A greatest hits self-insert game that is surprisingly thoughtful about how retold events would or could shift in interesting ways to orbit the new character Tokio. It is completely incomprehensible without all of the .hack// primary material and a fair amount of the secondary stuff, and even with all of the necessary pre-requisite reading it doesn't go anywhere substantial. Think of this game as a mostly disparate anthology of what if stories.

The action elements are absolutely dreadful and the amount of time you're expected to grind is unruly, so I have not yet actually seen the post credits epilogue stuff yet and I don't know if I'll even watch. The ping-pong QTE that dominates every single moment of combat is burned into my brain along with some of the offhand ship fuel moments, but this is a delight to play in short bursts (I lose my mind every time I have to rotate my Vita to read the emails) for any fans of the franchise if you don't mind stepping around a buggy fan-translation.