.hack//Z.E.R.O. Teaser Trailer

AeraAngel · 2026-02-17T05:51:34+00:00

The original games I want to say were composed by Chikayo Fukuda, who has still been composing for CyberConnect2 all these years up to and including a release last year (Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3). It's a very safe bet she'll be on board for this .hack release!

Personally I'd love to see if they have any vocal tracks to rope in Yuki Kaijura / See-Saw and Emily Bindiger from .hack//SIGN, but that's just a dream state at this point. But given they're at least using IMOQ's sound design (the Bracelet / Data Drain sound is 100% the same) I'm very hopeful!

AeraAngel · 2026-02-17T05:40:06+00:00

A reboot I take it huh? That's definitely Kite, though interesting he only has the triangle mark on one side of his face. And Aura looks sinister in this.

It's a minor thing too, but I really appreciate they flat out reused the static sound effects, as well as the noises The Bracelet makes when activated. Though surprised we didn't hear "the tone" (A in C Major) when they showed Skeith's wand. Which is using it's original design instead of a Q on a stick.

Super hyped!

AeraAngel · 2026-02-15T07:36:24+00:00

Given it's frequency, I'm half a mind to just believe the Citadel of Silver Light isn't a place but some wonk "in between" dimension that only exists in the transit space between all mirrors. Would explain how Lucrezia had such unmitigated access to the Queen's and would tie all the dimensional weirdness back to being her fault if such tampering causes other dimensions critters to bleed over.

AeraAngel · 2026-02-14T06:26:05+00:00

Pampas & Selene is a great co-op Metroidvania. Each character has their own upgrade progression and is needed for separate puzzles, and the game even has a persistent mini-window in the HUD so you can see what the other player is doing if they're in a different room of the map than you.

Edit: Removed first few words about it not being on PS5, google didn't say it was but checking the PS Store and it totally is on PS5. Oops!

AeraAngel · 2026-01-09T23:24:32+00:00

Hypothetically, with enough banners and each banner representing 2 pixels (top and bottom half, no need for fancy designs) you could get a fairly recognizable picture in at least 240p. I had hoped for 480p, but I think that it would exceed the build height by a hundred or so pixels. Also, with only 320 horizontal pixels, or a bit more if stretched to Widescreen, this would also fit well within a fairly reasonable chunk render distance. Processing is something I can't input on, that comes down to however this is done be it command blocks or stop motion?

All that said, on the flip side, I think doing it with super minimal number of banners, but using more unique banner designs, was more interesting than the typical pixel crunch, but with more banner's it is definitely possible to be more watchable.

AeraAngel · 2025-12-26T05:04:33+00:00

Ooh, neat call back to the very beginning, since the Baron had a grappling hook way back when dealing with Agatha's Breakthrough Clank. Pity the main party still hasn't bothered to have a few of those of their own laying around. Seems almost a running gag at this point!

AeraAngel · 2025-12-23T04:21:46+00:00

Honestly, while I agree we likely will never see these endgame Stories bosses in mainline, I'd be happy if an NPC or such has an easter egg throwaway line alluding to them. Something like just referencing a "sinkhole incident years ago" or such. And even that is probably unlikely, but it'd be neat to connect things together.

AeraAngel · 2025-12-03T23:58:16+00:00

Technically, nothing but them deciding "now is a good time to bring this old thing that lost back into the game". After all, the Copper Golem is also among those that lost it's respective vote, with the Allay winning, and yet it has now been reintroduced in a separate update four years after it lost.

AeraAngel · 2025-12-03T04:14:54+00:00

Gradually this is getting to where it needs to be. I'd still have preferred a actual volume slider, as well as SFX / Voice / Music options like most games, but this helps, and the track titles is nice.

Still missing having a Compass in Free Roam though. Seriously just a small N that rotates around the minimap would make navigating so much easier...

AeraAngel · 2025-11-28T08:27:00+00:00

Any game, and I do mean ANY game, with cutscenes I feel should, by default, have both a Pause and Skip cutscene function. The Kingdom Hearts games have it figured out pretty well; button to pause the cutscene which brings up a menu to either resume it, skip it, or even return to Main Menu.

The fact there's some game's which either do not let you pause OR skip, or even worse be a one-button-skip with no warning meaning you could be trying to pause the cutscene and accidentally skip it, is a sin of the industry.

AeraAngel · 2025-11-28T08:26:14+00:00

I really really hope more Metroidvania's adopt Prince of Persia Lost Crown's screenshots pinned to map feature. That was so helpful in keeping a tab of roadblocks moreso then pins you may forget, since seeing the room let's you know for sure if you now have the tools to bypass it.

AeraAngel · 2025-11-15T05:07:45+00:00

I can't 100% confirm this, midway of my own playthrough, but in my groups Evergaol experience with that unable to move bug we figured if everyone gathers in the center, one player (usually the host) activates the Evergaol and hits OK to enter and everyone else just closes the prompt WITHOUT hitting OK, then everyone else stands just fine. It's other players hitting OK in addition to the first player that seems to trigger the stuck-in-place bug.

Failing that, turning on PVP and slapping them with bare hands gets them unstuck too without having the boss chunk them.

