Wow, sounds hard to believe, what I read about Sign here was just awesome, very Evangelionish so to speak
It also has Kazuniro Ito (GitS) who did the screenplay and always so wonderful Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Honneamise, Nadia, Evangelion, FLCL) as character designer.
Although ".hack//Sign is influenced by psychological and sociological subjects such as anxiety, escapism, and interpersonal relationships" and "They display faces frequently obscured by shadows or hidden by extreme angles. The dialogue is not heard, but shown through title cards: when someone speaks the screen blacks out and a line of red or blue text appears with the dialogue" makes me wonder why this just wasn't called "Evangelion 2, now without mechs!"
Meh, it might still suck. Well, I'll check this out, but first I have few classics to finish