Turtle Boots

Turtle Boots
In-Game Description
"Boots: Boosts Defense; decreases Agility" (GS) "Boots: Boosts Defense; lowers Agility" (TLA)
Trade Info
Item class	Boots
Buy value	600
Sell value	450
Artifact?	Yes
Equip/Use Effect
Defense Boost	3
Special Equip Effect	Agility x 0.5
Acquisition
• Inspect the overworld forest west of Bilibin Barricade (GS) • Chest in early Islet Cave (TLA)

The Turtle Boots (スーパーかめブーツ, Sūpā kame būtsu^?, lit. Super Turtle Boots) are Boots available in Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age.

In Golden Sun and The Lost Age

In Golden Sun, they can be found in the overworld west of Kolima. The Turtle Boots are quite possibly the worst equippable item in the games, understandable when considering their effect on the wearer's stats. However, they do have a small advantage, as they are the first Boot-class item available in Golden Sun (more boots will not become available until much later). Basically, since Garet is slow to begin with, the player may decide to equip it on him for a little extra defense for a while, but the agility loss is too much of a handicap to keep equipped.

The Turtle Boots in the first Golden Sun are one of the only items found in the overworld.

In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, they are found in a chest in the Islet Cave. In The Lost Age, they are strictly a collectible to sell off for money because, when it can first be found in the middle of that game, the far superior (but still questionable) Safety Boots can be bought much earlier, Safety Boots being like Turtle Boots with more defense and less agility reduction. Even the common Leather Boots you can buy in Madra early on are far better than Turtle Boots, because they have more defense and no agility reduction. One use for them, however, might be slowing down a particular Adept for getting items using the Random Number Generator, as sometimes faster Adepts need to be slowed down so they can strike later to make a particular method work.