.hack//Link -RISING GEAR- The Calamity of the White Flower

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.hack//Link -RISING GEAR- The Calamity of the White Flower is a bigger downloadable content season pass to .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- starring Saika Amagi which set between Chrono Link and RISING GEAR bringing her origins transformation form into Calamity of the White Flower and how her intention are very clearly wanted to extermination of CyberConnect Corporation, and struggling with her great sins and terrible deeds for the events of Massacre of the Players and also her personality disorder which causing her breakdown to the dark path that she had choose.

Available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Microsoft Windows (Steam) through via downloadable season pass content which can be purchased and obtained after you beat story arc. It is considered to be much darker tone and sadness story which fans would sympathize with her story development and also how she was being betrayed, mistrusted, misguided and being used as a tool and lies by those who using her as tool for their agenda during her time as ENTIES, which is how it lead to this story.

The original video animation, .hack//Link -Saika- is the prologue story to this exclusive downlodable story mode content, focused on backstory about Saika Amagi which set prior to the .hack//Link -RIVES- told the sad story of her childhood days until the day he met Genius and become the strongest PKK and Hackers, ENTIES.

Prologue -Broken-
Following the death (presumed) of his brother, Jyotaro Amagi and learning the truth about her as ENTIES the one who responsible for the Massacre of the Players brought an extreme depression, shocked, and stressed that brought her decision to disbanded Chrono Guild and disappeared in the eyes of the people, despite all the truth that she could not handle and even though she could not remembered about her time in The World R:X before the transfer or even spent with Tokio and Akira as Shoko Adashino.

Following a few months, the worlds now entered a phase of the real digitalization process, many people continue to be perished, and it still continued during the cold winter. Saika spent her time run away from home, becoming a homeless. She had nowhere to go, haunted by the visions of the past that she didn't know and continue suffer her the most of time, despairingly realize and wishing to die very worst.

Just one after another, the police had found her and she choose to run desperately not want to be found, chasing by the police until she had nowhere out after. But she only had one choice, using Black Copy Disc unto her P-COM and finally escaped from police, by real digitalizing her into the online world. Instead arrived at the server town, the only point she were awakened in the mysterious area, something that she unfamiliar with.

Chapter I -The White Flower-
Arriving at the unknown places that she felt unfamiliar for, although she began to remembered something came when she searched through information about The World R:X as she hacked the file from CC Corp, as it is area that were supposed released as an exclusive Quest Event, but due to massive issues failures with so much bugs into it, they decide to throw it away, named it as The White Forest filled with a snow, calm and peaceful, the feelings that she never had experienced before seems to be something that she would call, Heaven place.

As she walked through that snow, with her flesh and blood body that she not supposed to enter, but yet she could felt a cold as she walk and just little continues she would survived in the surrounding by snow. But her eyes images starting to fade, she couldn't even see beyond of that snow, believing that she could died. As she had reached through near of her end, however, she ended up met up with someone with a white hair helping her to find a place that she could feel warm, and until she awoke that she realized that she was already in somebodies house, met with the woman who had saved her, calling herself as The White Flower.

Chapter II -Illusions of the Past-
In order to learn about her past, she need to go to the mist snow of the memories which contains the unseen memories that were missing fragments from Aura's memories that were not supposed to see. However, The White Flower had forbid her to go there, as she walk through to that mist and learning the truth about her past will only causing her to experienced the ultimate pain, despair, and suffering, but in order to not look away from the truth, Saika must pressed forward in testing if she worthy to embrace the truth beyond of that mist and accepting the trials upon her.

With given a Sword of Calamity from White Flower, she began to fight against several monsters and giants along the way, gone through hard survival to go way through that mist and fighting an endless counting of the enemies she had fought, finally defeating the boss that were guarded the mist. But once she took the similiar items that she knew The Chrono Core, she encountered with an illusions, illusions of her past starting to emerged.

