As I said on the other forum:
Golden Sun needs a tl;dr option.
I mean seriously.
Protip: constant ten-minute dialogue scenes don't make the player understand the story better; they make the player zone out and not understand the story at all.
It doesn't help that Golden Sun's story is always needlessly complicated for such an excuse plot.
Right now I think I just had a dude help some bad guys activate a thing that I promised a tree I wouldn't activate (because another tree said it was an evil lighthouse or something) so that a girl could could rescue the dude's sister from a King that was secretly the first girl's brother so that I can rescue a pirate because I promised another pirate that I would rescue him so that I could rescue the girl from the king.
But see, in order to activate the thing I needed to slap a giant bird, so I couldn't rescue the girl unless I had the help of the girl who wanted to rescue her (who has the magical ability to slap shit), and I couldn't get the girl who wanted to rescue the girl to join me unless I got some musicians to play a song, and I could only get the musicians to play the song by letting one of them seeing me slap a giant bird, so I needed the help of the dude who activated the evil lighthouse later, who has a glove that lets him slap shit.
fucking golden sun