.hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT

See the Anime Series and the first chapter of the trilogy .hack//Link -RIVES-

.hack//Link -RIVES- RE:CONNECT is the game adaptation, the prequel stories to .hack//Link -Chrono Link- and reworked version to the TV Anime series .hack//Link -RIVES- featured in Unreal Engine 5, available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Microsoft Windows (Steam) and Microsoft Windows (Epic Game Store).

RE:CONNECT version adapting all seasons of RIVES Anime from the first season to fifth season along with three Movies and all episodes of OVA Series which means covering all the stories in anime series with remade all cutscenes from anime with Unreal Engine 5, but not just that, the game version featuring additional contents with brand-new story arc which were never even presented in the anime version, while includes additional characters, Akira playable characters, expand gameplay features from .hack//Link -Chrono Link- and more new elements of gameplay which allows player to re-experienced The World R:X.

The downloadable story mode content, .hack//Link -RIVES- 'Lost Saga' which is a prequel stories from RIVES events set focuses on Davis which set following the Third Network Crisis, however, prior to the end service of The World R:2 and the releases of the new version, The World R:X, including new downloadable contents features all-new bonuses features which players can bought it for free or purchase it depend on the item list you want to buy.

Recommended for players to play this game before jumping to the .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- while understand the major plot spoilers which already been presented in .hack//Link -Chrono Link-.

Synopsis
In the year of 2020 A.D. the most worldwide popular companies known as CyberConnect Corporation or known as CC Corp has released the next version of the biggest and massive popular MMORPG, The World R:X which began more trends worldwide, gained most recognition, and reached copies sells over 500.000, which aimed for younger to older audience as well which brought a new wide reach popularity reputation to the company.

The Tasogare Mugen's high school junior student, Tokio Kuryuu become known as Gaming Freak for his love hobbies for Games and the former No.1 Star Players of Blue Flame Devil Basketball and the high school junior student Akira Kuryuu who began to immersed their beginning adventure into The World R:X to fufilled their childhood's promise, something that could get away from real-life problem.

Journey starts as they begin their first experience as Newbie and going through their first trial by accepting The Night of the Glorious Treasure Quest, but sudden things happens with a mysterious PC with a mask known as ENTIES the hackers and PKK, brought the great distortion and terrible horrors in the online game which steers their enjoyment adventures, turn into a bloody hell, resulting people's mind not become coma, but actually died in the real world.

Along their journeys as they met with people along the way, together fighting ENTIES to prevent the massacre against players, while uncover the secret identity of ENTIES and learn unexpected phenomenon that happens between Online Game and Real World due to his existence.

And thus, the journey of the boy name Tokio Kuryuu, begins!!

RIVES

 * See Characters from .hack//Link -RIVES-.

Brand-new characters

 * Noct
 * Kanae
 * Falco
 * Elza
 * Elexa

Returning Legacy Characters

 * B.T.
 * Bear
 * Albeiro
 * Yata
 * Sieg (Female)
 * Saburou

Chrono Link Characters

 * Klarinette/Kumarinette
 * Flugel
 * Cello (Cameo)
 * Metronome (Cameo)
 * Orgel (Cameo)
 * Posaune (Cameo)
 * Trommel (Cameo)
 * Ninjato

Gameplay
RE: CONNECT allow players to playing the two characters, Tokio and Akira who has a different jobs, different playstyles, different abilities, different combat abilities, and different perspective during the main storyline, while also can be together as well as allowing players to switch the characters, during exploration and combat.

The gameplay system using the based gameplay improvements balance and elements for free-roams town server, exploration, combat, sub-stories, smartphone, and few more from .hack//Link -Chrono Link- which has been implemented for a new experience in The World R:X while excluding the LINK Abilities, Jikanet Shop, and other features which the game will focus on traditional online gameplay element from past .hack titles and including the major improvements from .hack//G.U. Last Recode while incorporating with current evolution of the system with implementation of Action Role-Playing Game and Fast-Paced Combat.