Characters

 * Saika Amagi
 * Shoko Adashino
 * AIKA
 * Tokio Kuryuu
 * Akira Kuryuu
 * Slayer
 * Ryoko Koshimizu
 * Junya Hanamura
 * Yaori Kotonera
 * Himiko Kanaei
 * Takumi Hino
 * Miyuki Kuryuu
 * Mrs. Kuryuu
 * Ninjato
 * Sol
 * Kyushu
 * Kruger
 * Nishijima81
 * Alibaba
 * Seventy-Seven
 * Miki-07
 * Davis
 * Yuna
 * Seraphora
 * Ju21
 * Fluegel
 * Cello
 * Metronome
 * Klarinette
 * Orgel
 * Trommel
 * Posaune
 * Geist
 * Durga Fiida Sharma/Genius
 * Midori
 * Kite
 * Atoli
 * The Dark Matter
 * The White Flower/Saika, The Blood Flower
 * Ayaka Amagi
 * Jyotaro Amagi

Gameplay
As the .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- The Calamity of the White Flower within exploration and combat will be same experience from .hack//Link -RISING GEAR-, although there will be additional gameplay elements which were exclusively for Saika Amagi, such as:

.hack//Link -RIVES- RE: CONNECT

 * Improved the story cutscenes which were connected to .hack//Link -RIVES- anime series, which now has greatly ties to the RE:CONNECT version.
 * The powerful scenes which already made improvements will includes The ENTIES Rising Arc as additional cutscenes to the DLC stories, and includes an additional perspective stories during her time as ENTIES which became haunted to Saika's image.
 * Optional E-Mails which originally belong to her time as Shoko Adashino and as ENTIES, also during her time as Saika Koshizumi which something she doesn't even want to see, but forced to.
 * There's also an E-mails from Tokio Kuryuu, Geist, Akira Kuryuu, and Genius.
 * Bonus items and equipments, such as:
 * Restore Drink 10x Emperor Soul 5x, Ressurection Soul 2x, Smoke Screen 3x, and Fairy Orb 3x.
 * Additional bonuses equipments and costume packs for Saika Amagi.
 * Key Items: The Undeniable Sins and The Bringer of Calamity.

.hack//Link -RISING GEAR- The Calamity of the White Flower PREMIUM EDITION

 * Contents
 * .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- The Calamity of the White Flower
 * Premium Edition Bonus
 * Music CD "Original Soundtrack"
 * Drama CD "After the Battle"
 * Anime OVA ".hack//Link -Saika-"
 * Premium Booklet
 * Character information, Design Proposal, Weapon Design, and The World View setting for RISING GEAR and The World R:X -2021-.
 * Mechanics design proposal, terminology, illustration, and Calamity of the White Flower Special: ENTIES's Mission Files.
 * Original Story Novelization "The Beginning of the Worst Day"
 * Message Letter from developer staffs, includes Hiroshi Matsuyama, Kikuya Megane, and Kazunari Ito.
 * Including the message letters from Ami Koshimizu.
 * Bonus Illustration
 * Poster key visual of .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- The Calamity of the White Flower.
 * Saika, ENTIES, AIKA and Shoko key illustration card by Megane Kikuya.

Trivia

 * It is the first .hack games to featured a female character like Saika Amagi as the protagonist to this exclusive DLC story, .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- The Calamity of the White Flower.
 * For the several times for each .hack//titles to featuring the female characters as the protagonist to their story .hack series in different format media, for most notable are:
 * Carl as the protagonist of .hack//Zero
 * Midori as the protagonist of .hack//Cell
 * Sakuya as the protagonist of .hack//Quantum
 * Sora Yuuki as the protagonist of .hack//Beyond the World.
 * This is also for the first time that she will gone on solo during story progression instead doing with party members, which is the first .hack//games even in DLC story to do a solo game.
 * The words of Calamity is referencing Saika Amagi's name meaning which first name Saika was meant as Calamity, also have same meanings as Disaster, Tragedy, Catastrophe and more which this stories is fit to how her actions in the past had brought a great disaster.