.hack//Link -The War of the Twilight-

'''ATTENTION: In order to avoid misunderstanding, this article is just my idea, not related to anything but certainly for purpose to let it out the ideas inside my heads, but do not worries as it's still remain unconfirmed about how MAMA's Saga has ended has lead to this, there could be possible revised or removed as the condition goes. But still, Beware that it is just idea purposed, since this titles are not truly means to end the franchise but led to another beginning of it's possible spiritual and reboot sequel.'''

.hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- is the direct-sequel to the .hack//Link 2 and .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- which set a year after the fall of the MAMA's organization, available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch Pro, and Microsoft Windows (Steam).

The stories took places in an online world that took forms of the real world, as the humanity being dragged into the Real Digitalization without any awareness by everyone of them ever since the fall of the MAMA's organization and CC Corps. But their ends, leads to what Dominique has foretold that soon the disaster will shall come upon, and their organization and even corporation being played like a chest all along was to draw the events that "he" intended too, in order to bring destruction.

War of the Twilight will be an open-areas, which set in the mirror of the real world which known as The WORLD -Twilight Universal- although it has several structure from the online game, the gameplay will be action-RPG with same and improved from previous .hack games, including .hack//Link -RISING-, but you can now actually ride a Car and Motorcycle which were designed in the online world, while also can ride a ship in all time you want. But the elements key will be survival.

It will also includes a Season Pass downloadable contents which contains a new DLC story scenario, episodes, additional quest, and more.

Prologue Anime special titled .hack//Link -After Days- which focused on Tokio's story, set after the fall the organization of MAMA and few months before these game occur, it will had a 4-Episodes in regular length.

Editor Comment
Just current watching the animated version of Marley Arc in Attack on Titan The Final Season, I just can't helped how much twist has lot coming together, including much Easter-Eggs reference is given much hyped though. With the war between Marley vs Paradis is straighten me up on fire, including Declaration War, everything is just heating up and it gets my blood so excited, including the music by KOHTA YAMAMOTO and Hiroyuki Sawano was absolutely deserved for praised.

I wonder if the grand-finale for .hack franchise, to the same, however, these series is almost total different from Attack on Titan, since the .hack series given technologies, network, and online aesthatics sets in a Modern, and the AOT is given much about war aesthetics as it's biggest theme. As much as I worried, however, if I could play my mind a little or more, couldn't be more excited. I don't know, but I don't think it would work, why? because the MAMA Saga (Third Season .hack) has not done yet and so I haven't see the conclusion beyond that, I want new official .hack series titles like game or anime to finish these cliffhanger thought, but since the fans created a fan-made sequel .hack//Bullet -Recoil Arc- as part of their fan-made project The End of .hack, I'm much interested how the MAMA's conflict can be resolved.

But since it would take longer to know what conclusion would be, I decide to make my own version of the conclusion and seems now my heads just getting more interesting with these ideas that brought a setup connecting The .hack Canon-Timeline Story Titles which includes .hack//Link and all Third Season Project with IMMORTAL DUSK Saga altogether, along with .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- as strives how each of it will met on the road in very complicated way, and also very tragic ways to put it, but besides my idea games .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- is the conclusion to the three-season project titles at once, including all remakes of .hack//Link's trilogies which it's so cool how it would play out, but also need to remain ambiguous, since it also adds a lot mystery and dark suspense, with a lot plot-twist coming, and I could say, this conclusion title game will be very dark.

I choose protagonist, Tokio Kuryuu, the original version canon of .hack//Link (PSP) which also involves to bring down MAMA's plot and CC Corps plot under the name of his job as hacker known 9 which he also appears in Beyond The World and Versus. I might can imagine that what would happen after the MAMA and CC Corps plot has come to an end, we might could imagine AIKA finally come home with Tokio and his partner, Saika Amagi, with Ryuji Sogabe/Flugel can now putting his wife's memories to rest with downfall of Veronica Bain (I don't know whenever they decide to kill him off at the end or not, is up to them), Online World & Real World has come in peace once more, rebuilding CC Corps structures, the presumed death of David Steinberg (Wish he still alive), and much more happens which seems signalized for the end of Aura saga and leads up to the Guilty Dragon and .hack//New World.

