.hack//Roots 4
April 26th, 2006 by Gunlex





With Haseo officially a part of the “Twilight Brigade” I would have assumed the story would pick up the pace. The story does move forward, but not by a lot. Currently it seems like the “Key of the Twilight” is an item created by the game itself rather than by an actual person. For the time being that doesn’t sound like it’s that big of a deal. There’s a possibility that the fact that this item was created by the game may become important later in the series. People familiar with MMORPG’s may get a kick out of seeing Shino power level Haseo. It was a fairly short scene, but it’s interesting to see them incorporate minor activities that exist in current MMORPG’s. At the end of the episode we see Shino enter the scene out of breath to report that Tabby has been PK’ed. If this was the first instance of PK we’ve seen in the series then it may have had a bigger impact. Since we have already seen Haseo get PK’ed and come out just fine without any visible setbacks, it doesn’t seem Tabby’s incident is such a big deal.

