Yeah... (oops, almost spoiled .
hack://sign) It seems to me about Kite, that there's one point he's DEFINATELY different from Tsukasa, other than being more proactive in solving the mystery (wheras Tsukasa kind of sits in it)
There was a girl in my appartment complex named Tsukasa. She left to return to Japan recentl, though. I just thought that was interesting. It's probably a common Japanese name.
BTW, is the name of the main character in Japanese Kaite (kah-ee-teh) or Kaito (ka-ee-toh) or is it Kite (key-teh) Because if it's the latter, I'm tired of people saying "Kite" (like one you'd fly) But if it is actually Kaite or Kaito, then why not spell it like that? Anyhow... I like the game but it's pretty buggy, and not all of it on purpose.
The whole series is very similar to an Idea I have had for a while, before I heard anything about it. I was going to make a game about a game, with problems happening... Mine wasn't about an online game, though, but rather an experiment that took iconic info from the game and used that as a basis for artificial intelligence, but a little more than that. Think: Tron. This program, though, had to "learn" how to work properly, so it screwed up a lot, messing with the game and making things not work right. Part of it's purpose was to take the iconic information about the character in the game, and make them come to life as it were... Turn them into artificially intelligent programs... In attempting that, it didn't quite understand the game, but it was partly sucessfull... Where it screwed up, things would go wrong in the game. Scenes would get mixed up, and only one character really became self-aware, and figured a way to get the game's creator, who knew nothing of this project, into the game to have it out with him for creating him to be a villain in the game... The whole virus thing, and sort of a reversed roll for the "real" characters is very similar to .hack, and I'm affraid of being called... Well, a hack... A .hack hack... Maybe I should just abandon this one... I've got plenty of other ideas. Maybe when this happens (and it's frequent, with me and my brother) that is just God telling me that's not the direction he has for me to go in...