.hack//G.U. Last Recode

This is a very good game. Wish the cloud saves would be fixed tho.

great game from my childhood.

I remember loving the .hack infection/mutation/etc. series as a kid. But there are some issues... Your group members feel like they use their spells randomly; if I could enable/disable their spells I would like that. Also, I wish the spells could tell you it's attack type instead of needing me to figure it out. Sometimes the attack type is built into the name, but it isn't always obvious (There is water/fire earth/wind light/dark neutral). Along that line; I wish it was more obvious what element type the enemy was. Or if my attack is doing bonus damage. The storytelling is great if you just smoke a blunt and get lost in the virtual world. But the whole login/logout/open emails/login/go to bookmarked world you found in the virtual reddit rinse/repeat, to me it just happens a tad too frequently. Sometimes I just want to play the game and have the storytelling be done on the interactive side of things and not in a virtual reddit. I get that you are gathering leads, but there is literally nothing that would have stopped the developers from having a brief npc interaction in the bookmarked story driven location that gives you the next lead. The main protagonist you play is a piece of ♥♥♥♥. On the one hand he wants to stop the sentient part of the world that is putting people in comas but he doesn't have a problem using his "forbidden" avatar power to beat PK players (player killers) and potentially put them into a coma. Supposed admins (CC corp) of the game see you use these abilities and do nothing about it... OK... Doesn't make a lot of sense. It's built into the game... but it's not part of the game... idk. In tournaments you don't get disqualified for using it... idk idk idk. The menu on which you manage your equipment, party, customization, etc... is so bloated. The equipment and customizization and status menus could have been combined into a singular coherent menu but it is separate for some reason... If you want to change equipment but want to use the same customization as your old weapon you... 1. remove the customization 2. change weapon/body armor/trinket 3. apply your customization That doesn't sound so bad, but consider you might do this every time you warp to a new area that has a different primary element. And the fact that you level up frequently and find yourself equipping new items often; it gets annoying. I would like to mark my favorite items so I don't accidentally trade them. There is no easy way to compare raw stats between items. So much scrolling, so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ scrolling, so much looking for items. Pausing your battle searching a menu for a scroll or power up to finish the fight ""faster""; when it would have been faster to just use basic attacks without pausing... It never feels good to use an item. They could have easily allowed you to bind items into a radial menu that you toggle into with left bumper or something. So lazy. Or allowed you to see your party members equipment from the invite party menu so that you can see which element type you specialized them into... Obvious low hanging fruit overlooked. I'll keep playing but I find myself getting sick of it within 3 hours and putting it down. I'll try to not min/max as much, maybe I will like it more. I still recommend this game. It's good. I won't finish it quickly but I will. It's better than doomscrolling. It is a nice virtual world to escape into and it feels organic and alive; that is the best part about it.