.hack//Link -Chrono Link-

.hack//Link -Chrono Link- is a direct-sequel/continuation to the anime series .hack//Link -RIVES- and the fully-remade version of the original game, .hack//Link which was released on PlayStation Portable back in 2010, which is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and Steam.

An Open-World Action RPG game which was developed by CyberConnect2 & Epic Games and it's publishers by Bandai Namco Entertainment which reimagining the story of LINK which focus on Tokio awake from his coma to return for a normal life, until a mysterious girl named Saika Koshizumi came to him leading to another story of his to continue.

The remake and sequel stories will not just continue Tokio's story, but also bringing back older characters from previous dothack titles to the story. Fans can made nostalgic, but also can enjoy a fresh story development which never even told in the original PSP version, since this story is the Sequel/Continuation story to the RIVES.

Graphical Engine
.hack//Link -Chrono Link- using a graphical engine with modern-HD Real-Time, Unreal Engine 5 bringing more immersive and The World more alive than before which reimagining the world of Link to experience it in real-time. Bringing immersive changes and fresh new environment, while also bringing a natural spirits to the original one as it mixing between HD and Anime to become one brought an colorful expression to the characters, as well as the areas environment.

With Full-HD, 4K & 8K Resolution support, with an higher-frame rates, Ray Tracing support, and shortest loading times bringing quality experience to the fans of the new immersive stories, gameplay, graphics, and more which now can bring it to life and the quality of expression to the characters is really much combination to those expression between Anime and Game qualities, combining altogether, thus creating a brand-new dynamic element toward those characters.

As the Graphics improves with the power of Unreal Engine 5 thus creating dynamics and gimmicks elements toward a gameplay, with Open-World Elements allows players to enjoy many things as they explored the areas, however, since the elements of .hack is linear, there's also possibility some of those elements came in linear, however, the fidelity of the areas is much bigger to free-roam along with new expressive discovery which makes you feel like an adventurer and exploring a new things happen. Along with the combat system will be directly in real-time without any sequence Battle commence entry, which you can freely to attack or escape at the same times (much similiar how Kingdom Hearts III was supposed to), and more particles effects through using skill attack and magics.

As the graphicals will be somehow much less realistic, since .hack series is much far less realistic, however, with combination between Game and Anime graphics, could brought colorful expression and fresh development toward game, also how Unreal Engine 5 could incorporated those combination in a real-time, is much more delves improvements from CODE VEIN and Scarlet Nexus.

Main
The story continues to proceed few months after the 4th Network Crisis and The Massacre Players Tragedy has come to an ended, with notable that The World R:X still on the operation, however, CC Corp the developers of the massive MMORPG has received a numerous complaint and harsh critics regarding about the tragedy that were happens in the online game affecting the players in the real-world in day by day with non-stop, but currently there are no answer from the companies whosever.

As The World R:X still on the operation, however, as the news came with Mind Image Alteration Syndrome happens, in addition with a Mac Anu Server disconnected or shut down in temporary maintenance error, it is much unknown whether it's another work from ENTIES, Virus or something else entirely, but there are no words regarding about the issues happen, instead telling them that Team programmer is working on it, but that has been left unsaid for a few months later.

Features
.hack//LINK -Chrono Link- will once again brought back The Eternal City of Mac Anu and the blue tower which was known as Akashic Records located in the Center of Plaza which was remain as minor setting of RIVES will now become a main setting to the game story, with dark atmosphere condition in root town has become subtle setting for how the story begin.

The setting of The World R:1 (2008-2014) and The World R:2 (2015-2018) has returned, however, as the main story setting is in Akashic Records which is the labryinth that contains all log data history of The World and since the messed quantum data time log due to interference, which now called as the Alternate Records which specifically set in the same events, but directly progressed under the different direction, but the course could also created a mess log data and creating a never-existing time logs events and objects which never occur in the past events.

Highlighting an iconic places, root town, and areas along with a Lost Grounds from the previous older .hack has returned in Full-HD and powered by Unreal Engine 5 as well inclusion of a brand-new areas which never been discovered or being explored, bringing a fresh new expected for newcomers and old fans to enjoy nostalgia also enjoying a new things in the remake stories.

Synopsis
"Few months after the Massacre Players Tragedy, at long last that Tokio Kuryuu had finally woken up from his coma and missing his summer vacation ever since.""Everything return to Normal, except, All of his friends disappeared just three months after as they began seperated from each other ever since the end of Unofficial Battle Royal which orchastrated by Geist which is right now there's no sign of him from a meantime. As for ENTIES there are no sign from her ever since that battle, it is much unknown what happen to them since everything has changed ever since he went to coma and only his brother, Akira Kuryuu whose still with him besides all that happens from the last months.""Returning to their old life became more dulls and boring, the class and all things living still same as always way before they login to The World, unable to go where they supposed to after what happen. Everything is just normal and simple for the boy like Tokio Kuryuu who loves a Video Game.""As the everything went down to how the normal things has gone to be, the next things happen, the transfer student came into Tokio's classroom... Saika Koshizumi""She approaching Tokio with looks of beauty and sincere smiles amaze Tokio's eyes unto her, and brought The Black Copy Disc, transfering him into The World R:X once more...""As the time that he knew something would happen again, and the story of his adventures has just continue... Or should that really continue in that way?..."

Chrono Hunters

 * Tokio Kuryuu
 * Akira Kuryuu
 * Saika Koshizumi
 * AIKA
 * Alibaba
 * Kyushu
 * Kruger
 * Sol
 * Nishijima81
 * Seventy-Seven
 * Miki-Seven
 * Ninjato
 * Neil
 * Toki-Runty

Schicksal

 * Flugel
 * Metronnom
 * Cello
 * Klarinnette
 * Trommel
 * Orgel
 * Posaune
 * Geist

Others

 * Helos-Pierce
 * Jaugarnat
 * Slayer
 * Merelonia
 * Hojo Itadori
 * Jun Bansyoya
 * Piros the REBORN
 * Dr. Octa Asgrodia
 * Davis
 * Yun-EL
 * Seraphora
 * Salvador Aihara
 * ENTIES
 * Ju21
 * Jikanet
 * Genius
 * Shoko Adashino

2009

 * Tsukasa
 * Subaru
 * Mimiru
 * Bear
 * BT
 * Crim
 * Sora
 * Silver Knight
 * Carl
 * Alph
 * Sieg

2010

 * Kite
 * BlackRose
 * Mistral
 * Balmung
 * Orca
 * Elk
 * Mia
 * Helba
 * Lios
 * Wiseman
 * Piros
 * Gardenia
 * Kazu
 * Marlo
 * Moonstone
 * Morganna
 * Natsume
 * Nuke Usagimaru
 * Rachel
 * Sanjuro Sunaarashi
 * Tartarga
 * Terajima Ryoko

2014

 * Shugo
 * Rena

2016

 * Haseo
 * Shino
 * Tabby
 * Phyllo
 * Saburou
 * Sakisaka
 * Tawaraya
 * B-set
 * Tohta
 * Naobi
 * Ender
 * Gord
 * Hideyo
 * Nasubi
 * Midori

2017

 * Atoli
 * Ovan
 * Aina
 * Alkaid
 * Endrance
 * Kuhn
 * Pi
 * Sakubo (Saku)
 * Sakubo (Bo)
 * Yata
 * Zelkova
 * Kaede
 * Silabus
 * Gaspard


 * Gabi
 * Bordeaux
 * Grein
 * Negimaru
 * Antares
 * Asta
 * Hiiragi
 * IYOTEN
 * Matsu
 * Nala
 * Piros the 3rd
 * Sakaki
 * Seraphora
 * Sirius
 * Taihaku

Difficulty Mode
Different from how the previous main title game, players would be able to select a difficulty mode before the starting the game and it's a different variations than how the other RPG Games had. Difficulty Mode in this game will require a special condition which is very unique with can alter course of the game and even in the online game experience through increasing or decreasing level areas, Boss Damages, EXP and more which are potentially depends on how players can choose each of Difficulties before you start playing.

There are 5 Difficulty Modes, such as:


 * Relax: This difficulties had similiar designation with Cheat Mode which was exclusive features for .hack//G.U. Last Recode on PlayStation 4 as you can delivering the damages toward enemies instant only with 1-Hit. It was also allows players who only wants to enjoy the storyline and it also received a bonus itmes with maximum Gil, also with Higher-Spec Weapons could be use for Tokio and his party.
 * Easy: It was optimized to performing the game experience easier while delivering a normal damages, but with less receiving damages from the enemies. Players can also earn a Bonus Items same from Relax Mode.
 * Normal: Balancing the gaming experience in every ways.
 * Hard: Optimizing the gaming experience to be as much as challenging to the players, with enemies damages receive will be increased but still retain some of the elements experience from Normal Mode, however, has been modified in order to fit it's hard difficulties, although there's 65% chance rate for players to get an Rare Items but really needs to be more tricky ways to defeat the enemies.
 * Critical: Optimizing the gaming experience to become more hardest and tougher in order to test the strength of the player's experience, the elements of difficulties became more challenging than Hard Mode. The Damages deliver by enemies increased in 3x times than Hard Mode, possibly that players could die in instant, unless they mastered all strategies and ways to defeating the enemies even on low or high level areas that fit to players level which is much same stronger than any difficulty has. *Level 80 Recommended.*

Akashic Records
Akashic Records is a main area to the .hack//Link -Chrono Link- as it used to travelling unto the past events that which was took place in the previous eras of The World. Using those might not guarantee to changing the time in the real world, but only inside a Digital World, and as you traveled a new timeline of past events due to Time Paradox Memory that could change the events of the past to create a new one and lead causes of the unknown syndrome known as Mind Image Alteration Syndrome.

As it means to travel through log data time place, doesn't mean that you can travelling in perspective times for free, as the gate to specific time has been locked and only can be opened if you obtained The key of Memories.

During main story, players can explore the area dungeon inside Akashic Records known as Akashic Realms, as the system path and dimension time network becoming keys for Tokio and his friends to proceed the destination to the Gate of Main Timeline events The Sea of Memories.

It will also filled with enemies which came from a random timelines due to error logs data controls, causing the monsters from R:1 and R:2 appear in Akashic Realm, but their behavior is different from the way they are in their original timeline, whether it is work of bugs or due to Akashic Records effect, and status data became random sometimes became strong, or sometimes became weak, players be able to find a weakness and carefully strategize toward the enemies movement.

Although as you proceed through forward before arrived toward destination, you must complete all challenges, like Puzzles, Combat Trial, and Quiz which each of them has it's own different definition theme and unique adaptation to tell as the story progress. Althought not all mini-games will included to the each level of Akashic Records, except in the final level of Akashic Records.

Although the consenquences would be much severe if you fail to finish it, causing you received damages and it would also drain your GP if you fail doing steps for mini-games, although all those mini-games will giving you a hints in order to help players to complete the trials. Those who complete the trials challenges, receiving not just bonus rare items and equipments, but increase attributes status toward playable and party characters.

You will fighting against The Guardian Recorder as a boss fight at the reach of destination for Sea of Memories.

Dark Time Records
Dark Time Records is the other side of Akashic Records, free-explorable areas which is featured in .hack//Link -Chrono Link- which was caused an error system from Akashic Realm right after you finish SIGN Alternate Timeline which leads you to the unexplorable place like Dark Time Records. which is an hidden memories of Aura which is an habitat of the strong and corrupted enemies much like they were infected by bugs, but it is different from how it was during Kite's time in 2010.

As you were allowed to explored such a place, it also good to levelling up you and your parties level before move to the next story progression which needs a better fit levels. But not just that, as you continuously proceed, you learn something interesting as you find a certain key items known as The Blood of Memories which contains an hidden memories which never ever recorded in Akashic Records or in every logs data, whether it was work from hacker or something else. It also allows you to learn a secret about Akashic Records and a mystery of Dark Time Records.

During the exploration, you will found a strange treasure types known as The Bug Treasures which contains amount a virus core and an hidden materials known as .hack//BOX which allows you to upgrding Tokio's weapon, Chrono Blade and other rare weapons. Although it can only be open as you defeat the guardian of the Treasure Box known as The Bug Spiral which is the boss crawling around in the area who had guarding attacks or directly attacking the parties as well.

As you exploring deeper through those floor levels which contains Phase, you will fighting against the boss which is the Guardian of the Unrecorder which is the forbidden and strong enemies to defeat, is much unique resemblance to Cursed Wave in IMOQ, however, it has much unique same as Guardian of Recorder which you can defeat it before move to the next Phase. It also allows you to find a pieces of the secret reports known as CCcorp Secret Files which contains any secrets and important things that were not come shed to light in previous .hack series, also a secret of memories which never even existed in Akashic Records.

However the Dark Time Records had a side-dark effect for those who traveled, as you failed defeating the Guardian Unrecorder become a consenquences which causing you unable to travel Akashic Records due to it's corruption and you have to wait until it's recovery at least for few hours. More important things that if your PCs become too much drown into the Dark Time, causing unfortunately corrupted for your Doubleware PCs which also impacted toward your equipments (except, Chrono Blade), which you had no choice but to buy a new equipments.

The best course of the action that you need a fitting levels to survive through Dark Time Recorder and fighting the Guardian Unrecorder. Next Phase can be unlocked after you finishing certain story progression forward.

The gate to the Dark Time Recorders are in a Center of Plaza, in Oblivion City of Mac Anu as you can accessing it on a Monument Plaza, at through underground which transporting you to the forbidden dungeon.

Root Town
Root town is a non-combat area, as you can only run to buying particular items, equipments, and material equipment, while you can also doing a mini-games or something day-off, most notably that you can Trading items with another players in R:1 and R:2. Players can now enjoy exploring the root town more freely, while also discovering a brand-new found hacked items, and meeting with a rare or unique players, while also gathering information.

Each of Root Towns has different structures since you can travel R:1 and R:2 eras with Akashic Records, as it brought backs old elements from previous numbered main titles of .hack which it has been reworked which includes exploration, Sub Quest, a brand-new root town facilities and more crowded appearing thanks to the Power of Unreal Egine 5.

For R:1 which brought back a feeding Grunty and can also riding a Grunty in Field Area, but suprisingly that You can now use to riding Grunty from R:1 in many areas, even in R:2 which allows you to enjoy the exploration without fighting the enemies, but you need to feed them if you want to keep going, however, you can't enter the temples or specifics building by riding them as well. New elements in .hack//Link -Chrono Link- which you be able to ride on Canoe and exploring a new areas in certain different Root Town, or using hidden areas to travel through passage.

For R:2, with a steampunk setting which you can explore an hidden passage, or doing a quest from Bishops in certain quest, also you can do more quest at the Quest Shop. You can buy rare items at Anchor Shop although it could only be visited as you need to wait in three times before going back, or you can just buy an regular items. Implementation of Link -Chrono Link- also include a brand-new mini-games and allows you to explore alleys in a secret passage of the root town allows you to explore more and find items within the treasures.

Although as in the middle crisis story progression in root town, players can freely to choose raising his sword to attack the enemies or go directly to pointing destination.

[This information is incomplete, there will be a changes soon]

Trade System
Trades elements system return from .hack//G.U. with reworked the elements to be more fit for the system. Trade will now optimize the smooth improvements over the previous .hack//series, it will add Trade Menu which preparing items which will be given on exchange with other PC items, by trading them will exchange items, skill-set, and maps. If you trade your rare items to other PC, he will give you some of his rarest items to the players and high-level items.

The trading system will also feature, Send Gift to.. which can be used to trading gifts to another person for another PC's friends.

Featuring rewards from other PC, and you will not find him, but he will wait for you on chaos gates and give you rewards for helping him in the battle. Trade system in Field and Dungeon Area, you can trade and recommend to the other player's friend to using magic, skills, and item.

It can also tell them about a strategy to beat the monster for them on another field & dungeon areas, and if they can defeat the monster with your recommended strategy, you will receive amount rewards from other PC which how they feel recommended the strategy on you, but if you failed, there's some punishment where few of your items would be taken.

You can also make a trade with your party members similar to how it works on .hack//G.U. elements, the player can also exchange the rare type of equipment and items or strategy which exchanging the way fighting will be made your move-set & skills will be exchanged with your party members with their own style.

Creating Materials and give it to the other players and party members will bring you rewards on the next log-on where players will deliver the rare items to you which can be used in the combat.

Shop
As the Chrono Blade is Tokio's main weapon which cannot be replace, although you can buy the weapons for his left weapon or so called as Sub-Weapon which you can choose weapons which has more increased status that can be useful to bring the damages toward the enemies, and you can choose armors and accessories which increased the attributes and adding effects during exploration or in combat, or even both.

The elements which seemsly same as how .hack//G.U. used with Fire, Ice, Winds, Lighting, and more added as attributes elements for certain equipments which be used for infliction or resistance or nullified. It is also be able to modifying weapon skills, techniques and elements to make it smoother in process delivering damages toward enemies, depends on their weakness and critical.

Except in certain condition when Tokio reached his Chrono Gear Form which cannot be replaced for both weapons since he using a Dual Gear as his weapon, although it can be upgraded in Jikanet Shop.

The other parties can buy equipments and upgrading their weapons, also adding the materials for resistance or infliction like usually among players do.

Same as how in .hack//G.U. as you earn Chim-Chim, you can also use them for something values way like trading it to the Chim's shop to exchange it with vulnerable presents items that you can give it to the party members as you like.

Jikanet Shop
Jikanet shop can be found at the entrance of Akashic Records, and Timeline travel of Root Town, providing equipments upgrade and selling items same as the other shop.

However, it also provides to buy an abilities for Akashic and Dark Time Records exploration. Players allowed to gained upgrade boost for Experience and Money earning, with increased Drop Rate items and changing the structures of design areas, and you can buy those with Chrono Lux which can be earned as you defeat the enemies from Dark Time Records or Selling Rare Items which only came from Dark Time Recorder.

It also be able to upgrading Equipments into a different forms in higher-advance which very useful for their Player Level as it calls Weapon Core Upgrade which modiificate by Jikanet. The items could also upgraded to use in a combat with several elements that can delivered to the enemies depends on their weakness, while it can be used to distracting the enemies.

Nikon-Gift is a new items gift discount which exclusively used in Jikanet Shops, as you shown Nikon-Gift Coupon and you will received a discount rate cash for equipments and items.

He can also be shown in the main areas as the story progress which allows you to purchasing the equipments and items before fighting against great boss fight. He can also giving you an additional support treatments to boosting parties status and even healing your parties before the begin of the battle.

Chaos Gate
Players can transport themselves into Field Areas or Dungeon with Chaos Gate, but not just that, it could also transporting them into another root town.

It has new system known as The Rank Types Area System allows players to choose type keywords area that players want to explore with each of different areas type as it's own unique content and challenges as it includes puzzle, traps and enemies as depends on rank type areas that you want to choose.

There are many level rank types of areas, such as:


 * D-Type: Contains an enemy appearance, it is much recommended for the beginner players.
 * C-Type: Contains an enemy appearance with a different types of puzzles which are most likely normal challenges for a players to explore.
 * B-Type: Contains an enemy appearance, different types of puzzles and several traps which were added in a several spread toward areas, which somehow become hard challenges for players to get through, it also contains a bosses which appear at the end of the areas or in the middle one.
 * A-Type: Contains a strong enemies appearance, different types of puzzles, and many more traps appear throughout the areas that become much harder for players to proceed, including bosses getting much rough and hard to defeat, however, if you willing to continue proceeding the hard challenges, you will be rewarded with amount bonus items and rewards.
 * S-Type: It is the only ranking which were exclusive for main story progression, and it depends how much difficulties of areas could be as you were received area keywords through emails or certain events during story progression.
 * X-Type: Contains all types of difficulties which is most challenging, and it includes an harder bosses to defeat which were not part of recommendation for beginner players or even a normal players. You can unlocked this when you choose a Critical Mode.

It also has new features to allow players to creating their own design areas and naming the areas according to their vision for wanting for more challenge or more easier for pro or beginner, by choosing a specifics types of area which were fit for Players Level.

Field
You can freely explore the areas further, exploring the deepest part of field areas and dungeon leading to a new discovery or something similiar like The Lost Ground, although you will find a never seen lost ground from previous .hack//Game titles as there's irratation type areas which became more open-area exploration in real time which those that never even presented in previous numbered titles before.

