.hack//G.U. Last Recode

A little different than the PS2 orginal 3 piece. Pretty interesting so far.

リメイク作品として申し分ない作品。 この作品の前の物語である.hack//Rootsも是非見ていただきたい。 主人公の成長や物語の伏線を堪能していただきたい。 これから始めるあなたへ一言 「Welcome to The world」

I love .hack//G.U.

Tried to give it a chance, but the protagonist is such an unlikable ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that it utterly ruins the games. He walks around, dressed like a preteen who's just discovered Chunni and wears so many belts you can hear Nomura breathing heavily in the distance. People treat him kindly, he insults them, people help him out of the goodness of their heart, he mocks them for helping him. Hes a one dimensional, obnoxious twelve year olds idea of what cool is, and he never improves through the entire game, he doesn't grow, change or learn from his experiences and as a result hes completely insufferable from start to end. His entire driving motivation is nebulous revenge on the people who wronged him, except nobody wronged him at all, hes just a loser. The game-play is very mediocre and is relying on the story to carry it, which it utterly fails at. Only play it if you are wearing potent nostalgia goggles.

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Looking for a good cheap game to play for many many hours? This one is a gem of it's era. Give it a shot.

Ugh, this game. Let me list the cons on my playthrough first, because though I'm feeling particularly generous, this isn't a 'good' game by most metrics. The bad: To say the gameplay loop is repetitive would be the understatement of the century. The same 10 or so dungeon types are used without variation for your entire playthrough. The story suffers from JRPG bloat on a massive scale. It's seriously the longest 91 hours I can remember playing. It just. Never. Ends. The bosses are all relatively similar. The anime melodrama is ridiculous, and Haseo is the definition of emo. I only decided to play the (comparatively brief) 4th installment because I wanted my waifu of choice in a final cut scene, and whatever obscure thing I needed to do, I didn't, and I ended up engaged to the 'villain'. What the actual ****... The combat...meh, nothing to write home about. And the constant need to log in and log out to check email within the game was incredibly tedious and time-consuming. Who the hell is this Tabby character that suddenly appears? Oh and did I mention that for the first entire section our hero is a total jerk? All of that said... The good: There's a nostalgic 2000's PS2 vibe here that's sort of undeniable. I enjoyed the attempt to make this feel like an early MMO, along with fan art and old school forums. The news and Online Jack anime segments helped to flesh out what was happening in the real world. And the characters despite the anime cliches are all basically winning (except for Haseo himself, but he improves over time), and the voice acting (on the Japanese side, I don't know about the English) is spot on. And its the rare game where I stuck with it to the end and maxed out my character, so that must say something. The Sakubo character is actually pretty interesting from a psychological perspective (no spoilers). The music goes pretty hard. If you take a break, this game is good at hand-holding you back into the story. I never felt lost. Oh, and on the lowest difficulty, it wasn't too hard. The verdict: This was a slog. There's no doubt about it. But in the end, I enjoyed finishing up my time in The World. If you're going to give it a shot, play it a couple quests at a time and take breaks. Savor it. Because trying to binge this will probably wreck you...