But was that supposed to be the end... What would happen to the "Other version" of Tokio Kuryuu along with his friends from Chrono Guild and Legion Unity?, what's Geist doing right now?. Now this is interesting, a lot pieces is still missing, and a lot holes needs to be fill, a lot shadows has rise beyond the darkness and everything soon will be revealed at the disaster point, bringing the unseen truth that never supposed to go out attention, and thus how this complicated events would occur, what's it to be tragedy? or something that ties loose ends? all I could say is everything's connected with Aura, in possible good or far more worst, the possibility those two version will meet together, who knows.

Although, it doesn't mean that I overstepping stone for the End of the .hack project story which how much fans had worked together to make it the best. I'm hoping that they would continue their best to bring the conclusion that fans had wanted, is much like from fans to all fans who loves .hack franchise, this might get my heart and expectation get really excited.

I might think that there would be a major characters death in these game... in unexpected ways and this is R-Rated thought.

.hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- is the direct sequel to the both titles, .hack//Link 2 and .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- which it builds up from all three seasons of .hack project, The END of .hack project and CHRONO RiSING Trilogy, which mainly involving with Harald, Emma, Aura, The WORLD, The key of the Twilight, and much more mysteries in the previous titles will had a great plot twist, also very craftly answering several questions, but it also raise few questions in very indefinitely.

Settings
The War of the Twilight story set a year and four months after the End of the IMMORTAL DUSK which was planned by MAMA Organization who also took charge on Cyber Connect Corporation, which it is marked The fall of MAMA organization and the end of CC Corp's corruption leading to it's restoration to all network system and bringing decision to restructuring the companies to removes any corruptions which was involved with those organization, in the name as Cyberconnect2 Corporation or now being known as CC2 Corp in the name of their redemption act.

With collaboration with NAB to catch any remnants of the hackers who poses a threat to the world instead for themselves or had any relation with MAMA organization. The online and real-world began it's major restorations with government around the world became agree to overlook the situation that has been right now become society problems, including between online game and players. There are no news anything about network crisis ever since that day, however, The WORLD: Force Era has closed it's operation due to the heavy damages from the last network crisis and instead to repairing the system, the company plans to announce a next version of THE WORLD at CC2 2027 which is the massive grand festival to invite all players around the world, including pro-players, rookie-players and old players who plays previous version of The WORLD online game to watch their announcement for the next version as also part of their restorations from the wounds of Network Crisis.

Through a year of restorations, however, there are bunch of hackers are still around the network or hiding in plain sight within society to continue their illegal activities that could once again brought distortion to the network, along many cases about Cyber Criminal is still exist, even after Network Crisis. But, the three most unsolved case with appearance of the new group of terrorist and hacker known as The Watch Dogs, The shadow hacker, Black CODE, and the Legendary PKK and Hackers around history, ENTIES which it make a first appear since 2022. According to NAB even though the fall of MAMA has been compromised, a new problem arise as it progress through and no one know what's their next move unless they had a ways to catch them, but the problem is that those three hackers are totally hard to captured and ranked as SSS-Rank Cyber Criminal.

With the development of the next version, thus cause a lot issues, with players begin to retired with most of them are fans to the old version which seems how it brought possibilities for audience support reduce, with Big Network Crisis that has caused them, their decision is to prevent to experience any of those trauma again. This rise a big questions for Cyber Connect 2 Corporation of how to regain audience supports with the new version of The WORLD. But right now, there are no words from company as they focus on delivering the best qualities and game elements for all fans to enjoyed as part of their redemption from their corruptions cause in the past year. But those question still arise until now...

Synopsis
 * Spoilers alerts from .hack//Link -After Days- Episode 4*

A year and four month after the fall of MAMA organization and the end of corruptions in Cyber Connect Corporation, players had return to their normal life with THE WORLD: Force Era has closed it's operation, and it's much different with peace bringing a full bloom of joy to 20-years old man, Tokio Kuryuu who continues his activities in the real world after he and his partner Saika Amagi had succeeded to rescuing AIKA and happily ever after with this network crisis has turned to be over as they continue to life in separate ways after. But Tokio just want to keep AIKA's in check in guess her AIDA's berserk won't go realize once again, which he decided to look after her with Saika help after he brought her to the real world.

