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hack// is a famous franchise of animes and games centered in an online game. I myself have never watched or played any of those before I watched this movie. .hack//Beyond The World is set on 2024 and our protagonist is a young girl named Yuuki Sora. Now, there is an online game called "The World" and almost everyone plays this game. Yuuki Sora however doesn't want to play an online game, even though all her classmates, including her two bestfriends Kakeru Tanaka and Tomohiko Okano, continuously urge her to play this game. Even her grandpa (and his secret girlfriend lol) secretly plays this game. Now The World is a virtual reality online game that they play through an app downloaded to phones and with the help of a "face mount display" (sunglasses) that users wear they are able to experience the virtual reality. When curiosity won and Sora finally tried playing the game, she was amazed by the surreal fantasy world and all the beautiful avatars(or Mascot, Player Characters) inhibiting it. However, immediately upon entering the world, she had an encounter on viruses that hid behind the beautiful facade of this world. These viruses are soon to be a threat not only to the virtual world but also to the real world.
The plot is kinda straight forward and full of cliche story writing, but it is still entertaining nonetheless. Action fights look really good, the virtual world wasn't explored much (due to time restrictions of a movie which is about exactly 2 hours) but they still tried their best to present stuff about the world and the game. Besides the actions scenes and role playing game side, we are also offered a love triangle between our trio. The art is beautiful, a mix between 3D and Anime style 2D for the characters looked very good, the backgrounds are gorgeous and well detailed (specially the structures and the ships). The actions scenes are nice and beautiful to watch (plenty of cool looking special effects). Music is also good (specially the ones near the end which truly gives you that cinematic feel), plenty of good background music. Overall, the movie is decent, if your looking for something beautiful and entertaining to watch which is free from a very complicated plot, then this is for you.
My Personal Rating: 8/10
