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

.hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Ultimate 'Chrono' Edition is the complete edition and major updated version to the base game, available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, and Microsoft Windows via Steam and Epic Game Store.

The RISING GEAR -Ultimate 'Chrono' Edition- will features all downloadable season pass content, including a brand-new story scenarios, increasing the story qualities, 8K Resolution with Boost higher-FPS support, new areas, new challenges, new system, and more.

Along with a special original video animation special bonus, .hack//Link -Thanatos Report- available you complete 100% all contents of RISING GEAR which is a very and ultimately classified for the players.

Information
As CHRONO RiSING Trilogy saga titles will be released in definitive edition for RIVES RE:CONNECT, Chrono Link, and RISING GEAR which received a special enhanced version of the game which includes all downlodable contents for trilogy titles of series. However, RISING GEAR will received a major special improvements in a massive ways since .hack//Link -The War of Twilight- is in development, the crucial things that the RISING GEAR will brings a leads to the 3rd Season and Final Season of .hack series with The War of the Twilight and The Final Twilight has been teased in development.

RISING GEAR is a massive crucial important to the story and how it very crucially connected to all franchises of .hack, it is considered by a studio as the one of masterpiece of work that were developed together by CyberConnect 2 and EPIC Studio Production with the critically successful commecial to the game bringing notice how it could change the line of the story. RISING GEAR contains a lot of darker atmosphere, plot-twist, ambitious crossover, game changer, turning points, and more bringing something that has never done before from other games around considered as AAA-Level of the game, with the studios wants to keep the same level of it's quality of the story, while also wants to do something special in other ways of meanings.

RISING GEAR -Ultimate "CHRONO" Edition- will be surpassing the base game critically acclaimed successful bringing more impactful story added to the game, with increasing the qualities of the story, expanded the story that never even added to the game, and the gameplay is widely improved from the original become more fast-paced but also tactiful in smartest way approach as also the story will highlight featuring more new surprise added to the story and also brings a new surpass approaching for a darker stories to tell inside a light of world bringing a smartest direction while also keeping the same faithful lores of it's .hack identities while brings a new themes and new faithful direction of the true .hack series was about to be.

The game will finally open the connections to the outside which means the .hack-verse which finally open the mysteries that becomes true and how it deeply lead-up to 3rd Season Project .hack titles, with .hack//Link 2, .hack//ReCODE -Serenity of the God-, and it's upcoming lead up to the .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- bringing the powerful turning points of how shocking what we know so far with reboot wasn't reboot that they were thinking but aside to be connected toward each other brings the powerful plot-twist of all.

RISING GEAR -Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition- is a brand-new and different experience from the base game which offers a totally new experience for players to find which is all is completely new than how the original did, but does tells the same story, but this time with reattaching the uncut scenes which never even make it into the original as this time will be indirectly connected to the original .hack//Link but the brand-new story elements gives a depth glimpse that would connected to the The War of the Twilight and The Final Twilight while answering the questions from .hack//Link 2.

 

Includes all-DLC Season Pass
The updated version, RISING GEAR -Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition- will includes all downloadable season pass content along with story scenario, episodes, equipments, accessories, costumes & outfits, seasonal packs, challenges, and more with several sets of free-DLC of equipments and items which now available without be able to purchasing them once more, which is automatically added once you start the game.

Greatly Updated Visual
It will now be able to support the graphical visual in 8K Resolution support with includes a boost higher-FPS, and the refresh rates will be up to 320 Hz. The graphical identical, Unreal Engine 5 will receives an major improvements from the original base game which is now updated into Unreal Engine 5 Super which now supporting for higher spec performance, which now has increased the density, POV, Far-Drawing, HBO, SRGB, Anti-Aliasing, and more which now be able to bring those experience into a fully next-level for players in a definitive ways to play a brand new experience of .hack.

Chikayo Fukuda has returned
The legendary most iconic .hack games series composer, Chikayo Fukuda return to compose an additional and few remastered soundtrack, exclusively for RISING GEAR -Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition- with Yuki Kajiura returned working together to compose with Chikayo delivering a new best qualities of the soundtrack that could move people or affecting people with their music very emotionally bringing additional experience for .hack fans to enjoy a new and old music in combination of music work art together bringing something that could bring impact to the players.

