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There isn't much to say about this game despite me willingly putting almost 30 hours into what is essentially a giant prologue.
The combat is very archaic and very straightforward. Beat somebody up by hitting the x button various times until you guard break them or until they're dead. Rinse and repeate for the entirety of the game until you get to the last boss, where I thought I was very under-prepared with the way my team was set up, only for me to steamroll through because I managed to find some good endgame weapons along the way.
So if the gameplay is very boring, what about the story? Is it worth your time playing this game (And watching the OVA) just to see what you're missing?
Eh, that's all really up to you. The only reason why I got into .Hack or started playing these earlier games was because I did think at the time that this series was sort of a niche type of deal. It's like playing Digimon for the first time when all you've known is Pokemon and the few other battlers around that time.
As I stated before, this is just a prologue to the next couple of games. And with the way this game ended off, it gave me at least a bit of a second wind to keep going despite all of the tediousness about the combat which made a bulk of the decent story the player manages to read with either emails, or even the message board within the game.
I do love the tutorial this game provides though. It's like having a wiki for the game inside of your game without having to ever go online if you're looking for that rare item.
I'll check back again with mutation to see if I still have that spark to keep going.
There isn't much to say about this game despite me willingly putting almost 30 hours into what is essentially a giant prologue.
The combat is very archaic and very straightforward. Beat somebody up by hitting the x button various times until you guard break them or until they're dead. Rinse and repeate for the entirety of the game until you get to the last boss, where I thought I was very under-prepared with the way my team was set up, only for me to steamroll through because I managed to find some good endgame weapons along the way.
So if the gameplay is very boring, what about the story? Is it worth your time playing this game (And watching the OVA) just to see what you're missing?
Eh, that's all really up to you. The only reason why I got into .Hack or started playing these earlier games was because I did think at the time that this series was sort of a niche type of deal. It's like playing Digimon for the first time when all you've known is Pokemon and the few other battlers around that time.
As I stated before, this is just a prologue to the next couple of games. And with the way this game ended off, it gave me at least a bit of a second wind to keep going despite all of the tediousness about the combat which made a bulk of the decent story the player manages to read with either emails, or even the message board within the game.
I do love the tutorial this game provides though. It's like having a wiki for the game inside of your game without having to ever go online if you're looking for that rare item.
I'll check back again with mutation to see if I still have that spark to keep going.