Baten Kaitos

[Great Rumbler]

The card things works really well in the game. You have a deck of cards and you can get more by fighting monsters or by buying them. If you have an item card you can use it once outside of battle or as many times as you want in battle, so you always want to heal during battle, though that can sometimes be tricky. The types of cards you have are: physical attack, magic attack, defense, and item. You can use physical, magic and item during your turn, and defense and item during the enemies turn or you can use a physical card in combination with a defense card to block damage...you know it's alot easier when you play the game.

I heard that the story really sucks

Well, it's cliche no question about that, but so far it hasn't been so cliched that its hurt the game in any significant way. So, unless you absolutely can't stand playing RPGs that don't have completely original stories you shouldn't have a problem with it.