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