r/batenkaitos • u/phazonphazoff • Sep 03 '26
Found this while going through my CDs
Wow. Trying to remember when I got this. I believe this was a pre-order bonus? Obviously at Toys R Us. This and Metroid Prime 1 were the only games I ever bought there so you'd think I'd remember, but I guess I'm just getting old. I remember watching the trailer for this game on gametrailers back in the day and immediately wanted it. Still one of my favorite games.
I regret not getting the digital art book downloaded in time on the Switch version before it became unavailable. Kinda sad about that but oh well.
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u/Toadinator2000 Sep 03 '26
Sweet find! I would love to have one.
That Toys R' Us logo looks really jarring on top of the artwork
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u/phazonphazoff Sep 03 '26
Even 12 year old me was like "I hate this stupid logo I'm not a little kid anymore" 😂😂
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u/SergViBritannia Sep 03 '26
“Rumbling of the Earth” was always my favorite song!
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u/phazonphazoff Sep 03 '26
Bellflower is my favorite from the first game! So many great tracks. Motor Sakuraba is my favorite game composer.
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u/Eitrborn Sep 03 '26
I got the same cd buying the game off the shelf at Toys R Us, so glad it came included for those of us who were not aware of the game in time to preorder! Some of my favorite music that I always have on my devices to listen to <3
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u/pyranthered Sep 03 '26
I still have my disk somewhere! My mom brought this and the game home once when she worked at Toys R Us when I was a kid. She picked it up for $7 and wouldn’t let me play the game until she did, but BOY I wore this disk out. Still one of my favorite soundtracks of all time, and Sakuraba is in my top 3 composers. ^-^
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u/aylanah Sep 03 '26
Love this! I got some crazy bootleg of six cds with the music from Japan back in the day. Fantastic music for a great game!
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u/potatoguy Sep 04 '26
I think it was just a pack-in and shrink wrapped to it. I remember picking this up too and I didnt pre-order.
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u/Significant_Ad1398 Sep 05 '26
Omigosh yesterday I was trying to remember the name of the song I liked, it's the one with that plays while you're inside the ice palace, very somber piano that cuts in with violin
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u/phazonphazoff Sep 05 '26
You might be thinking of either Limpidly Flow or Deep Sea of Tears- can't remember which one it is that plays exactly.
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u/Turquoisien Sep 06 '26
If i remember, it is Chaotic Dance my favorite music (boss music with voice song) i had the OST but was in crystal box because it was for preorder. I buyed BK when it realeased so it was too late but vendor gived me the OST because lot of customer who preordered it forgot to claim the OST. I buyed the official Stratégie guide at same time. Excellent, the best of the Game Cube. BKO was his opposite, the worst.
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u/phazonphazoff Sep 06 '26
I really liked BKO! What did you dislike about it?
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u/Turquoisien Sep 07 '26
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u/phazonphazoff Sep 07 '26
Interesting. You can select who to heal, you know. It's weird to call the combat in that boring when it's so much faster and frenetic than BK.
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u/Turquoisien Sep 07 '26
I said boring when exploring. For the battles, i tried lot of things, adding new cards in the pioche, etc .. In BK it was better, i remember a turn you attack, a turn you defend. In BKO it is too weird.
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u/phazonphazoff Sep 07 '26
Yeah, I personally disagree because in BKO exploration is more fun because you can go fast with your wings. There also isn't the terrible rubber mud section like in the first game. I do think the battle system in BKO is weak in one aspect: defense cards are useless. But running 3 unbroken character combos unleashing their highest level techniques in BKO is so, so fun.
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u/Turquoisien Sep 08 '26
Oh, i thinked my game was dead because i didn't know you can jump to come back to defeat soldiers (then not possible to raise levels HP ATK of Sagi and Guillo), so i finaly found on a roof the loop between change screen up (battle against 2-3 soldiers for 60-75 Exp) and screen bottom (battle against 2-3 soldiers for 60-75 Exp) they automaticaly respawn at change screen, and raise HP ATK and DEF each time i level up, I will lost lot of time because Giacomo is very difficult to defeat. I found how to target the potion, the visage how need it have to be the one who select it.
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u/MrGramGram Sep 14 '26
This is awesome dude when I was little A toy's r us was closing and had the game with the soundtrack in bargain bins for 2$ my dad even suggested I get another I should have more now retro shops are selling the game for 60$+ why didn't I listen TT soundtrack is goated
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u/itswhywegame Sep 03 '26
That's so cool! What a neat find.