.hack//Link -Chrono Link-

.hack//Link -CHRONO- is a direct-sequel/continuation to the anime series .hack//Link -RIVES- and the fully-remade version of the original game, .hack//Link which was released on PlayStation Portable back in 2010, which is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and Steam.

An Open-World Action RPG game which was developed by CyberConnect2 & Epic Games and it's publishers by Bandai Namco Entertainment which reimagining the story of LINK which focus on Tokio awake from his coma to return for a normal life, until a mysterious girl named Saika Koshizumi came to him leading to another story of his to continue.

The remake and sequel stories will not just continue Tokio's story, but also bringing back older characters from previous dothack titles to the story. Fans can made nostalgic, but also can enjoy a fresh story development which never even told in the original PSP version, since this story is the Sequel/Continuation story to the RIVES.

Graphical Engine
.hack//Link -CHRONO- using a graphical engine with modern-HD Real-Time, Unreal Engine 5 bringing more immersive and The World more alive than before which reimagining the world of Link to experience it in real-time. Bringing immersive changes and fresh new environment, while also bringing a natural spirits to the original one as it mixing between HD and Anime to become one brought an colorful expression to the characters, as well as the areas environment.

With Full-HD, 4K & 8K Resolution support, with an higher-frame rates, Ray Tracing support, and shortest loading times bringing quality experience to the fans of the new immersive stories, gameplay, graphics, and more which now can bring it to life and the quality of expression to the characters is really much combination to those expression between Anime and Game qualities, combining altogether, thus creating a brand-new dynamic element toward those characters.

As the Graphics improves with the power of Unreal Engine 5 thus creating dynamics and gimmicks elements toward a gameplay, with Open-World Elements allows players to enjoy many things as they explored the areas, however, since the elements of .hack is linear, there's also possibility some of those elements came in linear, however, the fidelity of the areas is much bigger to free-roam along with new expressive discovery which makes you feel like an adventurer and exploring a new things happen. Along with the combat system will be directly in real-time without any sequence Battle commence entry, which you can freely to attack or escape at the same times (much similiar how Kingdom Hearts III was supposed to), and more particles effects through using skill attack and magics.

As the graphicals will be somehow much less realistic, since .hack series is much far less realistic, however, with combination between Game and Anime graphics, could brought colorful expression and fresh development toward game, also how Unreal Engine 5 could incorporated those combination in a real-time, is much more delves improvements from 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:3 which was now been rebranded as 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.

As The World R:X still on the operation, however, as the news came with Disappearance over 20% Population in Japan and Mind Image Alteration Syndrome happens, in addition with a Mac Anu Server disconnected or shut down in temporary maintenance error, it is much unknown whether it's another work from ENTIES, Virus or something else entirely, but there are no words regarding about the issues happen, instead telling them that Team programmer is working on it, but that has been left unsaid for a few months later.

Features
.hack//LINK -CHRONO- will once again brought back The Eternal City of Mac Anu and the blue tower which was known as Akashic Records located in the Center of Plaza which was remain as minor setting of RIVES will now become a main setting to the game story, with dark atmosphere condition in root town has become subtle setting for how the story begin.

The setting of The World R:1 (2008-2014) and The World R:2 (2015-2018) has returned, however, as the main story setting is in Akashic Records which is the labryinth that contains all log data history of The World and since the messed quantum data time log due to interference, which now called as the Alternate Records which specifically set in the same events, but directly progressed under the different direction, but the course could also created a mess log data and creating a never-existing time logs events and objects which never occur in the past events.

Highlighting an iconic places, root town, and areas along with a Lost Grounds from the previous older .hack has returned in Full-HD and powered by Unreal Engine 5 as well inclusion of a brand-new areas which never been discovered or being explored, bringing a fresh new expected for newcomers and old fans to enjoy nostalgia also enjoying a new things in the remake stories.

