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Baten Kaitos Origins

Baten Kaitos Origins takes place 20 years before the first Baten Kaitos game. It explains how the diabolical Emperor Geldoblame rose to power, and it also fills in many details about the heroes from the first…

60 23 February 2006 ESRB T

Baten Kaitos Origins is an adventure developed by Monolith Soft, released 23 February 2006 on Nintendo GameCube.

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What Baten Kaitos Origins is

Baten Kaitos Origins is an adventure game developed by Monolith Soft and released in 2006. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Baten Kaitos Origins takes place 20 years before the first Baten Kaitos game. It explains how the diabolical Emperor Geldoblame rose to power, and it also fills in many details about the heroes from the first title. In addition, players will learn about the origins of the world itself and why the Lost Ocean is returning. The hero, a blue-haired young man named Sagi, was sent to assassinate the Emperor but found the job had been done for him. Blamed for the death, he's now on the run with two friends - a robot named Guillo and a young woman named Milly. In the initial stages, the player's party will progress in a linear fashion, moving from one area to the next along a set path. After…
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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 Origins holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Baten Kaitos Origins launched on 23 February 2006, within three weeks of Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.

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When did Baten Kaitos Origins come out?
Baten Kaitos Origins was released on 23 February 2006 for Nintendo GameCube.

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