There are brand-new features and implementation of the gameplay element system exclusively for .hack//Link -RIVES- RE:CONNECT, such as:

Double Skill Trigger Connector
The Double Skill Trigger connecter can be used when you continuously attacking and strike against the enemies, which Tokio can landing the damages and pressing the Triangle Button to excecute the Double Skill Trigger Connector system, it so allows to brings a lands for a perfect hit strike with double time damages as it lead the enemies straggering through by the damages.

However, the skill trigger connector needs for set skills in an higher performance as how the combo styles of the skill needs to be fit for it's Double Skill Trigger uses. Player can upgraded and accessing the new abilities by levelling up it's Weapon Skills, although unlike in .hack//G.U. as how weapon levels and character levels are being standalone, as you need to use skill trigger continuously in order to levelling up Weapon levels, now the Weapon Level can now be gained through Experiences as well which depends on how EXP that you had gained.

Ultimate Rengeki
Ultimate Rengeki is a reworked version of the awakening system which allows party to combining their most powerful special attacks together, which delivering the massive damages against the enemies, and with a Quick-Time Sequence allows you to perfecting it's excecution for the Rengeki attack which completely with more damages that will delivered toward the enemies.

There are three types of the Ultimate Rengeki which can be used during the combat, such as Xros (which had 2 parties), Trinity (which had 3 parties), and Ultimate (which had 5 parties) as each of those three rengeki has very unique abilities and attacks in order to performing and excecuting the Rengeki system, and not just that, it also has a different heal abilities which also very useful toward the party during a combat and even the boss fight.

Five Party Members
Five Party Members is a brand-new features which exclusively added in The World R:X which allows you to add more than just three party for the exploration and combat, also allows you to granting more freedoms like Trading, Live-Talk Conversation, and Teamworks. Not just that, it also has a benefits for the exploration system like Search Party which you can scattering your parties for investigation through the areas, allows you to find a hidden room, treasures, and another unexplored areas.

It also benefitted use for the combat system, with an enemies growing in a big numbers allows you to defeat in easy ways with five-party members, the performance of the combat will be more increased in colossal ways, or maybe in smartest ways to do. Increasing the teamworks level will allows you to further strengthened the performance and Unison Bonds between Tokio with a Party Members.

Mecha Knuckle Grunties
The World R:X will also includes a brand-new powerful challenges during the exploration and combats with adds of Mecha Knuckle Grunties. As you exploring the areas and dungeons, you will unexpectedly or expectedly find a many types of Mecha Knuckle Grunties during areas exploration progress, and it would attacking you in many directions as you entering the combat mode.

The Metal Knuckle Grunties is the strong opponents, as much as like a boss fight which has an strongest metals, dynamics AI, and speed movements during combats that causing the confusion to look for it's weakness. Although there's a way to defeating them, by making an surprise attack or luring them so that party members can attack them behind for the weak spot as longs the tacticals goes very well.

Stealth System Abilities
Several new features which allows you to make more freedoms before the combat, by making surprise attack or just hiding by using Stealth System Abilities allows you to sneak within the enemies territory with a lot more choices in order to making a perfect performance and timing for the surprise attack or just escaping them without their notices in order to prevent any battles or risk being injured.

But it needs to be more careful within the steps because enemies are very sharp when it comes noticing or sensing their enemies around the areas, they can hear your steps and find out where those steps come from. It is best to be careful and take a few distances in order to prevent the enemies noticing you.

There are also a bunch a new strategies to come up before preparing for a combat or to escaping, like luring the enemies from the parties to their traps or just luring it when they almost get noticed, which allows more extended times to sneaking their enemies, but you need to find him again, but party can appear again as you proceed through the ares.

Warp Area Emergency
If some unknown phenomenons occurs or the enemies getting too strong, or even being surrounded, Warp Area Emergency allows Tokio and his party to escape immediately without need for time cost for escaping by pressing and hold R3+L3 which you will return to the teleport chaos point or even in a check point, but it cannot be used during boss fight or some story situation occurs.