Synopsis
"Few months after the Massacre Players Tragedy, at long last that Tokio Kuryuu had finally woken up from his coma and missing his summer vacation ever since.""Everything return to Normal, except, All of his friends disappeared just three months after as they began seperated from each other ever since the end of Unofficial Battle Royal which orchastrated by Geist which is right now there's no sign of him from a meantime. As for ENTIES there are no sign from her ever since that battle, it is much unknown what happen to them since everything has changed ever since he went to coma and only his brother, Akira Kuryuu whose still with him besides all that happens from the last months.""Returning to their old life became more dulls and boring, the class and all things living still same as always way before they login to The World, unable to go where they supposed to after what happen. Everything is just normal and simple for the boy like Tokio Kuryuu who loves a Video Game.""As the everything went down to how the normal things has gone to be, the next things happen, the transfer student came into Tokio's classroom... Saika Koshizumi""She approaching Tokio with looks of beauty and sincere smiles amaze Tokio's eyes unto her, and brought The Black Copy Disc, transfering him into The World R:X once more...""As the time that he knew something would happen again, and the story of his adventures has just continue... Or should that really continue in that way?..."

Chrono Hunters

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

Schicksal

 * Flugel
 * Metronnom
 * Cello
 * Klarinnette
 * Trommel
 * Orgel
 * Posaune
 * Geist

Others

 * Helos-Pierce
 * Jaugarnat
 * Slayer
 * Merelonia
 * Hojo Itadori
 * Jun Bansyoya
 * Piros the REBORN
 * Dr. Octa Asgrodia
 * Davis
 * Yun-EL
 * Sophora
 * Salvador Aihara
 * Ju21
 * Genius
 * Shoko Adashino

Difficulty Mode
Different from how the previous main title game, players would be able to select a difficulty mode before the starting the game and it's a different variations than how the other RPG Games had. Difficulty Mode in this game will require a special condition which is very unique with can alter course of the game and even in the online game experience through increasing or decreasing level areas, Boss Damages, EXP and more which are potentially depends on how players can choose each of Difficulties before you start playing.

There are 5 Difficulty Modes, such as:


 * Relax: This difficulties had similiar designation with Cheat Mode which was exclusive features for .hack//G.U. Last Recode on PlayStation 4 as you can delivering the damages toward enemies instant only with 1-Hit. It was also allows players who only wants to enjoy the storyline and it also received a bonus itmes with maximum Gil, also with Higher-Spec Weapons could be use for Tokio and his party.
 * Easy: It was optimized to performing the game experience easier while delivering a normal damages, but with less receiving damages from the enemies. Players can also earn a Bonus Items same from Relax Mode.
 * Normal: Balancing the gaming experience in every ways.
 * Hard: Optimizing the gaming experience to be as much as challenging to the players, with enemies damages receive will be increased but still retain some of the elements experience from Normal Mode, however, has been modified in order to fit it's hard difficulties, although there's 65% chance rate for players to get an Rare Items but really needs to be more tricky ways to defeat the enemies.
 * Critical: Optimizing the gaming experience to become more hardest and tougher in order to test the strength of the player's experience, the elements of difficulties became more challenging than Hard Mode. The Damages deliver by enemies increased in 3x times than Hard Mode, possibly that players could die in instant, unless they mastered all strategies and ways to defeating the enemies even on low or high level areas that fit to players level which is much same stronger than any difficulty has. *Level 80 Recommended.*

Akashic Records
Akashic Records is a main area to the .hack//Link -CHRONO- as it used to travelling unto the past events that which was took place in the previous eras of The World. Using those might not guarantee to changing the time in the real world, but only inside a Digital World, and as you traveled a new timeline of past events due to Time Paradox Memory that could change the events of the past to create a new one and lead causes of the unknown syndrome known as Mind Image Alteration Syndrome.

As it means to travel through log data time place, doesn't mean that you can travelling in perspective times for free, as the gate to specific time has been locked and only can be opened if you obtained The key of Memories.

During main story, players can explore the area dungeon inside Akashic Records known as Akashic Realms, as the system path and dimension time network becoming keys for Tokio and his friends to proceed the destination to the Gate of Main Timeline events The Sea of Memories.

With players which is a victim of the Disappearance of 20% Population in Japan can be found by using Link Connector system which allows you to find a missing players who were trap in Akashic Records/Realm and Dark Time Records. It can also detecting something like a secret passage that connecting path where missing people were located but eventually it leads you to boss fight if you want to find them, as you were given a bonus reward like Chrono Lux. It could also be used to find a rarest ancient treasures or hacked items that were hidden.

