Many of you were heartbroken to discover that the
Golden Sun III news floating around last week just might be
less-than-real. Well, we hate to break it to you, but the creator has 'fessed up to fanning the flames of fan hopes everywhere. Vooks snagged an interview with the fellow behind the fake and asked the question we were all interested in as well: why? Was it a mean-spirited ploy to dash the hopes of
Golden Sun fans? Not at all, says creator Opium. Instead, he hoped to foster discussion about the
Golden Sun franchise and get people showing support for the property in the hopes that Camelot might take notice of just how desperate folks are for a new game. He also timed the fake's release carefully, hoping that with the E3 crush, it would get caught up as just another piece of news without people looking too far into whether or not the screens were real -- and it certainly seemed to work, as we saw
Golden Sun III cropping up all over the place.
As for the how of the thing, Opium cooked up the shots using images from
Golden Sun: The Lost Age in Photoshop, and with the aid of a friend, used ninja
homebrew skills to get the images to display on his DS. The result was fairly convincing ... and if it happens to help prod developer Camelot into getting to work, then we'll have to be wary around trade shows, as other uber fans might just have to follow in Opium's Photoshopping footsteps.
[Thanks, Jordy C!]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-17-2007 @ 2:38PM
wildweasel said...
I think Camelot should make another strategy RPG like the old Shining Force games instead of more Golden Sun.
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7-17-2007 @ 2:56PM
VRTemjin said...
Well crap. I posted in the topic about which game we were most excited about, and I had stated this one... The news of a new Golden Sun got me worked up, and now I'm sad.
I really hope Camelot would make at least one more. I'm sure that there are issues that need resolving from the first two games, and closure is always nice. There were talks in the past-- One for Gamecube, one for the DS translated as "Path of Alex", but nothing ever seemed to happen.
Ah well. I think I'll just go over to the corner and cry now.
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7-17-2007 @ 9:18PM
Saphion said...
Heh... I actually planned to do a similar thing for Phantasy Star Online DS.
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7-18-2007 @ 1:01PM
BPM said...
Haha... "Opium."
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