.hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Ver. 2.01821208...../Storyline features

The storyline of .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Ultimate "CHRONO" Edition would be a brand-new experience and superior from the original which was not found in the base game, while also considered by the director as a True Version of the storyline which aren't even told in the game and builds up toward the conclusion of the trilogy which would finally ties up to the canon-universe titles and more.

General
The story qualities toward narratives, characters, themes, directions, and more has received a major improvements from the original to brings more new better performance and presentation toward characters to give more new diversity and immersive expression in a rich storyline, while adds a sense of perfection story quality toward emotional weight, emotional hurt, psychological trauma, gray atmosphere, twisted plot storyline approached, deeper characterization and balancing the storyline into something new without given much a same narratives from the original with a same experience.


 * Over 60 additional cutscenes, including a brand-new dialogue lines, scenes, events, and new moments which is something that never even presented in the original, intentionally to fill the missing link of the scene, new characters developments, new representation, new point-of views, and more.
 * Because due to .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Ultimate "CHRONO" Edition will be a same, but very different experience to feel but maintaining a faithful plots from the original, while it has been improved and evolved in order to revitalize and improvised the impact of the story toward main plot and characters development.
 * Including new questions and cliffhanger which lead those plot developments and mystery can be answered in the true version of the Final Sea of the Memories, while also connecting toward characters point-of-views and their perspective in order to fleshed out more about their characters which was never even explored in the base game, also downloadable contents story scenario become a main important keys how it leads to this main storyline as well.
 * While the story qualities also fleshing a deep insight toward connected lores which ties up to Canon-Universe .hack altogether while pretty sighting the leads how the mystery could finding it's answer in the true version of The Final Sea of the Memories.
 * It is also quietly possible to developed more insight toward the Twilight Knights characters in more ambitious and very depth ways which this game given more insight connection with their role in the previous .hack titles and also finding themselves new side of them to be explores in a wonderful ways. But the weirdness and plot twist is much thicken as according to director and the true version of the Final Sea of Memories is the cruelest things that players will have to face the truth beyond the possibility.
 * This will finally has made a connection with .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- although it is made to be indirectly and adds a new weight of mystery plots until at the true version of the Final Sea of Memories will begin to understand the truth behind their appearance in the later entries like .hack//Link 2 through ReCODE: The Infinity World of the God which their roles is makes much more sense how it has happen and possibly leads up to .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight-.
 * Several cutscenes which been adds-on has few numerous foreshadowing on Tokio's character which are connected to .hack//Link -ChaosWort-, along with the first mentioned about the outer MAMA organization called New Order.

Point-Of View
The Point-of View and Perspective cutscenes has been added to the game, exclusively for Saika Amagi and Akira Kuryuu (Geist) which intentionally to explore more different side perspectives of the characters which didn't even presented in the original, including increased the three-dimensional characters narratives which adds a new layer and understanding depth character background and intention behind their actions in RISING GEAR which can be explored in a lot new emotions, expressions, and gestures.

Saika Amagi
Saika Amagi story and characters is more tragic, this version will tries to bringing her character into much deeper background and what it's all ties together, also exploring a new side of her personality and never-seen before perspective of her during the storyline which gives us more deeply pity and sympathize with her action, especially how her story also connected with .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- The Bloody of the Flower, also her strong attachments and affection toward Tokio which is also the main focus to her characters development throughout stories also a deep self-conflicted, guilt, depression, and PTSD issues.

Akira Kuryuu (Geist)
For Akira is in the most special circumstances, especially how he's true name as Geist told his origin story of how he arrived in Akashic World which is how it supposedly to be a sequel of his story from Chrono Gear also bringing the directly leads toward the true version of the final arc, while bringing the results of all his development from RIVES to RISING GEAR which brings definition of his existence as a characters that could follow his own path with no regrets and his choice, this also brought a definitive missing link toward the game as well, but this given his characters to shine and developed which how his story is majorly leads up within .hack//Bullet -Versus Magician- and .hack//Link -CHRONO GEAR- RE: ENTER.

