.hack//Link -Chrono Link-

'We are slave for something, seeking to protect, for desires, for something else, to save someone? What do you think, Saika? Is someone you want to save was really there beyond the top? if he's not there, how much things that you had to sacrifice for someone that wasn't even there? is everything really has another hope or pointless? - Akira'

.hack//Link -Chrono Link- is a direct-continuation to the anime series .hack//Link -RIVES- also the rebooted and fully remade version from the original .hack//Link, featured a truly remade visual powered by Unreal Engine 5, available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Microsoft Windows (Steam), Microsoft Windows (Epic Games Store), and Microsoft Windows 10 Store.

Chrono Link is a brand-new innovation changing from all previous .hack titles, featuring an Open-World Action RPG developed by CyberConnect 2, Bandai Namco Studio and Epic Games Production with it's game published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Reimagined story of .hack//Link in fresh and totally new experience while brings a different direction from the original, focuses on Tokio Kuryuu who had finally woke from his coma and return to his normal life until a mysterious beauty transfer student girl, Saika Amagi had once again changing his course of life for another adventure.

While the game would not just continue Tokio's Story from .hack//Link -RIVES-, but also bringing back the older characters from the past title of .hack as allowing fans to nostalgic for their return since their last appearance in the previous one, while their characters will also been incorporated to main plots of the Chrono Link in a new fresh and totally different experience.

.hack//Link -Chrono Link- The Dark Slayer would be featured as a downloadable story scenario content, along with a brand-new features of downloadable content, includes a brand-new DLC episode, new costumes, and more will be available in the Season Pass DLC of .hack//Link -Chrono Link-.

Graphical Engine
.hack//Link -Chrono Link- is a brand-new evolution game changer to the franchise with the graphical visual will be powered by Unreal Engine 5 which intentionally to bring more immersive power of visual graphics and fresh environments which something that were never even seen before as the game reimagining the world of .hack//Link for the first time in the real-time experience, while also utilize the combination between game and anime aesthetics which makes it not too realistic while bringing a colorful charms, expression and fresh to the world-building, story, characters, themes, environments, objects, and more that will presented there.

As the game will be fully supported in higher levels of resolution for Full-HD, QHD, and 4K Resolution with an higher-frame rates per-second, ray-tracing support, shortest loading times, next-gen spec enhancement and basic controllers which Chrono Link has brings more to exceed fans expectation toward qualities, charms, and expressive visual powers with anime x game cinematic combination qualities bringing game to utilize it's own identities and given fresh dynamic presentation toward storyline and characters that will appeared in this game.

Unreal Engine 5 capables to evolving the everlasting graphics of .hack games in creating a dynamics visual and gimmicks elements toward gameplay experience in the Open-World Action RPG which allows players to have more freedom to enjoy The World R:X through exploration and combat, while it is not neccessary for area words and root town to be more open-world, but the areas is bigger 2-3 times depending the designation and how it uses fit toward exploration and discovery which given a new sense for players to free-roam the areas to explore a new things. While the combat will be more evolve that the previous titles of .hack which is more open for fast-paced action in real-time without any direct enter sequence for combat mode like .hack//G.U. or even before as you can freely attacking the enemies or just walk aways is a significant freedom choices that based on Kingdom Hearts III, in the sense the combat experience is totally different and new for players and fans to enjoy while still retained the MMO elements which also been incorporated to the fast-pace action combat as well.

Power of the graphical using the Unreal Engine 5 is not just meant to be more too realistic, but it combines power of the enhanced visual between Anime and Game in cinematic ways or in comicalize or cartoonish ways, but it adds more complex and freedom to expresses a colorful and fresh development graphical harnesses power to reached a full potential through it's combination visual presentation while delves to be more improvements based on CODE VEIN and Scarlet Nexus.