It can also healing you and your party within 50% of it's recovery rates and you can be free to return exploring the areas or return to the server town. However, it can only be used in certain situation or in three times in row, so it needs to be more carefully to using those emergency in order to not ruin the experience and challenges during exploration.

Depth-Field & Dungeon Exploration
The exploration can go much deeper as you exploring the big areas and dungeons in so much different whole levels and discovering a whole new areas which never even seen before, in looks for thematical as according to the keyword area. But deeper you explored, more discovery that you can find and the possibilities that allows you to find a new hidden areas, anonymous areas and the lost grounds.

However, the deeper that you had explored brought a chance for the new types and strong monster to appear which you will entering the combat mode against them in the process, but it's actually depend on how level areas you had gone through or much easier or harder levels you had reached. But it also makes more benefitted for the brand-new experience for the exploration and a lot new discovery which only in The World R:X

Real World
Tokio can now exploring the real-world environment, but only in linear paths which makes you unable to go anywehere you want as you pleased. However, it adds more depths toward the areas and real-time discovery, as you can explore and talk around with the people and gaining information, or so you can eavesdropping their conversation at the same time.

There are a few mini-games to enjoy in Nakita's Arcade Shop which includes the exclusive contents like fighting 2D game, racing, and more as it is an old retro or new modern which can be playable only you can use the coins or cards. This real-world experience is benefitted for the story in Real World with Shoko Adashino.

You can also use your smartphone during in the real-world as well, as you can use Tweeter, HelloChat, Rediscord Forums, and Media.

Brand-New Story Arc

 * Disappearance of Gord Arc
 * Training Arc
 * The Mystery of The Records Arc

Akira Story Arc Exclusive

 * Geist Request
 * The Tower of Hades
 * Solo Investigation
 * Soul of Data

Changes and Features
Major Spoilers from Chrono Link!!!

General

 * The storyline narratives quality has made an major improvements from TV Anime series, including for OVA and Movie with adds more in-depth story plot which increased continuity connection story toward characters that impacted through their development and fleshed out the deeper narratives, themes, drama, genres, tones, humor, and the dark atmosphere surround the story of RIVES along with increased the weight of mystery surrounding the plot of the storyline in more complex and unpredictable which intentionally to play fans and player's emotion.
 * Expanding the lores of RIVES, which also includes Legion Unity with new information that really relevant to the main story and future entries, while also introducing a brand-new connected lores that could possibly answer few questions from anime series that were left in dark while foreshadowing for what was come, which can be including for Chrono Link, and RISING GEAR.


