| Baten Kaitos |
[27 Apr 2007|07:21am] |
Baten Kaitos. I have plenty to rant about with this game, so before I start, let me stress that I REALLY REALLY like it. But there are a few little things that leave me foaming at the mouth.
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Baten Kaitos Intro scene
http://www.youtube.com/v/8hd4mrXC_K4
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Let's start with the voice acting. I could have done without it. There are few games where the voice acting is SO BAD. Pretty much I had to laugh during all the serious scenes (and I was crying a little too). Let's face it, you could play this game in mute and not miss much (except for everything said that's highly important in the cut-scenes). When I first started playing it I had a hard time getting invested in the characters, simply because they sounded so...fake...and hilarious. You try taking Gibari seriously when one of his attack cries is, "Here comes the wallop express!"
Lyude is particularly bad, I think his voice actor was near death when they recorded him. He has a weak voice that doesn't carry a lot of emotion, which doesn't work at all, because he's a pretty emotional character. And he fights with HORNS during battle and cries out (unemotionally), "You shall not escape!" and other things like that.
Mizuti is just plain annoying. They were going for mystical but all I got was ear-bleeding. Jeebus! If I could mute just one character, it would be Mizuti. I think they had to kick his voice actor repeatedly in the nuts to get the high voice they were going for.
So, overall, voice acting sucks pretty damn bad.
Next thing to rant about is how...tedious...the game can get sometimes. I can clearly remember running my ass off talking to one person who told me to talk to another, who told me to talk to another who told me to talk to the person I first started talking to, and by this time I'm completely lost and don't know how to get back to person number one. Also, you can't progress in the game if you don't talk to all the right people, so you spend a lot of time talking to EVERYONE. It gets annoying after awhile. Pretty soon I was screaming at my TV, "LET ME CONTINUE MY GAME PPPLLLLEEEAAAASE!" But begging does nothing, nor sacrificial gifts of small children.
And the last thing I want to rant about is entirely my fault. It's the reason why I have not even BEAT the game yet (and why I may need to start over to do so)...Blue Guy, Rabbit Chick, Gaicamo. All at once, gang raping my life bar over and over and over again. I am so close to beating the game that it physically hurts. However, when calculating Blue Guy's health, I got it up to somewhere around 2000, and Rabbit Chick is probably a little less and Giacamo is probably around 3000 or more. My strongest person (Kalas) has around 1300 life points, Lyude and Gibari even less. WHY MAKE US FIGHT ALL THREE BOSSES AT ONCE?! That and I keep forgetting to take the burning fire card out of Kalas's deck...so I keep setting him on fire, d'oh.
If I had to rate this game on a scale from 1-10, I would give it an 8. It's a damn good game, and I love playing it, but the voice acting leaves something to be desired (ear plugs) and the tedious talking to everyone leaves me playing for hours and getting 2 minutes into the storyline. I would suggest that anyone reading this goes out and plays this game. It's goooood.
And one more thing
HERE COMES THE WALLOP EXPRESS!
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