Baten Kaitos Origins
Baten Kaitos Origins

Baten Kaitos Origins

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Every sword strike, every heal and every block in Baten Kaitos Origins comes from a card, and in battle the cards come fast. This prequel to Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean was developed by Monolith Soft with tri-Crescendo and published by Nintendo in North America in September 2006, only weeks before the Wii arrived. It never received a European release, which made it one of the GameCube's last great RPGs and one many players missed entirely.

The Magnus card system returns, but Origins rebuilds it. Sagi, Milly and Guillo now draw from a single shared deck, and turns flow from one character to the next, so a good hand lets you string together long chains of attacks while a bad one forces quick improvisation. Deck-building takes the place of most traditional stat grinding, since the biggest gains come from finding and fielding better Magnus. Some reviewers found the battles long, but the rhythm of reading your hand and chaining combos is unlike anything else in the genre.

The story is set twenty years before the first game, in a world of floating islands under the Alfard Empire. Sagi is a member of the empire's elite Dark Service, and you play his guardian spirit, a voice in his head who answers through dialogue choices. When Sagi and Guillo are ordered to assassinate Emperor Olgan, someone else reaches him first, and the pair are framed and forced on the run. Players of the first game will recognize Geldoblame, and Origins shows how he climbed toward the throne. After the opening hours a ship opens up the world, letting you take on side quests in whatever order you like.

Motoi Sakuraba's score returns too, and its battle theme, "The Valedictory Elegy," was later picked up by the Super Smash Bros. series. Origins finally reached a wider audience in 2023 with the Switch remaster of both games, but that release dropped the English voice acting, which leaves the GameCube disc as the place to hear the story with its original English cast.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2006
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
tri-Crescendo
Players
Single player
About the game

Baten Kaitos Origins takes place 20 years before the first Baten Kaitos game. It explains how the diabolical Emperor Geldoblame rose to power, and it also fills in many details about the heroes from the first title. In addition, players will learn about the origins of the world itself and why the Lost Ocean is returning. The hero, a blue-haired young man named Sagi, was sent to assassinate the Emperor but found the job had been done for him. Blamed for the death, he's now on the run with two friends - a robot named Guillo and a young woman named Milly. In the initial stages, the player's party will progress in a linear fashion, moving from one area to the next along a set path. After playing the game for a few hours, players will acquire a ship that lets them visit areas in the order of their choosing, allowing them to either pursue optional side quests or blast through the main mission as they see fit. Unlike traditional RPGs, where characters gain levels in categories such as strength and agility, the majority of leveling-up occurs by procuring better Magnus cards.

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