 * Characters story-driven plots development through their narratives, point-of views, twist, and writing has been increased and expanding their screentime to fleshed out more about their characters, including adding a new-side of their characters through their personality, background, themes, and more to create a three-dimensional characters in deeply exploring the gray side environment and story plots to the characters.
 * The Blood & Gore Graphic visual toward story cutscenes had been increased in chance to adds an horror elements to the main story to improves the darker tone and depth toward the main storyline, a possible Jump Scare would happen in few occasional story.
 * Dialogue Moments can now be happen outside cutscenes, which can presented during combat, exploration and more allows freedom through communication with party members without any limitation while more new moments through dialogues can be happen between characters in plots stories or even side-stories of their dialogues.
 * Akira will be a playable characters in RIVES -RE: CONNECT- asides from Tokio. He has his own focused-story arc which allows players to explore more-depth story about him, brand-new story arc, and his point-of view story along with a new side of his character development which never even explored in the anime version or even in Movie or OVA that allows to progress his character in new ways.
 * The Way of the Samurai story arc has been expanded and improves from the movie version which allows to expand more his development and other major characters which was never even made it to the original due to the time constraint, and the game adaptation given a new opportunity to explores more about Samurai and Honor themes, while also focusing defining Akira as a characters through meaning of themes of it's story arc that very relevant to his character development in RIVES storyline and progressing the story forward.
 * Shoko Adashino will be getting more screentime and new moments than how she was in the TV Anime series which now can be progress through main storyline as well as during important side-quest, which how she become main important influence to Tokio and Akira through their friendship as the story progress until a big revelation in ENTIES Rising Arc that would bring a major emotional impact toward the main characters and others as well, her lines dialogues and screentime has been expanded three times than anime series also her role as ENTIES.
 * Her stories POV cutscenes will be fleshed out to explored the scenes which didn't even depicted in the anime stories while also explored more new side of her characters in a different ways compared to her version in anime along with character development, while her POV during as ENTIES will be presented as well in the game given a lot more twist following ENTIES Rising Arc.
 * Shoko will be a new Unison Bonds character which allows you to increased her bonds with her as you invite her in the real world and even in the online game, given a new interaction, new moments, and new side of her character development, while there will be a new side-quest from her, developed friendship that later turn into affection toward Tokio.
 * You need to maxed out her Unison Bonds characters before ENTIES Rising Arc begin which there will be expanded new stories cutscenes that makes players feeling hurt and emotional with all journey, friendship and affection that goes so far to be a betrayal, but her new backstories and more bringing players to sympathize with her how much hurt she was being used as a tool to kill, realizing whose the true enemies was.
 * Shoko's bath cutscenes is possible for few moments cutscenes to happen, which resemblance to Saika as how she did along with some unexpected dialogues conversation might happen between Tokio and Shoko as the game progress.

Story Arc changes

 * Welcome to the World
 * The Night of the Glorious Treasure
 * The Way of Samurai
 * Limited Exploration Mission
 * Key of the Chrono
 * Cooperation Mission
 * Prophecy
 * Arena Palace Tournament
 * ENTIES Rising
 * The Fall of the Red Dead Guild
 * Unofficial Royal Battle

.hack//Link -Chrono Link-

 * Tokio and Akira character initial level can start at the level 25 in a default and they can now used the equipments and accessories which are compatible to their PC levels.
 * Several additional story cutscenes which are tied with the plots story from .hack//Link -Chrono Link- as it adds a new clues and foreshadowing dialogue lines for the upcoming continuation chapter on .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- and seeing how .hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT will connected to it's plot of the final chapter and possibly nods teases connected lores to the game as well.
 * Including for ENTIES Rising Arc has an additional cutscenes which add nods revelation of Shoko's True Appearance in full face as Saika Amagi brought heartwarming and light-hearted moments caused affection toward him which how it foreshadow her later appearance in .hack//Link -Chrono Link-.
 * According to the directors, her fully face of true appearance as Saika Amagi is much more beautiful depiction which how she was presented in warmth smile and heartwarming feelings, the scene alone was the most beautiful moments that they had fully envisioned.
 * HanShi 's awareness through their conversation regarding how CC Corp planning to use Aura for something even bigger than what they imagined that could possibly benefitted for the bigger and hidden organization that was stepped behind the shadow of the company (Mentioned about MAMA)
 * Receiving new emails from Daisuke Uchiyama as part of thanks for playing .hack//Link -Chrono Link- and also transferring the save clear data to .hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT. Including a brand new emails from the Anonymous sender which was not requested to Tokio, but to the players in help to re-emerges Tokio's Past.
 * The anonymous asked players to finding the missing pieces of his memories about what happened in their final encountered between Tokio and ENTIES as in order to learn the truth from his amnesia which is a vital to his latest condition according to the Anonymous, due to he sensing something is much worse gonna happened to his body due to having the ability as a Doubleware if he pushing his emotion psychological to the beyond limits.
 * Anonymous will sent more emails depends on how story goes which he would sent right at the beginning of the game and players need to goes through progressing it's game storyline in order to unlocked another message which contains a critical information about Tokio's past memories.
 * As you beating a game, you received a last emails from anonymous which explaining his condition is got even worsened than before and stated that somethings might gonna happen as the possibility for the worse come true and soon as doubleware reaching to the beyond level possibility, he can guess the possibility for the Original Doubleware will be unleash in the disaster future to come.
 * He also stated that he found a message from his brother that someone has just manipulated the events that causing his Original Doubleware soon to be unleashed and feared that his condition is getting even worse than before, worrying about what future might comes.
 * Bonus Items and equipments available as you converting the save clear data, which earn a bonuses, such as:
 * Bonus Items: Health Drink 5x, Soul Drop 4x, and Restoration Drop 3x
 * Bonus Equipment: Chrono Edge
 * Bonus Costumes: School Uniform from Chrono Link exclusively for Tokio's Team.
 * Earning 100.000 Gil
 * Bonus Key Items: Reconnect the Memories of the Tragedy.
 * Bonus video footage featuring the Insider Developers and Behind Scene of .hack//Link -RIVES- and .hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT along with a special clip interviews about their past experience toward developing the game adaptation to the first chapter of the trilogy and what could be transpired it's story connection for .hack//Link -Chrono Link- and .hack//Link -RISING GEAR-.

