Baten Kaitos II: Hajimari no tsubasa to kamigami no shishi (2006) (VG)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Directors:

Hiroya Hatsushiba
Yasuyuki Honne

Release Date:

25 September 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery

Cast

Crawford Wilson	...	Sagi (voice: English version)
Shanelle Workman	...	Milly (voice: English version)
Terrence 'T.C.' Carson	...	Guillo - Male (voice: English version) (as TC Carson)
Maura Gale	...	Guillo - Female (voice: English version)
Roger Jackson	...	Verus (voice: English version) (as Roger L. Jackson)
Dwight Schultz	...	Geldoblame (voice: English version)
Fred Tatasciore	...	Baelheit (voice: English version)
Kirk Thornton	...	Shanath (voice: English version)
Tasia Valenza	...	Valara (voice: English version)
Crispin Freeman	...	Heughes (voice: English version)
Avrielle Corti	...	Nasca (voice: English version)
Robin Atkin Downes	...	Seph (voice: English version)
Dave Fouquette	...	Thoran (voice: English version)
Kim Mai Guest	...	Pieda (voice: English version)
Johnny Yong Bosch	...	Ven (voice: English version)

Also Known As:

Baten Kaitos Origins (USA)

Country:

Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:T

Company:

Monolith Soft

It is okay, but I prefer the original as the fighting here was rather disappointing.

I was not exactly clamoring for a prequel to the original Baten Kaitos, I would have preferred a sequel. Still, I love role playing games so I thought I would give it a try, especially if it still had the uber cool fighting system. Alas, they changed it, and now what was the strength became its biggest weakness for me. You still use cards, but now all your characters use the same limited deck, there is no defensive turn, and even the most weak enemies can be a bother if your deck starts off on a bad foot. The story is rather good though as it does provide a nice back story for our characters and we are at times throughout the game taken even further than the 20 years before we start out at the beginning to the time of the god wars. We join Sagi, Milly, and Guillo on a journey to try and stop the empire from trying to take over the other lands with pro machination. Yes, we go over many of the lands we have seen before and we even meet some of the old characters from the first one, albeit a bit younger. The voices sound better as well, because in the first one the voice actors seemed to be talking through a coffee can or something. This one doesn't have quite the twist of the first one, but there is a bit of twist to be found here as well. If only they had retained the combat system I would have said they were equal in terms of fun.