AIKA
Now for AIKA is in a very special treatment of her point of views, which is deeply powerful characters development throughout a main plots, as a new story cutscenes is not just new interaction between her and Tokio, but also shows of her point-of view and perspective as how she developed a sense of doubts toward a glitches memories that she had just remembered and thinking if it was a memories of the past or something that has yet to happen, however unexpected things can also happens as the story progress, including how it leads to AIKA's betrayal, also how her perspective and her lost memories seems to have very connection with .hack//Link -CHRONO GEAR-. But this soon is also gonna be revealed at the final arc of the game, but AIKA might be died before it reaches to the final arc, but her influence and connection is brought something that could turn tides of the direction completely.

The Executors
Surprisingly for the Executors features their own perspective POV cutscenes tells the untold stories behind the scene of the events in RISING GEAR, while also given more chance to fleshed out their characters, their uniqueness and complexity which never even shown in the base game, there's serious, hilarious and some of the most cliffhanger that foreshadow or connected toward something. But this also fleshed out the weirdness and strange through the dialogues lines about them as a "Outsider" which brought a new puzzles and mystery about how they were not a some NPC created from the memories, but rather their origins from the outside and this also explored the possibility connection between this trilogy and canon-universe .hack which including .hack//Link -CHRONO GEAR-.

Helos-Pierce
Now for the records of Helos-Pierce who always been a major antagonist in all trilogies, but his characters is not so about good or evil because how he is also one of the characters who had no side boundaries of it's characterization and even has his own complex characters. He can be enemies or allies, however, he has his own secret agenda to follow on his schedule and why he so deeply interested with Tokio for all of people, but his POV cutscenes is not just about telling untold story behind the scene of the events, but also giving opportunity to gives several bits about his background characters and origins, and his dialogue lines might has foreshadowing his interest to recruit the players behind Tokio when the time arrived which deeply foreshadowing what's going happen in .hack//Link -ChaosWort-.


 * But his POV cutscenes also has a mysterious connection between him and Davis, also it allows us to discovered something that never even told before that will change the "certain" character direction forever, while also adds foreshadow tidbits toward his involvement later in .hack//Link 2, .hack//ReCODE -The Infinity God of the World- and .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight-.

Genius
Genius is major characters in RISING GEAR who at first half that he's the one who requested Chrono Guild for a cooperation, but turns out to be the one who responsible behind the Massacre of the Players Tragedy by using Saika Amagi on her role as ENTIES also as a final bosses in the original base game of RISING GEAR. But the twist has come turn the table as his POV cutscenes can be presented as story reaching the second half and several plot twist, unexpected directions and more would be revealed as the game progresses, but one of the most important things that Genius has alter-amnesia or some kind like a Deja Vu that caused the other side memories that collides with his current memories which is part of the mystery that given us and clues can be find as the story move forwards, his perspective of his other side of memories has a very connection with Canon-Universe of .hack and .hack//Link -CHRONO GEAR-.


 * While the POV cutscenes will brings more opportunity to fleshed out his character more than in the original version of RISING GEAR, explaining the origins of his characters and more which might not part of Akashic World but something that connected to the Outside, since he's also came from the Outside as well.
 * Everything of his amnesia would be clear in the true version of the Final Arc: The Final Sea of the Memories which the brought another new plot twist that brings his connection to the Outside become clearer than before.

Cut-Content Story Cutscenes
The RISING GEAR -Ultimate "CHRONO" Edition- featured all cutscenes which been cut or scrapped from the final product development of the base game, which is now been reworked, improvised and updated in order to fit it's visionalize storyline direction of RISING GEAR which now been implemented to the game, also it is intended to completing the missing link of the storyline which is also got cut from the base game and it gives a perfect symbolize of how redone cut-content cutscenes will fit to their true vision of the storyline which had been more than just perfect.


