.hack (video game series)
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.hack is the title of a series of four video games for the PlayStation 2 produced by Bandai, CyberConnect2 and initially designed by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Kazunori It, and Koichi Mashimo. Set after the events of .hack//Sign, the plot of the games follow the story of the .hackers Kite and BlackRose and their attempts to find out what caused the sudden coma of Kite's friend, Orca whilst he played the MMORPG The World. Over the course of the games, a virus begins to spread through The World, causing many players to also fall into comas; this event is usually referred to as the Twilight Incident. CC Corp., the fictional corporation behind The World, plans to take the game servers offline, killing all comatose victims, including Orca. Kite and his party must hack through the servers and AIs to discover the truth behind The World before time runs out.
The games of .hack simulate an MMORPG entitled The World without actually going online. The player character uses the Altimit OS on which the RPG client runs. Through this he can check e-mail, news stories, and message boards, in addition to playing in The World. The games are particularly unique for their ability to share save data between each release via "data flags", upgrading it for each release to make it playable and carrying over save data for such. Although the games allow the player to play them out of order this is not recommended due to the deep storyline.
Included with each game is an extra DVD containing an OVA from .hack//Liminality.
As an added bonus, .hack//Gift, a one-off OVA that mocks the entire .hack franchise, is viewable for free on the Liminality disc that comes with the North American release of .hack//Quarantine; in Japan, players had to retrieve the fourth and final data flag in .Quarantine to view Gift.
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[edit] Series Titles
- .hack//Infection (Japanese: .hack//感染拡大 Vol.1 [Infection Expansion – Vol.1])
- .hack//Mutation (Japanese: .hack//悪性変異 Vol.2 [Malignant Mutation – Vol.2])
- .hack//Outbreak (Japanese: .hack//侵食汚染 Vol.3 [Erosion Pollution – Vol.3])
- .hack//Quarantine (Japanese: .hack//絶対包囲 Vol.4 [Absolute Encirclement – Vol.4])
[edit] Complete Voice cast
[edit] English language version
- Mona Marshall — Kite
- Wendee Lee — BlackRose
- Kirk Thornton — Orca
- Doug Erholtz / Crispin Freeman (volume 2-4) — Balmung
- Mary Elizabeth McGlynn — Helba/Emma Wielant
- Debra Jean Rogers — Mia
- Brianne Siddall — Elk
- Daran Norris — Piros
- Sandy Fox — Mistral/A-20
- Steven Jay Blum — Sanjuro
- Carolyn Hennesy — Gardenia
[edit] Japanese language version
- Sayaka Aida - Kite/Sconk
- Masumi Asano - BlackRose
- Yasunori Masutani - Orca/Sanjuro/Moonstone
- Nobuyuki Hiyama - Balmung/Marlo
- Yumi Touma - Helba/Gardenia/Thea
- Minami Takayama - Mia/Plaird
- Mitsuki Saiga - Elk/Kazu/Tsukasa/Dorin
- Masaya Onosaka - Piros
- Atsuko Enomoto - Mistral/A-20
- Maaya Sakamoto - Aura/Natsume
- Nishimura Tomomichi - Lios/Tartarga
- Takumi Yamasaki - Wiseman/Spiritas
- Nobuyuki Hiyama - Nuke Usagimaru
- Aya Hisakawa - Rachel
- Kaori Nazuka - Terajima Ryoko/Subaru
- Takahiro Sakurai - Sieg
- Megumi Toyoguchi - Mimiru
- Kazuhiro Nakata - Bear
- Akiko Hiramatsu - BT
- Isshin Chiba - Silver Knight
- Hiroshi Yanaka - Sora
- Shinichiro Miki - Crim
- Masaya Onosaka - Kurfuf
- Nobuyuki Hiyama - Jinn
- Yamaguchi Takayuki - Sheraton
- Yuuko Kaida - Bob
- Kyouko Tsuruno - Linda
[edit] References
| Video games: | Infection | Mutation | Outbreak | Quarantine | frägment | G.U. |
|---|---|
| Anime: | Liminality | Sign | Legend of the Twilight | Gift | Roots |
| Books: | AI buster | AI buster 2 | Zero | Another Birth | Legend of the Twilight | .hack//XXXX | 4 Koma | G.U.: The World |
| Characters: | Albireo | Alkaid | Aura | Azure Kite | Balmung | Bear | BlackRose | BT | Crim | Cubia | Elk | Emma Wielant | Harald Hoerwick | Haseo | Helba | Kite | Kuhn | Lycoris | Mia | Mimiru | Morganna | Orca | Ovan | Rena | Shugo | Skeith | Sora | Subaru | Tri-Edge | Tsukasa | Zefie .hack//Sign characters |
| Other: | Altimit Corporation | Altimit OS | CC Corporation | Cubia | Data Drain | Eight Phases | GU Phases (.hack) | .hack//Enemy | Epitaph of Twilight | Twilight Incident | Net Slum | Pluto's Kiss | The World | .hack character classes |
