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another pro-
the camera is not the pain it was in the first game, the first game was so bad for akward camera angles

pros
-the battle system is quite good, not like the previous game where u hit and *miss*
-at first it seem very difficult 2 gain some money, but after the "leader" event *lol*, richie rich...
-camera were easy 2 controlled unlike the previous ones
-and many more, i couldn't said it all...

cons
-the voices actors, it's bad compared to .hack//roots. (i hate gaspard because of this)
-the game is pretty short...
-the tri-edge, cernunnos, dopple all are mere sissies...
-no challenging mini games like the goblins on the previous games
-i hate that "your passion makes me hot!" note that he has a wife...
-the use of avatar at alkaid... i can beat her with bare hands *lol*

I've only had the game for abut 3 days, but heres the pros and cons that I have at the moment...

Pro:
learning spells through items
alchemizing weapons
steam bike
better graphics
improved battle system
arena!!!

Con:
how some items take up an inventory slot by themselves (simple water idols I hate you.....)
Death Grunty
Gaspard
Piros the 3rd <--- Piros the 1st was bad enough, but now he's golden, and MORE annoying???

I didn't find the 3rd as annoying for some strange reason (probably because he's always sleeping)
But I hate the fact that you can cary up to 50 items in 1 slot, but can't cary more than 1 weapon/armor per slot...

Oh another con:

I absolutely hated it when Haseo would be all 'guess I'll log out and check my e-mail or something' or 'Yata's calling me, I should go to Raven's @Home'. I mean seriously, that was just annoying! We're not idiots...if we get a new mail, we'd most likely check it. And if somebody tells us to meet them somewhere, we'll eventually go and meet them when we realize there's nothing else to do, right? I don't know...that just part just really annoyed me for some reason

More Cons:

-Pausing the start of EVERY Avatar battle to give the control scheme (even though you can look at it by simply pressing start).

-Telling players when/how to dodge the most powerful attacks of Avatars/AIDA, killing the last little bit of challenge that were in the battles to begin with.

-Repetition of the dungeons and feilds (only 2 dungeons concepts and only 1 feild concept? WTF Cyber Connect; you can do better than that. I really hope they fix this in later volumes.)

-Absence of the concept of open feilds. I prefer the "open field with dungeon" concept the previous four games had. Gave each area more exploration value. The "feilds" in G.U. are no different from dungeons.

I rather liked the fact that there wasn't a field/dungeon combo....doing both takes alot more time and repetition....the fact that the fields/dungeons have different objectives (though most are still reach the statue) makes the areas a little more interesting

To my knowledge, you were never forced to actually do a feild and dungeon combo. Feilds were normally optional as the dungeons were the primary thing that had to be completed to progress with the story.

As for the objectives, only the "feild" areas of G.U vol.1 had the "Defeat the Boss" objectives. Most of which just felt like normal battles. The only difference was that the enemy was bigger in size.

Another Pro:
You're not FORCED to party with Piros III (unless you count that small quest)

Came up with another few cons last night (based on game progression):
Cons:
Haseo's second costume is quite unappealing
How easy the Bordeaux fight was (maybe I shouldn't have level 5 alchemized all my weapons )
*edited out Antares comment*

I liked it. O_o

Haseo's costume I mean.

One Con I have is that the Book's of 1000 don't hold useful info anymore.
In the last game they told you monster stats, who was logged on and what items they had,ect Now you don't get much of anything out of them.

My pro is Chainsaw Swords!

Dengar wrote:I liked it. O_o

Haseo's costume I mean.

yep, he's like a special character that THE ONLY one who has that costume. i mean, look at the other... some has the same costume (only their colors...)

Mystere Man wrote:One Con I have is that the Book's of 1000 don't hold useful info anymore.
In the last game they told you monster stats, who was logged on and what items they had,ect Now you don't get much of anything out of them.

My pro is Chainsaw Swords!

Yes I'm not alone!
I still use my broad legged more than my +5 wrath/ill wings

For me:

Pros:
-graphics
-Root towns
-The areana
-fields were much more complex
-learning spells through items
-steam bike ( i miss the grunties though, )

Cons:
-It was so story driven at times that all you did was check e-mail and watch movies
-battle system made it so you had to fight unless you had the item to get away with (but it was motivation to level up instead of saying 'whatever' and leaving the monster behind like the first .hack//)
-only 50 items instead of 99
-field designs were limited
-Piros the 3rd <--- Piros the 1st was bad enough, but now he's golden, and MORE annoying??? (using Lemartes's word because Lemartes desribes this so well)
-I didn't like the camera system that much in this game, I liked it better before
-No more Data Draining stuff on the spot.
-Only 6 member addresses

Cons :
lvl 999 scythe ?? what's up with that ??

another pro from me:
all its anime touches no matter how goofy they look

Pro:
Whenever I'm angry and Sakaki comes on I hail abuse at him.
I don't mind Piros III as much anymore, his theme tune is kinda catchy.

Con:
I want Vol.2 right now!

pro : i'm still not satisfied and still playin it...

con : why in the world i hunt hunt hunt and hunt, but my level is still 50 exp 999... damn level limit... all i did is wasted... (well i got items, so it's not exactly wasted)

New Con: It gets boring really quick after the game is beaten.