Legion Imperial City become fully explorable
The Legion Imperial City is a massive popular server town which firstly introduce in .hack//Link -RIVES- and fully explorable in RE:CONNECT which is now later being completely linear explorable to non-explorable in Chrono Link and RISING GEAR. The updated version has brought back those city into it's fully explorable with an additional brand-new story arc known as The War in Imperial City Arc along with a brand-new sub-story mission, ruins and exploring an unseen areas which never even shown in RE:CONNECT given a new experience and explorable immersive areas that brought a new beautiful sight, new shops, new PCs, and more.

New Lost Ground, Hidden Forbidden Labyrinth Creator
A brand-new undiscovered lost ground which is a special forbidden areas which never even discovered by any players of The WORLD or even NAB itself, which is revealed to be placed between Realm of Network Stream System and The World R:X through the internet, and considered to be completely new lost ground in .hack series. It also includes a several new story cutscene and surprising connection with twist with .hack//Link along with additional sub-story mission and fighring against a key main bosses from previous .hack titles in an higher difficulty levels.

Upgradable Photo Mode
Photo Mode which is now featuring a brand-new elements that players now can use to improved a many beautiful scenary, shadowing, and more, featuring in all new options with new filters, new styles mode, costumization, and another unseen features which exclusively for RISING GEAR -Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition- that allows to expanding your beautiful memories with photos you had taken in a highest quality of all, that will brings an everlasting memories that players could had experience and feels the moments in the updated version of RISING GEAR experience.

More People's Needs our Help
RISING GEAR -Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition- will now adds another new sub-story mission over 30-45 sub-mission that players could enjoy with many different experience that you can enjoy with. A new sub-mission story is different from it's base game, which had an very imaginative ideas, original fresh experience, unique directions, and keeping humors steady with an unimously mind-blows players to enjoy much more laughter, but also feels the heartwarming interaction between characters to characters while resting and preparing before coming back to a Cruelest Main story that players would had to experience it.

It will offers a new rewards items, equipments, and also offered a new things to enjoy and expand a new roam interaction between Twilight Knights, Chrono Guild, Legion Unity, and Schicksal.

All-new Link Ability System
LINK Ability will now had an additional 20 abilities which is different from any abilities from the base game which offers a brand-new experience for the players for exploration and combat, as it improved the performance of the game bringing a different and new style of the game experience from the base game bringing more new preserved elements challenges. Also those few new abilities has different counterattack experience on combat and offering different feels fast-paced combat from it's based game, bringing the game into the next level of its performance.

The New Ultimate Experience for RISING GEAR Storyline
RISING GEAR -Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition- will offer massive ultimate new experience toward the main story bringing total unseen new story brings a new sharp presence for the fans, and those who've been playing the base game will be able to enjoy it again with new biggest major updated version of RISING GEAR, featuring:

Main Story Update
The major updated version will had an updated main story, which includes additional new story cutscenes, dialogues, and events scenario, including additional new dialogue moments outside of the cutscenes which given a immersive diverse story moments during exploration and anything related to the story of RISING GEAR, including increasing the story qualities to adds new perfect sense of emotional weight, darker atmosphere, twisted approached, deeper characterization, and balancing the story in gray tone which given a new total experience which never even found in the base game.

Saika POV
Several new cutscenes, dialogues and events added to the game which featuring Saika's perspective and how her story connected to her DLC Scenario which is much like continuation from her. The story of Saika POV will given a new side and deeper characterization which cannot be found in the base game which brought a three-dimensional characters and adds a depth of her characters during her cutscenes which given a new perspective of the story in different layers and explained her intention in RISING GEAR. Her point of view somehow will be mysteriously connected to .hack//Link (PSP/Chrono Gear) which has amount pieces that never even get through on her minds.

Akira POV
Several new cutscenes, dialogues and events added to the game which featuring Akira's perspective, but the most special with his POV, is how his backstory as Geist revealed which explained how he ended up arrived in Akashic World and become a different person appearance which bringing the mystery about him has been answered, which brings a lot missing link that connected with .hack//Link (PSP/Chrono Gear) goes to light on it's revelation which given much deeper development for him brings also connection to it's later story in .hack//Bullet -Versus Magician-.