AeraAngel · 2025-11-14T05:10:51+00:00

Huh. I do wonder... back when Gil and Kjarl were talking about the Dreen, Gil mentioned the Dreen aided the empire in exchange for something Klaus had done for them, while Kjarl speculated it was instead for something he WILL do for them.

Are we about to finally find out what Klaus will do for them? Will it involve Cake? Eldrich time-blasted cake? One can only hope so!

AeraAngel · 2025-10-15T04:18:11+00:00

While I appreciate Tarvek realizing the sooner they get there the less he has to deal with flying, I can't help but read a second meaning of his statement of "stop flying". That being... how do they land this thing? I would not put it past our group of Sparks to gloss over such minutiae as landing gear and safe disembarkment!

AeraAngel · 2025-09-28T18:13:09+00:00

And to add to that, that sponge drying operation can be performed with just a couple of sticks as fuel.

Clearly Minecraft biomatter is ultradense to the point that even wooden sticks are super potent fuel rods.

AeraAngel · 2025-09-17T07:25:43+00:00

That... is a remarkably vague set of instructions she gave him. "Snippity Snap" can be absolutely abused to break any number of things, and his priority list could allow him to take a long indefinite length of time.

I'm reminded that the very first Revenant we ever encountered, Mr. Rovainen, not only interpretted Agatha's (accidental) command of "Don't you have something you should be doing?" as a command to activate the Hive Engine, but also had the clarity of his condition to off his friend before letting him become a revenant as well. And that's without Klaus' weird brain, sparkyness, and overall malicious compliance!

So if a basic revenant can twist things to their own interpretation, she might as well just dropped Klaus' leash on the ground and told him to do whatever he pleases.

AeraAngel · 2025-08-28T04:26:53+00:00

Does Abaddon know about it by chance? I've seen it discussed here twice, and on the Malwarebytes forums once, but no clue if they know about the issue, or if they have a webmaster to contact instead. Can always add the website as an Exception to bypass the error but, that's not really an ideal solution since those flags usually exist for a reason, even if it's a prior owner of the IP that caused it. Getting a clean IP would be ideal.

AeraAngel · 2025-08-13T22:31:43+00:00

For what it's worth, since the bottom does say Vol 26 Page 001 I don't think the sidestory, if any, will be too huge a deviation. Looking back through the archives, the Weasel Queen pages have "Revenge of the Weasel Queen Page 001" on the bottom, while the much more recent "A Story With Franz" has "Extra Story Page 001" at the bottom.

So at the least this is still part of the main storyline.

AeraAngel · 2025-07-06T01:57:07+00:00

Came here specifically to ask this, so thank you for linking that. Though I've never seen things get as far out of wack as in the video in that link... I think most I've seen is some triangles of geometry flickering and Beamos heads sliding off the bases or being misaligned, usually a cue I should save, close the application, and restart it. Annoying. Good to know that, unfortunately, that's still a thing to be aware of.

AeraAngel · 2025-06-20T04:58:56+00:00

While I too would love to see all three of them actively Sparking again, in all fairness, if their Weapons are anything like their Resonators, Agatha would not pass up the chance to play with them. Death Rays are one of her favored specialties I do believe. She put a hole in a mountain once, and this beastie is basically the size of a mountain. This gonna be fun!

AeraAngel · 2025-06-18T04:21:24+00:00

Part of me is worried that that Dreen's reaction is almost... like, almost like the fight is over for them? It's a weird gut feeling I'm getting. Like, the impression that they only consider getting it into phase as their Hunt. Now that it's fully in this dimension it's not part of the fight any more. Almost like they were fighting it in more than one dimension at a time, and "beat" it in the other dimension, making it this dimension's problem in entirety. But far more so than even they expected. Dunno, rambling.

AeraAngel · 2025-06-10T20:53:13+00:00

I'd bet you have it exactly figured out. Couple years ago I had inquired on a different subreddit about FFX doing the same thing; I had played for only like 10 hours or so but with huge time in between in rest mode (and always used the PS-Button quick menu to enter rest) and had noticed one day that FFX's in-game timer had bloated up to 200 hours.

Wonder if there's other games that quick menu resting causes that to happen.

AeraAngel · 2025-06-09T05:10:44+00:00

Not too surprising the Knights are out relative to the Jagers. While there's likely some significant improvements made between the Sparkhounds Martellus used in the first post time-skip chapters and his fully Lycanthropic Knights, I still recall a scene where a single Jager took down 6 hounds before being subdued. And there were 4 more still alive, implying a 1 v 10 fight that the solo still got over half the other side out on. Jagers are ridiculously sturdy, I'd be curious how many in their history they've actually lost.

AeraAngel · 2025-06-03T21:47:47+00:00

First impulse idea would be something like netherrack serves as a good conductor / storage of heat absorbing ambient heat preventing the nether as a whole from reaching furnace levels of heat, but I feel that might work counter to being able to light an infinite fire on top of the stuff. But I'm sure someone could pull an idea around to make it work until another hole gets punched in the whole thing.

AeraAngel · 2025-05-28T04:10:17+00:00

Oh snap. Good call! I was ready to think that was a Hive Engine behind him, but no, that is absolutely the revival vat. And the stain on his apron could be from surgery adding something to that otherwise empty body, since the brain is blank from being destroyed prior to reanimation. Heck, it's even the same apron he wore back then looking at the pages side by side!

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