.Hack// Retrospective - Part 2: Mutation
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- What's that? Last Recode is already out so a summary of the original quadrilogy is a little late? Nonsense! Let's watch ModalBeat keep the retrospective going by looking at the next game, Mutation!
(Let's hope the next video doesn't take me another 3 months)
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I think one of the most powerful moments in this entire quadriligy was something that wasn't even brought front and center. In your party list, Orca's icon just remains as a constant reminder of both what you've lost and what you're fighting for. It's an eerie feeling as you go through the game, gaining levels, while he just remains at an inaccessible lv 50. Then, you eventually surpass him in level. Just by a little bit, but then more and more. The feeling of "will he come back?" begins to fade more in your mind as you progress. Honestly, it feels like going through the stages of death. There's the point where I remember randomly trying to invite him, knowing it would do nothing, but just hoping in pure delusion that he would answer.
Despite being in the game for such a short period of time, his character really did leave a huge impact for me. In fact, his absence almost added to it.
My first experience with the game was walking by and seeing my sister playing infection when she was picking out characters for a party, and I said "Why not add that guy? He's like crazy strong!" And she said "he's in a coma, he was killed by a bugged monster."
His member address staying there works in so many ways that even the devs probably wouldn't know all of the benefits of it. The character is grieving, the player is frustrated and saddened, and in the same way someone who casually strolls by and asks about the person you've lost (be it coma, break up, etc) you get reminders from your device and from other people constantly. I really like that they kept it, and I don't know if FFVII or .Hack did it better. Because I have a feeling people out of the loop would have seen Aeriths missing portrait as a blank slate while saying "is that a good be the devs? Why is there a blank there?" And being reminded once more of the person you've lost.
Videogames do a good job of conveying loss and other strong emotions. Like it sucks seeing someone else on TV suffering, shit hits different when we all suffer with the characters. And that was all because of a 12 minute tutorial character too, not even unlocked until you're near lv 100. When I played outbreak, I brought Terajima Ryoko along because I liked having her and Balmung in my party so I get her level up to ours, improved gear, etc, and by the time Orca was saved even the absolute noob was stronger than him. And what sucks is I remember returning to RuneScape after a while, meeting up with a friend I made when I was like lv 30 and she was lv 6 and after being gone for a bit we met up and she was lv 118. Iirc I'm lv 78-79 right now, still got very high smithing and mining but God damn did my noob friend surpass me in every other way and it was bittersweet. It was nice being the "big strong friend" and they grew without me.
Orca got such a raw deal, I'm glad they acknowledged that in the spoof //Sign episode of Gift.
I've had a similar experience in Dragon Quest 11, now that I think about it. About 3/4 of the way through the game, somebody really important dies and I legit have not been able to finish the game since. I've just been mulling around, fighting metal slimes in that floating island dungeon as a form of progress, but even I know it's time to move on.
I almost wanted to ask my friend, who had beaten the game, whether or not the character comes back or not, but I know that's not how life works. You have to move on. All of my characters are a stone's throw away from level 100, so I won't even be able to use "I'm just grinding" as an excuse anymore.
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Tomonari Kasumi aka Seig is also Kuhn in the Dot Hack G.U. series😉
I am so glad I quit and sold this game... and I NEVER sell games.
My dude, this is quality. It'll likely take awhile for the peeps to come in and stick around, but your dedication to the videos you make will surely payoff. Can't wait for next time.
IIRC Mia had a specific reason for wanting aromatic grass. I can't remember if a later game explained it or a side story did so I'm gonna go ahead and say *spoilers* for the rest of this: aromatic grass was a name The World used for either unnecessary or corrupted data within the world, and Mia was drawn to collecting it in a form of data cleanup within The World. If you don't know why Mia would be drawn to do that, well... thats spoilers too.
The trade group in the dungeon is similar to an event in the old MMO Everquest, where players really did gather in the entrance of a dungeon outside of one of the main towns to hang out and trade. It was very popular and well known in the forum
Oh Mia, always busy smoking Aromatic Grass than actually helping despite being 2 of the Volumes box covers. XD
This was amazing just like before! Your summary is super easy to follow and your comedic timing is GOLD. I can't wait to see what you do in the future.
This is a cool bit of personal information. My best friend had the first game I found 3 and 4 at a garage sale and my other body had 2. We shared the games and obsessed over them too the point where I used Kite, my best friend used Balmung and our other friend used Orca as our names in mmos and I’ve been using Skeith as a username online for years. I get people calling me S-Keith all the time though
how are they doing now?
I've been really looking forward to this.
Goodness I wished they would remaster these games just for the chance to replay them again. The Carmina Gadelica music stayed in my heart and I remember feeling the dread when the appearance along with the music changed by the end. This video has been a fantastic ride back to nostalgia ^^
17:02
You are my Last hope.
You are the only one that can
save me. Come to the dungeon of:
Merciless Grieving Furnace.
My Fragment.
Be wary of Cubia.
I think it's neat she refers to Kite as 'Her Fragment' I love attention to detail of the story here, and the foreshadowing of the future.
Great video like the first one dude
Great video, just keeps reminding me why I love this franchise so much! One of the things I particularly love is how a game about a mmorpg hits such big stakes, and can fill the player with both suspense and (as you mentioned in your video) dread. It's a legitimately great mystery. Well, can't wait for your next video!
Bandai is apparently looking closer at the fan demand for this series after the GU remaster. I would love if Bandai ported these games to new consoles or Pc so i finally play these games for myself!
I'm completely amazed at the high quality of only your second video. There are a lot of early videos from youtubers I love, and I love the early vids too, but there is always a big quality difference. I thought this was a fantastic video, you should be very proud! I can't wait to see where you go from here. Seriously, fucking good job man. You have a new fan!