Reworked the uncut scenes
All the uncut scenes which never even made it to the final product will be reworked, improves, and updated to fit the visionalize of RISING GEAR story which was longing to be added to it's game, which might can considered as Director's Cut, but somehow completely different and more than just that. Also includes the most-wanted scenes by directors and creators which brings to the finalize as the true complete vision of the game bringing the diversity story experience that never seen before, which something that brings the main story altogether with uncut scenes.

Expanding the story of Final Sea of Memories Arc
The final arc of RISING GEAR story is the most powerful and much twisted beyond any level of it's arc itself bringing completely turning points and completely new directions from how it was from the previous arc. However, in this version would finally brings the confirmation for CHRONO RiSING Trilogies canonity to .hack universe which is not a reboot from the very beginning, as it finally connected to the .hack//Link (PSP) which is the major key part of the plot twist as Chrono Guild has now finally reached the truth about The Secret of The World.

The story has been improved, updated and increased its performance toward characters on it's emotional weight, reactions, actions, darker and much more bringing how it's important to creates a powerful and meaningful final arc to the story in RISING GEAR which given a meaning conclusion to the story of the trilogy which is now connected everything together from beginning to the end and especially how it did connected to .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- and .hack//Link -The Final Twilight-, while it also become importance to added several cutscenes to the game to given a layer depth to the characters.

Bug & Glitch Cutscene
A brand-new unique types of the cutscenes which purposely adds something much creepier as part of notes to given more layers of the darker story, but another reason is it finally given something that eventually directly or indirectly connected to the .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- which played and catch players attention toward the story. You can experience the game at the beginning, as Tokio Kuryuu experiencing the memories through bug and glitches in his eyes and suddenly witness a scene events that wasn't supposed to be his memories or somehow didn't exist, or to be exactly a vision of the future. At first player will confuse over the vision of the future looks exactly the cutscenes from .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- but as you reach at the end of the game, bug & glitched scenes will be revealed.

The obtainable episode is a continuation of Davis's story from The Lost Saga
Davis, the leader of the RedDead Guild has getting his own Downloadable content scenario story which titled as .hack//Link -RIVES- RE:CONNECT  'Lost Saga'  which focused on his story as prequel to the RIVES story, but his ending left in cliffhanger and so his story will get his continuation from his DLC scenario which is now titled as The Founding Saga which continues from the last ending.

As how he begins to discovered the Secret of The World which no one or even Legion Unity has known about it, it includes a brand-new characters appear to the story. The Founding Saga will ties directly to .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- and it features a surprising twist as the story progress.

Epilogue Episode, starring with... Helos-Pierce?!
A brand-new epilogue episode exclusively for RISING GEAR -The Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition- which is shockingly focused on Helos-Pierce which dramatically set after the events of .hack//ReCODE -The Serenity of God- as he trying to calculated from beginning of Aura's birth to what's coming after that which something else plays behind crucial events of Immortal Dusk and Re: Immortal Dusk events which deeply is part what he would think about his next plan as it gonna move forth after the end of MAMA organization. This epilogue episode has impressive and surprising twist plot progression that has really connected to Thanatos Report.

A brand-new mystery episode scenario
  RISING GEAR -The Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition- will had brand-new exclusive scenario. However, according to the directors, this episode is very special and not something that could obtain it so easily or it can ruined surprised for players who were looking forward to it, as it focused on  'certain characters' which will surprise the fans altogether with shocking twist for the story might take added to it which bring lot attention to all .hack fans. You can obtained this secret episode by completing all 100% contents and beat the Epilogue Episode. The hints that were given by the directors is that The Secret Episode would be set during .hack//Link 2.

 

The brand-new ending exclusively for RISING GEAR -The Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition-
The updated version of RISING GEAR will now receives a brand-new ending exclusively for Ending E (The Final Sea of Memories Arc) which somehow begins in the most surprising twist of it's ending gives a glimpse what happen after Chrono Guild came forward to the light of the gate beyond which gives continuation of how it cames after that. There are additional few endings which given a new cliffhanger, but also closing the book together while lead up to what happens next.