Main
The story continues to proceed few months after the 4th Network Crisis and The Massacre Players Tragedy has come to an ended, with notable that The World R:X still on the operation, however, CC Corp the developers of the massive MMORPG has received a numerous complaint and harsh critics regarding about the tragedy that were happens in the online game affecting the players in the real-world in day by day with non-stop, but currently there are no answer from the companies whosever.

But as soon as possible, the users login has been decreased for over a month due to negative response from the company for the tragedy happens to all players who played their product and lot pressures happen toward CC Corp's public relation as this issues continues spread around the world through words of public as caused a negative and toxic feedbacks toward them, in no other choice to continue hold off the public's pressures, they made announcement to shut down Mac Anu server operations for temporary until the issues has been resolved. However, due to these as a sudden shut down from the companies this impacted to the other server as well in much worsened condition, lot cases has happened around the world with the news came with Mind Image Alteration Syndrome happens with activation of the Akashic Records tower during the shut down and over 20% population in japan has disappeared.

While this is a major panic to all world that no one see this coming after the announcement of temporal shut down causing arise of more questions from journalist, publics, and more toward the company, it is much unknown whether the mastermind behind Massacre of the Players or the appearance of the virus or something else that entirely unrecorded in the history is something that become a major cases, but the companies has no words regarding those questions, while they stated that the team programmers had working on it to resolve the issues, but few months and there's still no words came from them, arise more public's suspicion toward companies more.

Features
.hack//Link -Chrono Link- once again brought back Eternal City of Mac Anu from RIVES as the atmosphere has changed in dark and gloom now becoming a terrifying places to visit which now they called it the Oblivion City of Mac Anu and a brand-new dungeon area, Akashic Records become a main settings and key importance to the story as it focuses on Tokio Kuryuu and Saika Koshizumi travelled to the past era of the world in the alternate timeline log data in order to obtained the main system core unit to the tower, Chrono Core, in order to reached to the top at the final floor of Akashic Records.

Both of them using Akashic Records to travelled through times, setting their destination to the two past eras of The World, which is the era of R:1 (2008-2014) and the era of R:2 (2015-2018) returned as a explorable areas along with the area worlds for field and dungeons, however, Akashic Records is like labyrinth of the time that contains all the log data from players through all history of The World and since Schicksal had messed around the log data timeline causing the interference that leads toward the alternate possibility of the events occur in the past timeline which they called, The Alternate Records which is specifically that entered in the different sequence and events from the past log data which been altered, while can be said the original events from the past still happen, but only it went toward a very different direction than before and thus those interference with the log past data of the timeline causing messed toward all possibility of the time data, creating a never-existing events, characters who don't supposedly exist or even involved and objects that never even occur before.

The consequences for messing up the log data from the past has also affecting to the real world, causing the altered data programs system, coding, times, traffic, and anything which are very impacted to the network and internet, causing the existence of a never-seen information which was never even happened and lastly it caused all players been inflicted toward Mind Image Alteration Syndrome and even Mac Anu has been shut down due to Akashic Records, the syndrome has already spread through all server and thus changing the player's memories vision with altering their codes of their memories causing their behavior, personality, expression, and emotions begin to change drastically in accordance to his memories and experience, it somehow causing them to feel Deja Vu. And while over 20% entire population of japan has gone missing is also due to the Akashic Records as well, they're now trapping in the different alternate timeline data without their PCs to use or even worse causing possible death is imminent toward their actual bodies if they been attacked by the monsters or being PK-ed.

Highlighting an iconic places, root towns, field, dungeons, and Lost Ground from the past titles of .hack is now returned and been fully remade it's visual which are now powered by Unreal Engine 5 to maintains a powerful immersive environment visual which makes look more beautiful from the past titles and including a brand-new areas which are never ever been discovered or being explored has given a new fresh immersive experience for players to explore about them and brings expectation interest for newcomers and old fans of the series who also enjoying the powerful masterpieces stories and gameplay of .hack//Link -Chrono Link-.