But following the investigation during LIVE QUEST of The Night of the Glorious Treasure which brings a lot questions for whose Dominique feeling fear for, and what's behind true MAMA's Ideals to protecting the earth from someone which suddenly all didn't make any sense. But Alexander Christopher revealing the truth about MAMA will be revealed as the Matsunaiga Family who's descendants of Germany-Japan releasing the all critical and classified information about MAMA's truth in CC2 2027 Union Festival.

Through all invitation, all past heroes players, including Sora Yuuki and friends will also appearing in the CC2 2027 Union Festival, in order to watch the announcement for the next version of The WORLD with Tokio, AIKA and Saika come along to the festival. Meanwhile, the former genius programmers and the former leader of Project G.U. Jyotaro Amagi, who arrives at his wife's cafe, was awaited by someone whose Jyotaro really knew him, very clearly.

As the two of them met each other once again, this conflict and crisis is not over, but the true darkest side of the twilight lies ahead and its approaching...

Playable Characters/Main Characters

 * Tokio Kuryuu/9
 * Akira Alexander
 * Akira "Tokio" Kuryuu/ENTIES
 * Saika Amagi/Panzer Saika

* Those character's list on below is those who will appeared in The War of the Twilight game, and are either bound as Major, Support, Antagonist, Tritagonist, Minor, Cameo, or/and mentioned*

Those list of characters appearance separated into two factions, The original (which is the canon-universe of .hack series as we already know it), and The Akashic World (which is the virtual world which is a mirror to the canon universe, but the timeline occurrence regarding about Immortal Dusk events is different. Basically those timelines covering RIVES, Chrono Link, and RISING GEAR)

Player of the World

 * Aika Amagi/AIKA
 * Ryuji Sogabe/Flugel
 * Geist
 * Jyotaro Amagi
 * Sora Yuuki/Kite
 * Tanaka Kakeru/Gondo
 * Miyuki Kuryuu/Exa
 * Aida Asumi/Sakuya
 * Touha Tanagami/Hermit
 * Iori Ikuta/Tobias
 * Eri Etou/Mary
 * Kazumi Ito/Kite
 * Shino Nanao/Shino
 * Aina Indou/AINA
 * Chigusa Kusaka/Atoli
 * Akira Hayami/BlackRose
 * An Shoji/Tsukasa
 * More...

NAB

 * Ryou Misaki/Haseo
 * Junka Nimura/Carl
 * Relena Northstein
 * Balmung
 * Corona Sapphire
 * Yoshimura Sanada
 * Naoki Hanjimura

ALGOS

 * Alexander Christopher
 * Yuki Shion/Shino Ninomiya/Kyushu
 * Hanz
 * Juzo Shirogane
 * Horishima

Former-Schicksal

 * Lilie Weiss/Cello
 * Nomura Kaname/Metronome
 * Koharu Nene/Klarinette
 * Yoda Maseo/Posaune
 * Toramaru Shin/Trommel
 * Ninomiya Takeshi/Orgel

CC2 Corp

 * Hiroshi Matsuyama/P-Piros
 * Tomonari Kasumi/Kuhn
 * Takiyoda Kuroda
 * Lucas Hoerwick/Helos Pierce
 * Matsumoto Shioda
 * Han Kurongi
 * Shin Kazuma
 * Seiichiro Kudokawa

Netslum/Hacker

 * Helba
 * Lios/Kouji Tsuchiya
 * Zelkova
 * Takumi Hino/Yata
 * Okano Tomohiko/Balder
 * Reiko Saeki

Online Jack

 * Salvador Aihara/Kazubolo
 * Michiru Tajima

Civilian

 * Jyotaro Amagi
 * Ryoko Amagi/Koshizumi
 * Junichiro Takaoka
 * Hiroto Niizato/Ninjato
 * Mr. Kuryuu
 * Mrs. Kuryuu
 * Dr. Octa Asgrodia
 * Tachiro Sugai
 * More...