 * Extended Endings - The endings from the base game has been extended with conference with Legion Unity altogether discussing the true secret of the world and commencing the operation to log out from Akashic World. With additional scene, as they goes through beyond light of the door, however, not everyone but Tokio entered a mysterious place which strikes similiar to the final place on The Forest Pain as he touch those weapons and he starting to see Saika's memories but there's somethings wrong.
 * New Ending - surprisingly that the new ending will focused on Saika Amagi in the real world, however, more shockingly that this ending is from extended version of the ending of .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- which set a few months after the events. Although the endings is the same from that game, however, it includes an additional scenes featuring when Tokio says "Please don't forget about me, Saika!" which triggered something deep inside of her memories about silhouette boys who look him who remind her a same thing. The next one is after she hond hands with Tokio to reconcile AIKA's death, a sudden tears fell to the ground unintentionally, which somehow that she might had forgetting something.
 * Mid-Credit Scene - In the base game, it features a mysterious boy staring at the sky at the beach ocean which left unanswered about who he is until the Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition expand those mid-credit scene which revealed that boy was Tokio all along which his appearance might quiet little bit different. Along with everyone finally got out and awake from Akashic World to stumble upon the sea of ocean which witnessed their freedom for a long 6-years had passed, Tokio's friend including Akira enjoying the beach ocean, but Tokio himself didn't.
 * Secret Ending - this brand new secret ending is something goes beyond far enough and surpassing of it's identity of .hack series bringing crossing beyond any imagination that would blow fans mind away without any exception. It was supposed to be a very secret which only can be unlocked after beating the game in 100% and those scene might could lead up to .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight-.

Unlockable a new OVA Special Bonuses .hack//Link -Subject No.0001-
A new original video animation special focuses on ENTIES who seems quietly visiting Dominique de Mirabeau for some reunion errands, but this story seems took place prior to Thanatos Report which set something new surprise as the story progressing, including the connection of the events from .hack//Link -Chrono Gear-, .hack//Bullet, .hack//ReCODE -Beyond the World-, .hack//Link 2 and .hack//ReCODE -The Serenity of the God- but also focusing on different perspective on his story brings new complex of the direction story that brings to catch fans attention what will happen next.

.hack//Link -RISING GEAR-

 * Optional emails from CC Corp, Anonymous and mysterious sender which told the players that "Everything you've had played from RISING GEAR will be different and this story would be a cruel truth, so prepared".
 * Bonus Items and Equipments, such as:
 * Restore Drink 10x, Emperor Soul 10x, Resurrection Soul 5x, Smoke Screen 3x, and Fairy Orb.
 * Additional bonuses Equipments and Costume Packs.
 * Key items: The Rising Warrior of Gear & Restart Again.
 * Brand-new bonus video footage, such as:
 * 3 Mysterious video bonus footage which seems took place some kind a lab who experimenting the child.
 * 1 Bonus footage which shows Jyotaro Amagi met with A boy which unknown whose his name.

.hack//Link -Chrono Gear-

 * A new story report which titled Davis's Meeting 'Part 1' on his meeting with fellows of Legion Unity, regarding about Immortal Dusk, Jyotaro Amagi, Saika Amagi, Aura, Real Digitalization, Doubleware, Schicksal PC, Akashic Records, R.A. Plan, P-COM and The connection of involvement with MAMA.
 * At the beginning of the new story scene report, Davis witnessing the Twilight Knights fighting against Aura -The Queen of Demise- and AIKA's Sacrificial to save Aura which was deemed much interesting on his accordance.
 * Optional emails from CC Corp, Anonymous and Unknown sender, whose those message says that someone asking where Saika Amagi is and why she never even called him again ever since that day.
 * It is speculated that it was Tokio Kuryuu who set those message emails to Saika, however the one who sent was Tokio, is not Tokio whom players had played with in all CHRONO RiSING Trilogy which means a different person.
 * Bonus Items and Equipments, such as:
 * Restore Drink 10x, Emperor Soul 10x, Resurrection Soul 5x, Smoke Screen 3x, and Fairy Orb.
 * Additional bonuses Equipments and Costume Packs.
 * Key items: Non-Existence of Memories
 * Brand-new bonus video footage, such as:
 * 3 Bonus Video Footage about Akashic Line which originally came from .hack//Link (PSP) and .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- but this bonus video footage shows a gameplay, story, and much more.

