Overall Rating 6.8 out of 10 - This show is mostly carried by its franchise, rather than by its own merits.
I still recommend watching.
This movie is perhaps a good entry point for those unfamiliar with .hack// franchise. For veterans it's a not so perfect experience.
They tried to combine notable features of every .hack franchise series into a single movie, then mixed it with some of the trends set by Disney and Pixar and ended up with this.
It has a rather generic everyone unites and fights some amorph darkness thing plot. Reminds me of Sword of Shannara. A times it feels like a generic family movie.
There is also two guys one girl love triangle, that is not that interesting aside from the fact that she confuses their in-game characters and thinks the glasses guy have confessed to her while it actually was the orange hair one.
Despite being released way past //G.U. Trilogy, it somehow has lest gloving effects and cool battles. In fact, IRL world looks noticeably pale and drab. I am not sure if it's a stylistic representation of the idea that IRL is suxx, and games are cute and fancy or just artists being too lazy or something.
On the somewhat positive side, it's a return to The World of .hack franchise. Unfortunately, only Aura, Kite, Balmung and Orka make cameo appearances and even then, its only because some new characters using these models in game. Not even Silver Knight, that had cameos in almost every installment of the franchise made it here. No Tsukasa, Shino, Atoli, Subaru, Haseo or anyone else either.
I guess only because its a. hack franchise and about video games I gave it slightly marked up score of 6.8. Without these things it would be around 5 to 6.
I however would still recommend watching it to those who are new to the .hack franchise and even to some who wants more from the series. .hack franchise is few of the good ones that still continue to these days from the 2000s. Watch .hack and see what a good anime is like. Fashion and tastes of 2010s are hideous and everything that defies them in some way is good.
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