Synopsis
Few months following the Massacre of the Players Tragedy, at long last Tokio Kuryuu has finally woken up from his day of coma, missing his summer vacation day, and unaware the world has changing around them ever since that day.

''Everything has already returned to normal, but thus left him unsettling and feeling gloom with all of his friends has gone missing few months during his coma and ever since the end of Unofficial Battle Royal orchestrated by Geist seems left everything change to him personally feeling unease with the current world's state after the tragedy. But now... no sign of Geist or even ENTIES for few months and he only has his brother, Akira Kuryuu on his side for a months during Tokio's coma.''

He and his brother, return to their old and boring life they had so much wanted to escape, even thought the world has changed but the class feels same as before they even login for their first adventure to The World, everything went back to just normal and simple for the boy like Tokio Kuryuu, who loves and enjoy his dedication of hobbies toward Video Game, but even so, all the tragedies, nightmare, and everything still snucked in his head, even though everything went as how it supposed to, the tragedy is beyond comprehension for him.

Unless, there's one unexpected turns come to his life once more...

The beautiful student, Saika Koshizumi, transferring to Tokio's classroom and once again the life begin turn tables, she approached him with looks of the beauty that she gives to him, with a sincere smiles amaze Tokio's eyes that collectively caused his eye attention on her due to his similar appearance with the princess, goes by day she become popular in his school, until one day, everything is just what he thought, she called him to the rooftop, brought The Black Copy Disc and transferred him into The World R:X once again...

'As the time that he knew something would happen again after he entered into online game, and his adventures has just continue... Or should that really continue in unexpected twist?... What was she planning behind her Smile?... The story of Tokio Kuryuu has just back into a square one...'

Story Chapters

 * Prologue -The Journey's Continue-
 * First Act -Return of the Knight Hero- (The World R:1)
 * Chapter 1: Akashic Records
 * Chapter 2: The Shadow Evil of the Crimson
 * Chapter 3: Seeking for You
 * Chapter 4: The Guardian of Recorder
 * Chapter 5: Shadowy of the Death
 * Chapter 6: Living Legend
 * Chapter 7: Operation Break Water
 * Chapter 8: Sadness and Vengeance
 * Chapter 9: Bansyoya
 * Chapter 10: Pain and Betrayal
 * Second Act -One Hope, One Key (The World R:2)
 * Chapter 11: The Key of the Twilight
 * Chapter 12: Agony
 * Chapter 13: Bonds of Family
 * Chapter 14: Bloody Demon Palace Tournament
 * Chapter 15: Doubleware
 * Chapter 16: I'm Right Here
 * Chapter 17: Rebirth of the New System
 * Chapter 18: Ovan
 * Final Act -Beyond Lies of Truth- (The World R:X)
 * Chapter 19: Chrono Link vs Schicksal
 * Chapter 20: Twisted Truth
 * Chapter 21: Desires
 * Final Chapter: Footsteps
 * Epilogue: Pain

Chrono Guild

 * Tokio Kuryuu
 * Saika Koshizumi
 * Akira Kuryuu
 * AIKA
 * Alibaba
 * Kyushu
 * Kruger
 * Sol
 * Nishijima81
 * Seventy-Seven
 * Miki-Seven
 * Ninjato
 * Neil
 * Toki-Runty

Schicksal

 * Fluegel
 * Metronom
 * Cello
 * Klarinette
 * Trommel
 * Orgel
 * Posaune

New Characters

 * Forze
 * Rachel
 * Hauz
 * Chrome
 * Mellow
 * Natsu
 * Juon
 * Raid21

Returning Characters

 * Mereleona
 * Missy-White
 * HanShi
 * Allen
 * Kuroda
 * John77

Twilight Knights
2009


 * Tsukasa
 * Subaru
 * Mimiru
 * Bear
 * BT
 * Crim
 * Sora
 * Silver Knight
 * Carl
 * Alph
 * Sieg

