Audience reviews
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NfeKteD
Like other media in the franchise, .hack is divided into novels, mangas, games, animes, and practically, one complements the other, not being 100% an adaptation.
With hack//Roots, the difference is that it presents a mystery and, definitely, develops this mystery, you feel as if you are also inside the game and want to go after the answers. Like everything in the franchise, the soundtrack is a highlight, easily becoming an album to listen to on a daily basis while doing tasks at home or at work.
The anime also develops the complementary characters well and not only the protagonist, I recommend it more, for those who have already consumed something from the franchise, or are thinking about starting it.
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I am a huge fan of the entire .hack franchise. I have played all of the games and watched the previous anime .hack sign. I even have some of the OST from these downloaded onto my phone. I felt that I should disclose how much I like the series as a whole before diving into this review.
The story: 5/10
The story is not horrible, but it isn't great either. Other than one or two big important events, not too much really happens. I would rate this a little higher if there were fewer episodes, but more should have happened in 26 episodes.
The pacing: 1/10
Oh my good sweet lord this show is so boring to watch. There are scenes that drag on and on and on. There is a particular fight scene where the characters yell and run at each other for like two minutes before the episode ends. It feels l…
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A decent series hampered by it's desire to connect with the next series of games, simular to how signs was conencting to the first set of four games.
Story: the plot sets up and introduces some interesting ideas, that never quite go anywhere as they are all setting up the games, leaving you with a few unanswered questions if you don't play them.
Art and sound: Are decent, I enjoyed them, but nothing really ground breaking I felt.
Characters: You get some glimpses of good characters here, but they feel a little bit limited, and don't always understand their motivations.
Enjoyment and overall: This is a hard one to rate as I havn't played the games really yet, though I bought the remake, so I may get around to finishing that and have better idea, but I did enjoy it for what it was, just…
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I don't know where to start with this. Short and simple, this anime is horrible. Now continue reading on if you want to know why.
I watched .hack//SIGN over a decade ago, so I can't compare it with that anime in a very detailed matter. However, I can definitely say the music took a nosedive. The music in .hack//SIGN is simply one of the best ever made and leagues above the music in ROOTS because Kaijura was the main person behind it. But in ROOTS, Kaijura only did the OP music.
In ROOTS, the music felt off in many scenes. For example, when something serious is happening, you hear some comedic opera singer bull**** that just doesn't match the mood at all. I can go on and on about how mediocre the music was for this show. Simply, the music was horrible.
The story was chockfull of filler…
Read at the sourceDesolatePsyche
First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile.
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✦Story
Almost the usual jam from .hack franchise. This time around tho I enjoyed the story part much more than most of the .hack Anime. I could follow it in more of an enjoyable way, had more intrigue and interesting points. I felt it had nice progression and memorable moments.
For the most part it wasn't as serious and dark as previous seasons, but nevertheless it went darker.
✦Art & Sound
It was good, some cool fights as well, cool powers and very superb MMORPG game feel. Hence comes the music, which was absolutely fun. Lot of memorable and catchy OST. Probably 1 of my favorite soundtrack was the town music. Really gave a great old-school mmo feel.
✦Character
High score…
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.Hack//Roots is not the first .Hack I've seen, as a matter of fact that honor goes to, .Hack//Legend of the Twilight, but Roots is still my favorite, or atleast it has that title since it's the only one I've finish as of my date posting this review. As I must be semi-professional, I should hurry and talk about the important stuff. Roots' biggest triumph, in my opinion, is it's characters. While I feel this had a much darker tone than Twilight, other than the depressing sister in a coma thing, Roots' character made the dark tone by their drama and interactions that inevitably either end in pain or false hope. I can't lie the fact that this one only lets up on it's dark tone a few times usually thanks to a select few of characters. Next, it's music was something that gained my fondness and w…
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.hack//Roots is a fine sequel that's kind of bashed because of the plug-in-nature relationship to the .hack//G.U. games. And it's sad it's kind of bashed, because Roots was a really good installment in the .hack// Series. My favorite has and probably will always be SIGN but I found Roots to be very enjoyable at the least.
