Comments on: .Hack//GU Trilogy Review - 77/100

by: TerrawindX2

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:27:24 +0000

@pagel: It’s on the PS2, not the PS3.

Even if you hadn’t played them, you can always look them up on Youtube or read them on Wikipedia to get a gist of what it is.

Also, .Hack relies heavily on this medium of continuity. To fully appreciate this story, you have to have BOTH the anime and the games. So really, it wasn’t meant to be reviewed as an anime anyway.

It’s just that the review above doesn’t acknowledge even the mere existence of the game (including the four original games since 2001) feels a little unsettling, and slightly unfair :(

by: Cody

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:25:42 +0000

If you don’t have access to some content it’s Playing the games means you probably like them. Liking them is obviously going to bias you towards the film. I doubt you would stick through the games if you didn’t like them, and I doubt you would even NEED this review if you didn’t like the games.

This review is obviously based towards people who have not played the games as a heads up. If you’ve played the games, why would you need a review to go take a look into a movie on content you know you enjoy?

by: psgels

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:50:45 +0000

It was actually my full intention to review this movie from the perspective of someone who hasn’t played the games. I simply don’t have a PS3, and I don’t have the time to look up on the differences between the movies and the games.

by: TerrawindX2

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:11:50 +0000

This post is still unedited? It’s embarrassing enough as it is, and it actually shows up on google!

I still wonder how can you still review a well-known series such as .Hack and not even know about the existence of the games? Don’t tell me you thought .hack was only an Anime? Not only that, you seem to be ignoring other people’s comments about the games, and you fail to acknowledge them.

.Hack is pretty much well-known, and anyone who have heard about it know about the games. Please remove that ignorant paragraph regarding how you do not understand why it’s called Trilogy; it’s because its based on the 3 volumes of games for the PS2: Rebirth, Reminisce and Redemption. It’s not that hard to google them and find out more about them even though you don’t own a PS2. You should really do more research on what you’re dealing with before reviewing them. Anyone who is familiar with the series would start to rage when they see your scathing review.

The fact that you did not know about the video game series makes your entire review redundant, obsolete, and lacking credibility.

Have you even heard of the “original series” which consisted of 4 volumes of .Hack games that came out back in 2001? Because it doesn’t sound right to call ROOTS the “original series”.

I’m not being a ball buster here, and heck I’m not even a fan of the series nor played the original four video games, and only played the first volume of .Hack GU. But reading your post and noticing your ignorance despite getting comments about the game really made me rage a bit.

Sorry if I sounded too mean. I just wanted to clear things up.

Go play the games if you will, or you could just read up on Wikipedia.

You must remember that Anime, Manga and Video games are part of each other; don’t go reviewing something out of the blue. Half of the Anime you reviewed here contain story arcs present only in the game versions…

by: Banthas

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:12:04 +0100

You made a review of the Movie without knowing about the games… you fail right there.

by: aquagon

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:13:24 +0100

But I have to say even if the movie was good, that it´s only an alternate retelling of the games, and the story it´s explained a lot better in the games, the characters get even more development (not to say that some great scenes were cut out, and a good number of excellent supporting characters too). BTW, the music it´s different because it was composed by the same team that composed the music for all of the .hack games (Chikayo Fukuda being the lead). And if anyone wants to see some differences between the GU games and the movies, go to bluelaguna.net, all the cutscenes of the three games are there for downloading (special mention to a pair named “Roar of the Beast” and “Kuhn proves a point”)

by: Dr. Pest

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:44:35 +0100

Yes. They are currently creating a whole new .hack saga (after the SIGN/IMOQ and ROOTS/GU saga).
There will be an announcement the next months. They already began with a new .hack manga called .hack//LINK, which is the beginning of the new story and take place in 2020.

And yes, I, too, want to see a new .hack anime which is more like SIGN than ROOTS. SIGN is imo brilliant and still one of my absolute favoanimeshows. I don’t like ROOTS.

by: psgels

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:40:43 +0100

There’s no official announcement, but if .Hack//GU was such a success that it spawned a movie then there’ll surely be another game. And if there’s another game, then there’s a good possibility of another anime in a few years. I just hope that the creators will take that one back to the brilliance of .Hack//Sign again…

by: asdf #1

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:36:05 +0100

i thought it was kind of annoying to sit through. but for those of us who haven’t played the games it was nice to see how the story went after .hack//roots. does anyone know if there is any new .hack anime on the way? or is the end

by: Dr. Pest

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:25:20 +0100

Yes. It’s called Trilogy because it’s an alternate storyversion of the three (trilogy) .hack//GU PS2 games.

Roots was just sort of an intro for the three games.

by: kiryuu

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:05:46 +0100

Pretty much that is my understanding as well. Trilogy is just a retelling of the story of the GU games (and it may be a plus if you didn’t play the games either)

by: DiGiKerot

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:41:51 +0100

I’d assume that it’s called .hack//GU Trilogy because the content is derived from the three PS2 GU games. I don’t think there’s any more to it than that.