.hack//ReCODE -Beyond the World-

 * A new story report which titled Davis's Meeting 'Part 2' on his meeting with fellows of Legion Unity, regarding about The Origin is the power that MAMA's interested about to using Aura for another upcoming for The Real Digitalization, Quantum Computers, Cat PC, and also the conflict that would happen between a two side of MAMA whose goes on different goal.
 * Bonus Items and Equipments, such as:
 * Restore Drink 10x, Emperor Soul 10x, Resurrection Soul 5x, Smoke Screen 3x, and Fairy Orb.
 * Additional bonuses Equipments and Costume Packs.
 * Key items: The Origin of The World's Hope
 * Brand-new bonus video footage, such as:
 * 2 Recording Video about The Crisis incident of Second Coming of IMMORTAL DUSK.

.hack//ReCODE -The Dragon Sins and The Eight Curses-

 * A new story report which titled Davis's Meeting 'Part 3' on his meeting with fellows of Legion Unity, regarding about MAMA's Operation Plan, Veronica's Plan, The Searching of the Origin, The Creator System, The Dragon Sins, and The World Ender Core, also the upcoming the stage of MAMA's Organization to fall on it's end of their reign.
 * Bonus Items and Equipments, such as:
 * Restore Drink 10x, Emperor Soul 10x, Resurrection Soul 5x, Smoke Screen 3x, and Fairy Orb.
 * Additional bonuses Equipments and Costume Packs.
 * Key items: The Operation Sins of the Dragon.
 * Brand-new bonus video footage, such as:
 * 2 Recording which set place in The Dragon Sins and The Eight Curses which shows something that surprise fans alike.

.hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition BLACK BOX

 * Contents
 * .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition (Base Game)
 * Premium Edition Bonus
 * Music CD "CHRONO Original Soundtrack + Best Opening & Ending Songs collection
 * Drama CD "The True Identity of Tokio Kuryuu's Player".
 * Anime OAD ".hack//Link -Reaper's Report-
 * Premium Booklet
 * .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition Archive Files.
 * Character information, Design Proposal, Weapon Design, and The World View setting for RISING GEAR -Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition-, The Founding Saga, Epilogue Episode, Secret Episode, and the new ending.
 * There will be also a brand-new information which was never even found in the game itselfs which contains a secret and easter eggs, or something else that brought fans surprise.
 * Mechanics design proposal, Terminology, Illustration, and RISING GEAR -Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition- Special: ULTIMATE FOLDER -Akashic World Project-
 * ULTIMATE FOLDER -Akashic World- contains several information regarding about those project, along with its history, numbers of important SS-RANK Subject, Saika Amagi herself, MAMA contribution, Jyotaro Amagi's secret report and more, also another glimpse of information about The Subject 0001.
 * Original Story Novelization "GEAR"
 * Message Letter from Developer staffs, includes Hiroshi Matsuyama, Kikuya Megane, and Kazunari Ito along with several numbers of Seiyuu characters who voicing their characters in RISING GEAR -Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition-.
 * Art Bonus
 * Poster Key Visual of .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Ultimate 'CHRONO' Edition along with 2 brand-new illustration drawn by Seiichiro Hasokawa.
 * Three Key Illustration card by Megane Kikuya and Seiichiro Hasokawa.

Trivia

 * Ultimate "Chrono" Edition is a new marker names which exclusively for .hack//Link sub-series, and also it is considered to be much superior from it's base game which adds massive new contents as preparation before entering to .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight-.
 * According to the producer and directors, The game will be completely new experience from the base game, but offers something that would surprise fans who had played the game.
 * The game released six months earlier, before .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- was released, although .hack//Link -After Days-
 * The first time in .hack series for the episodes story to continues in later after several years left unanswered, but according to the directors, The story is the biggest major spoilers of all so it needs .hack//Bullet, .hack//Link 2 and .hack//ReCODE: Serenity of the God in order to understand it's continuation context since it will connected altogether that would lead up to The War of the Twilight.