I never watched much .hack, but now I'm quite interested in the series. This series took me into the journey of the regular "what if games were real?", but it had the touches of characters that were able to draw soft spots, (brilliant character designs). The emotions portrayed by the plot, were oddly relatable as the voice acting (japanese) was very well done. I would say, however, I enjoyed the action scenes the most, as they were well choreographed and the stayed very close to the "video game" motif.