Quick Strike is a standalone Jupiter-aligned physical attack Psynergy in each game in the Golden Sun series. Though it is introduced in Golden Sun, it is hardly intended to be used in normal play in that game in particular because it is only available at Level 40, far above what the player's party would be expected to have reached by the end of the game (within the ballpark of Level 30). It is exclusive to the Samurai class series, which can be reached by arranging Djinn on either a Venus or MarsAdept so that their elemental profile is a rough blend of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. Quick Strike is significant for offering an extremely solid and reliable damage multiplier of x1.8 without involving randomized chance, whereas weapon unleashes can only randomly proc when the Attack command is selected. The high natural Attack ratings of the Samurai and its improved Ronin class ensure that the user can consistently land a strong blow every turn for a fairly efficient cost of 12 PP. In the later games, the damage can be optimised by giving the Ronin a Darksword, which is noteworthy for its peerless base Attack stat but does not have an ideal endgame-tier Unleash effect otherwise.
...that while each of the first four party members in Dark Dawn (Matthew, Tyrell, Karis, and Rief) are the offspring of each of the four party members from the first Golden Sun, the later four party members (Amiti, Sveta, Eoleo, and Himi) are all the royalty of their respective nations?
...that the Signal Whistle, an enemy-only consumable item used by Briggs in his boss fight in The Lost Age to summon a Sea Fighter minion, technically executes an ability named "Clarion Cry"?
...that the Halt mechanic works on Djinn in The Lost Age the same way it works on people in both games - as in, when you use Halt on a Djinni and then interact with it, its face portrait will appear while it says "..." before returning to normal?
...that a small underground body of water in the tunnel underneath Mikasalla can be removed with Parch?
...that Golden Sun is one of the games referenced by Gulliver in Animal Crossing for GCN, in which he says he retrieved an item from the Karagol Sea?
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