2010


 * Kite
 * BlackRose
 * Mistral
 * Balmung
 * Orca
 * Elk
 * Mia
 * Helba
 * Lios
 * Wiseman
 * Piros
 * Gardenia
 * Kazu
 * Marlo
 * Moonstone
 * Morganna
 * Natsume
 * Nuke Usagimaru
 * Rachel
 * Sanjuro Sunaarashi
 * Tartarga
 * Terajima Ryoko

2014


 * Shugo
 * Rena

2016


 * Haseo
 * Shino
 * Tabby
 * Phyllo
 * Saburou
 * Sakisaka
 * Tawaraya
 * B-set
 * Tohta
 * Naobi
 * Ender
 * Gord
 * Hideyo
 * Nasubi
 * Midori

2017


 * Atoli
 * Ovan
 * Aina
 * Alkaid
 * Endrance
 * Kuhn
 * Pi
 * Sakubo (Saku)
 * Sakubo (Bo)
 * Yata
 * Zelkova
 * Kaede
 * Silabus
 * Gaspard


 * Gabi
 * Bordeaux
 * Grein
 * Negimaru
 * Antares
 * Asta
 * Hiiragi
 * IYOTEN
 * Matsu
 * Nala
 * Piros the 3rd
 * Sakaki
 * Seraphora
 * Sirius


 * Taihaku

Others

 * Neil
 * Helos-Pierce
 * Slayer
 * Hojo Itadori
 * Dr. Octa Asgrodia
 * Piros of the 4th
 * Jun Bansyoya
 * Takiyoda Kuroda
 * Davis
 * Yun-EL
 * Sophora
 * Salvador Aihara
 * ENTIES
 * Ju21
 * Jikanet
 * Genius
 * Shoko Adashino
 * Gemomaki
 * Kyon

Gameplay
See .hack//Link -Chrono Link- Gameplay System


 * Difficulty Mode
 * Akashic Records
 * Dark Time Records
 * Root Town
 * The World R:1
 * The World R:2


 * Trade System
 * Shop
 * Jikanet Shop
 * Chaos Gate
 * Field Exploration
 * Field Area
 * Dungeon
 * Lucky Animals
 * Combat
 * General
 * Rengeki and Co-Op Rengeki
 * Cross Link
 * Temporary Party Member
 * Command Mode
 * Shortcut
 * Skill Trigger
 * Awakening
 * Link Abilities


 * Bond of Unison
 * Demon Palace Tournament
 * Grand Whale
 * Grand Whale Customization & Decoration
 * Upgrade Facilities
 * Upgrade Akashic Records Time Discovery
 * Upgrade Unison PCs Form
 * Training VR Mode
 * Smartphone
 * Tweeter
 * Hello Chat
 * Media
 * Capture Mode
 * Guild
 * Ryu Book
 * Guild Manage
 * Guild Mission
 * Shop Acorn
 * Sub-Story Mission
 * New Game+
 * Online Multiplayers

Season Pass DLC

 * Downloadable Story Mode Content
 * .hack//Link -Chrono Link- The Rise of the Dark Slayer
 * .hack//Link -Chrono Link- The Twilight Knights
 * Episode DLC
 * Akira's Episode "Returner"
 * Kruger's Episode "Vengeance and Anger"
 * Kyushu's Episode "For one things to protect"
 * Sol's Episode "Theory"
 * Geist's Episode "The Wish"
 * Season Pass DLC
 * Spring Season
 * Summer Season
 * Fall Season
 * Winter Season
 * Legacy Outfits
 * .hack//
 * .hack//SIGN
 * .hack//XXXX
 * .hack//G.U. + ROOTS
 * .hack//Link -The Twilight Knights-

