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 Baten Kaitos Origins, released in 2006 for the Gamecube, asks the question that no one was brave enough to ask nor care about : Now that you've seen the end result of Malpercio's rampage, what about how we got there, huh? Don't you want to relive all that cool stuff from the game's backstory, thousands of years ago? ...Wait, hang on. Sorry, I'm being informed that actually this game centers around a big, conveniently-never-mentioned event from about 20 years before the first game. But don't worry! I'm sure that will also be a very cool and compelling story. All jokes aside, Origins is more of Eternal Wings. If you enjoyed the first game, the style, worldbuilding, soundtrack... hell, even the esoteric poo poo like making you a spirit rather than directly playing as the main character (and then subsequently tying how good your draws are to how much you agree with said character via dialogue choices), then congrats! Here's another entire game worth of that. If not, there is very little that Origins has up its sleeve to change your mind. In fact, the only real changes come with the battle system, which has been completely revamped into an ATB system that I personally don't like as much as Eternal Wings', but is definitely easier to understand and use. In addition, the game has ditched the tinny echo effect on the voice acting, so it's actually tolerable to listen to for more than ten minutes at a time. Hooray for small, unambiguous improvements, I suppose. As for me, I have played...most of this game. Not all of it, but enough to feel confident we shouldn't have any issues completing it, especially given its similarities to Eternal Wings. Fedule, as before, is coming into this blind and it would be nice to keep it that way as long as possible. This is *not* a comprehensive LP, as there are numerous sidequests that we will be showing off exactly once and then never again, but we will sample everything at least once and we'll finish all the major quests, at a minimum. Table of Contents Disc 1 Part 1: The Dark Service Part 2: The Emperor's Mansion Part 3: Albali Sandhollow Part 4: Escape from Mintaka Part 5: Chaotic Dance Part 6: Nusakan Thornwood Part 7: Sheratan, the Ageless Village Part 8: Lake Botein Ruins Part 9: Machina Arma?! Part 10: The Sandfeeder's Nest Part 11: The Magnus Town of Sedna Part 12: Greater Mintaka Part 13: The Nihal Desert Part 14: Azha, the Mining Village Part 15: Our First Job Part 16: The Case of the Mourning Mistral Part 17: The Lava Caves Part 18: The Lord of the Lava Caves Part 19: To Clear One's Name Part 19B: The Coliseum Part 20: Sheliak, the Castle Town Part 21: The Cloud Passage Part 22: Nashira, the Fishing Village Part 23: A Royal Rescue Part 24: The Cloudvents Part 25: Cujam, the Ruler's Demesne Part 26: The Recap Part 27: Pherkad, the Ancient Capital Part 28: Cebalrai, the Farming Hamlet Part 29: Lord Rodolfo's Estate Part 30: Nunki Valley Part 31: Zaurak Keep Part 32: Another Mission Accomplished Disc 2 Part 33: The Holoholo Jungle Part 34: Komo Mai, City of Flowers Part 35: The School of Magic Part 36: Opu, the Waterfall Village Part 37: The Celestial Tree Part 38: The Dark Bretheren Part 39: Malpercio Part 40: The Celestial Fell-branches Part 41: The Election Rally Part 42: Heart to Heart Part 43: Vega Building Site Part 44: The List Part 45: The Matar Highlands Part 46: The Nekkar Quietlands Part 47: Seginus, the Eldritch Puppet Part 48: Geldoblame's Request Part 49: The Revenge Tour Part 50: Blast From the Past Part 51: Vega, Machina Metropolis Part 52: The Championship Match Part 53: Tarazed Part 54: The True Mirror Part 55: Tarazed's Core Part 56: The End Part 57: Odds and Ends Artix fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jun 17, 2023 |
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 Part 1: The Dark Service We begin our tale by meeting Sagi, a guy who is having a great first day at work as *checks notes* a professional assassin. I'm sure he'll be fine, these things usually work out great!
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Oct 3, 2022 22:25
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Back in the saddle I kind of miss the lovely voice acting already
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Oct 4, 2022 00:57
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I know just as much about this game as I did the previous one at the start of that LP. That is to say, none. Looking forward to this.
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Oct 4, 2022 07:24
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Artix posted:If not, there is very little that Origins has up its sleeve to change your mind. One thing I would add - the writing/characters/voice acting quality is significantly improved in this game, to the point that the writing was one of the big draws when it first came out.
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Oct 4, 2022 23:30
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I bought a used copy of this game in 2009 and have yet to actually see if this discs work. So I'll be watching this for sure!
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Oct 5, 2022 01:20
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Oh gently caress I loved this game and its card battle system as a kid. Guillo the puppet is simultaneously voiced by 2 black va's: TC Carson, who is the voice of Kratos and voices mace windu in videogames; and Maura Gale, whose only other work was voicing fortune from metal gear solid 2. https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Baten-Kaitos-Origins/Guillo/
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Oct 6, 2022 02:02
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If an emperor allows something called the "dark service" to exist outside of his control you might as well just behead yourself and save everyone the trouble.
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Oct 6, 2022 23:25
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Yeah, "as you know, we in the Imperial Dark Service don't work for the Emperor"...so why are we Imperial again?
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Oct 7, 2022 00:36
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Part 2: The Emperor's Mansion Despite all odds, the mission goes exactly according to plan and Sagi gains the trust and respect of all his new co-workers.
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Oct 7, 2022 23:20
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Even with how quickly they died those nameless scapegoat soldiers actually lived far longer than I thought they would.