It will also filled with enemies which came from a random timelines due to error logs data controls, causing the monsters from R:1 and R:2 appear in Akashic Realm, but their behavior is different from the way they are in their original timeline, whether it is work of bugs or due to Akashic Records effect, and status data became random sometimes became strong, or sometimes became weak, players be able to find a weakness and carefully strategize toward the enemies movement.

Although as you proceed through forward before arrived toward destination, you must complete all challenges, like Puzzles, Combat Trial, and Quiz which each of them has it's own different definition theme and unique adaptation to tell as the story progress. Althought not all mini-games will included to the each level of Akashic Records, except in the final level of Akashic Records.

Although the consenquences would be much severe if you fail to finish it, causing you received damages and it would also drain your GP if you fail doing steps for mini-games, although all those mini-games will giving you a hints in order to help players to complete the trials. Those who complete the trials challenges, receiving not just bonus rare items and equipments, but increase attributes status toward playable and party characters.

You will fighting against The Guardian Recorder as a boss fight at the reach of destination for Sea of Memories.

Root Town
Root town is a non-combat area, as you can only run to buying particular items, equipments, and material equipment, while you can also doing a mini-games or something day-off, most notably that you can Trading items with another players in R:1 and R:2. Players can now enjoy exploring the root town more freely, while also discovering a brand-new found hacked items, and meeting with a rare or unique players, while also gathering information.

Each of Root Towns has different structures since you can travel R:1 and R:2 eras with Akashic Records, as it brought backs old elements from previous numbered main titles of .hack which it has been reworked which includes exploration, Sub Quest, a brand-new root town facilities and more crowded appearing thanks to the Power of Unreal Egine 5.

For R:1 which brought back a feeding Grunty and can also riding a Grunty in Field Area, but suprisingly that You can now use to riding Grunty from R:1 in many areas, even in R:2 which allows you to enjoy the exploration without fighting the enemies, but you need to feed them if you want to keep going, however, you can't enter the temples or specifics building by riding them as well. New elements in .hack//Link -CHRONO- which you be able to ride on Canoe and exploring a new areas in certain different Root Town, or using hidden areas to travel through passage.

For R:2, with a steampunk setting which you can explore an hidden passage, or doing a quest from Bishops in certain quest, also you can do more quest at the Quest Shop. You can buy rare items at Anchor Shop although it could only be visited as you need to wait in three times before going back, or you can just buy an regular items. Implementation of Link -CHRONO- also include a brand-new mini-games and allows you to explore alleys in a secret passage of the root town allows you to explore more and find items within the treasures.

Although as in the middle crisis story progression in root town, players can freely to choose raising his sword to attack the enemies or go directly to pointing destination.

[This information is incomplete, there will be a changes soon]

Shop
As the Chrono Blade is Tokio's main weapon which cannot be replace, although you can buy the weapons for his left weapon or so called as Sub-Weapon which you can choose weapons which has more increased status that can be useful to bring the damages toward the enemies, and you can choose armors and accessories which increased the attributes and adding effects during exploration or in combat, or even both.

The elements which seemsly same as how .hack//G.U. used with Fire, Ice, Winds, Lighting, and more added as attributes elements for certain equipments which be used for infliction or resistance or nullified. It is also be able to modifying weapon skills, techniques and elements to make it smoother in process delivering damages toward enemies, depends on their weakness and critical.

Except in certain condition when Tokio reached his Chrono Gear Form which cannot be replaced for both weapons since he using a Dual Gear as his weapon, although it can be upgraded in Jikanet Shop.

The other parties can buy equipments and upgrading their weapons, also adding the materials for resistance or infliction like usually among players do.

Same as how in .hack//G.U. as you earn Chim-Chim, you can also use them for something values way like trading it to the Chim's shop to exchange it with vulnerable presents items that you can give it to the party members as you like.

Jikanet Shop
Jikanet shop can be found at the entrance of Akashic Records, and Timeline travel of Root Town, providing equipments upgrade and selling items same as the other shop.

