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Virus cores are used for gate-hacking into protected areasвЂ¦another one of KiteвЂ™s special skills and a power you will use to advance the story (so core farming is essential). Data Drain either provides an item or a virus coreвЂ¦and the virus cores you get depends on what server you are on and the enemyвЂ™s size. This changes an enemyвЂ™s data taking them back to a lv.1 creature. When an enemy gets low-enough in health, their protection breaks allowing Kite to use a special move called вЂњData DrainвЂќ. You are not only responsible for equipping and leveling yourself, but your party as well. Your skills and powers (and the ones of your party members) are determined by the equipment they have on. Using the opposite element of an enemyвЂ™s gives a chance for an вЂњelemental hitвЂќ which deals extra damage. Thunder is weak to dark (and vice versa), fire is weak to water (and vice-versa), and earth is weak to wood (and vice-versa). You can have 3 people in the party (including yourself).Д®nemies all have specific element types that are affected by a different element. Once in the field you use basic attacks by pressing X, the Triangle button brings up your personal menu for using skills, items, or changing equipment, and then the square button brings up party commands. The element type and level is determined by the words chosen as well as what server you are in. Going to the chaos gate and inputting three words transports you to a random area (field). All the while learning more about how The World is something so much more than just a game.Д¬ombat and mechanics have not changed much from the first game, but in case you havent played through the first game here are the basics: When logging into The World you start at the Root Town. Not liking the idea of being pawns for the system, BlackRose pushes Kite to go off on their own where they go on to find and defeat more monsters of the Ciursed Wave, they learn about The WorldвЂ™s ties with the Epitaph of Twilight, and they discover the city of lost data known as the Net Slum. Kite joins in helping the System Admins for a time until it seems like KiteвЂ™s special powers only make things worse. The great hacker known as Helba intervenes and tells the System Admins to just sit and observe for awhile longer. Thoughout the game, Kite is confronted by the System Admins who demand that Kite delete his character in order to bring balance back to The World since Kite is seen as a threat. They feel as if they can not leave something like that in The World, but debate on whether defeating such a thing is possible.

So in starting Mutation, Kite and BlackRose are discussing the huge monster they saw and whether or not it still exists in the dungeon where they defeated Skeith. But in defeating Skeith in the first game, Kite awakened something much bigger: Cubia. While exploring The World for answers, Kite was given a strange bracelet with he powers of data drain and gate hacking, and he discovered that he has the power to defeat the monsters that put his friend into a coma. ItвЂ™s as the back of the box says: вЂњThe Saga continuesвЂ¦вЂќД«ecause we are onto the second game, we are still following the adventures of Kite who is investigating into why his friend has fallen into a coma. Luckily a copy of Mutation only runs around $30-$50 so itвЂ™s not as hard to obtain as games further into the series.Д«ut letвЂ™s see what the 2nd game had to offer!!!

.hack infection ps2 data drain series#

The IMOQ series of games (Infection, Mutation, Outbreak, and Quarantine) have one of the most important plots within the Dot Hack timeline which is why I still think that itвЂ™s sad they were not more recognized in North America, that they did not get a remaster over G.U., and that trying to collect them is a very expensive endeavor.

So I was really hoping that Mutation kept pace with that excitement!

Everything about Infection drew me inвЂ¦from how you used emails to communicate with NPCs, from reading the Board, and even navigating the desktop. The first game in the series (Infection) had me hooked! I was finally getting to play something that made me truly feel like I was logging into The World.В I am a huge fan of dot hack and I always loved the idea of logging into this virtual world. I feel like I really rushed through it and did not really savor or enjoy it that first time around, so getting back into it almost felt like a sort of redemption.Дid I not remember because I rushed it? Or maybe I did not remember it because it wasnвЂ™t a good game? I wasnвЂ™t sureвЂ¦but I wanted to re-experience it either way. Dot Hack Mutation was the game I could not wait to dive into because my previous playthrough of it just seemed like a blur. Now I have finally re-beaten the second game in the series so that I can provide a review for that as well. Previously I wrote a game review on Dot Hack Infection which was the first in a series of 4 games.