Monolith Software's Gamecube RPG

[Great Rumbler]

From Magic Box:

Namco has released new details on the battle system in their GameCube exclusive RPG Baten Kaitos. The battles are in the form of real time card battles, each command in the battle requires the use of cards, include attack, cast spells, using items and even running away. There will be 1000 cards in the game. Cards can be combined for various effects, such as adding elemental effects to an attack, or reducing damages.

Baten Kaitos will have still CG images as background, similar to Square's Final Fantasy VII - IX for PSone. Here are the development staffs of the project:

Producer: Tadashi Nomura (Saga Frontier II, Xenogears)
Director: Hiroya Hatsushiba (Valkyrie Profile), Yasuyuki Honne (Chrono Cross, Xenogears)
Scenario: Masato Kato (Chrono Cross, Xenogears)
Music: Motoi Sakuraba (Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile)

You can't go wrong with talent like that.

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