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The guidebooks/Link have explained both as wandering AIs at this point. In Sora's case it was more of a duplicate, in Ovan's case it was a Tsukasa-like situation.

That explanation just doesn't match the game. I mean, Amagi's utopia was a vision that included many facets including ending discrimination, but the original and main motivation was to create a world without death. Creating peace among people and ending physical needs all came forth from that.

Shamrock: "But secretly there was organization that took these incidents as revelation, and moved forward with research to instead utilize them." Shamrock: "Control of the 'Unreturner' risk. Transforming it into technology." Shamrock: "Through many years of research, a port...

But Bandai Namco doesn't really splurge on budgets.

It was Orange Co. , who I believe also did some of the CG for .hack//Quantum. CC2 created the storyboards, which were approved/rejected by Matsuyama, and then sent to Orange for basic animation. Then the two companies would have a long back and forth about specific effects, and CC2 would add the sou...

I feel like it's a joke for fans, but you could think of them as very advanced virtual pets with very advanced behavior. The grunties of guilds with player connections might just have secret events. In the anime, NPCs are a little less "rigid" and robot-like so the reality might be this so...

No, in the "The Duplicate Phenomenon: Extracts of the Epitaph User's Investigation" bonus booklet mentioned above.

It sounds like an allusion to Tokio in Yata's report. Mama: Hey this game caused comas, let's not warn anyone, keep it on, and mess with it some more. Ovan: I'm feeling super evil and reckless today so I'm going to play a game that's one of the best and most meaningful ways to interact with my bedri...

Isn't it the fault of the company/cabal that recklessly created an unwinnable scenario rather than the guy stuck mopping up their unwinnable scenario? If somebody puts a gun to your head and forces you to chose between the good of the many or the good of the few... that person is the criminal. I wou...

The letter doesn't seem to be that different from what they always say. I guess all we can do is wait and hope...

I'm surprised Surugaya doesn't have it yet. I think it will eventually be a reasonable price, like Returner or other past buy-the-full-set items.

Well sadly there's no silhouette countdown so I'm not expecting much from E3. CC2's new "abundant but simple" approach to original game projects is a little disappointing, it feels a lot like their social game phase. It's nice to see familiar imagery and motifs but also kind of heartbreaki...

I believe Kazetrigger started a project for this: https://dothacktranslate.wordpress.com/ ... new-world/

The Epitaph of Twilight: A story in the .hack universe that was never completed by its author and has no ending, so Harald interpreted one. Emma Wielant: A character in the .hack universe with a surprising backstory seen on a computer screen in Thanatos Report and later confirmed in the Archives boo...

I'm not sure about that site, but when it comes to the Epitaph the best resource overall is here . The Epitaph was never completed in the .hack universe, it's open to interpretation. Harald created one interpretation which is what he put into the game. He had his own idea of how Emma would end it an...

I just checked and Japanese Volume 2 for PS2 is version 2.98. I don't have the number but the versioning for The World in the first series reflected the version of the game engine as far as I could tell. For example, U.S. Infection matched the version number and features of Japanese Outbreak - or so...

Thanks for the thorough review! Great to hear you're enjoying it, Jun and I started the patch with the goal of allowing others to experience the game directly, that said I agree with a lot of this feedback because the mechanics and ubiquitous R:2 elements bugged me as well - especially by hour 70. T...

I think that with Bandai Namco they're planning to continue the series for the next 10 - 20 years. Glad to hear that on the business end. It'll be interesting to see what CC2 does with that. Also while I don't think the creators will remove Quantum from the main timeline I do feel like there will b...

I somehow really hope we will get a Steam version of Versus someday. I could imagine this being the next thing, now that the GU sales were quite good. It would make a bit of money and keep the hype alive while/if they're working on or thinking about possible sequels and since it's already done ther...

Yep, at this rate that's the next name. .hack beat all the semicolon-containing games to the punch by years in terms of weird computer punctuation though. The story was always that Aina was hospitalized in Germany, so that makes sense. Kusabira could stay relevant. The AIDAs' bet on Haseo will of co...

But wasn't N.U. given to New World? Isn't that so far in the future that it would make no sense to jump back there? I am mostly desperate for the Tanaka arc. I'm not sure that's necessarily true. It's entirely possible that New World was a sidestory that was thematically connected but otherwise not...