Damn you, Smackfiend!!! At least, I think you're the person who kept mentioning .hack in a few posts, which piqued my curiousity enough to go read this over at Gamespot, and now *I* want the damn game. The whole game-within-a-game, and the computer interface sounds very post-modern and too interesting to pass up. Argh!!! I don't need this now...
Don't hate the playa', hate The Game (oops, wrong board...)! But yeah, I'm gonna have to kill my local EB employee. He gave me a demo of it last Friday. I ended up reserving it Saturday morning... only 5 more days....only 5 more days....only 5 more days....
It sounds like it has potential to be fantastic. I really, really enjoyed .Hack//Sign, and I've liked .Hack//Liminality so far having seen the first two.
Now, I just need to buy a PSX 2, and figure out in what order to watch, play, and read all the .Hack stuff...
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The novel (.hack//airbuster) is a type of prolouge (I think), but I HIGHLY doubt that will ever be in english. So the anime (//sign) is chronologically first from what we'll get, the videogames (//infection et al) take place around 6 months after the anime ends, the OVAs (//liminality) take place at the exact same time as the games but in "the real world", and the manga/new series (//dusk) take place years after the videogame. So, to review:
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