Hence, equipment and even attack types exist as cards, rather than as statistics associated with the characters. Battle Magnus replace equipment rather than equipping characters with weapons and armor, battle Magnus are dealt to the player at the start of the battle and then selected as battle commands. Magnus come in two forms - battle and quest. Unlike typical role-playing games, the Baten Kaitos series uses a mechanism where all in-game items are stored in magical cards called 'Magnus'. Outside of this, the player also maneuvers the main character, 'Sagi' through the game's environment and battles in the traditional sense.

Similar to the original, the player plays the role of a ' guardian spirit' that can break the fourth wall to interact with the game party through dialogue options. The game plays as a traditional JRPG and very similarly to the first Baten Kaitos game, albeit with some changes and adjustments. Main article: Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean It was released on Februin Japan, and in North America on September 25, 2006. Unlike the first game, which was published by then-Monolith Soft owner Namco, Origins was published by Nintendo, and was not released in Europe. The game retains the original's focus around the concept of 'Magnus' - magical cards that capture the 'essence' of items found in the in-game world, where the concept is still used as a plot device, for in-game item management, and as a basis for the card-themed battle system, albeit with minor tweaks. Similar to the first entry, the player assume the role of a ' guardian spirit' – an unseen player avatar – who guides protagonist Sagi and his party of companions in an adventure across an aerial floating island-based kingdom in the clouds. The game is a prequel to Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean. Baten Kaitos Origins is a 2006 role-playing video game developed by Monolith Soft and Tri-Crescendo for the GameCube video game console.

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