leveling up in fragment takes for ever
.HACK//WEEKEND IT'S FRAGMENT TIME
Austin Long
Jeremiah Anderson
I think Haseo redeems himself by the 3rd game.
Hes angry to start, and for good reason. He slowly starts to get over his crush on Shino and progresses as a character. It feels very natural and by the time you confront Ovan for the last time, he is a very different and a much better character.
IMOQ's horror comes from how otherworldy the phases are, and how they are indestrucable. Skeith was the best example, both in how hard he was and youve already seen what he is capable of. The rest didnt have the same oomph, but their into and the static the bring sold the fact they were not supposed to be there. Compare that to Haseo going super sayian with no explanation for his powers and never feels like he is in any danger.
G.U had its own spooky events true, I particularly like the into to Vol.2 with everyone being locked in.
Sure Kite has the bracelet, but he dosnt turn into some monster with a scythe in a way that dosn't even feel like a game anymore. The Bracelet is just a hacking tool that he can use to modify the game. Also he wasnt chose, Orca was, he just gets it by accident.
Something done way better by G.U was the out of game stuff.
Mason Gutierrez
>IMOQ's horror comes from how otherworldy the phases are, and how they are indestrucable.
which is a novelty that goes away by the third one or so, even the characters just treat it like a chore they have to deal with instead of anything special after a while.
A couple cool boss fights does not an atmosphere make. If we're allowed to use small moments to represent the whole game, then the ending of GU volume 2 where you enter atolis bullying dimension was way more compelling than the creepypasta AND THEN THE GAME WAS FULL OF STATIC AND A DEMON CAME OUT AND DELETED MY FRIEND ONLY HE ALSO DIED IN REAL LIFE stuff (which is another thing done better in GU, because alkaid getting killed happens to a character you actually have a reason to care about, instead of someone you know for 5 minutes who jokes about how much of an annoying tutorial dispenser he is)
>Sure Kite has the bracelet, but he dosnt turn into some monster with a scythe in a way that dosn't even feel like a game anymore.
True, instead he has literal internet god bail him out at the last minute because he foolishly gave up the only way to actually defeat the antagonist in order to take out another one, but because he has the power of never giving up and believing in himself everything works out in the end anyway. Let's not pretend the original games weren't shounen as fuck when they literally star a shounen who dresses like a mix between naruto and a bike courrier
Ryan Harris
actually, to be fair to liminality, I guess it does also show the "consequences for using the bracelet/fighting the phases" in the second episode when everything breaks down. But the fact that you had to buy an entire extra dvd (keep in mind in japan the disk wasn't bundled with every version, you had to specifically get the combo) when GU can not only include more interesting consequences but have it in the game itself, its definitely not as good as how GU handled it
Brayden Ward
haseo is much better than kite because despite having worse problems than kite haseo can actually have fun with things. he's fucking stoked when he gets a cool superpower, he has fun with dumb mundane stuff even a few hours into the first game when he's still peak asshole, he brings the bants and is willing to call people out on stuff.
Meanwhile kite was always just investigating one area or another because blackrose or helba or mia or lios said he should and while he'll make some cheeky comments here and there most of the time its very utilitarian dialogue to keep the scene moving
Gavin Johnson
he did nothing wrong
Jack White
True.
Jack Campbell
Its not that bad.
Go offline, invite BT and Bear and tear ass on some level 14-20 fields
Alexander Carter
Carmina Gadelica, home.
Jaxson Young
meet me @ Dazzling Twilight