#BATEN KAITOS GAMEPLAY FULL#
#BATEN KAITOS GAMEPLAY TV#

The main character of our story, Kalas is one of those characters who teeters between being a lovable jerk and being just a jerk. As this is an LP, I will do my best to hand over the Guardian Spirit role to you guys, so that you can at least get a partial sense of how the game attempts to involve you personally both as the player and as a character in the story.

The characters will occasionally interact with you and you can choose between two responses - what you say will have a minor dialogue effect, and will also impact your relationship with Kalas (which in turn affects how often you get the Guardian Spirit superattacks in battle). The game does away with the fourth wall by making YOU a character! You see, you play as the main character's Guardian Spirit, a creature watching from another world who can observe and, to an extent, interact with the Baten Kaitos world. Now, let's have a look at the characters! Regardless, I must say that you just haven't experienced Baten Kaitos: EW&tLO until you hear how horrible some of the voice work is. Apparently they wanted to simulate the fact that you, the Guardian Spirit, are from another world so you can't really hear the characters properly or some bullshit like that (though that may be an excuse and it's really just bad quality. This may actually deliberate on the creator's part. Furthermore, the character's voices have a horrible tinny quality to them. From what I understand, all of the voice work was actually done in Japan, so the VAs are Japanese people who happen to know English. Well, maybe not as bad as rumor would have it - I personally find the main characters decent enough - but some of the VAs are spectacularly awful. You may have heard about Baten Kaitos' voice acting. There is one other thing I want to discuss before we continue.

#BATEN KAITOS GAMEPLAY TV#

So if you wanted to move from one home to another, you could just trap all of your furniture in Magnus and only have to carry over a deck of cards instead of a bed and a couch and a TV and a computer and so forth.

Basically, every object has a 'Magna essence', and cards (called Magnus) have the ability to store the Magna essence of an object, essentially making cards equal to hammerspace transportation. Incidentally, cards are another setting point - not only is the battle system based around cards, but they are also an acknowledged and utilized aspect of the Baten Kaitos world.

#BATEN KAITOS GAMEPLAY FULL#

It's actually more fun and much better executed than you might expect, although it still can be frustrating about, say, giving you a hand full of armor cards when you need to attack. It's card and deck based, you see - instead of choosing simply to Attack or Defend, your characters are dealt a hand out of a deck you set up for them, and you pick which cards out of that hand you want to use. The battle system, however, is not quite so normal. Overworld stuff is still pretty standard fare - you've got your wall'o'text NPCs, your fetch quests, dungeon crawling, etc. The gameplay is also a bit of a departure from the norm. I feel that the game does a great job of creating interesting and fantastic areas and generally creating a world that I would love to visit personally, and that's a large part of what I think you ought to see. In the world of Baten Kaitos, people have what are called Wings of the Heart, which come in all shapes and sizes and allow people to fly moderate distances. There are five primary islands, as well as a couple of other little spots. Baten Kaitos takes place in a world where people live in the sky, on islands floating above the now-tainted earth. There are actually two Baten Kaitos games - the other, Origins, is a prequel that was released in '06, which takes place twenty years prior to this one.īaten Kaitos has several features which distinguish it from your average RPG (or even JRPG), but the main thing that draws me to it is the setting. Let's Play Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean!īaten Kaitos: EW&tLO is a Gamecube exclusive role-playing game, brought to us in 2003 by such big names as Monolith and Namco, with a brilliant soundtrack developed by the good people of Tri-Crescendo.

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