Back in 2001, Nintendo released a fairly gorgeous commercial for Golden Sun — however, for all its glitz and glamor, it wasn’t exactly packing in the coherence department. A giant crystal dragon, totally wrecking shop in a jam-packed opera house? We don’t remember that in the original Game Boy Advance RPG. As it turns out, there’s a reason for that: That sequence wouldn’t make it into the franchise until this very year, with the release of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn.

Check out a comparison of the commercial and the (slightly spoilery) clip from Dark Dawn after the jump — just try not to think about why it took almost a decade for the translucent dragon to arrive. Was the commercial just prescient or something?

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