.hack//RE: Link

.hack//RE: LINK is the new installment, direct-sequel to .hack//Vol.3 -Annihilation- the true final chapter to the .hack franchise and conclusion to the story of Final Season .hack Project -Pt.2- which sets to bring ends all the stories of .hack altogether, while brings leaps and major evolution toward next generation game platform.

Available exclusively on PlayStation 6, while later released on PC via Steam.

Synopsis
The Multi-Server War is the most chaotic and deadly war against every version of the different heroes, those who exist and those who don't exist in the original timeline which now appeared out of nowhere in the different versions of them, causing millions of lives for every server who was involved.

Their goal is only one thing…

The demise of Akira Kuryuu or his true name, Harald Hoerwick who is responsible for the chaos and death toward their worlds and causing them to go for each other's throats and those who become winners are able to defeat Akira, as the final boss. While the outside world, the True real world, is now in chaos due to the disaster network caused by him causing an inevitable crisis to all humanity.

As his original version continues for death and destruction, his reincarnated version, Wade who remember his past life and his crimes seeking to make amends and honor Saika’s memories for the last time in order to put at end the war and his original self suffering along with his sins, bearing his original self’s sin and it’s burden to move forward is something that becomes challenging, but worth for his lifetime, leading to his use of it's new name, Nein.

13 Years had passed since that day... and his journey continues...

Journey against the enormous and deadly encounters from different versions, meeting with past heroes and his old friends in which is very rough and hard to take, and his journey of redemption to understand loss and pain, accepting love and letting go of hate altogether.

'No matter what happens, he will move forward this time, together for one last time... The Final Epic Battle goes beyond boundaries of Twilight and Dusk that has shaped the history forevermore.'

Characters

 * Traveler
 * Canard
 * Akashic Labyrinth
 * NAB
 * Dark Reaper
 * Black Dragoon
 * Treasure Hunter
 * Dark Blood
 * Hacker Society
 * MAMA
 * White Squadron Forces
 * Schicksal
 * Icolo Emperor
 * Silver Knight
 * Lycoris (Guild)
 * Royal Knight
 * Star Justice
 * Moon Tree
 * Sophia Squad
 * Council Network Union
 * Infinity
 * CyberConnect 2 Universal Tech Engineering
 * Outside World
 * Other

Field
Player will control Akira/Wade who is the main protagonist of this game series, you'll be accompanying by party members and ROBO Assistance which control by Toki-Runty.

The game would be semi-open world with much wider variety range areas to be explored along with hidden areas, easter eggs, exploration, discovery, and much more to be able to get you play. You can explore the towns, buying items and equipments, upgrading, and trading items with NPCs, while also allows you to attained side-quest during in server town or during exploration or by BBS.

Combat
The combat is a major leap evolution from every past .hack mainline game titles, while relies more on action hack and slash elements, it also adds Role-Playing Game, MMO Aspects, Shortcut Commanding Party System, email system, and much more that was added from past .hack mainline game title series, while bringing more immersive, fresh, and original in its version.

RISING (Prequel Short Manga)
RISING is the short prequel manga which leads up to the events of this game story, which is set 3 years following the event of .hack//Resurrection, focus on Wade who is now using his name alias Nein alongside with her co-partner Reina, is now searching for the different version of Dr. Octa Asgrodia in order to locate the past heroes and his former friends who are scattered across the multi-server. But the troubles comes as it may goes after that leads to the event of .hack//RE: LINK.

Drawn by Suki Sakuraba and written by Jikanet which It contains 130 pages.

Trivia

 * .hack//RE: LINK share the words alphabets "RE" from the every other mainline title series from RE: Project Saga, while the different is that it is not part of that Saga Project, or even a fully remade version of the original .hack//Link. It's a whole new story and different from its past mainline title and also the conclusion to all culmination of .hack series.