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Oct 8, 2022 21:13
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Huh, turns out the Captain is voiced by Richard Epcar. I was wondering why the briefing made me think of Ace Combat.
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Oct 9, 2022 01:42
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Cooked Auto posted:Huh, turns out the Captain is voiced by Richard Epcar. I was wondering why the briefing made me think of Ace Combat. Alternatively, the Dark Service's unity is forged on falsehood, and its cards are an instrument of deception.
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Oct 9, 2022 14:25
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Part 3: Albali Sandhollow Following the events at the mansion, Sagi finds himself...somewhere. Just another great experience that working for the Dark Service offers!
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Oct 10, 2022 23:31
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Artix posted:
who could have forseen this sudden but inevitable betrayal. Though Sagi's peons also being set-up and not in on the scheme is almost interesting
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Oct 10, 2022 23:57
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In case you have yet to look it up and/or forgot after doing so: Seph is voiced by Robin Atkin Downes.
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Oct 11, 2022 04:52
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C-Euro posted:I bought a used copy of this game in 2009 and have yet to actually see if this discs work. So I'll be watching this for sure!
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Oct 12, 2022 02:45
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Honestly I am already over the dungeons in this game 
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Oct 12, 2022 04:33
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Part 4: Escape from Mintaka Our business in...wherever that was complete, we're back to our own terrible situation. Thankfully, we meet a nice, helpful fellow who shows us a way out.
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Oct 14, 2022 23:15
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So, is the theoretical essence of yesterday's news always yesterdays news? Like, if you wait a day, does it stay the same (thereby becoming two days ago's news) or remain the concept of news from roughly 24 hours ago?
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Oct 15, 2022 03:55
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Lustful Man Hugs posted:So, is the theoretical essence of yesterday's news always yesterdays news? Like, if you wait a day, does it stay the same (thereby becoming two days ago's news) or remain the concept of news from roughly 24 hours ago? Since "yesterday's news" is turn of phrase this would depend on if a magnus understands the concept. The magnus may also hold the fundamental essence of old news in general. if you release that, does someone just learn some old news they hadn't heard before? Do they suddenly get a feeling of "oh I already knew about that" out of nowhere? We need to know!
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Oct 17, 2022 01:14
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the cards understand that milk eventually turns into cheese, so it knows about physical freshness, but is the conceptual essence of the concept of information freshness also understood by the cards in the same way?
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Oct 17, 2022 18:25
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Part 5: Chaotic Dance You know him, you love him, it's your boy and he is here to gently caress you up.
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Oct 17, 2022 23:43
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Just as a minor note, you might've left the game audio a bit too low while editing. Can barely hear the music and the voices are just a tad bit more audible than that.
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Oct 17, 2022 23:56
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Yeah the next couple are kinda quiet because of a recording mistake but they get better after that. Doesn't help that the next major area has a really understated bgm that I genuinely couldn't tell was playing half the time.
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Oct 18, 2022 12:06
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Hey its jerkomo Guessing hes not proud of his abs yet to have them on display
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Oct 18, 2022 13:31
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Giacamo kept his taste in hats. Anyways looking forward to the child inexplicably present with the evil people turning into the final boss.
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Oct 21, 2022 03:41
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Part 6: Nusakan Thornwood A smarter protagonist might be more concerned with the walking bundle of red flags that calls herself Milly, but that's not really Sagi's style. He's too busy thinking about those beans.
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Oct 21, 2022 22:59
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Part 7: Sheratan, the Ageless Village The empire's assassination squad is hot on his heels, so Sagi flees to the one place they will never find him. *checks notes* His hometown?
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Oct 24, 2022 21:40
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In which All of the JRPG hometown destruction flags are raised
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Oct 24, 2022 22:30
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I hope you master baten kaitos origins
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Oct 25, 2022 00:09
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Part 8: Lake Botein Ruins I don't know if we can really qualify what this dungeon has as "puzzles" but...well, it tries?
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Oct 29, 2022 16:09
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"You know, they're really leaning into this Milly is a traitor thing, I wonder how long it's going to be before the Baten Kaitos Twist and we find out she's really the hero and those kids are leaking info to the Empire?" *Quick glance over a plot synopsis* "Huh. Well done, writers, would not have ever called that." This thread's going to get fun
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Oct 30, 2022 13:37
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Its going to turn out that one guillos voices is the traitor
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Oct 30, 2022 15:46
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A fight you have to win so you can lose in a cutscene so you can win in a cutscene. There's probably at least one step you could cut there.
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Oct 30, 2022 20:14
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Part 9: Machina Arma?! I am required by law to link Iconoclasm here to make sure that you get a full listen to the best boss theme in the game.
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Oct 31, 2022 22:00
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Speaking of Metal Gear (?!) any time a bunch of soldiers start ineffectively shooting at something many times larger than themselves I can't help but start thinking "WHOOOOOOOOOOOO?!"
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Nov 2, 2022 01:52
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Part 10: The Sandfeeder's Nest Sure, these creatures are invulnerable to your most powerful magic... But uh, did you guys try like, stabbing it? Just a thought.
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Nov 5, 2022 15:28
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You may have been thinking of Salazzle towards the middle of the episode.
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Nov 5, 2022 16:40
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I really need this game to comment on how despite the other dream (for lack of a better word) characters not being able to see Guillo and Milly they must have seen the worm react to getting hit by nothing.
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