.hack//Legend of the Twilight the public yet, where Shugo manages to defeat the AI; however, due to some of the programming of the AI, "The World" will be destroyed. Shugo and Rena then activate Kite and Blackrose's joint power to save "The World." Rei Izumi describes ".hack//Legend of the Twilight" as "the story of the future" and "the first to usher in the ".hack" franchise and the last to end." The series took Izumi and Tatsuya Hamazaki three and a half years to complete; ".hack//Legend of the Twilight " was originally planned to be two volumes long, but a decision was made to extend
Twilight of the Idols with a Hammer". The former title, "Götzen-Dämmerung" in German, is a pun on the title of Richard Wagner's opera, "Götterdämmerung", or 'Twilight of the Gods'. "Götze" is a German word for "idol" or "false god". Walter Kaufmann has suggested that in his use of the word Nietzsche might be indebted to Francis Bacon. Nietzsche criticizes German culture of the day as unsophisticated and nihilistic, and shoots some disapproving arrows at key French, British, and Italian cultural figures who represent similar tendencies. In contrast to all these alleged representatives of cultural "decadence", Nietzsche applauds Caesar, Napoleon, Goethe, Thucydides and the Sophists