Skies of Arcadia down, moved on the Baten Kaitos…
Baten Kaitos, like far too many people these days, is very pretty and appealing at first but gets annoying after you get to know them. I have a lot of gripes about the game. It is card RPG but that isn’t really a bad thing since you still level and have statistics that affect damage and so on.
However, the game depends on elemental damage too much. It is hard to find an attack of defensive item that doesn’t have elemental properties. This wouldn't be a problem, but there are six elements but you can only play three different ones at a time because if you don't, the opposites will cancel each other out and you deal no damage. Compound this with the fact that you get random selections of cards available to you each turn and the cards available to put in the different characters decks (only two characters, the magic users, can even use each others cards also) are contradicting elements.
There is a cool combo damage system, that is completely useless because you are timed in how long you to make a move or you auto pass. It works by using certain number orders (each card is number 2-9) of the same number on the card, with multiple cards. But when you have less than 10 seconds to look over you cards, and the have to pick them rapidly or you skip it just sucks.
Worst of all, the story really does have one enormous twist, but afterward there isn't really one character that looks heroic or valiant. I HATE all of the characters. They are either stupid or annoying stereotypes. Plus most of them are people I would punch in the face in real life, just because they are pricks.
Oh, well worst of al would be the VO, but I don't really even want to call it that. It is horrible. Horrible with an effort I can’t recall ever encountering before.. What I mean is that it isn't bad for lack of effort, because I think they really tried hard to make it as shitty as it is. Fortunately, the best feature of the game is the ability turn it off. I guess even Namco knew how fucking awful it was.
I thought I would like this game, but I'm glad I’m almost done with it, cause the longer I play it, the more it pisses me off.
Baten Kaitos, like far too many people these days, is very pretty and appealing at first but gets annoying after you get to know them. I have a lot of gripes about the game. It is card RPG but that isn’t really a bad thing since you still level and have statistics that affect damage and so on.
However, the game depends on elemental damage too much. It is hard to find an attack of defensive item that doesn’t have elemental properties. This wouldn't be a problem, but there are six elements but you can only play three different ones at a time because if you don't, the opposites will cancel each other out and you deal no damage. Compound this with the fact that you get random selections of cards available to you each turn and the cards available to put in the different characters decks (only two characters, the magic users, can even use each others cards also) are contradicting elements.
There is a cool combo damage system, that is completely useless because you are timed in how long you to make a move or you auto pass. It works by using certain number orders (each card is number 2-9) of the same number on the card, with multiple cards. But when you have less than 10 seconds to look over you cards, and the have to pick them rapidly or you skip it just sucks.
Worst of all, the story really does have one enormous twist, but afterward there isn't really one character that looks heroic or valiant. I HATE all of the characters. They are either stupid or annoying stereotypes. Plus most of them are people I would punch in the face in real life, just because they are pricks.
Oh, well worst of al would be the VO, but I don't really even want to call it that. It is horrible. Horrible with an effort I can’t recall ever encountering before.. What I mean is that it isn't bad for lack of effort, because I think they really tried hard to make it as shitty as it is. Fortunately, the best feature of the game is the ability turn it off. I guess even Namco knew how fucking awful it was.
I thought I would like this game, but I'm glad I’m almost done with it, cause the longer I play it, the more it pisses me off.
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