Baten Kaitos Origins

This is the second Baten Kaitos game and it's a prequel to the first.

The story happens 20 years before the original and we play as a soldier from the empire. The characters act very funny but then the dialogs ends up being very predictable, the story is very good tough the pace sometimes is a bit slow, very specially the seconds disc that feels a bit too long.

The game is pretty much the same with a few changes, for example:

- A little change is the magnus mixer, now we can mix the quest magnus which gives many new situations to solve (usually as subquests).

- A big change is the battle system, now it plays differently, VERY differently. At first I had some trouble, but once I got used to it I really enjoyed battles and I prefer it over the Eternal Wings one.

It's a bit hard to explain what has changed on the battle system because there are many things, for example we use a common deck for all the characters, can only equip one weapon or armor per character and it's equipped via a card inside the same battle. It's a brand new challenge.

Visually hasn't improved much either, most of the places are the same as in the first game and the new ones aren't very surprising. Still it looks very original and detailed using many animated sprites (or meshes?) over 2d prerendered backgrounds.

I'm a bit critic on some aspects because I'm comparing it to the first game, but overall is excellent and superior to many other because the setup is very original, fun battles and many things to do.

Did I enjoy it? Yes.
I think you will like it if you:
- Liked the first Baten Kaitos
- Like JRPG

I rate my experience with a 8.5 out of 10.