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Aug 02, 08 08:09AMHera
Hell to all, I am Twilight. In a act to get this forum a bit more active I have created a info thread for all those who are thinking they want to buy this game. Now I bet your asking, "Why would I want to buy another RPG game?" The reason is simple: This game holds a RPG base style that includes the base style of Final Fantasy and Kingdom of Hearts put together. A card based style of fighting, with actions modes as Final Fantasy does.
Now to get to the real information.
Baten Kaitos Origins was released in America on September 25, 2005 by the makers of Tri-Cresendo and Monolith Soft for the GameCube.
Baten Kaitos Origins takes place 20 years prior to the events of the original Baten Kaitos. The main character, Sagi, works for the Alfard Empire in an elite unit, the Dark Service, that reports directly to a powerful politician, Lord Baelheit. He is joined by Guillo, who, while resembling a Paramachina, or mechanized puppet, is actually sentient and animated by magic. At the start of the game, the unit is given a dubious assignment to assassinate Emperor Olgan, although the ultimate source of the order is unclear. Before the two have a chance to actually carry out or reflect on the morality of this act, Olgan is killed by a third party. Blamed for the murder, Sagi and Guillo are then forced to flee. During their escape, they encounter a giant beast called an Umbra, which Guillo has been mysteriously programmed to defeat. While trying to leave the city, they meet up with the third member of the party, a young woman named Milly. The three of them must work to clear Sagi's name while trying to uncover the nature of the threat caused by the maneuvering of Alfard's various power-hungry politicians, as they work under Alfard's Quaestor Verus.
The overall theme is that of a struggle between pro-magination (the power of hearts, wings of the heart, and magic) and pro-machination (mechanical) forces.
A key plot point in both games, Origins expands upon the idea of magnus and wings of the heart via the sub-villein Wiseman. Every human has two parts to their being- a corporeal body, and a spiritual magnus. Every person has a different color magnus, just as every person has different wings. The only characters with known Magnus colors are Xelha, Gibari, Lyude, Savyna, Mizuti, and Kalas; with the colors red, blue, violet, green, yellow, and no magnus respectively. The exception to the wing rule is seen in Cujam, since many people have identical white wings. The logical assumption, therefore, would be that white-feathered wings represent a vacant soul that is controlled by another, as in Kalas' case, and thus that wings are also a representation of individuality.