In terms of the story it struck a fine balance of keeping in the nature of .hack in general with out going over the SAME OLD STORY. While it re-introduced the story of the mystic "Key of the Twilight" as explored in .hack//SIGN and it's sequel quartet. Bringing in all new characters, giving the classic 'The World' a make over with all new classes was the change needed. Of course the story of the .hackers was great and so was the story and drama of Tsukasa in .hack//SIGN…
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Yeah...okay. Here we go. This is going to be short cause honestly I can't find much to say about this series.
STORY:
It was okay. It had the potential to be so good; at one point I was very intrigued...but it fell short a bit. For one, the ending isn't even an ending...nothing is resolved! The only thing that could be called "resolved" is that the characters finally know what they "have to do". But...it's never revealed to the viewer as to what that exactly is. And furthermore, most of what the characters did from around episode 14 onward...was kind of pointless. So, in the end...we're left hanging. And not really in a good way.
In short, episodes 1 - 14 are quite enjoyable, but from then on it gets...slightly boring. There's still some enjoyable episodes later on in the series, but for…
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To start off, let me just warn to everyone reading this review that I never played the .hack games so this is a view from a person who hasn't played any of the games.
Story
The story is a bit different from the rest of the .hack series, instead of focusing on the mysterious comas that's been happening to the players dying in "The World" this mainly focuses on an item that is supposedly to be in the game but not obtainable, the mysterious item is called the Key of the Twilight. The main character is a new player named Haseo and everything pretty much revolves around him, he gets recruited to this guild which is dedicated on finding this secret item by their guild master "Ovan". I do like this kind of story compared to the rest, maybe because I can relate somewhat to their situation, whene…
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This anime's about as messy as a landslide.
Alright, so I sat through each and every one of the 26 episodes of .Hack//Roots so I could conjure up a review. I forced myself to finish the series after the fourteenth episode only because I was already so far in and I'm someone who likes to get things done and when I criticize something I want a full understanding of what I'm going to bash.
The story wasn't "so" bad because it's got the base and foundation of the .Hack//Series. Which you all know by now because of the previous anime's and the synopsis above. What I had a problem with is the way they had told it.
The main issue is that all of the characters behave unrealistically. And there's no character in this entire series who I could relate to. Which is VERY important to any show becaus…
Read at the sourceHirayuki
I have seen this anime before not too long ago
and I must say that he is one of my favorites.
The reasons are the following:
The story is a really cool invention
This is about "The World" an online game world with
a virus in him.
There you meet the players, playing "The World"
like a MMORPG.
One problem is perhaps that it can be difficult
to understand the backgrounds of this world, if you do not have all the parts to. / / hack saw.
I was fascinated by this series because it is a complex
Anime, with a deep background story
which brought me to, even the other parts of. hack / /
to look.
The openings and endings are very well made and beautifully set to music,
the characters from the mid-series change their appearance,
perhaps bring a little bit more momentum to the story.
Humor and exciteme…
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I have seen a few of the other anime in the .hack// series before, and I enjoyed them quite a bit, but I'm not going to lie about this one, it sucked quite a bit in my opinion. When I was watching this show it felt like I was going to fall asleep the whole entire time. The episodes dragged on, the development of the story was very slow and seemed pointless most of the time. Most of the characters were very boring and I didn't feel a connection with any of them.
I went into watching this show with a bit of excitement. I was looking forward to see how it would go, but after a few episodes I started losing hope. Towards the middle of the series, I was hoping that it would get better in the end. At the end i decided to finish this show just for the heck of finishing it and having it done.
I…
Read at the sourceGalactic_Kitten
I'll first say, do not waste your time watching this anime, especially if you were a fan of .hack//SIGN.
The story starts off alright. You meet the characters, the mysterious Ovan, who saves Haseo and thus makes him the root of gossip. The first ten episodes are actually fairly enjoyable. They are all looking for the virus cores, and the mysterious key of the twilight. Meanwhile they are being watched and attacked by the group TaN. So at the climax of this small arc, they discover a trap lying for them, and Ovan vanishes.
And thus ends any and all enjoyment of the series. After this point, the next couple episodes are slow, everyone quits and leaves, and it starts getting boring. So boring, in fact, that when a character is killed off, I hardly cared.
They introduce Tri-Edge a little l…
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I finished the series and I really loved the plot but the producers didn't really carry is out right.
Okay, good animation does not include focusing on someone's face for over 5 minutes. Shino and Haseo were hugging at the waterfall for like 10 minutes. =.= Seriously, someone's gonna get bored sooner or later. The producers should of at least show them in different angles of something. If the producers were trying to burn off some time in the episodes, this is probably the worst way of doing it.
