Before we do anything else, though, let's look at the different characters. You can also select which fighting styles your character starts with, or just stick with the defaults. You can click on the Custom option to allocate the points yourself if you want to, which is what I'm showing off in the screenshot. We can find various ways to boost our stats and conversation skills throughout the game, but it is all very simple.ДЄs for Monk Zeng himself, he is a Magic type character and by default he starts off with a boost to his Spirit, making him ideal for using magic styles and boosting strikes with chi.

There are also three conversation skills, each determined by two of the main stats: Charm (Body + Mind), Intimidate (Body + Spirit), and Intuition (Spirit + Mind). These main attributes are raised using skill points from levelups. We only have three main attributes to raise: Body, Spirit, and Mind, affecting your health, chi and focus stats respectively. The streamlining is obvious from the stats screen as well. We don't get to customize our appearance or anything like that, instead we have a selection of seven predefined characters (six in the original Xbox version Monk Zeng here was only in the limited edition as well as the Special Edition we're playing) The character creation is rather streamlined compared to KotOR. The actual gameplay looks fine, so it's not a huge deal.

One slightly unfortunate issue here is that the game wasn't quite optimized for widescreen as a result things like the menus and HUD elements are stretched horizontally. Welcome to Jade Empire! As soon as we hit the title screen we're treated to Jack Wall's wonderful main theme and a scenic shot of the game's starting area, which do a great job establishing the feel of Jade Empire before we even press start. Part 1: Character Selection Episode 00: Character Selection

Jade empire player characters