Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean

I've played through dozens upon dozens of games and I have never seen a game with graphics like this.

Baten Kaitos is awesome. I was most surprised by how quickly this game drew me in, and it wasn't even the story that captured my interest - it was the setting. [Dec 2004, p.178]

The card system is excellent. It has the random intensity and unpredictability of a real card game mixed with elements of real- and turn-based RPGs.

The wonderful mechanics and aural and visual treats are simply not enough to lift this game above its own lackluster narrative.

When all is said and done, Baten Kaitos does have the substance to back up its style.

If graphics and gameplay are more important to you than story, by all means dive in. [Holiday 2004, p.134]

The fact that it was a card battle game, it could only hold attention for so long to where the system got repetitive, and fighting was a drag after the halfway point.

The best role playing game on the gamecube. The look is simply beautiful and it feels so organic, so alive. Many little details and a colorful presentation are the reason, why it still looks great today. Another big aspect of the game which I very appreciate is it's structure. On Disc one the developers are focusing on the world and the relationships the different island have with each other. The same applies for your characters in your partie. You can see how the relationships developes and I like how the fact, that there is a betrayer in your group changes the dynamic and climate in the group. So Disc one focusses on the world, their rulers, your characters and their relationships. Disc two however, is the part where the story is clearly the main focus and at this point all storypieces and information you have collected before will now linked togehter. i really like how coherent and clever the story is at the end. The end of the game is a beatiful, emotional highlight. Sure you can say the characters are simple cliches and the story itself is nothing extraordinary. But on the other side, the characters are all very likeable, even the villans, and the story is filled with intresting and surprising twists and goes deeper than you migtht think. However my favourite part of the game and the reason, why I rate this 10 out of 10 ist the battle system. I know a round based battle system with cards sounds boring and annoying. Even I was very sceptical. These negative thoughts disappeared quickly, when I have finished my first fights. The battle system is easy to understand but it never gets bored. The exact opposite is the case. You get a ton of new magnus cards and these change over time, so that they lose their original use of and have to be sort out. In the same way some magnus cards becomes better and better over time. Then are cards you only can get, when you use a certain combination of other cards during the battle. So the whole gameplay focusses on the magnus cards and this in a very motivational way. I like to combat in this game to get new type of cards and the system itself has a unique damage system, which motivates you to cause the most damage to an enemy you possibly could. The little flaws are only the micro management. You have to work on every deck of every character a couple of times and the other flaw is the voice acting. It is not so horrible as other reviewers describe it, but you get an idea on which part the budget was low. Thankfully you can turn it out, so it is not much of an issue. Nevertheless, are these flaws only a tiny black spot on a pure masterpiece, which definetly has far more attention deserved as it gets.

J'ai adoré cette aventure le jeux est beau et n'a pas vieillis, les musiques et le gameplay montent crescendo. Mais je le trouve néanmoins extrêmement difficile. J'ai tout de même hâte de faire le 2. 60 heures passer dessus je l'ai fait d'une traître. Je met une note aussi basse car j'ai vraiment galéré. Je ne l'ai clairement pas fait a 100% par manque de temps

Baten Kaitos is conflicted and flawed but still manages to be an enjoyable game. The story is familiar, cliche, and predictable but well written and charming at the same time. The voice acting is horrid but you can turn it off. The environments are often gorgeous but character animations are stiff and awkward. The card battle system is as refreshingly different as it is deep but also flawed and frequently frustrating. The only thing that doesn't have anything detracting from it would be the score, which is solid across the board. Perhaps the best card in it's hand is that it's an actual RPG on the Gamecube. That alone is reason enough for owners of the system (or the Wii) to check it out if they have the opportunity.

Terrible graphics and a weird battle system, most likely reviewed well based on a lack of competition in the RPG category on the Cube.

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