However, it also provides to buy an abilities for Akashic and Dark Time Records exploration. Players allowed to gained upgrade boost for Experience and Money earning, with increased Drop Rate items and changing the structures of design areas, and you can buy those with Chrono Lux which can be earned as you defeat the enemies from Dark Time Records or Selling Rare Items or Finding a Missing People in Akashic Records and Dark Time Records.

It also be able to upgrading Equipments into a different forms in higher-advance which very useful for their Player Level as it calls Weapon Core Upgrade which modiificate by Jikanet. The items could also upgraded to use in a combat with several elements that can delivered to the enemies depends on their weakness, while it can be used to distracting the enemies.

Nikon-Gift is a new items gift discount which exclusively used in Jikanet Shops, as you shown Nikon-Gift Coupon and you will received a discount rate cash for equipments and items.

He can also be shown in the main areas as the story progress which allows you to purchasing the equipments and items before fighting against great boss fight. He can also giving you an additional support treatments to boosting parties status and even healing your parties before the begin of the battle.

Chaos Gate
Players can transport themselves into Field Areas or Dungeon with Chaos Gate, but not just that, it could also transporting them into another root town.

It has new system known as The Rank Types Area System allows players to choose type keywords area that players want to explore with each of different areas type as it's own unique content and challenges as it includes puzzle, traps and enemies as depends on rank type areas that you want to choose.

There are many level rank types of areas, such as:


 * D-Type: Contains an enemy appearance, it is much recommended for the beginner players.
 * C-Type: Contains an enemy appearance with a different types of puzzles which are most likely normal challenges for a players to explore.
 * B-Type: Contains an enemy appearance, different types of puzzles and several traps which were added in a several spread toward areas, which somehow become hard challenges for players to get through, it also contains a bosses which appear at the end of the areas or in the middle one.
 * A-Type: Contains a strong enemies appearance, different types of puzzles, and many more traps appear throughout the areas that become much harder for players to proceed, including bosses getting much rough and hard to defeat, however, if you willing to continue proceeding the hard challenges, you will be rewarded with amount bonus items and rewards.
 * S-Type: It is the only ranking which were exclusive for main story progression, and it depends how much difficulties of areas could be as you were received area keywords through emails or certain events during story progression.
 * X-Type: Contains all types of difficulties which is most challenging, and it includes an harder bosses to defeat which were not part of recommendation for beginner players or even a normal players. You can unlocked this when you choose a Critical Mode.

It also has new features to allow players to creating their own design areas and naming the areas according to their vision for wanting for more challenge or more easier for pro or beginner, by choosing a specifics types of area which were fit for Players Level.

Field
You can freely explore the areas further, exploring the deepest part of field areas and dungeon leading to a new discovery or something similiar like The Lost Ground, although you will find a never seen lost ground from previous .hack//Game titles as there's irratation type areas which became more open-area exploration in real time which those that never even presented in previous numbered titles before.

As in R:1 and R:2 version of Area Fields and Dungeons had a different structures and direction, which in the first one as you can explore field directly and directly enter to the dungeon to explores which is iconic things in how R:1 is about, although not all direction is direct into that. However, in the second one is seperated between Field Areas with Temples (or without) and Dungeons to explore clearly lead you to open up a beast statues and treasures.

Even though those two versions like from .hack//IMOQ and .hack//G.U. of exploration field and dungeons are different, but there are twist as it features field and dungeon areas that mixed with features from R:1 and R:2, also includes elements from R:3 which allows fans nostalgic with the exploration like in previous one, while also enjoying something that interestingly combine together. You can also fighting a monsters two or three times, in a middle or at the end of the areas.

A new system that allows you to riding a Grunty (R:1) in Field Area, but suprisingly that You can now use to riding Grunty from R:1 in many areas, even in R:2 which allows you to enjoy the exploration without fighting the enemies, but you need to feed them if you want to keep going, however, you can't enter the temples or specifics building by riding them as well or even a dungeons.

Lucky Animals is not the only thing you can just catch, if you unharm them and you be able to pet a different types of Lucky Animals, and it also can join in your battles as it would gives you a boost status during a combat, but you need to make sure you can pet it in the right way or being undefeated or else you will never get an a rare bonus in an upcoming next battle. However, you can only use them in specific areas, but as you want to carry the lucky animals in the main story, although first you need to finish it's requirement.