As in R:1 and R:2 version of Area Fields and Dungeons had a different structures and direction, which in the first one as you can explore field directly and directly enter to the dungeon to explores which is iconic things in how R:1 is about, although not all direction is direct into that. However, in the second one is seperated between Field Areas with Temples (or without) and Dungeons to explore clearly lead you to open up a beast statues and treasures.

Even though those two versions like from .hack//IMOQ and .hack//G.U. of exploration field and dungeons are different, but there are twist as it features field and dungeon areas that mixed with features from R:1 and R:2, also includes elements from R:3 which allows fans nostalgic with the exploration like in previous one, while also enjoying something that interestingly combine together. You can also fighting a monsters two or three times, in a middle or at the end of the areas.

A new system that allows you to riding a Grunty (R:1) in Field Area, but suprisingly that You can now use to riding Grunty from R:1 in many areas, even in R:2 which allows you to enjoy the exploration without fighting the enemies, but you need to feed them if you want to keep going, however, you can't enter the temples or specifics building by riding them as well or even a dungeons.

Lucky Animals is not the only thing you can just catch, if you unharm them and you be able to pet a different types of Lucky Animals, and it also can join in your battles as it would gives you a boost status during a combat, but you need to make sure you can pet it in the right way or being undefeated or else you will never get an a rare bonus in an upcoming next battle. However, you can only use them in specific areas, but as you want to carry the lucky animals in the main story, although first you need to finish it's requirement.

You freely to enjoy what's thing in areas, a new animations that brings quality to explore the areas and how you can fill it with Party Talk Discussion which allows you to interact during exploration or the other things, and it can also be used during a main story as well.

The Spring Field will be able to heal up all your party members HP and SP before exploration or defeating the boss, however, it can only be found in fields and dungeon. Besides Jikanet can do it as well during main story dungeon areas and in Akashic Realms.

Combat
The combat system is greatly major improved from the original version as it now being added with fast-paced action RPG element based on MMO and real-time experience combat, as it keeps tradition from the previous one for R:1 and R:2 gameplays which had been incorperated into this game as it receives a brand-new elements like Action and Tactical.

On the action elements, you can directly entering a combat in real-time without transition sequence similiary from G.U. as you can do freely now as you can fighting the enemies in many places as you explore, while also given an surprise attack from behind more freely. You can also peform a mid-air attack as well allows you to attacking them in air, combining your attack with skills in order to perform it more smoothly. You can also dodging enemies more freely as well with Dodge-Roll and also allowing you to countering it's attack against enemies.

Rengeki which was featured in G.U. which works for Trigger Skill which now become a major critical hit performance in delivering damages more toward the enemies, as you can now perform a full and special strikes toward them, it also can be added for Co-Op party skills which how much enemies weakness will made chance to strikes and higher damages would deliver toward enemies.

Few gameplay features from the original version is Cross Rengeki which now being reincorporated in new version based inspiration on Technique (From FFXV) as performing skill together with your party and not just landed a hit damages toward the enemies, but also can healing your parties or boosting their status. by Pressing L1 to choose techniques with your party members as it consumes the CR Guage on shortcut or command menu. You need to levelling up your Bond of Unisons with your party by increasing a bonding points with your teammates or Cross Rengeki skills in order to obtained a new techniques. You access it on LINK Abilities to obtained and use it for the combat.

The Cross Link which based inspires from Link Strike (from FFXV), which you performing strikes with your party and leading attacks toward the enemies weak point, and continuosly to do this as you can landed a critical hit toward the enemies.

Non-Party Member Support
Non-Party Member or so known as Guest who thus not official join your party, but join only for specific during the story and left when it came over. Guest Party member can only lend their helps for attacks, defends, skills, aids, restoring parties health and boosting their status during a combat.

You cannot optimizing or setting up the Guest party or even changing their equipment which was automatically set during a story progression, nor you can trade with. However, you can giving something to her like gift, items and other things with somehow boosting the guest status, while also possibly triggering story event in minor ways.

Tactical Command Mode
As for Tactical which was known as Tactical Command Mode which can be used during exploration and even in a combat as your party being controlled by AI with these new system helps you commanding your party to using skills, magic, or items, while increased performance strategy during combat mode, which replacing abilities to open menu to choose skills and items during combat from the previous one.

It also featuring a Shortcut system allows you to use Skills and items more freely, but not just two things would be used, Skill Trigger from .hack//G.U. will also be reworked for Tactical Command Mode and be used for Shortcut as well which allows you to perform skills and items during action RPG combat at the same times which is more dynamic from the previous one.

The tactical can also allows you to access the Awakening System as you select from Tactical Command Mode when the Awakening Gauge reached it's half or full, allowing players to performing those technique which hit a damages toward the enemies. It is massively improves from G.U. version, which also allows you using it after Cross Rengeki which you can use a Beast and Demon. And for Divine however, is used for something setting a special quirk to the Awakening system.

The three awakenings, Beast, Demon and Divine improves and reworked which no longer using a cinematics, but instead freely attack in condition using the awakening with different technique skills to unleash toward the enemies in different ways of style.

Two Awakening techniques, like Speed and Rengeki.


 * Speed Awakening allows you to favor a speed movement with attack, but attack damages will not be increased, but allows player to move and dodging very fast and bringing a faster counterattack in many instant strikes toward enemies. The enemies will be in normal, however, the players and party attacking will be faster than beast awakening.
 * Rengeki Awakening allows you to use skils with your party members more freely and instantly increasing the critical rate chance toward the enemies in three times, and chance for higher damages is more possibility and ease than normal one.

You can unlock the awakening system on Tactical Command Mode, when you entering the Second Half of the story.

Arena Tournament
Arena Tournament is exclusive battle which located in a Lumina Cloth (R:2) as same goes from G.U. version that you can registered and select your opponents, although it would goes automatically during the storu progression. However, there are major improvements and some major changes with adding rules and effects which allows the Arena becomes more challangeable than the previous one.

It also has a new features like Battle Royale, 1 in 8 Battle, Climax Battle, War Battle and Monster Boss Battle which you can choose which of those features you want to go freely to test your strength and getting a big impactful prize to obtained after the arena battle. Battle Royale as you work together with your parties and with another team to fight against the challengers which took place in a different arena, you can be able to assist other team or encountering them.

1-8 Battle is a new hard arena mode which allows you only one who can challange against eight challengers at once, and it might cost a bit of strength you need to gain, however, the rewards is much prizeful than a normal one. Climax Battle which allows you to challenging against Pro-Players challengers which is also hard then before, but a new features will have Area Situation which allows you to battling as you enter in those situation in areas differently. and Monster Boss Battle which all participants can join to fight against a bigger and hardest monster to defeat, there are many different types of monster you can defeat together with your party and another team challenger as well.

Arena will not just featuring improvements toward Ranking System to enter a strongest opponent, but with how you earned a fascinated rewards and also boosting your party status temporary, and also earning GP which allows you to buy a different Pro-Types of the equipments, map, items, and more, also gaining recognition toward Players of The World and allows you to increase chance rate for rare items during Trading.

Bond of Unison
Bond of Unison is used to further developed the bonds between Tokio with his party by inviting them to the most various places, inviting for Mini-Games, and even furthering using Xros Rengeki to increase the affection toward Unison Party to developed further.

Given your bonds with your party members as you developed more which allows you to obtained a new Cross Rengeki abilities, techniques, skills and increasing the attributes of status, also further developing bonds which continuously allows to sync with your party through using skills and attack during a combat.

It also allows you to learn a new abilities from them which might be useful for Exploration and combat, also your activities in a Root Town.

Link Abilities
As how you were continue to fight in a combat, leveling up your characters along with your party, freeing a Twilight Knights, and completing a sub-story, you will earned a LP or as Link Point allows you to accessing numerous abilities and upgrades through Ability system known as LINK. By spending LP which allows you to unlocked a new abilities, skills, and enhanced status boost, inclusion of resistence and nullfied boost ability, but it is not just for Tokio, but for the impact of the party as well.

It also greatly increased a buff toward party, obtaining a Cross Rengeki abilities, Exploration Field & Dungeon, Gameplay elements, Combat and Tactical Command which is now can be upgraded it's skills set during the gameplay, while there's also an optional new elements abilities to enhance the gaming experience through exploration, combat and open world area.

Skill Trigger and Awakening can be obtain by earn and spending a Link Point to be able to accessing a new various skills abilities and support magic through Tokio's job as Dual-Edge, learning a new skills and enhance ability performance will bringing an update gameplay experience through many things like Combat and Exploration. It can also use to accessing a trading and Grunties abilities into fully capable, while it can increase and boosting LP's earn during a battle.

You can also learned the abilities from the other Twilight Knights as a rewards for freeing them from Time Stone, as you earn new combat abilities through LINK access in order to mimic their combat action. You can also earn skills abilities from other party members thanks to Bond of Unison which allows you to earn a special bonus.

Grand Whale
Grand Whale areas is based on original version's structure along with it's facilities. In the remake version using Unreal Engine 5 as Tokio can now walk around Grand Whale which filled with a crowds of Twilight Knights and the other party once Tokio had already free them.

It has a brand new features, which allows player to upgrading the Grand Whale's facilities, Spare Parts, System, Decorating and also expanding it's capacity of the players along with use for their enjoyment stay. As you continuously upgrading the system and facilities, allows you access a more features in Grand-Whale such as Cross Play, Share, Photo Mode, and More features which fil to the next-gen platform. It also allows player to upgrading it's abilities of Akashic Records discovery that really used for Grand Whale as it improves the traveling capablities and open-up new gate of time which means increasing Sub-Story and Sustain Survival improvements in the Dark Time Records.

Grand Whale can be designed and decorate which depends on many player's taste and it also has a new features to editing and designing the room facilities which given more freedom to the player's taste and how it really makes it comfortable to it's upgradation along with it's decoration. It also has a new opporturnity to decorate design of the content ship in freedom by also changing UI system theme brought a new natural and fitting to players's taste as well.

It also have more system, like allowing to upgrading parties's PC form which resemblance system from the original version, but it's not mean that they would change into Xth Form as it same as PSP iritation, but it allows them to transform into a different whole new form that allowing them to have a free-roam skils, new techniques, and new opporturnity to improves their playstyles.

One new features in Grand Whale, The Training VR Mode allows you to train and hone your skills along with challengable enemies and monsters that has already been captured and research by Saika and Alibaba in order to put Tokio into a test on himself in order to improves his player's skils along with parties, status, and increasing a level. As you selecting the level difficulty you want which were packed with monster and boss that do you want to fight that really fit for your level or even want higher in your simulator. You can select the difficulties on Training VR Mode, as more you fight the strongest enemies and bosses brought the higher chance for you to leveling up your character, along with the party as well.

Smartphone
Smartphone were a new features redesigned by Saika Koshizumi through inspiration of his real smartphone which she reprogrammed his smartphone to be able to use in the online game as he can use it for guidance exploration and combats, while also doing the other things which due Tokio being transport into the World and so his smartphone as it wasn't even functioned in the online game and Saika redesign and reporgrammed to be use in online game as well.

It is much a different Log-Out version from it's predecessor since Tokio is a doubleware, you can look for a media social like Tweet App, Hello app, Internet, Reddit Forums, News and also Media like Photos and Music which allows more experience to be as much new, although it might not fit to the .hack series universe, however, it could also allows to hack the system administration commands using a smartphone.

You can also save and load games freely with your smartphone. Those apps has it's own use, belows:

Tweeter
Tweeter is a apps media social which allows you to see an users followings tweeting a medias like video, images, and more which you could allows to save photos or something to reply their tweets which depends on it's situational regarding condition in the Real World. You can also forged information news by asking the source or anything else which you will earn specifics types to obtain like Music, Video, Images and other source.

It is also allows you to read a news through using Tweeter as you clicking the links which you be able to read a news regarding the condition happens between Online and The Real World situation, also reading the replies to the tweets which allows you to progressing the story or earning a new sub story mission. You can also freely tweeting what you do freely, which you can share your photos to it's tweet and people will liking and retweeting your tweets which allows you gained more followers.

With more followers allows you to earn a new pieces of information which progressing through leads for new sub-story and new areas keyword, while it also have more hints that connected to the future storyline. It is much likely the combination between Forums, Apkullu, and News features which all been packed in Tweeter apps.

Hello Chat
Hello Chat is an evolution of how you usually exchanging the e-mail for keywords, meet-up or anything else. Hello Chat is allows you to freely chatting with your party and even to your non-parties as well, as you can usually chatting as much as you want including how you be able to exchanging the keywords or another place for a meet-up. As the story progress, you be able to exchanging ID with your friends along the way, and you can free chats, however, in this game, there's a dialogue choice which a message chat that you wanted to send to your parties, and same as how you sending a gift to your party which open the discussion chatting your parties.

Hello Chat is also featuring Group Chat which were exclusively for Chrono Hunter Guild, which you be able to meet up in different places which were planned discussion to the guild and also allows you to freely chat with your friend along the group. As the Sub stories with each you had complete will earn a new group-chats to commence a friendship toward each others in little groups chat. While Hello-Chat also added section which similarity to E-Mails features which exclusively for other person which remains anonymous or didn't even met before, including for CC Corp notice announcement.

Reddiscord Forums
Rediscord Forums is a Forum discussion features which allows you to watch many new discussion topic that depends on situation through main story progression, as you progress that you can earn a new information which that it is considered as some major improvements from .hack//G.U. Although BBS features can now be access through your smartphone as well which allows you to ask for Keyword which allows you to open for a new Substories.

You can also be able to watch a new fan-arts from Apkallu sections as you be able to save it as your wallpaper, also you can also see a old collection arts from R:1 and R:2 which you be able reminisce nostalgic for old fans who had played, read, and watch all .hack series which share it to the Apkallu art section. Also a brand-new art but which also never seen in two version but exist in gaps that never been told in previous series, which filling gaps timeline years which when they share the old arts. There's also a new arts which from .hack//Link -RIVES- which features all characters appear through arts, and it also triggered a talk discussion.

Media
Media on Tokio's smartphone will allows you access a Photos, Music, and Video Gallery. Each of those can be obtain as the game progresses and each of those has it's requirement. For Photos, you can get more images in 4 ways, which is during story progression, from a each of message chat & group chat, Guild Mission and Photo Mode as it can be saved into your smartphone, for Music you can buy it on the shop music which exclusive placed in Grand Whale, however, a new music can be available as you progressing the main stories which you be able to hear original music, current music and never-seen before music from the original version which is worth remastered from the cut version one.

For Video, however, is much same as how G.U did, as you can obtained a brand-new collection of videos if you finish a Guild Mission condition requirements which allows you to unlocked cutscenes of .hack//Link -Chrono Link- and also a new .hack//4KOMA -Reborn- & .hack//Link -Parody-. Also you be able to unlocked a new videos which you be able to take a peek on Chrono Guild's members (Includes Saika and AIKA) personal doings, which could be a humor, serious, or something even weird, but also gives a hidden developments and uncover their secrets a little bit, you can unlocked it by hacking the camera smartphone surviliance, it does somehow triggering discussion talk.

Capture Mode
Capture Mode is a new features which contains Photo and Video Mode in combinations, for Photo, it allows you to capturing shot a moments during exploration, combat, story, and everything through photos, in cool and beautiful ways altogether, also in a funny ways. Press L3+R3 to activating the mode as you can be able to move your cameras around freely and zoom in and out which fit to your vision. It also allows you editing the images shot, by adding cool effects, color temparature, saturation, vignette and any special effects which you can be able to create a perfect moments through your photos and save it to your smartphone. This also be good to capturing images shot of The World R:1 and R:2 as well.

But Video Mode is a brand-new and unseen mode from the other game which is the feature allows you to record the perfect shot video through same conditions, which allows you to record anything freely as you capturing a most beautiful and also baddass moments. As you recording the shot, you be able to edit the video with effects same as a Photo Mode, not just that, it allows you to made a slow motions or fast motion to capturing a cool moments through your video capture, while also capturing a beautiful experience and moments from your exploration. It is also can be saved through your smartphone.

Guild
Guild system has returned from .hack//G.U. however there's a major improvements and difference from it's predecessor, although, the Ryu Book is still exist in order to record what's you had already collected also allows you to obtain a new collections like Walpaper, movies, and more which can be saved to his smartphone and also to your PCs and Next-Gen Platform like PS5 and Xbox Series X as well as you download it.

A new features which allows you to earn a new technique for your party members and also for the exploration, while you can also buy a new book guides which allows you to earn a new abilities on LINK system as you can use Improved Stealth, Tactics, and more. While it also allows you to improves on managing the Grand-Whale which whose in charged on certain places which hoping to improves the lifestyles and discovery collection through. Upgrading a Guilds abilities will allows to improves managing lifestyles and also enhanced any features in Grand-Whale as you more often upgrading it with your Gil.

Guild Mission is a new goal conditions exclusive for Guild system which replacing a Ryu Book with these, which is about condition requirements about exploration, combat, mini-games, substories, and more. As you fufilled the condition requirement through a Guild Mission which surprisingly rewarding you a new photos, videos, rare equipments, gift card and stickers. More you completes will allows a new events to unfold which focus on Toki-Runty which only exclusively in Sub-Story which contains 5 sub stories, however, it does had hints for the future storyline. You can unlocked more new Toki-Runty's substories as you finish all the requirements on a Guild Mission.

Just like in G.U. you can sell your items to Shop Acorn which now can be used for sells in entire timeline of the past as you sell it too Jikanet he was act as a secret market or so normal public called it a Black Market which Players can buy an Items and equipments which were not in specs of The World online, and selling it without administrators notice. You can earn the rewards after.

Sub-Story
Sub stories is the one of an unique features in .hack//Link -Chrono Link- which focusing on helping bunchs seen and unseen people and players for a personal and weirder request, while also focusing on the interaction and sub-character developments altogether, allowing a new depth of their characters reveal in each of the sub stories also brought a never-seen event that brought ties together by exploring deep sense roam toward characters, relationship, interaction, and bonds between party and characters that were never seen before in PSP Version.

As the sub-stories which you can helping people for their personal request which you will given a personal keyword areas to find specific items, person, Solving a puzzle, Mini-Games or fighting against the enemy that were targeted by clients, while also profound a new fresh development and self-discovery themes toward internet, networks, online social, media and more which can be seen as it progress, while also expands a views toward a main key themes about the franchise itselfs which helping to understand a World-Building and lores about Online and Cyber or something that connects very main themes of the series itselfs.

It also helps focus on many different layers toward characters, including Twilight Knights as you accepting their request, as you discover more about them, and learning a few things that never supposed to be explained in the previous .hack that soon came up to light itself. Learning their backstories, new fresh focus toward Twilight Knights activities during Sub-Story. It given a chance to developing the characters and the interaction with Original characters as well, but additional it also allows to discover a few or several lores which were hinted and connected to the future series which left to be untold which has a relevance to the story development.

Although the sub story from the original version is still there but been reworked and expand into a new one while added a several cutscenes to enjoy a new fresh developments instead repeating the stories from previous .hack titles, allows adds a new layer stories for them, even though this is a Sub-Story.

Mini-Games
There are various mini-games which can be found in the lost ground and the root town, also for the tournament. For example there's mini-game where you need to collect photos with effects requirements, or the puzzles and mini-games from Akashic Records as well. It has it's own unique which is in The World, although it has it's own different. (You guys can guess what Mini-Games you all want to add).

Online Multiplayer
Online Multiplayer will fondly to be connected with other players and let you join with them for a quest or exploring areas.

Players might find with online players during your network is connected, and you might able to go to NPC to started an Online Mission and Quest for adventure and Join together to defeating a boss will lead you to earn a new prize, items, and rare equipment to follow.

You can also fight against another player online in Tournament, which also brings new challenges and difficult to defeat them. It seems to be a major improvement version of .hack//G.U. Games and .hack//G.U. Last Recode.

Online Multiplayer will be a Free-DLC Content which will be released in one month after the game’s released.

