Eternal Wings and Origins differ somewhat in how they implement the card mechanic: the former uses individual character decks and highly variable cards, while Origins uses a single common deck and a more streamlined card experience.Īnother major wrinkle of both games: the player does not play as a character. Rather, numbered cards are played out in a real-time fashion, a little bit like War or Speed. By “card-based,” I don’t mean Magic: The Gathering. The cards, called magnus, are used for inventory, for weapons, for just about everything. What They WereĮternal Wings and Origins are card-based JRPGs. Decade-old game or not, I’ve tried to keep spoilers to a minimum. It was clear that the developers were not against playing the games in this way the last words on Origins read: “The story continues in BATEN KAITOS.” This is a bit like watching Star Wars: Episode III before watching Episode IV there is definitely a chronological connection, but it is a rough one, sometimes lacking in completely smooth continuity. This time, however, I decided to play them in a different order: chronological order, with the newer game ( Origins) first, followed by the older one ( Eternal Wings).
I pulled them up and was astonished to discover that I hadn’t touched either of them since the spring of 2007, playing them in the order of publication: Eternal Wings followed by Origins. The first, Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, released in 2004 the second, a prequel called Baten Kaitos Origins, released at the end of GameCube’s life cycle, just a few months before the debut of Wii.Įarlier this fall, after hearing about developer comments over the future of Baten Kaitos, I decided to replay both games. A decade ago, Monolith delivered two fantasy role-playing epics to GameCube. While X is (apparently) set in a different location from its Wii predecessor, it nonetheless carries on a lot of the ideas that made the first Xenoblade so awesome.īut this is not the first duology Monolith Soft has brought to a Nintendo console. Next week Xenoblade Chronicles X lands on Wii U.
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