You freely to enjoy what's thing in areas, a new animations that brings quality to explore the areas and how you can fill it with Party Talk Discussion which allows you to interact during exploration or the other things, and it can also be used during a main story as well.

The Spring Field will be able to heal up all your party members HP and SP before exploration or defeating the boss, however, it can only be found in fields and dungeon. Besides Jikanet can do it as well during main story dungeon areas and in Akashic Realms.

.hack//Link -CHRONO- The Dark Slayer
.hack//Link -CHRONO- The Dark Slayer is a major large downlodable story mode content which focuses on Akira Kuryuu who were betraying Tokio and his friend to join Schicksal at the first half of the story. Focusing the cooperation with Fluegel to investigating Geist and CC Corp's motive that connected to the Jyotaro Amagi and the main story plot, while continue his role as a member of Schicksal.

Approximately that you can finish the main story within 7-8 gameplay hours and complete all contents within 25 Hours

Available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and Steam via Downloadable Content which contains memory size 10.1 GB. Although you can unlocked this DLC Story by beating the game.

However, there are certains main story chapters for the Dark Slayer DLC story which can only earned as you progress the main story of .hack//Link -CHRONO- in order to obtained a new chapters to continue proceed it's story.

Synopsis
''Immediately follows after Akira's betraying Tokio and his friend to join rank with Schicksal, however, this was causing him in a multiple regrets with his reasons to help Tokio to discover CC Corps plan closer and until the day after he joining the team, he still weren't cooperative with a member teams, since he's the spy to the guild, still holds grudge against them. However, sudden things happens, as Flugel discovering his plan and his life is now is hanging in the balance, exposing his plan as he would be branded as a traitor.''

''However, Flugel says otherwise, instead contacting the HQ about Moles in a guild, he ask Akira for cooperation for investigation related toward CC Corps plan and connection to Massacre Players in The World events. But Akira confused, why he wants to help him, and what's his deal for it... He decide to accept those cooperation, in order to gain more intel from CC Corp, and especially about Geist himself.''

.hack//Link -RIVES-
.hack//Link -RIVES- is a anime television and prequel stories of CHRONO which set in The World R:3 which much before this events has been occured, showing their adventure in The World R:3 until the mysterious hacker & PKK, ENTIES brought crisis to the players in hanging balance and brought disasterous toward the network which leads the events to known as The Massacree Players Tragedy in The World R:3.

Sequel
.hack//Link -RE:LINK- is a direct sequel to the CHRONO story set a year after, it is considered as a "Bigger and Intense" story which continuing the story of Tokio Kuryuu and covering the remake stories of last portion story climax of the original PSP version of LINK, which now being expanded and totally remake it toward a brand-new stories development brought a new and fresh, while also tied connectingly to 3rd Season story forward.

Trivia

 * The titled CHRONO was representing about Chrono Core and Chrono Link which was a main key factor items to the story.
 * .hack//Link -CHRONO- is the first .hack series which available for the Next-Gen Platform which is for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
 * RIVES and CHRONO could be set possibly and impossibly to canon-verse of .hack
 * It is also stated that the story could set possibly and impossibly in 2020 A.D since it's already pass of the year 2020.
 * The story of this game might remake the story from beginning to the where story ended as Tokio and his friends came to find Geist and Jyotaro Amagi.
 * The last portion of the original story (Where they going to Save Kite and Fighting Queen of Demise, Aura) which has been moved unto REVISION story which is brand-new original story and also a remake story to this one, as it set a year passed since the CHRONO story.
 * Last name for Saika as Koshizumi is an homage to the last name of Voice Actress who voiced her along with AIKA, Ami Koshimizu.
 * .hack//Link -CHRONO- is the first .hack series titled who using Unreal Engine 5 as it's base graphics.
 * CHRONO story is much same, but also largerly different from original PSP version story, even though the game setting follows same mark as original, but there's no denying that since this game was intent to be as much as different from the original one.
 * Even thought, .hack//Link -CHRONO- is a remake version of the original PSP game, .hack//LINK, it is also direct-sequel and continuation to RIVES and everything as ties connection to the prequel one.
 * The game might take more than 120 Hours of gameplay, as the story approximately can be finish within 30-35 Hours of gameplay.

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