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Everything between these two lines will show up - The Ancient Devil is an optional boss that appears in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. It is found at the end of the expansive maze of rooms in the Otka Island dungeon that can only be accessed once the Sol Blade has been acquired from Apollo Sanctum at the end of the game; thus, while it can technically be reached if the player leaves Apollo Sanctum right after picking the sword up, most players will go to this in a postgame save file. It guards the summon tablet for Catastrophe, thus allowing the party to summon that after the Ancient Devil is defeated, and it is one of the more significant optional bosses in the game for reasons beyond being able to freely summon Haures against the party on a given turn. It is the only enemy in the Golden Sun series that can possess any one of the party's four currently battling Adepts at a time, thus turning them into an enemy that the player must fell in order to place their body back among the player's own ranks. Therefore, much of the Ancient Devil boss encounter can feasibly force the player to use only three Adepts. A possessed Adept can potentially use the player's own Standby Djinn to perform summon sequences against the party. (Read more...)

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