 * Over 35 scenes which been cut from the original which has been revitalize, improves and updated from the original cut-contents, while also incorporated the stories to maintain it's fit toward the story, while bringing director's true envisioned story to the game which are been longed to be added to the game and is also now been incorporated with the additional new cutscenes as well.
 * While it can be considered as a Director's Cut, however, it is somehow completely more and different from what fans might had realize as due to improvised and redone the scene is also adds a new weight emotions, layer story themes, and more, given a new deep representation and expression to the storyline.
 * Tokio's missing characterization cutscenes is now been address in this game, which how the cut-content cutscenes has been redone to fit the narrative of the storyline which showing how his character superior from the original, given a never seen before development from the original which was never even added in the original, in a while there's also other characters, including Saika which been address as well and can be foreshadow or teased during the story progression.

Bug and Glitches Memories
Bug and Glitches Memories is a mysterious types of memories for new cutscenes which features something that majorly unknown phenomenon that were implemented in Tokio's mind which he could see the vision that he had never saw before, but it those leaving those scenes in cliffhanger until it got it's answer in the true version of the Final Sea of the Memories. At the start of the game which the mysterious memories was considered from him as the vision of the future events that could take place during Re: IMMORTAL DUSK which how it does important to the main story, but the progression of the story will leads the inevitable questions and twist as how the cutscenes of the futures turns different than what he had imagined to happen, or whether it is because he had changed the future or something he didn't even aware about this raises several question of it. Also purposely to catch players attention to the plots and glitches memories that become a main key to the story

Tokio Kuryuu will experiencing the bug and glitches memories from the beginning of the story in a brand-new story cutscenes and even adds a new parts scenes in the existing story cutscenes through glitches and bug through screen in his eyes, as he witnessed the scene events that didn't even happened or somehow didn't exist which how for the starter it was exactly the vision of the future, until it plays differently than he had expected or it wasn't at the beginning.


 * Memories of Glitches and Bug is actually has something that could connected and ties to .hack//Link -CHRONO GEAR- altogether which is a mystery that comes surround in The World system itself.
 * The reason is how the events that portrays in this game storyline is didn't even exist or feeling different along with characters missing been noticed which it shown how it became a new types of major twist direction that gives us a clues toward main plots and goes through to the final arc.
 * It is also how players at first will be confused as why Chrono Gear cutscenes was in the Bug & Glitches Memories cutscene even this game is a reboot story of the original game, which is how a new mystery and plots has been connected to each other, but it's like putting all puzzles together as one and soon be revealed in the final arc as well.
 * [SPOILER ALERT!!] The memories that was presented in the Bug & Glitches Memories is actually Saika's memories which was happened in the original events of IMMORTAL DUSK instead Re: IMMORTAL DUSK which where .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- been took place brings a reason why the memories of future turns out to be more different than what he had imagined, and how her memories being implemented to Tokio is unknown.
 * Players are recommended to watch .hack//Link -RISING- in order to learn the origins of those cutscenes and unlocked the mystery behind of it as well, while the scenes from RISING is also would be presented, but the face will left fans and players in ambiguous ways until they watched the anime series.
 * Director explained, the reason why the original version of .hack//Link or even .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- connected to this game, because it is a key important as how the story development's been played out and the reason why it all become make sense in .hack//Link 2 to later anime project, The War of the Twilight, which is why everything is all coming together as how he also appeared in .hack//Link 2 as a main antagonist as Schwarz which brought a new mystery to the plots and lore connected to the franchise.
 * This also brought a reason directors wanted to make fans mistakenly taken this as a reboot storyline of .hack//Link, because how they deeply wanting to fool the players expectation and their vision to the story, while taken realistic approach knowledge meanings about "The story of Reboot" which Akashic World, Timeline restart in different direction and more is basically based themes of the settings story of Reboot, but in truth it is actually canon in .hack universe from the very beginning.

