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i found a ton of similarities! it makes me think the game was very heavily based off of the dot hack series and universe. both have a cat character thats trapped in a computer world, that meets up with a person from the real world. this being the most obvious similarity,but let me start with the more heavy hitting ones that dot hack fans will understand.

starting with epitaph of twighlight, its understood in dot hack that the game world is becoming sentient because of the poem it was based off of. a poem written by =Emma Wieland=

a woman who had been studying the supernatural.a woman who is also dead by the time of all these events.after her death the game becomes sentient and spawns a half cat half human A.I character named mocha, that eventually meets up with a real human trapped in the game, half of the game wants to kill itself and everything in it, wile the other half wants to live, sound familure? mocha starts off on the bad side but ends up helping the human save that world.

the lightbulb is the sun in one shot. and it was created by the game. you are tasked with taking the sun to the tower. in dot hack all the main characters get the braclet, an item created by the good side of the game, ment souly for saving the game world. now its been a wile since ive watched all 3 or 4 animes and played all the games, but i think i remember at some point one of the main characters in dot hack meets " the authur" a computer A.I version of the man that helped create the game. he tells the main character about the history of "the world" and asks them to save it from itself, and that it doesnt mean to be evil, its just hurting inside.this is simular to how theres a "mysterious man" in one shot that travels around the world writting books. and eventually helps you decide the fate of one shot by using your own computer files. they also state in one shot that he writes so fast, its not possible for any one human, and that mathamaticly the numbers dont add up that he could write so many books about the world so fast.....inless of course he created it....;)

but throughout the dot hack series one thing is clear. every time mocha, the cat person, helps a human save that world, a few years pass, and a tragedy happens in real life that upsets the game. it seems to respond to sad people playing it, and wakes up the evil of that world if someone who plays the game has bad intentions or a life tragedy. the game then starts kidnapping peoples souls and trapping them in the game, just like what happened to niko in one shot, altho niko never has played dot hack so, that theory is out of the window, but theres still a possible tie. thats emma wieland. emma wrote that poem wile studying the supernatural, after experiencing a supernatural event herself she starts to dedicate the last years of her life to figuring out what it was. perhaps she was a gifted individuel who could sense other worlds, and even reach out to them, this combined with her tragic death, and the video game of the Dot hack universe coming to life, is enuf to make me believe she could summon niko if something tragic has happened to him .....or maybe his mother. throughout the game niko dreams of his mother constantly, we never see any other part of his life besides his intense love for her and urge to go back to her. we are also never shown her face. and at the very end of one shot before you go to the tower, niko cries thinking about his mother and states " i just have this weird feeling ....ill never get to go home"

another huge coincidence is the people that inhabit the world in one shot. some have tv's for heads, or plants, or fish tanks, and when niko asks about this, they act as if nothing is wrong with that at all. in dot hack as well, when the game wakes up and becomes sentient, it starts creating A.i monstrosities of the same nature, corrupted characters with tv's for heads, have robot half human looking things, ect. and some of these people will acknowledge that they look weird, wile other pretend nothing is wrong at all, they all seem a bit insane, just like the weird people in nikos world, they speak in rittles and seem to always have a second meaning to them.

one final huge coincidence is that the cat person mocha in dot hack dies after saving the game world with the human character. only to be reborn every time the world needs help. much like the first ending you get in one shot, where niko must sacrifice himself to save that world.

now heres a list of some minor simularities, these i didnt feel worth placing in the theory because there a bit to small for my taste, but none the less, a bit to big to be ignored.

in one shot they have fireflies and shrimp they use for light and power, as well as the earth itself that these animals feed on. in dot hack they have chim chims, which feed off the earth to get there power.

dot hack there are beast races

in dot hack there is a strong sense of family for the A.I, without going into 5 more paragraphs about that to avoid complete spoilers, which im sure ive already done to a huge degree, specificly the mother/child relationship.

dot hack has a very similar art style for faces and clothing of the people in one shot, tho i may have already mentioned this to some degree.

both games feature taming robots.the idea that a robot can be tamed, altho dot hack does not call it "taming" they just call it a.i. this one will be very hard to understand inless you played dot hack G.U and did all the steam missions and read some other text in the game.

silver is an android in one shot that was the first of her kind, a fully sentient robot that ran amok for a wile before finaly being fixed by " the authur" again dot hack spoiler alert, the rogue a.i that is the world takes on the form of emma wieland, and has a daughter named aura that doesnt know how to control her power or understand human feelings, intill a time passes and some intervention that fully fixes them. its implied that the husband of emma wieland designed her this way before his death, and that in trying to recreate her, he essentially stole her soul, and it became full of malice. much like silver being created as a duplicit of another person, and running amok.

thats about all i can write, and id like to leave this topic with one last thing. that is, coincidences do happen, and i know alot of this is a stretch. heck actually the creator themselves might have already said dot hack was an inspiration. i honestly didnt know one shot existed intill the lets play youtuber markiplier finished his playthrough of it today. even if all of this was a coincidence and the creator of this game has never even heard of dot hack, i think i at least sparked your/there interest in that game :) if you liked one shot, you would like dot hack. i hope i havnt angered anyone including the creator of the game, or the owners of dot hack. this is simply just my initial take on the inspiration of the game and not the reflection of the people who made the game. i just found all of this because i played dot hack years and years ago and there were many simularities, some long shots and some short, but all in all just a theory. also if anyone from that dot hack team or bandi read this, make more games, except not as crappy as g.u. a little darker like the originals please. thats sorta hard to say after stating i didnt want to piss anyone off. but come on. i mean ....haseo is just the worst....g.u was very bad. even zelda is learning from skyward sword and released breathe of the wilds ....dont let that world die, and wile bringing it back, please dont kill it. 