Baten Kaitos Origins

[LunarWeaver]

I think the story will be better than the first Baten Kaitos', it's pretty interesting to me so far, though I'm not all that far yet, so I can't really say. xD The character development is also better than the first's, even this early in the game I feel like I'm really getting to know the characters. And yes, the voice acting is much better than the first game's. There's some weird ones mixed in, but overall the voice acting is either good or at least decent.

Oh good I'm glad to hear the first impression is good. I heard Sagi speak a little in some gameplay videos and he sounded tolerable at least, so that's always a plus.

I really hope the plot doesn't end up revolving around collecting artifacts again =P

I adore being able to use Sagi's wings, I just keep on using them everywhere! xD You got alot faster, and now you don't have to climb stuff, you just fly on up/down!

I'm pretty happy with it, and I find it sad not very many people will play it, since it's pretty fun so far. But it's a great sequel/prequel to Baten Kaitos, and I shall rejoice if they decide to make a 3rd one.

Me too! These games deserved much more coverage. I think Nintendo intended them to explode with popularity or something, because the sequel was almost cancelled and the DS game went into a frozen state pretty fast
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I'd love to see another on the Wii. That would actually be a big selling point for me. Using the Wiimote to click on cards and their numbers is like a perfect match!

Yeah, since I won't see a BK thread again for awhile, I rambled more than normal. xD Sorry.

No no, I thought you were really helpful Thanks for the info!

never played the first one, I was turned off by the whole "card" system

I think this turned a lot of people off. I know cards are associated with kind of being cheesy these days, but the system really is nothing like the norm. The cards only represent your attacks, and I suppose they chose cards for plot reasons and because stringing the numbers of the cards together in certain ways gives you damage bonuses.

Try and think of it like... If Chrono Cross called them "cards" instead of "Elements", it'd still be the same exact thing. Not that the two share a similar battle system necessarily, but just saying that the card aspect is really only visual and it could easily be renamed something else like "techniques". Er, if it wasn't part of the story anyway.

The only thing I disliked aboot it is the voice overing... they should have had the option of muting it or something

Yeah, the voice acting in the first one was terrible ;_; I'll be very happy if it's better this time.

Actually, in the menu you can turn off the voices. I think it's under "audio" or something like that... it will say Voices and scroll down to a mini-menu of "on" and "off" ^_^

I own the original Baten Kaitos but never got around to actually playing the damn thing. I did check it out really quickly though and to be honest the beginning kind of bored me. It did have some pretty pre-rendered graphics and the battles were kind of fun. I just hope the story picks up later because it was pretty slow.

There's a nice twist in the middle, but most of it is about collecting special Magnus. Which is basically collecting crystals like you have in a million RPGs. The plot is good enough to keep me interested personally, and I liked most of the characters (mute them and save yourself the pain). There's some good moments scattered in there, but it's nothing amazing either =/ They really should have worked harder on that whole aspect