Golden Sun Is One of the Best RPGs Ever Made — and the Last of Its Kind

Polygon highlights Golden Sun, a 2001 Game Boy Advance RPG from Camelot and Nintendo, as a rare example of a game that honored its genre's traditions and genuinely innovated on top of them. Per Polygon, the RPG market contracted after its release and later regrew, but largely failed to recapture that balance—making Golden Sun a singular achievement in RPG design.

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