.hack//IMOQ Re: Login

 * Several additional story cutscenes which are tied with the plots story from .hack//IMOQ Re: Login along with the 5th episode, Legacy and .hack//SIGN -Remastered- while also mentioning about characters, connected lores, and more which might had something to do with plots of the game as well.
 * Including a brand-new story cutscenes featuring Helba 's perspective regarding about certain plots and connected story lores development from .hack//IMOQ Re: Login which also includes about The Key of the Twilight and Aura might had something to do that would ties up with Chrono Link, RISING GEAR, and Thanatos Report.
 * Receiving new emails from Daisuke Uchiyama as part of thanks for playing .hack//IMOQ -Re: Login- and also transferring the save clear data to .hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT. Along with several emails Helba, Balmung, Lios, Tsukasa, Orca and BlackRose which those emails are supposedly sent to Kite as regarding 10 years ever since the Pluto Again and how they were doing now, but the lines in those emails has brought intention a deep connection with the events of RIVES and foreshadowing for Chrono Link.
 * Bonus Items and equipments available as you converting the save clear data, which earn a bonuses, such as:
 * Bonus Items: Health Drink 5x, Soul Drop 4x, and Restoration Drop 3x
 * Bonus Equipment: Amateur Blade Metal, Roe Blade, and Wings of Light Blade.
 * Bonus Costumes: Kite's Uniform, Balmung's Uniform, and Tsukasa Uniform.
 * Earning 100.000 Gil
 * Bonus Key Items: Daybreak of the Twilight.
 * Optional new short gag video footage, .hack//4KOMA -Reborn- Vol.1 contains a three-clips video footage.
 * Bonus video footage featuring the Insider Developers and Behind Scene of .hack//IMOQ Re: Login along with a special clip interviews about their past experience toward developing a new IP which how it was called now as .hack series and also how it continuously expanded for all these years in decades and the future to come.

