[PS2] .Hack//GU

I'm digging this. Skeith was always my favorite of the 8 (he had the coolest music, sorry), so seeing him back in action is a fanboy ... dream thing. I actually only care about Haseo's chainsaw broadsword. The sooner I get to wail on NPCs with that the better.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Footage of an Avatar Battle, featuring Skeith

Haseo's ability to transform into or summon Skeith revealed. Reminds me of Zone of the Enders, but with Data Drain. Also looks as though the party is not involved, although Skeith's appearances could strictly be event battles.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Wow, nice video. Somehow it feels kind of like a spoiler, but not so much at the same time.

I wonder if this means you can only control Haseo/Skeith in the Zone of the Ender-esque battles.

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Extended trailer, some new gameplay and cinematic footage

Very awesome. Skeith-Haseo is almost worth the 50 dollar price tag alone.

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Do you know Tri-Edge?

The full cutscene of Haseo beating the asses of a bunch of PKers. This scene, like the one below, was featured a lot in the trailers. Again, nothing really spoilerish at all. It's mostly a 4 minute fight scene.

This is ...Tri-Edge!

Minor spoilers, mostly stuff we've already seen in the trailer. This is, however, the full scene of Haseo vs. Tri-Edge that was shown several times in early trailers ripped from the actual game. If you want to fastforward through anything potentially spoilerish, watch the clip at the 1:30 timecode.

.Hack//G-G-GUnit will be released stateside early Fall. The guy who made the video also has a bunch of other cool stuff. Just click on his name and view whatever else he's uploaded. Somebody also uploaded the cutscene right before the final battle with...

Spoiler:

Kite/Tri-Edge.

I caved in and watched it. The video wasn't very spoilerish and it was pretty cool, but I think I'm going to refrain from watching too much else.

I was speaking idiomatically.

.hack//GU Volume 2: Kimi Omou Koe
.hack//GU Volume 2: Kimi Omou Koe (2nd Trailer)

Trailer for the second game in the series. MAJOR spoilers for those who haven't played the game or haven't already spoiled themselves (ha...ha...), but cool nonetheless.

There are now apparently super moves and what look like real-time weapon-changing in combat. I could be totally wrong, though.

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Guess I'll have to stop by EB and reserve my copy tomorrow.

But yeah, I don't really care too much with spoiling myself. On one hand I kind of wish I didn't click or watch some of the cutscenes on Youtube, but if anything the new trailers only got me hyped for vol. 1 even more.

FELIPE NO

They apparently have, although I'm not entirely sure how. Volume 1's battles seem to get sort of repetitive from what I've seen, but this might have been fixed in Volume 2 since they're adding a bunch of new stuff.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Good thing I went and preordered the special edition. Although I did feel kind of dorky when the employee mentioned the figurine.

How ya doing, buddy?

Got the game today and it's pretty win so far. I'm only about two hours in and the cutscenes are kind of lengthy, but interesting nonetheless. Combat's really cool, but after seeing what you're capable of in vol. 2, I want more (variety!) now!

Since I preordered the collector's edition, it came with a nifty lil' Haseo figurine. It can't really stand on it's own very well, but it's pretty cool and doesn't look cheap. Now all I need is a Tri-Edge one (better be in vol. 2).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Not sure. You might want to poke around at gamefaqs to check on what all you've missed or might get.

I'm gonna try and get some save files from either friends or the Internet, since I never finished the original .hack series. I must have really enjoyed the story in Infection to sit through the graphics. That or I was totally gar for Skeith.

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Wow, you beat it that fast? I'd heard the same thing you mentioned regarding length. This is kind of good news for me, since I want to get back into both Devil Summoner and Valkyrie Profile 2.

Volume 2 should be on the way, hopefully sooner than expected. I heard December, but that seems reasonably unlikely. January would be nice.

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Originally Posted by Xellos

This game came out pretty recently didn't it? Is nobody playing this, or is it because FFXII came out soon after?
I guess I only have to look at stupid amount of posts the FFXII thread has and I just answered my own question.

Is the game really that short? I guess i'll have to play it really slow then. =/

Yeah, this and other games got shoved to the side once FFXII got released unfortunately.

I also wanted to note that I watched some gameplay footage for Volume 2 on Youtube and it looks like the repetitive combat has evolved more than I thought. Brandish Haseo has a slew of different combos to use in combat. With the addition of real-time weapon change, Volume 2 should be a bit more fun than it's predecessor.

And yeah, the game was kind of shorter than I expected, but I thought it was a decent enough length. There's still a lot I haven't done yet (kill the PKs, take down the Doppleganger, etc.) but got Haseo, Pi, and Kuhn to the max level of 50. The only reason I stopped was because I'd unlocked all of the videos I wanted to, and from there I'm moving on to Devil Summoner (since time's short).

I was speaking idiomatically.

I didn't beat all four previous .Hack//* games, so I never got the e-mails. I did, however, hear about some creepy e-mails Endrance sends you in Vol. 2.

Spoiler:

Endrance basically confesses his love for Haseo several times in an almost stalker fashion. He also says that "sex doesn't matter," although he's more than likely referring to Haseo being a man as opposed to the vertical hunky-dory.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Volume 3 was already released in Japan (most of the cutscenes from the game are available on youtube). From what I saw, none seem quite as action-packed as the ones in Volume 2, but still cool nonetheless.

How ya doing, buddy?