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DjinniShineBattle

Shine when used in battle

Mars djinn Shine is a Mars Djinni found in Golden Sun: The Lost Age, and is numerically the sixteenth Mars Djinni in the games' official Djinni ordering and thus the ninth numbered Mars Djinni of The Lost Age.

Location[]

DjinniShineOverworld

Using the Force Psynergy that can only be acquired in a password-enhanced game of The Lost Age, Shine will pop out of this tree stump.

Golden Sun: The Lost Age: Shine is hiding in the upper left hollow tree stump in Contigo, and is brought out into the open via the Force Psynergy. This Djinni can only be obtained using the Force Psynergy, which requires the Orb of Force to have been transferred via Password from the first game. If the game file is saved after Isaac's party joins, but the Orb of Force is not present, it will be impossible to acquire Shine without a hacking device.

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn: Shine is one of the six Djinn that Isaac and Garet loan to Matthew and Karis while in Tanglewood, meaning that the player may use it while exploring Tanglewood, the Abandoned Mine beyond that, and the Tangle Bloom boss fight at the end. After this, Shine and the other Djinn are permanently returned to Isaac and Garet for the rest of the game.

Description[]

When Set, it increases base HP by 9, base Attack by 3, base Defense by 3, and base Agility by 2.

When Shine's battle effect is used, a holographic image of a Mars Djinni briefly backs up while emitting several beams of light at various angles, and then charges through the target. The target is hit by a Mars-based attack equal in power to the user's normal physical attack with an additional 60 damage points added to the result, and then for each enemy on the enemy side (not just the target) there is a chance it will be afflicted with Delusion.

Ability analysis[]

Golden Sun: The Lost Age: If the player doesn't permanently miss collecting it, Shine can be the party's most damaging Mars Djinni, but only for a very brief period of the game - the next Mars Djinni that can be collected, Fury in Magma Rock, obsoletes Shine, and is a contender for the best Mars Djinni in the game, simply because it has a set damage bonus of 70 as opposed to Shine's 60. Fury's own side-effect - a chance to inflict Haunt on the target - is roughly as irrelevant to play as Delusion. Even with Fury out of the picture, Shine may still be less useful as an attacking Mars Djinni than Char and Scorch, identical Mars Djinn that, while dealing 50 set bonus damage, deal the much more useful Stun status condition.

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn: In the short period of time Shine is available to Matthew and Karis in Tanglewood and the Abandoned Mine at the beginning of the game, Shine's damage bonus is astonishingly powerful, dealing around 90 damage when Matthew would be doing a "strong" 30 damage with each of his physical attacks otherwise. Shine, like Sap, scores a one-hit KO on any enemy and makes the Tangle Bloom encounter at the end go by much faster, but unfortunately it is taken away from your possession immediately after this. In the main game, there are more and stronger Mars Djinn that can be collected, especially when Eoleo joins, so Shine won't necessarily be missed.

Name Origin[]

A shining object is one that emits light (such as a fire) or reflects it.

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The Lost Age: EchoIronSteelMudFlowerMeldPetraSaltGeodeMoldCrystal
Dark Dawn: BarkBrickGearsFurrowGarlandPewterChasmChainBuckleCloverMagnetIvyHemlock
Golden Sun: ForgeFeverCoronaScorchEmberFlashTorch
The Lost Age: CannonSparkKindleCharCoalRefluxCoreTinderShineFuryFugue
Dark Dawn: CinderLavaBrandGlareWrathChiliGlowStokePepperSizzleFlareAurora
Golden Sun: GustBreezeZephyrSmogKiteSquallLuff
The Lost Age: BreathBlitzEtherWaftHazeWheezeAromaWhorlGaspLullGale
Dark Dawn: JoltVortexDoldrumSiroccoWispPuffFleetSwiftSimoom
Golden Sun: FizzSleetMistSpritzHailTonicDew
The Lost Age: FogSourSpringShadeChillSteamRimeGelEddyBalmSerac
Dark Dawn: SurgeMellowClawDewdropTorrentCoralSpoutTeardropPincerFoamGeyserShell
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