.hack//G.U. Last Recode Vol.4 Reconnection

 * Several additional story cutscenes which are tied with the plots story from .hack//G.U. Last Recode, including the fourth volumes Reconnection with includes the additional easter eggs, reference and callbacks from the game which might had something that really important to the plots of RIVES -RE: CONNECT- and Chrono Link that would ties the plots together while foreshadowing plots for the upcoming .hack//Link -RISING GEAR-.
 * Including insight callbacks about The World R:2 which how it really impacted toward other players and it's cultured in the past three years, which bring it's new designation for new version, The World R:X that combines the first and second revision as a part of fans popular demands with brand-new original settings as a sequel to the first revision in 1.500 years later following The World R:1.
 * G.U. New Archival Reports is now included as a bonuses which contains a lot of information and plots points which was never even explained in trilogy or even in the fourth volumes which something that might has been hinted for .hack//Link -Chrono Link-.
 * Receiving new emails from Daisuke Uchiyama as part of thanks for playing .hack//IMOQ -Re: Login- and also transferring the save clear data to .hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT. Along with a new emails from Atoli, Pi, Kuhn, Silabus, Gaspard, Ovan, Aina, Yata, Piros 3rd, Shino, and Alkaid as it not just contained about how they're doing in the past three years to now in the real world, while hinted something toward what futures to come later along with secret foreshadowing that didn't even told, as this emails supposed to be sent to Haseo.
 * New emails which came from the AIDA Server regarding about Kusabira and AIKA which it has a two email message, while one was for Haseo and the other one was for Tokio (The real one).
 * Bonus Items and equipments available as you converting the save clear data, which earn a bonuses, such as:
 * Bonus Items: Health Drink 5x, Soul Drop 4x, and Restoration Drop 3x
 * Bonus Equipment: Gai Gu Blade, Gate of Ouroboros, and DG-Blade
 * Bonus Costumes: R:2 Costume outfits for Tokio's team, Terror of Death outfit (3rd Form), The Shining Gunslayer outfit (Xth Form), The New Chain of Life outfit (1st Form), and Ultimate Steel outfit (5th Form)
 * Earning 100.000 Gil
 * Bonus Key Items: The Owner of the Truth and One Power and Connection.
 * Optional new short gag video footage, .hack//4KOMA -Reborn- Vol.2 contains a three-clips video footage.
 * Secret Video Footage contains a five-secret camera surviliance data which was kept hidden as a classified from CyberConnect Corporation which includes a twisted fates and shocking presentation regarding about Salvador Aihara's Infiltration toward CC Corp.
 * Bonus video footage featuring the Insider Developers and Behind Scene of .hack//G.U. Last Recode along with a special clip interviews about their past experience toward developing the original game of G.U. including it's remastered G.U. Last Recode with a new episode, .hack//G.U. Vol.4 Reconnection.

.hack//Link -Chrono Gear-

 * Receiving new emails from Daisuke Uchiyama as part of thanks for playing .hack//IMOQ -Chrono Gear- and also transferring the save clear data to .hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT. Including a brand new message from the Anonymous which he supposedly sent to the person which he called "Saika Amagi" and asking how is she today as it's been few months following that events, while he explaining what he's doing now and including wanted to know that he's hoping she's alright now in the somewhere places and hoping that they would see each other again one day.
 * Tokio Kuryuu seems very confused toward the unknown sender which seems so friendly toward the girl name Saika Amagi, however, the name was somehow really nostalgic for him and he kinda had a sense of Deja Vu which seems he feel like he heard that name before, but didn't know where or when, but the way how he judge anonymous writing, it seems that he was friend of her, but Tokio thought that those message might came of her while he never even messaging like that before or he ever forgotten something which seems left in cliffhanger and unanswered.
 * Bonus Items and equipments available as you converting the save clear data, which earn a bonuses, such as:
 * Bonus Items: Health Drink 5x, Soul Drop 4x, and Restoration Drop 3x
 * Bonus Equipment: Gear Blade -Platinum Mode- and Chrono Edge -Gold Mode-
 * Bonus Costumes: Original Chrono Gear form (Xth) and Alternate outfits exclusively for Tokio.
 * Earning 100.000 Gil
 * Bonus Key Items: The Owner of the Truth and One Power and Connection.
 * Bonus video footage featuring the Insider Developers and Behind Scene of .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- along with a special clip interviews about their past experience toward developing the original game of LINK including it's remake version .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- which also includes a brand-new special clips interview about their process of developing the manga adaptation, .hack//Link -Twilight Knights-.

