I'll leave the commentary on this to the .hack experts
20 Interesting .Hack Facts You Never Knew
I knew most of these, all in all well researched.
love this quote: "...One of their favorite ways of brainstorming is just to get rip-roaring drunk." on Bee Train
[CC2] .."is currently developing a Final Fantasy VII remake." That's no longer accurate.
The Naruto design similarities in designing Kite I'm pretty certain that's true.
"Kôichi Mashimo confessed that .hack//sign's opening theme "Obsession" had to be written in English because the Japanese translation of the lyrics would have been profane." - indeed true and not complaining but I think that might be c/p from IMDb's page. I know cause I wrote it. lol
Not totally certain how true the games were intended to be fully functional MMOs as opposed to simulation because I've also heard the games were first concived as an Alice in Wonderland story.
Indeed there is a lot of Celtic influence in the .hack franchise from the anime to the games alike. Also quite a bit of German.
The bit about Skeith's staff is indeed true there were localization changes.
Bear's design being like Mel Gibson is true. I wish I still had that old Anime Expo Q&A with Koichi Mashimo where he mentioned it.
Forgot to mention Diablo was also an influence.
The "Mature Sexual Themes" Tag was apart of the game's T rating in the States. Also because Natsume says she can offer up herself to Kite, though she meant that in a non-sexual manner it takes Kite aback a moment.
And of course SIGN was kind of an after thought from Liminality to flesh out the universe a little more. Poor Mashimo was working on all three at once. When did he sleep?