New Episode

 * A brand-new episode, The Founding Saga which is the direct-continuation from .hack//Link -RIVES- RE:CONNECT "The Lost Saga" and continue starring Davis as the main protagonist of this game, continuously as a prequel stories to the RIVES.
 * This story will brings to learn about the true natures and secret of The World, but it is just not about Akashic World, but a whole world that catch on his eyes causing how he even learned a knowledge that grants him a infinite calculation and possibility about the future.
 * Players will be mind blown away with Davis's shocking fate which something that never even had this coming before, while the context is not just connected to .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- and -The Final Twilight-, but it is surprisingly has unknown unlimited possibilities that could brought the direct-connection with .hack//Link -The Final Game-.
 * This titles will be first mentioned about the secret project that has connection through all possibilities of plan which was known as .hack Project, but although it is not even connected to the two titles, but in the Final Game and CODE: 81311.
 * Epilogue Episode: The Curse of the World that Far Beyond is another exclusive new episode which surprisingly focused on Helos-Pierce in dramatically set following the events of .hack//ReCODE -The Infinity World of the God- which brings all calculated pieces puzzle what the events had come so far, starting with the death of Emma Wielant that become drive forces for Harald Hoerwick to become her legacy and set birth of Aura which caused the beginning of the story of the franchise.
 * While also brings the turning points behind the crucial events between IMMORTAL DUSK and Re: IMMORTAL DUSK which deeply connected to each other in a different version of it, bringing to the two version of the events play outs that connected to what comes before and what comes after, however, the Thanatos Report also has a deep insight behind to the story between MAMA organization and the secret organization, the New Order that goes bound toward their ends.
 * Bringing the way how this was developed through coincidence or not, but the possibility how this all connected is that the Akashic World is the world of reboot due to Saika's memories which been projected to all data, including how .hack//Link -RISING- might give a deep insight to this conversation.
 * Epilogue episode also shows a new story focuses on Helos-Pierce in his own perspective that leads to the anime project.
 * This also very well connected to the .hack//Link -ChaosWort- while it was purposely to tease and leads to those titles, and lead to The War of the Twilight.
 * Secret Episode: 81311... is a brand-new bonuses episode which is very secret unlockable episode that players need to finish all contents and all episodes in 100% Completion as it focused on "certain characters" which might possibly can shocked the twist of the story, however, director can explained the secret of the episode since it purposely to bring a lot of fans and players attention what comes next for the series afterwards, and players need to beat all the contents to unlocked this secret episode.
 * HINT: Although it didn't connected to even .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- or even .hack//Link -The Final Twilight- however they will connected to this, but this was something keep left in the dark which significantly introduced a new lores that never even foreshadow before. [SPOILER ALERT: This secret episode has introduced a brand-new connected lores with a bigger twist connection with CODE: 81311 and .hack//Link -The Final Game-].

Endings
All the while that the multiple endings routes from Ending A to Ending D story qualities has made an improvements, including brand-new parts of the scene had made an implemented to the existing ending cutscenes, while the fifth ending has been reworked, redone and received a true intended version along with the final arc of RISING GEAR as well, while also received the additional new parts of the ending cutscenes which exclusively for RISING GEAR -Ultimate "Chrono" Edition-.

New Endings
Following Tokio piercing through Saika's heart which ultimately bring an end to the Akashic World altogether along with all players successfully to log out as well and the next scene is continuation of Saika's confession and last wish to Tokio in Grand Whale if something happens to her, as she want Tokio to make a promise to her with her last warmth and affection smile toward him, "So, Please don't forget about me, Toki... no, 4<1r4" (while during last lines, the words has been glitched) and the next as how suddenly he woke up from the capsule VR and Kruger was here waiting for him to woke up, but the first words he says is the question, "Where's Saika?" as the screen turned black and directly to the credit roll.

Mid-Credit Ending
Surprisingly that these mid-credit cutscenes will be based on the ending of .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- which has been remade into Unreal Engine 5 cutscene. Although it is still same as the ending from CHRONO GEAR version, however, it includes an additional parts of the scene during Tokio says "Please don't forget about me, Saika!" caused the trigger from her memories about silhouette boys who look like him, feelings that the words is the same thing as she ever said. While the next one is new part of scene following her shake hand to Tokio to reconcile and overcome AIKA's death and the next things to follow is he sudden tears as she continuously looking at Tokio more which she somehow felt that she might had forgetting something important that caused her tears fell into the ground, while Saika continue staring at the sky, which causing Tokio confused what's really happen to her.