.hack//Link -Chrono Link- PREMIUM EDITION BOX

 * Contents
 * .hack//Link -Chrono Link- (Base Game)
 * .hack//Link -Chrono Link- Season Pass (Downloadable Content)
 * Premium Edition Bonus
 * Music CD "CHRONO LINK Original Soundtrack (Disc 1-4) + Special Character Songs CD"
 * Drama CD "Fluegel's Laziest Day" & "The Day for the Sleeping Boy"
 * Anime OAD "Ninjato's Ultimate Guidance to The World" & "Saika's Routine Days"
 * Premium Booklet
 * .hack//Link -Chrono Link- Archive Files
 * Character information, concept art design, design proposal, weapon design, color variations, and the world-view settings for Chrono Link. Alternate R:1, & Alternate R:2.
 * Mechanics design proposal, platform console design, lores, area words, easter eggs, terminology, and illustration.
 * Chrono Link Special Files: .hack//Series Timeline Chronological.
 * Includes all the timeline events chronological records from .hack//Project titles and .hack//Conglomerate project titles.
 * RIVES events such as Massacre of the Players Tragedy added to the chronological timelines, including the timeline records event of .hack//G.U. Vol.4 Reconnection and .hack//IMOQ Re: Login.
 * Chrono Link Special Files 2: Akashic Records development project reports
 * Contains all development reports regarding about Akashic Records including a new information about it's function, impacted, development phases, coding, history, people who aware, and more, along with strange hints and easter eggs which are boundly indirect connected with .hack//Link -Chrono Gear-.
 * Message letters from developers staff from CyberConnect 2, Epic Studio Production, and Bandai Namco Entertainment, along with notable main developers are Hiroshi Matsuyama, Hiroto Niizoto, Kikuya Megane, Kazunari Ito, and more, along with composers like Chikayo Fukuda and Yuki Kajiura.
 * Including a special clip message letter from the Voice Acting characters such as Tokio, Akira, Saika, AIKA, Geist, and all Chrono Guild Members of voice acting.
 * Original story novelization "The Day I had Met You Once Again"
 * The novelization story focuses on Saika Amagi.
 * Bonus Illustration
 * 3 brand-new illustration poster key-visual and alternate key-visual of .hack//Link -Chrono Link- drawn by Seiichiro Hosokawa and Kikuya Megane.
 * Three key illustration post-card by Megane Kikuya, Seiichiro Hosokawa, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

.hack//Link -Chrono Link- Definitive Edition
See .hack//Link -Chrono Link- Definitive Edition

Sequel
See .hack//Link -RISING GEAR-

Prequel
See .hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT

Trivia

 * Chrono Link titles representing the terminology important object lores about Chrono Core and Chrono Link Core as a main key importance factor object to the storyline.
 * .hack//Link -Chrono Link- is the first hack series who would be a powered visual Unreal Engine 5, while also was the first time for the game to be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Microsoft Windows (Steam), and Microsoft Windows (Epic Games Store).
 * RIVES and Chrono Link setting could be possibly or impossibility in 2020 A.D. since the game was a rebooted version from the original which set divergence from 3rd Season of .hack
 * The story of Chrono Link will start from the beginning of the story from the original through progression until following Tokio and his friend found Geist and Jyotaro Amagi in the secondary effect state, Outer Dependency Syndrome.
 * Last portion from the original which features return of Kite, and battle against Queen of Demise, Aura which been moved to the upcoming game of RISING GEAR storyline.
 * Last name for Saika as Koshizumi is a paying homage to the last name of the voice actressed, Ami Koshimizu which the different is a spelling at the final line name words between Mizu and Zumi.
 * Smartphone system features contains apps which are inspired based from the real-life apps, such as:
 * Hello Chat is based on Whatsapp along with incorporated elements such as Emails which is also based on Gmail.
 * Tweeter is based on Twitter.
 * Rediscord Forums is based on combining of the two apps such as Reddit and Discord.
 * COVID-19 Outbreak didn't exist in .hack timeline which it thus set in the alternate timeline from our timeline which has no precedented records about the virus, but instead those might had something which inspired through the setting of Chrono Link and RISING GEAR.