Baten kaitos gameplay series#

IвЂ™ve long considered this to be the best RPG on GameCube, but it had also been a long time since IвЂ™d played it. My old Baten Kaitos Origins gameplay save.

One of them was the endgame, which felt a little forced in the past but came out somewhat better this time around. Even some of the areas I thought in the past that were weaknesses graded out better on this playthrough. From start to finish itвЂ™s a polished, well-paced, gripping adventure, marked by great characters, even better settings, and some spectacular plot twists. The Prequel - Baten Kaitos OriginsДЇirst off, my 60-hour playthrough of Baten Kaitos OriginsВ did nothing to change my conviction that it is the best RPG on GameCube. In other words, the games are at once novel but also familiar. As a result, the protagonist will often break the fourth wall and address the player.Д«eyond those differences, most of the games are usual JRPG turf: teenage protagonists, sidequests, inventory, weird animals, you name it. Instead, the player assumes the role of a guardian spirit that advises the main character. Eternal WingsВ and OriginsВ differ somewhat in how they implement the card mechanic: the former uses individual character decks and highly variable cards, while OriginsВ uses a single common deck and a more streamlined card experience.ДЄnother major wrinkle of both games: the player does not play as a character. Rather, numbered cards are played out in a real-time fashion, a little bit like WarВ or Speed. By вЂњcard-based,вЂќ I donвЂ™t mean Magic: The Gathering. The cards, called magnus, are used for inventory, for weapons, for just about everything. What They WereД®ternal WingsВ and Origins are card-based Japanese role playing games. Old game or not, IвЂ™ve tried to keep spoilers to a minimum. It was clear that the developers were not against playing the games in this way the last words on OriginsВ read: вЂњThe story continues in BATEN KAITOS.вЂќ This is a bit like watching Star Wars: Episode IIIВ before watching Episode IV there is definitely a chronological connection, but it is a rough one, sometimes lacking in completely smooth continuity. This time, however, I decided to play them in a different order: chronological order, with the newer game ( Origins) first, followed by the older one ( Eternal Wings). I pulled them up and was astonished to discover that I hadnвЂ™t touched either of them since the spring of 2007, playing them in the order of publication: Eternal WingsВ followed by Origins. The first, Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, released in 2004 the second, a prequel called Baten Kaitos Origins, released at the end of GameCubeвЂ™s life cycle in 2006, not long before the debut of NintendoвЂ™s famed Wii.Д«ack in 2015, after hearing about developer comments over the future of Baten Kaitos, I decided to replay both games. Almost 15 years ago, Monolith delivered two fantasy role-playing epics to GameCube. Notably, this is not the first duology that the Xenoblade developer, Monolith Soft, has brought to a Nintendo console. (There is another game in the franchise, Xenoblade Chronicles X, that released on Wii U, but it is not in the same storyline.) This week marks the first time that both games in this story arc are on the same system.

Baten kaitos gameplay series#

A masterpiece of a game originally released on Wii back in 2010, Xenoblade Chronicles is the first of a two-game series that concludes with Xenoblade Chronicles 2, which was released on Switch back in 2017.

This week Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition comes to Nintendo Switch, an enhanced, updated port of one of the greatest role playing games IвЂ™ve ever experienced. I also have an outline of an interquel between the two games, which you can see here. This new version includes an updated introduction that includes information regarding the current state of the developer, as well as a couple of added gameplay videos. AUTHORвЂ™S NOTE: This piece is adapted and updated from a post I originally ran over at Nintendojo back in 2015.