You are doing the lords work my friend. Please tell me you plan on finishing the series.
I do! Part 3 is on the way, and I plan to talk about G.U too in the future!
Man I forgot how many moments the first four games had that left an impression on me. Skeith and Cubia scared the crap out of me in the first game. I was mortified when the towns got corrupted. And going through it again, I dunno if its the nostalgia boosting it, but it still puts me in a state of awe.
part 3 waiting room
Morfanna, Morganna, that's not even subtle.
Hey, nice to see another part up.
FUCK YEAH AND BEFORE I GO TO WORK DUDE THANK YOU SO MUCH
Hi modal it's frank I wanted to drop by saying how amazing you are doing with your videos are and you are doing great a great job with this series ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️s from frank
Finally i was waiting for part 2 brother still amazing quality video takes time keep up your great work. Thank you
great vid man also thanks for the .hack sign recommendation the anime was alright but the soundtrack was amazing
The aromatic grass, that's basically just catnip for Mia; is the grass from the show that was given to the cat character by sukasa as a gift and made her change sides.
mutation was my first dot hack, got it as a birthday gift from my grandma when I was 9. I only had AOL but didn't understand message boards so i just clicked a lot of "links" just to get to areas i needed to go to. That and I would just answer emails however I did, I was 9 what thought was I really putting into them guys like sanjuro and marlo were cool. A few years later i got Quarantine and thats as far as I went with the original series. When you get to quarantine i'll ask my question there because either I glitched the game out or I permanently lost the ability to call Mia when I could.
Mia was always unavailable, save for the stuff after theta cursed despair paradise in Vol 1 and early in vol 2 at the point where dolorous evil eyed widow was available (And Vol 1 and 2 postgames). I always like to joke that Mia is busy getting high off of Aromatic Grass to help. lol
"do you like flowers, because you took a place with flower names, and talked about flowers?"
*woman who's name is GARDENia*: "stfu"
I watched your first video on this only last week, very excited to watch this second video now. Keep it up, these are great!
I'm SO late to the party... But gotta say, the whole thing where people hang out in dungeons is not weird at all. I did that a lot in PSO2 and so did my friends. Granted, some of PSO2's areas are great to chill in, but we can say the same about some of R:2's areas. The logical reason why it makes little sense to us is the technical limitations that kept CC from making those environments pop out, which they accomplished to a better effect in G.U. But hey, if they were to remaster or even reamster/remake the original quadrology, maybe they could make those areas pop out as intended.
5:01 I was NOT expecting fucking DSP to show up. Jesus Christ, he's such a meme, lol.
35:35 that's 860 milliseconds (86/100 of a second)
I'm nitpicking here. that's how good I find this video
Hey, Piros' VA is also the voice behind Cosmo from The Fairly Oddparents.
Ballminge, well, now I now you're British. That insult is perfect and might become my new gamer tag.
I swear to Bob, the cliffhanger on this Volume always gives me _chills._
The game is supposed to be hard because you were supposed to keep your save file and use it in the latest release continuing your progress.
This is just a guess, but maybe the AI is not better, they just obey you more because of increased affection to you?
I love the music in Net Slum but I wish it were a bigger place... Or access to the others.
Thank you for covering this series!
I always thought aromatic grass was just another way of saying catnip
i joke and told myself it was a medicinal quality type of grass lmao
Piros was one of my favorite characters LMAO
im so sad this was the only game outa the 4 i never got...sigh...
This is great! Thanks for uploading!
Am playing g.u now on ps4 am on the 2nd dl
Okuwamon lmao
13:36 I feel like I seen this place in ffx
Yo this was made on my birthday
These games aren’t being sold anymore (and aren’t available on modern systems) and that’s a tragedy. At least we have these videos
Why can’t I give this more than one like? It’s beautiful. You deserve ALL the likes
I never was able to play the quadrilogy as i was swepped up by SMT during my rpg era of gaming. I dident get in until G.U volume 2 and i just was able to play Vol 1 thanks to the remaster. But i kept wondering why Kite kept showing up as tri edge, that was until i found your channel. These videos are amazing as it helps fill in so many gaps that i never knew about. Thanks for making these dude
Morganna not Morfana
Watching these videos reminds me of the years I played these games. You said 15 hours completing everything and I recall on volume 1 I had 40 hours logged because back than I had dial up and no online games. This game series had me fully immersed believing it was online. I was over powered and didn't get one shot in volume two.
Man. Watching these videos really made me feel like I completely missed out. :’( but, I guess to be fair, I was still a child at that time. Also, I didn’t have a Ps2 yet.
I just realized Cosmo (Piros) and Timmy Turner's dad are in this game. My god.
Great video, I never made it past Cubia, didn't realize there was so much more of the game left, damn skull faced bastard :p
To this day, I've never seen any other game come with an anime. Not even Kings Glaive came with the game lol
(17:25)
Do you know who likes service overtime, dincleburg
Hey, just found these and wanted to say I love this sort of content and I hope you do make another. It HAS been the requisite 3 months after all...
you like the worst characters. sanjuro is top dog.
Really love the retrospective. Can't wait for part 3 !!!
thank you for making this. been enjoying it
From what I remember Sieg is depicted fighting Skeith in .hack//ZERO, which takes place around few moths after ending of .hack//Sign.
Loving these recaps. Can't wait to see the next one.
Thank you for creating this series. Been meaning to play through these games, but really..spending 30 hours a piece to knock these out is quite a time investment. Your videos sum up the story incredibly well and I love how you throw different pieces in at random times (e.g. Liminality)!
the time continues throughout the 4 games, so in this case it was about 17 hours.
Thank you for your service 🫡