Golden Sun

Game Boy Advance

Modsquad 22 Aug 2022 13:22

Grinding to 40 isn't fun. Anyone defending this saying stop whining clearly doesn't care having their time wasted for for something unfun.

This isn't like gs tla where you can grind the Phoenix revives in the underground tunnel for unholy xp. If there needs to be a level cap for the achievement it should be 30.

Achievements should want you to waste your time, not just simply waste your time.

pyrospade 23 Nov 2022 15:51

Level requirement should be lowered to 30. “Just watch a show while you grind” is a pretty shitty justification, if the challenge here is to watch a show while I mindlessly mash buttons then there’s no challenge at all and this is not an achievement.

MisterGoemon 28 Feb 2023 07:26

Definitely Agree With The Level Requirement Since 40 In Golden Sun Feels Like 99.

Found The Quickest Way To 40 By Entering The Beginning Of The Suhalla Desert With The Best Weapons & Just Kill The First Tornado Lizard On The Right Then Leave And Repeat.

I Found It Faster Than Walking Through The Entire Desert To Kill All 7 Of The Tornado Lizards.

It's Still Tedious, But Faster Overall When You Consider That You Only Have To Defeat A Single Enemy For 620xp Compared To Defeating Groups Of Enemies In The Venus Lighthouse For A Possible Chance To Get Around 1,200xp If You Get Lucky With Enemy Groups.

Hope This Helped My Ninjas! 😎🤙

DirectLinkk 6 Mar 2023 07:48

I did it on the secret island where the pink tornado respawns every time you enter the overworld.

And I can see why the level cap is there because the enemies are WAY stronger now in the arena. After I had all the other achievements I was level 33 and could basically auto attack everything but now it's much harder

Superbegita 27 May 2023 02:50

I have just had it and can confirm for the legel of the ennemies it had nothing to do with their usual countrerpart in the main game i mean. It's doable honestly , hard but doable you have to think cleverly specially thinking that as the battles are in a row you clntinue in your actual stqte you was when you finish a battle.

I think the battle are random , see some boss (kraken by ex)...see one comment of the girl i was ecpecting Dead beard at a moment but no just two random foes..

For the grind , chain the Sahalla desert (after the town) take down quickly all the tornados and when you are about the last part (you have three tornados and after that you have the pink one).

Flee from the dungeon with Issac ! Go out and enter again ! Here we are tornados are here again !

I have notice something interesting that i can confirm too: when you kill an ennemy with whith his elemental weakness WKTH a Djinns and ONLY with a Djinni well you gain some say +25% bonus ex

So tornado lezard comes from 600 xp to 800+ xp

With Flint you can lurder them easily and with enough speed they wont even touch you.

With several hours you can goes from level say 32 to yes 36/37 see more.

It's doable really but yes you have to being cautious foe the arena (give everyone something to ressurect in items

JamesBond 27 Jul 2023 06:07

yeah mate i gotta agree with everyone else the level requirement part really sucks and its the one thing keeping me from completion, it would be much nicer if was just 25 battles any level, especially since you need to import the save in the sequel anyway and being level 40 at the beginning is a little cheaty

KingKherzo 6 Sep 2023 00:48

This achievement lined up well for me. I grinded in Venus Lighthouse as soon as I reached the last level and by the time I got both the Kikuichimonji and the Blessed Mace, my Isaac was level 39. Five minutes later, got level 40, ready to finish everything.

permafrosty 29 Sep 2023 14:38

I grinded by messing around at the top of the lighthouse with turbofire

SolidarityGG 23 Dec 2023 05:31

25 battles at level 30 would be so much better...heck, make it 32 I guess, but 40 is total BS, you have to sit there for hours for mastery before you can even get to the actual skill related part.

LadyNadia 28 Apr 2024 04:30

Yeah, I did the 3, 10 and 15 while in the 20s and then did this at 40 and the difference in difficulty is night and day. It was actually quite challenging with Isaac at 40. Yes the grinding was annoying and tedious, but I will say this is valid content and the level should not be lowered.

