Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean

The Good
>The Graphics<
The graphics are some of the best graphic available on the Game cube hardware and in no doubt beats some of the best on the PS2 and Xbox with-all-due-respect, with the exception of the PAL version few frame judder that occur sometime because of the PAL 50Hz conversion form the NTSC 60Hz North America version that plays perfect.

The Background Music<
If you know true music (scene suiting breathtaking excellent music) then you know Baten Kaitos has stupendous music, soundtracks competing to that of the famous Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy Music composer)

English character voices<
The voice actors did an outstanding job with the amount of heart and soul they put in to reading there scripts.

The game-play mechanics and difficulty level<

The game-play mechanics can become somewhat difficult at first to new comers as it is based on a card system; however, if one puts their mind to it shouldn’t be a problem. The game does become difficult if you don’t concentrate on levelling up so it’s advisable to level up.

The games story: appealing or not<
Baten Kaitos has a gripping storyline that indubitably will have you at the edge of your seat and unwilling to switch the game off.

The Bad
>The Graphics<
The PAL version of Baten Kaitos has a few frame judders that occur sometime because of the PAL 50Hz conversion form the NTSC 60Hz North America version which plays perfectly nothing to major.

English character voices audio<
Sadly because of the data size limitation of the Game Cube game disc (1.4 GB) the voice audio sound quality where down sampled to the point that the voice actors sound like there voice where captured from a long distant phone call, in other worlds like an bottle effect, keep in mind that roughly at the time the Game Cube was launched the PS2 and Xbox already supported full DVD5 (4.7 GB) and DVD9 (8.75 GB) games. However I think it was for the best that Baten Kaitos was released on the Game Cube and this can be overlooked as other points of the game outweigh it however one would hope that Namco re-released Baten Kaitos on the Wii fully uncompressed with added bonus furthers.

The Bottom Line
If you love games and fancy a RPG that has a gripping storyline with stupendous graphic and music at an affordable price then Baten Kaitos is the game for you, I recommend it; I simply loved Baten Kaitos to bits so much so that I had to import Baten Kaitos Origins from the US.

I'll give Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean 8/10 score.