Baten Kaitos Origins

  • Monolith Soft
  • Tri - Crescendo
  • Yasuyuki Honne (Director, Artistic Director, card designer )
  • Hiroya Hatsushiba (Director, Sound Programmer)
  • Hirohide Sugiura, Katsumi Miyazaki, Shinji Noguchi ( producer )
  • Koh Kojima ( script)
  • Motoi Sakuraba (Music)
  • Japan February 23, 2006
  • United States September 25, 2006

Baten Kaitos Origins (Japaneseバテン·カイトスII始まり の 翼 と 神 々 の 嗣子Baten Kaitos II: Hajimari no Tsubasa to Kamigami no Shishi ) is a Japanese role-playing game. It is the sequel to the 2003 first published game Baten Kaitos: The wings of eternity and the Lost Ocean. Like its predecessor, also Origins was developed jointly by the two Japanese studios Monolith Soft and Tri- Crescendo. Nintendo brought it in Japan and North America in 2006 for the Nintendo GameCube out; in Europe, however, the game came not on the market.

Plot and gameplay

Although Baten Kaitos Origins is a successor, it is in regard to the action to a prequel, since this game 20 years before the events of the first Baten Kaitos. As protagonist of the plot Sagi acts from the Empire Alfard. Some well-known from the previous characters reappear, but are younger. The gameplay of its predecessor was largely taken over, as well as the cards and turn-based combat system that has been reworked in some places and simplified.

Development

Due to the great popularity of Baten Kaitos for the fans, the developers decided to develop a successor. Work on this continued for 18 months. About 50 developers contributed, with Monolith Soft was mainly responsible for the design and tri- Crescendo rather for programming and sound. Yasuyuki Honne held the role of Directors together with Hiroya Hatsushiba. Honne was also graphics director of the game and designed the cards while Hatsushiba programmed the sound. The plot of the game comes from the pen of Koh Kojima Motoi Sakuraba and composed the soundtrack. The producers of the game were Shinji Noguchi by Namco Bandai, Katsumi Miyazaki by Monolith Soft, Studio President Hirohide Sugiura and Nintendo president Satoru Iwata (executive producer).

Baten Kaitos Origins was unveiled by Japanese Famitsu in September 2005. Originally, the title should appear in Japan in December, but was postponed to 2006. At this time the GameCube Wii successor has already been put on the market. As the development of Origins was already very advanced, they decided against a Wii port and left the project on the GameCube. Also, think Monolith Soft the console for a special hardware that you need from scratch conceived ideas and new.

Sales

Since the GameCube for publication of Baten Kaitos Origins 2006 was the end of its life span, the Japanese market launch for the game was bad. It is estimated that the game sold a total of 100,000 copies worldwide; it should have been sold in America 60,000 games. According to Media Create Baten Kaitos Origins in Japan was bought in 2006 a total of 27,000 times.

Reception

For 21 ratings website Metacritic has calculated an average score for Baten Kaitos Origins of 75/ 100 points. Mark Bozon of IGN gave the game a score of 8.3 / 10. He judged the game as graphically diverse and true to the original game. However, the unusual fighting principle make the game not suitable for everyone. Therefore, he could not give a general recommendation to buy the game. Fans of the first Baten Kaitos should look forward to the sequel, because Origins keep at the level of difficulty, offering a better action and a longer playing time. GameSpot rated Baten Kaitos Origins 7.5 out of 10. Bethany Massimilla praised the act, which tell the origins of the Baten Kaitos game world good, and the extent and the card battle system. His main criticisms were of the sometimes very high level of difficulty of some boss fights, the confusing in some places level design and the need to constantly manage his deck of cards.

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