Downloadable Content Bonuses

 * Downloadable Story Mode Content
 * .hack//Link -RIVES- RE:CONNECT "The Lost Saga"
 * Bonuses DLC
 * Summer Outfits
 * Red Dead Outfits
 * Marble Blue Outfits
 * Winter Outfits
 * Summer School Uniform
 * Shibuya Outfits
 * Dragon Quest Outfits
 * Legendary Outfits
 * Traditional .hack Outfits

.hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT Premium Edition box

 * Contents
 * .hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT (Base Game)
 * .hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT "Lost Saga" (DLC Story Mode)
 * Premium Edition Bonus
 * Music CD "RE: CONNECT Original Soundtrack (Disc 1-4) + Archive Anime Soundtrack + Best Songs of Link -RIVES- Anime"
 * Anime OAD ".hack//Link -RIVES- Davis Unknown's Legacy" & ".hack//Link -RIVES- Legion Unity".
 * CD Drama ".hack//Link -RIVES- Secret Meetings-"
 * Premium Booklet
 * .hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT Archives
 * Character information, design proposal, weapon design, and color variation from RE: CONNECT and The Lost Saga.
 * Mechanics design, platform game introduction, world view settings, terminology, illustration, and RIVES RE: CONNECT Special Files: Legion Unity, ENTIES, and Massacre of the Players Tragedy.
 * The special files will includes all information regarding about Legion Unity starting history, members, branches and more who worked as a rebel forces toward discrimination and possibility a hacker involvements toward groups as they are very popular and known in The World R:X.
 * ENTIES features a new information files, attacks, history and more, including several new trivia, facts, plot point hinted, and more which could had some question that left unanswered in the plot which can now be told here.
 * Massacre of the Players Tragedy special files features all collection of news information from reporter, journalist and more, including the report toward the incident, numbers of victims, the history chronological, speculation, involvement characters, and more which how it has impacted toward all history in the game.
 * 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.
 * Original Story Novelization "The Origin of Akira Kuryuu"
 * The novelization story focuses on Akira Kuryuu's backstory how he was founded suffered at the fire at CC Corp, explaining how he was founded and adopted by Kuryuu Family, including his first met with Tokio Kuryuu the boy who become his new brother and Miyuki Kuryuu as her new sister.
 * Story themes teaches about Family and Bonds.
 * It also focuses on his conflicted to adapt in a new environment following his adoption while also feeling insecure toward his new family and his new siblings as caused him feel afraid being different, not knowing about his real parent and where he even came from.
 * Some shed secret storyline connection between .hack//G.U. -Terminal Disc- and .hack//Link -Chrono Link-.
 * Bonus Illustration
 * 2 brand-new illustration poster key-visual and alternate key-visual of .hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT drawn by Seiichiro Hosokawa and Kikuya Megane.
 * Three key illustration post-card by Megane Kikuya, Seiichiro Hosokawa, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

.hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT Definitive Edition
See .hack//Link -RIVES - RE: CONNECT "Definitive Edition"

.hack//Link -Chrono Link-
See .hack//Link -Chrono Link-

.hack//Link -RISING GEAR-
See .hack//Link -RISING GEAR-

Trivia

 * RIVES -RE: CONNECT- which was stated to be a first game of .hack series for adapting it's storyline from the anime series, movie and even OVA series.
 * Also stated to be the first game in .hack series to have two playable characters, Tokio Kuryuu and Akira Kuryuu.
 * The adaptation game of RIVES is purposedly for the players who wanting to re-experience and immerse themselves toward the anime storyline along with movies and OVA series before entering to .hack//Link -Chrono Link and .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- while it is also benefitted for players who had not watched the anime storyline and experience it's story in fully playable game experience.
 * According to the team developers and story writers, the secret ending of RIVES -RE:CONNECT- contains a ultimate plot-twist and majorly cliffhanger as it took scene from the RISING GEAR which shown the white girl who looked like Saika and Tokio laying on the ground with his face being messed up, sending the audience in more curious about his fate.
 * The scene was taken from Chapter 9: Total Disaster which where Tokio was lost fighting against Saika due to his rage and this secret ending intentionally to catch all fans and players attention for the upcoming .hack//Link -RISING GEAR-.