Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean

An original roleplaying game for Nintendo GameCube from the team behind Xenosaga. The game makes heavy use of cards for everything from fighting battles to purchasing items. Cards are actually a central part…

80 5 December 2003

What Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean is

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean is a card & board game game developed by Monolith Soft and released in 2003. It was published by Namco. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The existence of Earth, a planet of continents surrounded by deep oceans, has long become a mere legend. People live now on islands which are floating high in the skies. They also have wings - "Wings of the Hearts" - growing on their backs. Kalas is a young man who was born only with one wing - he replaces the second with an artificial wing manufactured by great masters. He is on a quest to find the murderers of his grandfather and his brother. He meets a girl named Xelha, who is out to stop an evil conspiracy that threatens the country, and they join forces against the newly appeared evil.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 66% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean launched on 5 December 2003, within three weeks of Need for Speed: Underground, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly and Manhunt. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Need for Speed: Underground, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, Manhunt.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer