Baten Kaitos (RPG)

Naiera >
Så længe de ikke fjerner card-battle systemet, er jeg lidt ligeglad...

FreddiE >
Udover Art Director'en, så er Masato Kato også med på holdet. Han var story-writer på Chrono Cross og er det også på Baten Kaitos.

FreddiE >
Det er de samme gutter der står bag Chrono Cross og Xenogears.

Le Roof >
Fair nok, men det gør det jo stadig ikke noget Monolith udviklet spil...

OK, first talk about the biggest mystery for all people (I think)
don't looks at the cards and treat that is a card battle RPG
it is "almost" wrong
don't treat the cards are the cards, forget those numbers first
one card = one command in traditional RPG
(weapon card(sword, knife) = physical attack command,
magic card = spell command
helmet, armor card etc = defense command )
briefly in a battle, it is seperated in 2 parts: offense turn and defense turn
(offense turn: you attack, enemy defenses
defense turn: enemy attacks, you defense)
during offense turn, you pick one card to attack
in the beginning of the story, you can pick 2 cards in one turn
pick 2 cards means you can attack twice
[later u can attack more times (pick more cards in a turn) when u class up]
next it goes to enemy's attack turn, u need to defense
if the enemy attack twice (pick 2 cards) , you need to pick 2 defense cards to defense
The damage is simple add / minus maths
for example, enemy's attack point is 10 & your defense pt is 5
you get 5 points (HP) damage
If you have no defense card, you are forced to receive 10 pt damages
also you can find that actually when you attack, enemy can also use defense card to defense

OK, talk about the numbers now
numbers = extra calculation
it is easy for you to undertand if you know how to play cards
for example, if you pick 2 cards and numbers on the cards are also 5 (5,5)
you get a pair ( 8,8,8 = 3 cards)
a pair lets you get a bonus % (says 5%), result = (certain damage) x 1.05
the bonus % will be calcaluted in the damage points to enemy (more damage) or defense points (less hurt)
and if the case is (1,2) (1,2,3 or 3,4,5), it makes "straight"
and makes even more extra % bonus than pairs

some of the cards have its own type (fire, water, light, dark, wind etc)
just as other RPGs, fire card makes more damges to ice-type monsters
and less damages to fire-type monsters
there are also some special cards will be created when the cards are
lining up in right order before you pick,
and I am still testing those special combos
there are also some sub cards (like card for healing HP, card for get rid of poison, erc)

The battle system is not complicated, and it is smooth


except the main storyline, there are lots of sub events
some of them that needs to use event cards to finish
(event cards are different from the battle cards
you need to find and collect them everywhere
concept is liked the capsule in Dragon Ball )
for example, a woman has no fire to cook,
you go to other house and walk in front of the fireplace
you pick the fire and make a fire card
go back to the woman and "release" the fire
she get the fire and mission is completed
finished a small sub-event and you get a gift from her
other cases like picking water in waterfall to water flowers etc)

there are lots of extra great stuff
example, some cards will be changed in state when time passed
the green banana card cannot be eaten (heal HP) in the beginnig but you
can use it to attack, later it become yellow banana, you can eat to heal HP
but cannot use it to attack enemy (it will heal the enemy)
later the banana will be over-matured and cannot be eaten
over-matured grapes are poisoned, etc



the story is grand, the world is large
the background is colorful as in Chrono Cross and
the background is animated as in Biohazard remake
The music is TOS, VP, SO style
loading time is almost zero

there are still lots of sercets I dunno
and I need to continue to find it out

forget to say
no money will be dropped after battle
money need to be collected by selling cards in item shop
but normal cards is not worth $
only monster cards worths $$

you have a camera card
during battle, you can pick and use camera card to take monster photo
and one monster card is created
of course more rare and powerful monsters worths more $

second thing is you will not level up / class up automatically
during battle you get exp. points
go to the church and find the father
he will help you level up / class up if you have enough points
my friend doesn't know this, so he is still level 1 and class 1 after 5 hours gameplay

I have to say, the animation of the cloud in the game is so beautiful

yes or no
depends on which FF you compare to
but I am very happy and no problem about the gameplay

difficulty is low
I never die

there is one thing I dun satisfy
there is so few save points
I save the record around each 50 mins to 60 mins