.hack//Link -RIVES-
Different from how you can benefitted the transfer data from previous games, it has a special requirements to converting the datas from RIVES by accessing a secret codes which can be found inside box of .hack//Link -RIVES- 3rd Season Part 2 Blu-Ray BOX 4 in order to accessing all datas and bonuses from RIVES which contains:


 * The cutscenes which referencing RIVES has been improved with extended length of cutscenes and dialogues added in very various part, including extended opening story of Chrono Link which openly referencing what happen to the previous events which directly continued from the final episodes as a part bonuses for fans who had watching all RIVES story in anime.
 * Several new cutscenes which featuring few characters from RIVES which didn't appear in Chrono Link story and also Davis conversation with three union leader regarding connection within lore of Chrono Link story like Akashic Records, Chrono Core, and more things, including a secret endings which is the most shocking endings of all times.
 * New Cutscenes is also bringing a delve of his character development deeper which reflecting his Effect of Trauma from what he had experience in the events of Massacre of Players (RIVES)
 * Brand-New Secret Cutscenes which something very surprising for the players. Hint: His fragments of lost memories from his time with Shoko Adashino.
 * Includes all-E-mails from when Tokio spent time with Akira in The World R:X, also includes talk discussion about the emails in order to remind the days what happen few months before, while also reflecting what happen now.
 * Includes an E-mails from Kruger, X7, Neil, Sol, Nishijima81, Pi, and Akira which set might around during or after, which is something they want to tell to Tokio regarding what happen after the events of Massacre of Players.
 * Bonus Items and equipments available as you converting the save clear data, which earn a bonuses, such as:
 * Health Drink 10x, Soul Drop 4x, and Restoration Drop 3x.
 * New Equipment: Chronic Virus Blade, The Tale of Judgement, Salvation, Chain Blade, Shadow Staff.
 * New Costume: Party's PC Outfit which includes Tokio and Akira's PC outfit from their time back in The World R:X (Except Saika).
 * Earning 100.000 Gil.
 * New Key Items: The Daybreak of the Twilight Key.
 * Bonus footage which features insider developers regarding .hack//Link -RIVES-, and special interviews regarding the past development experience about developing the first main titles which came with Anime format and also how it transpired connection to the .hack//Link -Chrono Link-.

.hack//IMOQ RE:Login

 * Additional stories cutscenes ties directly with .hack//IMOQ -RE:Login- storyline, as well as the 5th Episode of IMOQ and .hack//SIGN -Remastered-
 * Four new-Secret Footages added starring on Helba's perspective regarding the story developments of .hack//IMOQ RE:Login that would ties with .hack//Link -Chrono Link- and secretly connected to the Thanatos Reports.
 * Several new E-mails from Helba which originally to be sent for someone and supposedly Kite would read it, along with another new E-Mails from Aura, Lios, Balmung, and BlackRose.
 * It is also includes E-mails from Elk, Balmung, and Orca which was originally sent right directly before the Chrono Link story which brought a deep connection with RIVES events.
 * New Footage from Kite's player, Kazumi ito in 9 years following his retirement from playing The World and set up events for .hack//Link -Chrono Link- with 5-Minutes Video Length.
 * Bonus Items and equipments available as you converting the save clear data, which earn a bonuses, such as:
 * Health Drink 10x, Soul Drop 4x, and Restoration Drop 3x.
 * New Equipment: Amateur Blade Metal, Rose Blade, and Wings of Light Blade.
 * New Costume: Kite's Uniform, Balmung's uniform, and Tsukasa's uniform
 * Earning 100.000 Gil.
 * New Key Items: The Daybreak of the Twilight Key.
 * Bonus footage which features insider developers regarding .hack//IMOQ -Re: Login-, and special interviews regarding the past development experience about .hack// and the beginning of the title Series IP begin.

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

 * Additional story cutscenes ties to the .hack//G.U. Vol.4 Reconnection and additional easter eggs that tied-up together.
 * G.U. New Archive Reports added, explains a few multiple plots points which some of them never been explained in the previous while hinted for .hack//Link -Chrono Link- story.
 * Optional E-mails from CC Corp, Anonymous, Atoli, Pi, Ovan, Aina, Yata, Piros 3rd, Shino, and more which not just connected to the previous game, but also hinted something to come, while be the future or the secret things that didn't even told. It is set after the shut down and those emails were supposed to be sent to Haseo.
 * There's also a secret additional E-mail which came from Yoshida as it supposed to be sent to AIKA and Kusabira.
 * Secret Recording which contains numerous secret things which was purposely hiding something that very secret which had five-recording from Camera Surviliance, including a twisted shocking scene of Salvador Aihara.
 * Bonus Items and equipments available as you converting the save clear data, which earn a bonuses, such as:
 * Health Drink 10x, Soul Drop 4x, and Restoration Drop 3x.
 * New Equipment: Gai Gu Blade, Gate of Ouroboros, and DG-Blade.
 * New Costume: Terror of Death, Xth Form, 1st Form, and Ultimate Steel Outfits.
 * Earning 100.000 Gil.
 * New Key Items: The Owner of the Truth and The Rising Key.
 * Optional new gag episode known as .hack//4Koma Reborn which contains 3-Episodes.
 * Optional Bonus footage which features insider developers regarding .hack//G.U. -Last Recode- and special interviews regarding about the past development experience about G.U. Series.

.hack//Link -Chrono Link- The Rise of the Dark Slayer
.hack//Link -Chrono Link- The Rise of the Dark Slayer is a major large downlodable story mode content which focuses on Akira Kuryuu who were betraying Tokio and his friend to join Schicksal at the first half of the story. Focusing the cooperation with Fluegel to investigating Geist and CC Corp 's motive that connected to the Jyotaro Amagi and the main story plot, while continue his role as a member of Schicksal.

Approximately that you can finish the main story within 7-8 gameplay hours and complete all contents within 25 Hours

Available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and Steam via Downloadable Content which contains memory size 10.1 GB. Although you can unlocked this DLC Story by beating the game.

However, there are certains main story chapters for the Rise of the Dark Slayer DLC story which can only earned as you progress the main story of .hack//Link -Chrono Link- in order to obtained a new chapters to continue proceed it's story.

Synopsis
''Immediately follows after Akira's betraying Tokio and his friend to join rank with Schicksal, however, this was causing him in a multiple regrets with his reasons to help Tokio to discover CC Corps plan closer and until the day after he joining the team, he still weren't cooperative with a member teams, since he's the spy to the guild, still holds grudge against them. However, sudden things happens, as Flugel discovering his plan and his life is now is hanging in the balance, exposing his plan as he would be branded as a traitor.''

''However, Flugel says otherwise, instead contacting the HQ about Moles in a guild, he ask Akira for cooperation for investigation related toward CC Corps plan and connection to Massacre Players in The World events. But Akira confused, why he wants to help him, and what's his deal for it... He decide to accept those cooperation, in order to gain more intel from CC Corp, and especially about Geist himself.''

