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Yallam's Swamp
- Why can't you solve Yallam's problem about the swamp drying up? During the first game, the characters walk around saving people from turning into trees, clearing mountain passes and what not, why is it that here, no explanation is given as to why the swamp dried up?
- It's sometimes suspected that the swamp is a leftover of some cut content, since it's so long considering the end reward.
- Nobody cares about Yallam, not even the creators themselves.
- There's also the fact that the planet's ecosystem is completely out of wack due to only two of the lighthouses being lit plus all the centuries of the world eroding away. Lighting all four lighthouses may have fixed the problem... or made it worse depending on how weather patterns are affected. Regardless, it's not like there is any elemental rocks around that you can mess with/fix to help the swamp.
Contigo conversation
- This conversation in Contigo;Isaac(to Felix): Why did you wait so long to tell me? I would have helped you...Kraden: You wouldn't have done it before, Isaac... It would have meant violating the sacred teachings of Vale.
- While this would imply Isaac is not destined to save the world unless he's aiding Felix, Kraden screwed over by saying this earlier on;
Kraden: Felix betrayed his hometown, Vale... That's why he hasn't been able to face Isaac. Felix had hoped to play the villain alone, without getting Jenna or the player involved...- which basically means Felix has already did the same thing as what Isaac is not supposed to do. This raises another question of why did Felix did not bother explaining his motives to Isaac after the latter killed Saturos & Menardi at the first place.
- That's not really so difficult to understand: Vale's sacred teachings are that the Lighthouses must NEVER be lit, lest Alchemy be released once more upon the world. Felix, having been to Prox, knows following those teachings would mean The End of the World as We Know It, but being from Vale recognises (or thinks he does) that Isaac and co. would never believe him. So he puts on his Loner Archetype cape and tries to shoulder all the work, while hoping Isaac and co. won't catch up in time.
- Also, Felix openly admits that Isaac and company killing Saturos and Menardi means he's too weak to fight them. To explain to the other party what is really going on means that Felix has to get close to them... and Isaac is willing to kill people to achieve his goals (even if Saturos and Menardi technically committed suicide). Felix would be putting both his life AND the mission at risk trying to talk to Isaac. If he can't talk Isaac around, there would be a fight and one of the two parties was bound to die. Since Felix hadn't seen his friends in three years along with Saturos and Menardi actions making them all out to be villains PLUS Felix thinking it's all up to him now... yeah, it was too risky.
Sequel location
- Where the hell is Golden Sun DS going to take place? You've already been everywhere in all Weyard!
- Did you get Golden Sun 2 in its complete form, as in, with the little map of Weyard? Take a good look—there are clouds all around it. Weyard could very easily be a very, very tall mountain over the clouds of a bigger world. The fact that you have a flying ship makes the fact that we'll be traveling down even more plausible...though, to admit, it doesn't confirm anything.
- Not to mention the Golden Sun I+ II world is pretty damn big. Given a few decades, there's plenty of time for things to have changed drastically all over.
- Weyard is a Ring world. You'll notice that parts of northern Angra and parts of Tundaria are both obscured in clouds, but do not end in Gaia falls.
- Instead, they end in the world eroding into a void. You see this at the Mars Lighthouse (and it's actually a plot point that you have to relight the beacon quickly or else the lighthouse will fall over the edge)
- Weyard is like a coin, with a different world on each side.
- Apparently, the next game will feature the Golden Sun characters' descendants, and given The Legend of Zelda's take on shifting landmasses over time...
- The continents might even start growing back to the way they were on that map in Lemuria.
- Teasers for Dark Dawn pretty much confirm this, saying that new lands and countries have arisen since the original games.
- And maybe, just maybe, they'll finally resolve that Moon/Anemos city/where Sheba came from subplot.
- There's a line of Mind Read dialogue at the end of GS2 which you can only get if you cheat (since you wouldn't normally have Mind Read accessible at that point). To paraphrase heavily, but in it, one of the Proxians refers to the storms at the northern rift clearing up, allowing them to see the "other side."
Alex fleeing
- Alex at the very end. Did he just... forget he could warp, or something ? Okay, maybe he's got a Power Limiter like, he can only warp somewhere he's already been, but he could definitely flee the crumbling mountain, especially when''he's got about 90%-limitless power. Why can't he warp anymore??!
- We don't know how that power is quantified. More likely than not, without 100% of the power of Alchemy, the Wise One can still negate your power and trap you on a mountain.
- There's the impression that he was too badly wounded from the Wise Man's attack to warp.
- He's just been shown playing around with his shiny new powers a lot. He drained himself out of PP. (Thank you, other Troper who mentioned PP earlier on this page.)
Mt. Aleph crater
- Mt. Aleph is a volcano, right? So why doesn't it have a crater? Alex was most definitely standing on a peak during the credits.
- Erosion doesn't happen evenly; there might have been a spire or something for Alex to stand on, overlooking the crater.
Healing Karst and Agatio
- 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 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 way seeing 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?
- One guess is that because Felix and co wouldn't have finished off Karst and Agatio and that in turn Karst and Agatio would not stop. Healing them and letting them go running off towards Prox ensures the two teams don't kill each other. And where does it say he knew they wouldn't be able to activate Mars Lighthouse? (Mars Lighthouse being a final exam dungeon is either gameplay story segregation or The Wise One rearranged things for his "test". On that note the reason Karst and Agatio failed was because The Wise One was working against them not because of the puzzles and Alex clearly had no knowledge of the Wise One's involvement given the ending.)
- Alex barely made it to the top of Mt. Aleph to gain the power of the Golden Sun. He may have let Karst and Agatio loose in the hope that any delay or conflict that occurred would give him time to make it to the summit. Why speed up the process of Mars being lit when he had to hull ass across the world and climb a mountain? Even for someone of his supposed power, he needed as much time as he could get while still assuring the lighthouse would be lit.
Felix and the Jupiter Stone
- Why does Felix have the Jupiter 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. It's understandable 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? Things would have made much more sense if Alex had the Jupiter Star and gave it to Felix and co in Champa when he pressures them half way through the game.
- Maybe Alex said something like, "Hey guys, you should really give that there Jupiter Star to Felix, even if he turns against us I can still make him do whatever I want."
- Saturos probably gave the star to Alex just before they entered the fight with Isaac in case they lost. Alex then passed it to Felix because there was no way in hell Alex would have any more luck on a Lighthouse that wasn't his main element. Plus, this may have been Alex's way of getting Felix to trust him just enough to do his bidding. Being a lighter shade of gray goes a long way to make someone do what you want.
- Maybe it was a choice between Alex and Felix? Saturos may not trust Felix, but he seemed pretty confident he could take Felix in a fight, whereas even if Saturos could beat Alex, Alex might warp away with the prize yet again.
Dullahan alignment
- Is Dullahan Jupiter or Venus aligned? If it's the former, that explains most of his physical attacks but then he is also weak to Jupiter (Jupiter and Venus are supposed to be super effective against each other). If it's the latter that explains the Charon summon and several death curses he has access to but why is Call Dullahan Jupiter-aligned?
So where is Isaac's boat?
So what did happened to the boat that Isaac and co received from Babi at the end of the first Golden Sun game?
- The headcanon is that it was swept up by the tidal wave as well, wrecking it and stranding the crew somewhere in Gondowan. Isaac and co., with no way to actively pursue Felix and co., decide to head to the Jupiter Lighthouse to head them off there. They hitchhike a ride on a boat, make their way to Hesperia and by the time they are there, Felix and co. arrive.
