Jade Empire Playthrough | Part 64

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Published on May 29, 2017 7:00:00 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D10sPAm4-ik

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Jade Empire (2005)

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What is Jade Empire?

Jade Empire is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Microsoft Game Studios, released for the Xbox & PC. The game follows an orphan who grew up under strict care of Master Li, a master who runs a school for martial and spiritual arts training.

After a major event happens to the school, the main character begins on his or her travels to save Master Li. Followers met along the way accompany the main character to not only help save Master Li, but to also pursue on their own endeavors.

Jade Empire follows the style of the Wuxia genre within a mythical setting inspired by Imperial China. The player character, who can be either male or female, progresses through an adventure based on traditional martial arts and can discover and develop new fighting styles: martial arts, weapon styles, magic styles, support styles, or transformation styles. Combat is not turn-based, but is in real time, granting players control over how and when characters dodge or attack.

Jade Empire uses a three primary statistics in its role-playing system, having levels for Body, Mind, and Spirit. These primary statistics control the secondary statistics Health, Focus, and Chi respectively, as well as the conversation skills Charm, Intuition, and Intimidation. Focus is used by fighting with weapon styles (such as a longsword or staff), or by choosing "focus mode", which slows the movements of other characters, allowing the player to attack at high speeds. Chi is a character's spirit energy.

The player can use it to for self-healing, to charge up a powerful "chi strike" to deal large damage, or as "mana" when casting spells or transformations. Health, focus, and chi can be replenished by collecting power-ups left by defeated enemies in combat or by using Focus Shrines and Spirit Fonts found in the game world. Additionally, certain party members[ have the ability to add their power to the player's, increasing a player's statistics while the party members remain out of harm's way.

Certain aspects of Jade Empire's gameplay engine, dialogue and quest systems are handled very similarly to BioWare's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games for the Xbox and PC. Players can speak to non-player characters (NPCs) in the game's towns and other areas, asking questions for information to learn more about the world, the storyline, and other characters. Many of these NPCs will offer the player side quests that can be completed for experience points and items.

These quests often have more than one method of completion, depending on whether the player chooses to follow the "High path" (in the game referred to as The Way of the Open Palm) or the "Low path" (The Way of the Closed Fist). The player can respond to questions or take courses of action that are consistent with this overall philosophy; different actions will affect a character's alignment and ability to cast certain spells or equip certain items.

There is a vertical-scrolling airplane shooter included in Jade Empire as a mini-game, which is triggered by certain events in the storyline. In the mini-game, only the Health and Chi bars are active. Chi is replenished by shooting enemies, and is used for special attacks specific to the mini-game. The yellow Focus spheres will upgrade the player's primary cannon up to three times. Red Health spheres refill the health bar, as in the main game.

Jade Empire also features the constructed language Tho Fan developed by Wolf Wikeley, a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at the University of Alberta.

Much of the game places emphasis on the two major philosophies in the world of the Jade Empire, the Way of the Open Palm and the Way of the Closed Fist. According to the Way of the Open Palm, the key to maintaining the universe is by being in harmony with nature, one's surroundings, and one's station in life.

As an effect of being in nature with one's surroundings, one is expected to actively assist in lessening the chaos in the area, through the assistance of lessening burdens. The Way of the Open Palm dictates that a character should not act outside a specific station and purpose in life.

According to the Way of the Closed Fist, on the other hand, the purpose of life is to follow the ways of serving oneself—to face one's challenges head on, challenge one's station in life, and work to become self-reliant. The emphasis of the Way of the Closed Fist is combat, turmoil, and constantly challenging oneself. Many of those who are evil tend to be considered to follow the Way of the Closed Fist, in that they bring about chaos in the universe.

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