The fact that there are only three party members means they each contribute significantly to the game, there is a major arc involving each one, and the inter-party dynamics is a huge part of the humor and drama. I think it generally improves tremendously on Baten Kaitos. It’s hard to say too much without spoiling some of the better plot twists, but overall I love Baten Katos Origin’s plot. Unraveling the mystery of these “afterlings”, stopping an ambitious politician’s attempt to promachinate the world, and uncovering dark secrets about the word and themselves is par for the course. Milliarde (Milly) joins on your way out, and from there on it’s a crazy romp through floating islands and a dream-land that Sagi keeps entering whenever he encounters one of the beasts. And then they stumble across a giant creature which provokes Guillo into some frightening abilities. But when his first mission leaves Sagi framed for murder, he and Guillo are suddenly fugitives. He’s got a mechanical puppet friend named Guillo, a machine which is a bit more than the typical puppet (though they’re not telling the Dark Service that).
Story: You play as Sagi, a spiriter just enlisted in the Dark Service. The first game isn’t strictly necessary to understand what happens in Baten Kaitos Origins, since Origins is a prequel set about 20 years before, but it does have quite a few references to characters that show up in the other game to reward players who know what’s going on. I did, however, play through Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean first. I actually bought this game before I got a GCN, since I found it on sale and liked the look of the game.
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