This game is like a Golden Sun turned up to 11

[Grzemek]

Primarily because I don't recall any other RPG where both combat and puzzles were so juicy (yes, Golden Sun combat is juicy to me). Then there are pixel graphics (haven't played many pixelart RPGs in my childhood), main characters tightly tied to elements and element swapping both lore- and gameplay-wise, quasi-Psynergy in the form of using your elements for puzzles, and reaching the core of elemental dungeons.

I know many of the things listed are not exclusive to Golden Sun, but when I stopped and thought about it, CrossCode definitely scratches the same itch that GS did for me.

Obviously there are substantial differences between those games (as one can expect between games from 2001-2003 and 2018), but my point wasn't that the games are the same. Just...spiritually connected?

[lachsen]

Golden Sun might have had an impact on CrossCode, at least I played the games and also enjoyed the focus on puzzles.

[Ghaleon]

Have you played lufia 2 rise of the sinistrels? For the love of god don't play the lufia game on the 3ds.
I liked lufia 1 as well but I don't recall it having much puzzle mechanics in the dungeons.
Lufia 2 is favored by fans though, and I like it too, but I found that after you beat a certain tough boss with a temporary 3 male 0 female party, the difficulty NOSEDIVES, and never quite picks up... or maybe that just happens because I had loot from the ancient cave. Maybe I should play again without cave hopping (but the cave is funn!)

[Grzemek]

Not sure if you're asking me or Iachsen, but I will answer myself anyway :)
Never played Lufia games, only heard the title here and there. I will check it out, been struggling to find something interesting to play recently.

[chaosbringer42]

I hate you for mentioning golden sun, now I have the need to go get them on an emulator -_-. The music and puzzles were so great (one of the reasons I love crosscode as well :D).

[Grzemek]

Keep calm and farm Mythril Silver, brother. Have an enjoyable trip.

[R.Heart]

Oh man, I really, REALLY wanted to love Golden Sun. I made it through the first one, but couldn't get far into 2 without falling asleep. That 'should' have been the indicator that I was done with turn-based mechanics. Except for Cosmic Star Heroine, that game takes everything I hate about old school RPGs and legitimately does something different.

[Ghaleon]

Actually I had a hard time getting into golden sun 2 as well at first. Definitely took me a couple hours to really get a hold of me. I think part of the reason is I just didn't carea bout any of the characters I was playing as, and I didn't like the shabby desert setting IIRC you're stuck in for the first bit.

Golden sun 3 was terrible though, bah.

And yeah Sabotague, I was talking to you. Lufia 1 is a pretty generic SNES era RPG, which I like, but 2 definitely has some interesting puzzle/combat elements, plus a cool bonus dungeon that makes a game onto itself (it's not available until like halfway thru the game though), and some really nice music to boot imo.

[Quelex]

Lufia 2 is an amazing game. I liked it better than Golden Sun.

The rest of the Lufia series if lackluster though.

[chaosbringer42]

Lufia...I should look that up, never heard of it.

[Jindujun93]

Personally, to me it kind of feels like the puzzles of Golden Sun or Lufia matched with the combat of Ys. And as far as I'm concerned, that's a match made in heaven.

[Horoai]

Originally posted by Jindujun93:

Personally, to me it kind of feels like the puzzles of Golden Sun or Lufia matched with the combat of Ys. And as far as I'm concerned, that's a match made in heaven.

Ikr? :D