Post-Credit Ending #1 [Epilogue]
As in the base game and Chrono Gear which these scene is originally featured in the post-credit, features a mysterious boy who look like Tokio staring at beach ocean which left cliffhanger to players. But in RISING GEAR -Ultimate "CHRONO" Edition- expand those ending cutscenes, revealed that the boy was Tokio all along which his appearance is quiet different in his version at Akashic World as he along with his friends stumble upon a beach witnessed their freedoms for a long 6-years had passed, while they enjoying including Akira (Geist as Alex), but Tokio didn't, and questioning if he truly to feel alive, as how his friends described him as almost like a different person.

Post-Credit Ending #2 [Voice-Only]
The story took place after Tokio, Akira and their friends first meet with Davis in the Red Dead Guild in RIVES anime, while it is just a voiced only, but there's a conversation between Davis and Mereleona following Tokio and his friend left the @HOME. While Mereleona mentioning Akira whose with Tokio as Geist, but interestingly the last lines in the ending toward Tokio, "I'm looking forward to meet you again, Tokio... No... Akira Kuryuu".


 * Which surprisingly become a biggest plot twist of all as the one whom they thought Tokio Kuryuu in Akashic World, including the one who is actually played as him, is actually revealed to be the Real Akira Kuryuu, the long lost twin brother of Tokio Kuryuu.
 * The Second Post-Credit Scene can be unlocked after transferring all the save clear data from several games which has been listed in order to unlocked a new post-credit scene.

Secret Ending
A brand-new secret endings exclusively for RISING GEAR -Ultimate "CHRONO" Edition- considered as the final secret ending, which is far something that fans could had expected this coming which is considered as a classified and considered as the final secret ending of the game as how they would unprepared to see what comes next for the storyline heads up to, which teased the big secret ending of the cutscenes titled as "The New God of the Twilight and The Bringer of the Death" considered as the most powerful darker and ambitiously colossal than before, which teased the cutscenes from .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- Anime.

Subject of Doubleware Reports
The brand-new secret reports which known as Subject of Doubleware Reports which contains all reports about the Subject of Doubleware through their trials and error for their goals and purpose to create humans who had abilities to travel through the virtual world without any constraint secondary effect of the Outer Dependency Syndrome, this was written by the leader of Akashic World Project code name: E as their team researching any possibilities and way to unlocked the true potential of real digitalization that could surpassed doubleware ability, which they called Original Doubleware.


 * The reports explaining their research and trials reports about the important subjects, including the Subject No.0001 which he has a prominent chance to unlocked his true potential same as Tokio Kuryuu during the closed beta of Akashic Line, while also explaining more things about Akashic World, including information about it's technology that is privately developed and funded by Matsunaiga Family, New Order and MAMA Founder, Dominique de Mirabeau.
 * Subject of Doubleware Reports become a main important through all hints and clues behind characteristic and stories, which due to the reports also explaining about Saika Amagi, the Memories of Virus, Chronic Mind Virus, Error Program Akashic World System incident, and more which was same described from the events of .hack//Link -RISING-, however, this reports also connected to the original IMMORTAL DUSK events, The Real Tokio Kuryuu, and Outsider which also made connection with Genius, Executors, Yata, Helba, Lios and even Zelkova, also a future mentioned about Matsunaiga Family, New World Order, Yggdrasil and more.
 * Code Name -E- true identity revealed to be Emilia de Mirabeau, the leader of Akashic World Project and Subject of Doubleware Project, also behind players of Mereleona, however in unfortunate fact that she's not a founder of the project which can be stated at the last reports.
 * There are over 24 reports which can be found by defeating the enemies during the main story progression, and even unlocking the rare treasures in certain places to unlocked the reports.

.hack//Link -Subject No.0001
.hack//Link -Subject No.0001 is a new original video animation produced by A-1 Pictures and WIT Studios which can unlockable when players complete all the contents in RISING GEAR -The Ultimate "CHRONO" Edition- in 100% Completion which focusing the young child whom he called the Subject No.0001 (Akira Kuryuu) at his first meet with the genius programmers and the one who lead the closed beta of Akashic Line, Jyotaro Amagi and the story evolved how his deep character development lead up to .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight-.