Baten Kaitos Origins HYPE THREAD!

[Spirit Icana]

Baten Kaitos Origins


Summary

Category: RPG
Players: 1 player
Release Date: Sep 25, 2006
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Monolith Soft and Tri-Crescendo






"Two years ago, Namco surprised RPG fans with its stunning adventure of spiriters, dark gods, and island kingdoms. Now, the game's talented designers have returned to Baten Kaitos with a prequel exploring themes of corruption and betrayal amid the mysteries behind Geldoblame's rise to power, the death of an emperor, the birth of machina, and the return of the oceans.

At center stage is Sagi, a young spiriter from Hasseleh, bent on revenge for the destruction wreaked on his homeland by Emperor Olgan. But, as with any good adventure, Sagi's designs go awry, and his quest becomes greater than he could ever imagine.

To aid him on his adventure is the silver-tongued android, Guillo. Where Sagi brings steel to the game, Guillo brings magic. Rounding out the party is Milliarde, a powerful fighter armed with twin morning stars.

Magnus Cards

Baten Kaitos Origins uses a card-based combat system similar to its predecessor, but a few improvements have been made to allow battles to unravel at a furious rate. Over 600 cards can be used to create the ultimate Battle Magnus deck. Each card represents a weapon, an item, a severity of attack, or a spell. Card combinations are strung together in straights denoted by each card's Spirit Number. For example, if Weak Attack (Spirit Number of 1), Medium Attack and Strong Attack are available to play, you can string them together and watch as Sagi, Guillo, or Milliarde attack with three hits. All sorts of combos can be created, and the more cards in a combo, the more fantastic the attack.

Quest Magnus cards are used to complete side quests and assist the characters in other interesting ways. They never appear in your Battle Magnus Deck, but they subtly influence your defense. You can also mix Quest Magnus to create all new Magnus.

Bottom Line

A twisting, turning storyline. Dozens of side quests. Thousands of lines of voice-acted dialogue that's actually pretty good. 80+ hours of game play. These are the ingredients of a good RPG. Baten Kaitos Origins is a worthy prequel to a terrific game."

-Nintendo.com


Previews:
http://cube.ign.com/articles/730/730644p1.html

GT Video Preview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odzD6YX82wA


Reviews

Famitsu: 8/9/9/8 = 34/40


Magazine Scans (copy 'n' paste these links)

Solitary Famitsu Scan:

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/bk/bk2/pro ... bk2026.jpg


Nintendo Dream 2006 Scan:

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/bk/bk2/pro ... 010806.jpg

A Splash of Color Scan:

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/bk/bk2/pro ... 20805.html

Showing off Characters Scan:

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/bk/bk2/pro ... 11005.html

Another Famitsu Scan:

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/bk/bk2/pro ... bk2003.jpg

First Look Scan:

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/bk/bk2/pro ... 91405.html


Movies/Trailers/Commericals

JP Trailer and Commercials (Click on the Feathered Buttons):

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ngc/gk4j/movie/index.html

IGN English Videos:

http://media.cube.ign.com/media/772/772298/vids_1.html


Music Samples

http://www.team-e.co.jp/products_new/kdsd-00096-98/index


Interview with Hirohide Sugiura

http://cube.ign.com/articles/731/731874p1.html




Baten Kaitos Origins Staff Credits

Producer: Hirohide Sugiura (Monolith Soft)
Director: Yasuyuki Honne (Monolith Soft)
Director: Hiroya Hatsushiba (Tri-Crescendo)
Game Scenario: Koh Kojima (Monolith Soft)
Character Design: Nakaba Higurashi
Music: Motoi Sakuraba


Art/Screenshots

http://media.cube.ign.com/media/772/772298/imgs_1.html

[Diz]

WOW this game looks awsome was the original good never got around to buying due to $$ but if its good i will get both

[Spirit Icana]

Yeah the original was pretty good. It was slow in some places and the voices can get irritating, but it was fun.

This game is going to be better. MUCH better. It's a prequel to the original so you don't need to play both.

[Diz]

Yeah the original was pretty good. It was slow in some places and the voices can get irritating, but it was fun.

This game is going to be better. MUCH better. It's a prequel to the original so you don't need to play both.

Ok I will buy the original as soon as I get money......(christmas) and hopefully get this one at the same time and save till aftre i beat the orginal

[GhaleonOne]

Just curious, but are you hotlinking those from someone else's server? If so, would you mind just setting up links and sourcing the main sites that you're linking those images from? I know most people don't realize it, but that really does tax bandwidth for some sites. I know tons of people hotlink images from LunarNET that has caused major problems in the past.

Artwork looks very Suikoden-ish BTW. Which is a good thing in my eyes.

[Spirit Icana]

Just curious, but are you hotlinking those from someone else's server? If so, would you mind just setting up links and sourcing the main sites that you're linking those images from? I know most people don't realize it, but that really does tax bandwidth for some sites. I know tons of people hotlink images from LunarNET that has caused major problems in the past.

Artwork looks very Suikoden-ish BTW. Which is a good thing in my eyes.

Do you really want them down? I'd perfer to keep 'em up.

[Kizyr]

Do you really want them down? I'd perfer to keep 'em up.

If you're hotlinking them from another site (i.e., not hosting them yourself), then yes, we do really want them changed over into links. KF

[Spirit Icana]

Alright they have been pulled. The links aren't necessary. The images were mere spice.

[GhaleonOne]

You're not understanding the point. You're hotlinking images off a site that you don't own. If you're linking stuff from your own web server, that's one thing, and I don't have a problem with it, but hotlinking someone's elses stuff isn't cool. People have ran my bandwidth up horribly doing that to Lunar images. I certainly don't want my forums to be guilty of the same offense. It's a common courtesy.

[Spirit Icana]

The official site is now up:

http://www.batenkaitosorigins.com/

Only a couple more days to go!

[Benevolent_Ghaleon]

Warning. This isn't a flame on the thread or an attempt to be different. It is merely my opinion.

I don't understand the desire for this. I bought Baten Kaitos for a couple of reasons.

1. I enjoyed the art style.

2. Namco. I bought and beat Tales of Symphonia and it was a masterpiece.

Boy, did i ever regret it. I dislike it for a couple of reasons.

1. Awful voice acting. Seriously, are these people being PAID?

2. A story riddled with predictability and cliches.

[Atticus]

I only played the 1st one I havent goten it yet ....
But I be geting them both
I dont hope its good tho ^^

[Sophia]

I haven't gotten the new BK game yet, but I have played the first one and enjoyed it despite it's awful voice acting and predictable storyline (aside from one very well done plot twist that literally made my jaw drop). I'm looking forward to the new one, and will buy it once I manage to save up enough cash...

[LuNaRtIc]

2. Namco. I bought and beat Tales of Symphonia and it was a masterpiece.


2. A story riddled with predictability and cliches.

Funny you say that, because I thought Tales of Symphonia was a game FULL of classic RPG cliches and rather predictable. I'm sorry, I'm not taking a stab at you. It's just that Tales of Symphonia bothered me and I'm upset that I wasted money on it. xD

[Benevolent_Ghaleon]

2. Namco. I bought and beat Tales of Symphonia and it was a masterpiece.


2. A story riddled with predictability and cliches.

Funny you say that, because I thought Tales of Symphonia was a game FULL of classic RPG cliches and rather predictable. I'm sorry, I'm not taking a stab at you. It's just that Tales of Symphonia bothered me and I'm upset that I wasted money on it. xD

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