Recently, the Internet spawned a rumor amidst all the excitement of E3 that a sequel to the heavily under-appreciatedGolden Sunseries was coming to the Nintendo DS. Like fish on those tiny, delicious fishflakesJoystiq,GoNintendoand other sites pounced, working furiously to spread the news as quickly as their tiny, malformed hands could. That night, their heads filled with gumdrops and thoughts of handheld RPG action, many children went to bed happy. Sadly, as is so often the case, those children were all idiots.
Vooks.net— Australia’s answer to descending from criminals and rapists — has an interview up with the perpetrator of the hoax, a member of their own forums, a fellow who goes by the obtusely ironic name ‘Opium’. It seems that Mr. Opium created the clever faςade to convince Nintendo that the series had a large fanbase and that we actuallywantto see moreGolden Suntitles.
I’d like to say he’s a jerk, or some other form of condemnation, but I totally agree with the guy, and obviously his rumor was convincing enough to attract the attentions of people whose eyes have glazed over from years of photovoltaic abuse.Golden Sunis almost completely forgotten in light of all theFinal Fantasy’sandDragon Quest’s, and in a world where the most striking thing about Nintendo’s E3 showing wasthe same technologythey employed in the Power Pad, that’s truly a shame.