GaussLM 28 Jul 2024 23:58

RNG abuse method for farming tempest lizard:

Save and hard reset in front of the tornado on Crossbone Isle.

1. Walk into the tornado and use douse to start the battle
2. First turn Isaac unleash Bane inflicting poison, Mia unleash Mist inflicting sleep, other two defend. Tempest lizard will take 2x 600 damage from poison.
3. Second turn everyone defends, tempest lizard takes 2x 600 damage from poison and then wake up.
4. Third turn Isaac use Flint, everyone else defends. Tempest lizard dies without ever getting to attack.
5. Access djinn menu, hold R and press Select to put all djinn back on set
6. Enter Crossbone Isle and immediately exit to make tornado appear again, then save and hard reset.
7. Repeat

Each cycle should take just over a minute or so without speedup, and nets you 1768 experience points, 8320 coins, and a Potion.

soliunasm 8 Nov 2024 22:13

Through some trial and error I found that if you do GaussLM's method to beat the first Tempest Lizard you can still do up to four runs before having to hard reset making this far less tedious. Five if you're fine with taking minimal damage (We're talking like 40ish on each character) on the fifth one. Before you start you need to have the following turn order in order for it to work out right:
Ivan goes first, Isaac goes second, Mia goes third, Garet goes fourth.

-Fight 1 (GaussLM's method):
Turn 1) Isaac uses Bane, Garet defends, Ivan defends, and Mia uses Mist.
Turn 2) Defend with everyone.
Turn 3) Flint with Isaac and defend with everyone else.

Turns 2 and 3 are always the same across every fight going forward, only turn 1 is different. The moves Garet and Ivan use are Djinn.
Every time you beat the Tempest Lizard you want to immediately set all the Djinn again, enter Crossbone Isle, and leave to respawn the tornado again.

-Fight 2:
Turn 1) Isaac uses Bane, Garet uses Forge, Ivan uses Kite on Isaac, and Mia uses Mist.

-Fight 3:
Turn 1) Isaac uses Bane, Garet uses Forge, Ivan uses Breeze, and Mia uses Mist.

-Fight 4:
Turn 1) Isaac uses Bane, Garet uses Forge, Ivan defends, and Mia uses Mist.

-Fight 5 (You take damage on this one):
Turn 1) Isaac uses Bane, Garet uses Flash, Ivan uses Breeze, and Mia uses Mist.

After the fifth fight set your Djinn, enter and exit Crossbone Isle, and then go to the tornado to save for a hard reset to repeat. Once you have the rhythm down it's roughly 4:30 to 5 minutes and you cut out all that time you would have had to keep resetting.

NoobyFar 17 Nov 2024 00:25

Unnecessary achievement

LotteBlueJays 14 Dec 2024 06:31

Is 40 some sort of cap for the arena or something? The grind to get from normal endgame levels to 40 is extremely tedious for an RPG that otherwise requires 0 grinding.

wvpinball 17 Dec 2024 22:13

This might be one of the worst cheevos on the site.

JMarzyHarris 23 Jan 2025 19:56

I didn't do any of the Battle Mode cheevos until the end, but grinding my endgame team to Level 40 was more difficult than going through the Battle Mode.

Spydu62 15 Feb 2025 09:57

I don't understand what went through the mind of whoever created this success. We finish the game around level 30. It then takes twice as much experience to go from 30 to 40 as it did from 1 to 30. In fact, why did you choose level 40? Why not 50, while we're at it? Grinding to 40 will never be fun. Level requirement should be lowered to 30.

Yajirobe 6 Mar 2025 09:02

The reason this is a level 40 requirement is because that is the threshold for which you will have the most difficult pool of enemies that you could possibly encounter. For example I faced Deadbeard twice. Pretty fun actually.