The art was pretty horrendous. At every scene there's something wrong with a character's face. At the begining it wasn't that bad but toward the middle, the art went down another level.
The sound was one of the higher points in this anime. Most of it was made by Ali Project which fit the story p…
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OH EM GEE! This has to be one of the most BORING animes ever created EVER! The story moves at -200 miles per hour and their is no ending to it! The problem was NEVER solved! Maybe 3 episodes were interesting but other than that its pretty much staring at still images of boringness.
Story:
A crippled turtle would move faster than this story did. 26 episodes of boringness. It wouldn't have been as bad if it were cut down to about 12 episodes (which could have been easily done) and if there had been an ENDING!
Art:
The art for the most part was pretty good. After a while though the colors get too old and not very interesting.
Sound:
ALI Project did a great job with this and the opening theme was outstanding but all of the background music sounded the same. :\
Character:
Most of the charac…
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The .hack//Series was always one of my favorites. It has astoundish storytelling, great soundtracks and likeable charakters. I have to warn you though: If you are not a fan of long dialogs and little action, or didn't like SIGN, you should stay away from roots.
Story 9:
Like its predecessor, roots has a well written story. While it is nothing completly unique, it still manages to draw the viewer in and makes them want to unravel the mysteries behind it. It has a lot more action than SIGN, which was one of weak points of the series. Who loved SIGN will like ROOTS as well.
Art 8:
ROOTS shows you many well drawn panoramas of the different areas. The character drawings are fair average. Some of them will look similar, which is intended, because of the online game setting.
Sound 10:
ALI Proj…
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To start off, .hack is well-known by fans as a game within a game. With the online game, "The World" as your setting, you play as a character who interacts with other characters who are all aware that this is all but a game they're facing, from beginning to end. Twists and turns soon crash on the protagonist and his allies as they encounter different obstacles that usually do not play by the game's rules. Most of these rule-breakers are usually rendered as bugs, viruses, glitches, hacked entities and more anomalies that can be defined within the branch of computer ethics.
As a fan of the series(more on the games), I appreciated .hack for being a story that most people today can relate. The series also inspired me to play online games which in time, I grew tired to continue due to the fact…
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.hack//Roots is a 26-episode anime created by. It is based on the worldwide hit game, .hack. That said, though, the anime falls flat on its face, because of far too many factors that should been taken care of.
The storyline is so weak, the viewer often feels as if he's watching a documentary of something. There's no connectivity in the episodes, and the fractal appearance of the whole series will put everyone (except the most devoted .hack otaku) off. The story doesn't have heads or tails; it just plods on, like an excrutiating torture session.
The character design's very weak as well. Though the lead character, Haseo, is created well, flaws in his conceptualization leave him with a schizophrenic character set. Shino and O-van, the other two lead characters, are far better in their con…
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.hack//Roots is a fine sequel that's kind of bashed because of the plug-in-nature relationship to the .hack//G.U. And it's sad it's kind of bashed, because Roots was a really good installment in the .hack// Series. My favorite has and probably will always be SIGN but I found roots to be very enjoyable at the least.
In terms of the story it struck a fine balance of keeping in the nature of .hack in general with out going over the SAME OLD STORY. While it re-introduced the story of the mystic "Key of the Twilight" as explored in .hack//SIGN and it's sequel quartet. Bringing in all new characters, giving the classic 'The World' a make over with all new classes was the change needed. Of course the story of the .hackers was great and so was the story and drama of Tsukasa in .hack//SIGN and th…
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Okay so if you haven't seen any of the .Hack series or played the game you will be confused.....very confused. Yes the con you on buying the games to know more of the story...so it goes.... .Hack//Sign, .Hack//Dusk, The Games -> .Hack//Infection, .Hack//Mutation, .Hack//Outbreak, .Hack//Quarantine, .Hack//Fragment (Not released in the US), Then .Hack//Roots...then after .Hack//Roots comes the other GU games if you want to know more X3.
Story
The story is what you could call a continuation when i first saw .Hack//roots i was a bit confused on what was going on until i ran into spoilers then it kind of all made sense. So yeah reading the manga's and playing the games can help you understand the story. What i love about the .Hack series is it all connects together as a whole so .Hack//roots…
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