.hack//G.U. Last Recode

My childhood memories

Good👍

Looking for a good cheap game to play for many many hours? This one is a gem of it's era. Give it a shot.

Ugh, this game. Let me list the cons on my playthrough first, because though I'm feeling particularly generous, this isn't a 'good' game by most metrics. The bad: To say the gameplay loop is repetitive would be the understatement of the century. The same 10 or so dungeon types are used without variation for your entire playthrough. The story suffers from JRPG bloat on a massive scale. It's seriously the longest 91 hours I can remember playing. It just. Never. Ends. The bosses are all relatively similar. The anime melodrama is ridiculous, and Haseo is the definition of emo. I only decided to play the (comparatively brief) 4th installment because I wanted my waifu of choice in a final cut scene, and whatever obscure thing I needed to do, I didn't, and I ended up engaged to the 'villain'. What the actual ****... The combat...meh, nothing to write home about. And the constant need to log in and log out to check email within the game was incredibly tedious and time-consuming. Who the hell is this Tabby character that suddenly appears? Oh and did I mention that for the first entire section our hero is a total jerk? All of that said... The good: There's a nostalgic 2000's PS2 vibe here that's sort of undeniable. I enjoyed the attempt to make this feel like an early MMO, along with fan art and old school forums. The news and Online Jack anime segments helped to flesh out what was happening in the real world. And the characters despite the anime cliches are all basically winning (except for Haseo himself, but he improves over time), and the voice acting (on the Japanese side, I don't know about the English) is spot on. And its the rare game where I stuck with it to the end and maxed out my character, so that must say something. The Sakubo character is actually pretty interesting from a psychological perspective (no spoilers). The music goes pretty hard. If you take a break, this game is good at hand-holding you back into the story. I never felt lost. Oh, and on the lowest difficulty, it wasn't too hard. The verdict: This was a slog. There's no doubt about it. But in the end, I enjoyed finishing up my time in The World. If you're going to give it a shot, play it a couple quests at a time and take breaks. Savor it. Because trying to binge this will probably wreck you...

A classic, always love to play this game. If you don't wanna pay full price, wait for a sale but it's worth buying if you wanna play a good ol' action RPG like the PS2 days even with Vol. 4 being short and okay, the original triology is still great to play but Vol.4 at least gives a happy end to everyone.

dont buy this game, every time you open it it deletes your save data no matter how far in you were. all of the games included are available on your pirate site of choice so just get it that way.

Very disappointing experience considering I spent 2x as much on a controller to more easily play this as I did on the game itself, which has bugged halfway? through Volume 1. Save data, with cloud saving off, keeps getting lost after the early arena fights after shutting down the game. No matter how many times I save the game after that it reverts to the two save files I made before starting to level and rank up. The first time I leveled up to level 40, then again to level 46, only to have data reverted to my mid 30s save files. Oh, and apparently "recoding" the series has made it pathetically easy. I ended up way above quest levels before I actually got around to getting over the the quest giver to do a ton of content that has since been lost in the aether of dataspace.