Chrono Guild

 * Emilia de Mirabeau/Mereleona
 * Durga Fida Sharma/Genius
 * Hiroshi Nagatori/Kruger
 * Souma Shigemura/Sol
 * Chiko Nomura/Neil
 * Nishiki Kyojima/Nishijima81
 * Sohei Nihei/Allen
 * Mio Shinomura/Alibaba
 * Ju21/Toki-Runty
 * Miki-Seven

Alliance

 * David Steinberg

Legion Unity

 * Kazama Matsunaiga/HanShi
 * Zeron
 * Falco
 * Kuroda
 * Albert
 * Gon
 * Yaoti
 * Taro

Legion Unity - Red Dead Guild

 * Gunter
 * Faust
 * Ren
 * Kylo
 * Guldar

Legion Unity - Blue Moon Guild

 * Terattion
 * Esteria
 * Tsukichi
 * Shinoya
 * Aoi

Legion Unity - Raven Guild

 * Natsume
 * Zero
 * Vanissa
 * Soel
 * Dio

Matsunaiga Family

 * Junji Matsunaiga
 * Shiori Matsunaiga
 * Shinra Matsunaiga
 * Hide Matsunaiga
 * Miaya Matsunaiga
 * Akiroda Matsunaiga

Former-Exterminators Survivor

 * Yasuo Nagi/Saburou
 * Soto Funijima/John77
 * Loreiz Zofie/Lorenzo
 * Nagisa Kurigaya/Hyokawa1
 * Emi Kitagawa/Elexa

Former-Akashic Line Staff Developers

 * Kio Kitagawa
 * Nash Kurigiri
 * Nagi Totei
 * Hiiragi Amagi

MAMA's Survivor

 * Vannesa Cali
 * Veronica Bain
 * Leon Vastige

Others

 * Jun Bansyoya
 * Harald Hoerwick
 * Yuuji Shigemura/Davis
 * Shouma Brook/Sagiri Azamito/Slayer
 * Emma Wielant
 * Veronica Bain
 * Eleanor
 * Dominique de Mirabeau
 * Akihiko Kuryuu/Seventy-Seven
 * Hiroyuki Nakita/Ninjato

Gameplay
The War of the Twilight gameplay is based on major improvements from .hack//Link 2 and .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- which features an-high speed action-oriented with an unique set skill for strategize which is also major return and incorporation from previous main titles of .hack//Games. There are a brand-new gameplay mechanics elements which will be presented in this game, such as:

[COMING SOON]

.hack//Link 2

 * Additional new cutscenes, dialogues, and more which adding the existing elements of the cutscenes from .hack//Link 2 including expanded the existing story elements on this game which directly ties to the .hack//Link 2 very clearly, along with connection ties with DLC Episodes of David, Saika, Kazumi, and Akira (ENTIES).
 * Optional Emails from anonymous and developers, including an emails from characters, such as AIKA, Saika Amagi, Fluegel, Kazumi Ito, Haseo, David, Kite (Sora), Gondo, and Yata.
 * Bonus items added, such as:
 * Bonuses Equipments & Costumes,
 * Bonuses Items: Healing Potions 5x, Soul Restoration 3x, Revival Potion 2x, Fairy Orb 2x, and Smoke Screen 3x
 * Key Items: The Stairway of Time
 * Bonuses video footage, such as:
 * 3 PV Commercial for .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- in different layers of scenes story.
 * 1 Teaser video for .hack//Link -The Final Twilight-.

.hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Ultimate Chrono Edition

 * Majorly added new stories cutscenes and dialogues in much bigger way, to expand the Watch Dogs's side point of views which also extend and given more depth toward their characters in different sides as it humanize them more. Along with those scenes also includes the story ties and easter eggs with RIVES, Chrono Link, and RISING GEAR.
 * Akira "Tokio" Kuryuu along with Chrono Guild members will also be given more delves characterization in much deeper, backstories, and filling the story plot holes about what happened to them between RISING GEAR and The War of the Twilight.
 * Optional emails from CC Corp and anonymous, along with an E-mails from several characters like, Kruger, Kyushu, Alibaba, Neil, Sol, Nishijima81, Mereleona, Ju21, Miki-Seven, Ninjato, Helba, Genius, Akira, Miyuki, Seventy-Seven, and Saika.
 * Bonus video footages, such as:
 * 1 Bonus videos, the Epitaph of the Twilights final pages by Emma Wielant.
 * 2 Bonus videos, the documentary of Akashic Line project.

Story Scenario DLC

 * .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- Bad Stream
 * .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- The Sea of the Network
 * .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- The Watch Dogs

DLC Episode story

 * Sakuya's Episode -The Quantum Menace-
 * Balder's Episode -Unpresence of Willing-
 * Haseo's Episode -Fighting for No Matter-
 * Licht's Episode -Reckoning of the Future-
 * Kusame's Episode -The Final Phase-

Windows Edition
.hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- 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.


 * Full-HD resolution preset with 4K and 8K resolution support with refresh rates 144Hz to 300 Hz support.
 * Higher-frame rate Support with Widescreen 16:10.
 * Dolby Atmos Sound Technology support.
 * Ray Tracing NVIDIA and Gameworks support.
 * Greatly enhance the background User-Interface.
 * Nvidia Gameworks Support.
 * Virtual Reality 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 The War of the Twilight Music soundtracks.
 * Several wallpapers for .hack//LINK -The War of the Twilight- 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 the 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.
 * A new system features Cloud Transfer which able to transfering save clear data exclusively for Steam and Windows 10.

Minimum

 * OS: Windows 10
 * CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 or AMD Ryzen 7 1600
 * GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon 590X
 * VRAM: 4 GB
 * RAM: 8 GB (Dual-Channel setup)
 * Stroage: 60 GB

Recommended

 * OS: Windows 10
 * CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 or AMD Ryzen 5 1700
 * GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super or AMD Radeon RX 5800
 * VRAM: 8GB
 * RAM: 16 GB (Dual-Channel Setup)
 * Stroage: 60 GB

Recommended (For Ray-Tracing)

 * OS: Windows 10
 * CPU: Intel i5-7700 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
 * GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
 * VRAM: 12 GB
 * RAM: 32 GB (Dual-Channel Setup)
 * Stroage: 60 GB

.hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- Collector Premium Edition

 * Disc Game
 * .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- (Base Game)
 * .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- Season Pass (DLC Game)
 * Premium Edition Disc Bonuses
 * Music CD ".hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- Original Soundtracks (Disc 1-2 & BONUS)"
 * Drama CD "The Fear of the Future that Were Told" & "Continue Forward"
 * Anime OAD ".hack//Versus -Thanatos Report- Special Edition"
 * Premium Booklet
 * .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- Archive Files.
 * Character information, Design Proposal, Weapon Design, and The World View setting for War of the Twilight and The Final World.
 * Mechanics design proposal, Terminology, Illustration, and The War of the Twilight Special: The Story of the beginning that leads to the Final...
 * New story novellization: Akira Kuryuu.
 * Message letters from the developer staffs, including Hiroshi Matsuyama, Tatsuya Sano, Kazunari Ito, and more...
 * Including the messages letters from the seiyuu characters who works on voicing the characters, bringing the strong message and hypes for the upcoming final titles.
 * Art Bonus
 * Key Illustration visual poster of .hack//Link -The War of the Twilight- illustrated by Seiichiro Hasokawa, along with several new alternative key visuals drawn by a different illustrators.
 * Several Key Visual Card Bonuses illustrated by Kikuya Megane, Seiichiro Hasokawa, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and other illustrators
 * Figure Art
 * 9 and ENTIES figure arts collections packed with message letters.

.hack//Link -After Days- (Prologue)
See .hack//Link -After Days- (Prologue)

Prequel-War of the Twilight Project (Ties-in)

 * .hack//Black CoDE
 * .hack//JOKER
 * .hack prequel -PROTOTYPE-

The Final Sequel
See .hack//Link -The Final Twilight-

Trivia

 * The War of the Twilight is considered as the first part of the final chapters and which concluding the story of AURA and the Twilight Saga, however it is not a series finale.
 * The story will connects all previous titles of .hack, including Bullet, Thanatos Report, RIVES, Chrono Link, RISING GEAR.
 * It is a second time that Tokio Kuryuu from the original PSP version of .hack//Link become protagonist to this series, while also the fourth times that Tokio Kuryuu's remake version character will be also protagonist, but labeled as an Anti-Hero or mistakenly protagonist.
 * It is promised that The War of the Twilight will be three-times darker than RISING GEAR, while also balancing the gray tone of the story directions.
 * Game experience will be much longer than RISING GEAR and immersive brands with different elements added to the game.
 * Hiroshi Matsuyama, the behind players of all Piros's version as an CEO of CyberConnect Corporation is referenced to the real-life Hiroshi Matsuyama who became a CEO of CyberConnect 2 the production studios of all .hack franchise.

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