.hack//Link -Chrono Link- PREMIUM EDITION BOX

 * Contents
 * .hack//Link -Chrono Link- (Base Game)
 * .hack//Link -Chrono Link- The Rise of the Dark Slayer (Story DLC Campaign)
 * Premium Edition Bonus
 * Music CD "Original Soundtrack (Disc 1,2 & 3) + Unreleased CD Track of .hack//Link PSP" + Character Song CD.
 * Drama CD "Flugel's Laziest Day" & "The Day for the Boy who were Sleep ".
 * Anime OAD "Ninjato's Ultimate Guideline to The World" & "Saika Routine Days"
 * Premium Booklet
 * .hack//Link -Chrono Link- Archive Files.
 * Character information, Design Proposal, Weapon Design, and The World View setting for Chrono Link, R:1, & R:2.
 * Mechanics design proposal, Terminology, Illustration, and Chrono Link Special: SECRET FILE.
 * .hack//Series Timeline Chronological
 * Including all events records from Project .hack and .hack conglomerate projects titles.
 * RIVES events such as Massacre of Players Tragedy added to the game, including the timeline events records for .hack//G.U. Vol.4 Reconnection and .hack//IMOQ RE:Login.
 * Message Letter from Developer staffs, includes Hiroshi Matsuyama, Kikuya Megane, and Kazunari Ito.
 * Including Message Letters from Seiyuu Characters which includes from Tokio, Akira, Saika/AIKA, and all Chrono Guild members Seiyuu.
 * Art Bonus
 * Poster Key Visual of .hack//Link -Chrono Link- along with 4 Alternate Key Visual cover the story arcs which drawn by Seiichiro Hasokawa, Megane Kikuya, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.
 * Three Key Illustration card by Megane Kikuya and Seiichiro Hasokawa.

PC
.hack//Link -Chrono Link- will be also availabe on PC version, however, unlike from base game, it has a new features which allows to experience more live true earnest of dothack series and amazing adventure with Power of Unreal Engine 5. Available on Steam Store and the downloadable contents formats is still same from PS5 version.

Features

 * Full-HD Resolution preset with 4K and 8K resolution support.
 * 60FPS Support with Widescreen 16:10.
 * Dolby Atmos Sound Technology support.
 * Greatly enhance the background User-Interface.
 * Nvidia Gameworks Support.
 * Virtual Reality Support.
 * Ray Tracing Support.
 * Customize Keyboard & Mouse for Windows Edition.
 * Auto-save featured.
 * Steam and Windows 10 Achievement support.
 * Greatly enhance graphical and numerous new effects surrounding the environment.
 * The graphical visual in PC will have improvements and also been polished than PlayStation do.
 * Additional new details toward the environment, character models, FX, UI, and more.
 * Psychic is also been improved to make look little realistic for the PC version.
 * Graphical Setting added the game.
 * A few scenes have been uncensored.
 * Gallery Mode added, includes an all-music soundtrack of Remakes version and original .hack//LINK (PSP) soundtrack.
 * Several wallpapers for .hack//LINK -Chrono Link- added the gallery mode.
 * It also features a cinematic movie gallery, which you can reply to one of them or all movies as you like.
 * Photo Mode added the game, it includes a sharing system or saves to he local documents, also added a filter to editing pictures as according to player's vision.
 * Supported graphical options with Anti-Aliasing, Anisotropic, Post-Draw Anti-Aliasing, Environmental, Particle Effects, HBAO, and TXAA.
 * Psychic is also been improved to make look little realistic for the PC version.
 * Choose a dual-voice language, English or Japanese.
 * Language subtitles will include English, Japanese, Korean, France, Europe, Spanish, Italy, and Indonesia.

Minimum

 * OS: Windows 10
 * CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 or AMD Ryzen 5 1300
 * GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon 290X
 * VRAM: 4 GB
 * RAM: 8 GB (Dual-Channel setup)
 * Stroage: 50 GB

Recommended

 * OS: Windows 10
 * CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 or AMD Ryzen 5 1700
 * GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super or AMD Radeon RX 490
 * VRAM: 6GB
 * RAM: 8 GB (Dual-Channel Setup)
 * Stroage: 50 GB

Recommended (For Ray-Tracing)

 * OS: Windows 10
 * CPU: Intel i5-7700 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
 * GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
 * VRAM: 6 GB
 * RAM: 16 GB (Dual-Channel Setup)
 * Stroage: 50 B

.hack//Link -RIVES-
.hack//Link -RIVES- is a anime television and prequel stories of Chrono Link which set in the beginning of The World R:X which much before this events has been occured, showing their adventure in the online game until the mysterious hacker & PKK, ENTIES brought crisis to the players in hanging balance and brought disasterous toward the network which leads the events to known as The Massacree Players Tragedy in The World R:X.

Sequel
.hack//Link -RISING- is a direct sequel to the Chrono Link story set a year after, it is considered as a "Bigger and Intense" story which continuing the story of Tokio Kuryuu and covering the remake stories of last portion story climax of the original PSP version of LINK, which now being expanded and totally remake it toward a brand-new stories development brought a new and fresh, while also tied connecting to 3rd Season story forwards.

Trivia

 * The titled Chrono Link was representing about Chrono Core and Chrono Link which was a main key factor items to the story.
 * .hack//Link -Chrono Link- is the first .hack series which available for the Next-Gen Platform which is for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
 * RIVES and Chrono Link could be set possibly and impossibly to canon-verse of .hack
 * It is also stated that the story could set possibly and impossibly in 2020 A.D since it's already passed 2020.
 * The story of this game might remake the story from beginning to the where story ended as Tokio and his friends came to find Geist and Jyotaro Amagi.
 * The last portion of the original story (Where they going to Save Kite and Fighting Queen of Demise, Aura) which has been moved unto RISING story which is brand-new original story and also a remake story to this one, as it set a year passed since the Chrono Link story.
 * Last name for Saika as Koshizumi is an homage to the last name of Voice Actress who voiced her along with AIKA, Ami Koshimizu.
 * Smartphone contents apps contains a lot apps inspiration name, such as:
 * Hello Chat which based on WhatsApp and some of the features based on Gmail.
 * Tweeter which based on Twitter.
 * Rediscord Forums which based on two apps like Reddit and Discord.
 * The events is alternate timeline, different from the real timeline which 2020 A.D. is where COVID-19 outbreak was took place, and this (.hack) universe has no events records about the virus, instead something that inspired about the events.
 * .hack//Link -Chrono Link- is the first .hack series titled who using Unreal Engine 5 as it's base graphics.
 * Chrono Link story is much same, but also largerly different from original PSP version story, even though the game setting follows same mark as original, but there's no denying that since this game was intent to be as much as different from the original one.
 * Even thought, .hack//Link -Chrono Link- is a remake version of the original PSP game, .hack//LINK, it is also direct-sequel and continuation to RIVES and everything as ties connection to the prequel one.
 * The game might take more than 120 Hours of gameplay, as the story approximately can be finish within 30-35 Hours of gameplay.