.hack//Link -Chrono Link- (Gameplay System)

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.hack//Link -Chrono Link- is introduced a brand-new gameplay features which surpassed and exceed the past main titles gameplay in incorporation of hack & slash-action RPG and MMO aspect that combine together to make it a brand-new unique system that bring forth toward a real-time experience and open-world area design, there are brand-new features which would be presented to the game that purposely to bring a faithful and also a new experience for old and new fans to enjoy.

Difficulty Mode
A brand-new system features which doesn't even presented in the past of the main titles game and players are now allowed to selecting the difficulty modes before starting a new game. Difficulty mode has a different variations and different difficulties from other action role-playing game has and it requires a special condition in certain unique ways to alter the course of your experience during exploration and combat through increasing or decreasing difficulty of areas level, boss damages, EXP and more potential balance difficulties system which impacted on your journey and characters challenge which depending on what difficulties which players had choosing for it.

There are 5 difficulty modes which has a different variations, balances, and more that would impacted your gameplay experience, such as:


 * Relax - An evolution in similar design from Cheat Mode difficulties which was originally exclusive for .hack//G.U. Last Recode for players who only just wanted to experience the storyline-only, receiving a bonus items with maximum gil, higher-leveled equipments that Tokio and his party can use, in additionally allows to delivering damages toward the enemies in instant with only for 1-Hit.
 * Easy - This mode was optimized for easy gaming experience which can get pass through the playthrough very easily with adding hints, help and clues during a puzzles and delivering a normal damages toward the enemies, but less receiving damages from the enemies, in addition that allows player to earn a special bonus items which are same from Relax Mode.
 * Normal - Balancing the gaming experience in a normal ways without any impacted during exploration and even for combat.
 * Hard - This mode was been optimized for a challenging gaming experience for the less-pro players with no hints, help, and more as the puzzles would be less unpredictable while they need to search a clues for that and delivering a less damages toward the enemies, but receiving more damages from the enemies while retains some of the elements from Normal Mode, however, been modified in order to fit it's challenging hard experience. But there's a least 49% chance item drop rates from the enemies.
 * Critical - The strongest difficulties mode of all and been optimized for ultimate challenging gaming experience for real pro-players with no hints, help, and more for the puzzles while also clues has been removed as well which this game is exclusively for players who already more experienced, while the damages that party were receiving by the enemies are 3x times than Hard Mode, possibly that players could had chance for their HP to drop faster as they received a damages, unless you levelling up and mastered all strategy to defeating enemies, even for lows or higher level areas which fit for the players level character. *Level 80, Pro-Players, & New Game+ are recommended*

Akashic Records
Akashic Records is the main areas settings to .hack//Link -Chrono Link- as a key to travelling through the past eras of the timeline which can be accessed through The Sea of Memories, although it does not guarantee to changing time that could impacted in the real world, but only in the virtual world, however, it does greatly impacted to the network system, technology, information, and more that could caused a possible network problems. As you travelled through Alternate Records of the past timeline which is the origin caused of the Time Paradox data leads to altering the codes of the players through impacted through system in their PC causing Mind Image Alteration Syndrome to happens.

At the start however, it all needs to progresses to travel through past time data for free as travelling through perspective time log data which cannot be freely to entered, unless Tokio needs to unlocked the key to entered to the gate of new Alternate Records of the timeline by using The Key of the Memories to unlocked the sub-timelines events that could allows to travel through places and times. During the main story, Tokio can explore the area dungeons which located inside the Akashic Records known as Akashic Realm which is the path line network and submarine data which becoming the dimension time of network, thus they can free-roam and explores the dungeons, trials challenges, trials, and more things could happen inside in order to proceed to the Sea of the Memories.

Akashic Records is also filled with the enemies that came from the different timelines due to corrupted server log time data that causing the monster from first and second revision of The World to appeared, however, their behavior is very different from their original timeline as how it much familiar with them being infected by the bug virus as the enemies or even the same enemies has a random weakness and status which how the monster that appears now is different from the same monster you had encountered previously due to their randomize status which is possibility worked like a Bug.

Trials challenges includes a new puzzles, combat trials requirements, quiz, and hidden clues finding which has a different definition that is accordance toward theme and unique adaptation of what later stories could might represent as it progress, but not all variations of puzzles can be included in one level, except when they reached toward the final level stage of the tower. Although the consequences would be severe if you fail to finish on solving and might drain your GP if you fail doing steps for mini-games, but there's a hint and clues that might help you to complete trials, but depends what difficulty modes you've had taken. Those who had finished the trials challenges allows you to go forward toward the next areas and earn a new bonuses items and equipments, while also increased Tokio and party members status attributes for the upcoming battle.

You will fighting against The Guardian Recorders as a main boss fight and you need to defeat them in order to reach of destination for Sea of Memories.

Dark Time Records
The other selfs of the main tower of Akashic Records, lays on the deep underground of the Central City and the dark side of time log, The Dark Time Records. It's a freely explorable areas which are introduced in .hack//Link -Chrono Link and players can start accessing those dungeon during the accident and error happened toward the system in Akashic Line following Alternate Records Timeline of SIGN leads you toward unexplorable dark places that hidden beneath underground of network or so called the Dark Web as the places where it contains every hidden memories that shares a corruption to those who witnessed it, allowing to viewing the events that never even told before or been secret from all this time, also an habitat to all monsters who corrupted by the strongest bug and distortion.

It purposely not just as a place for levelling up your characters and your parties before next story progression, as you continue proceed through it's darkest mystery and exploration in the Dark Time Records, you find as how it is also important to the game and players to explore the dungeons even more to discovered as the places contains all records of the memories that were never existed or stay hidden in the deepest mind of Aura and it also very interesting places to go further in order to unlocked the secret and it's mystery that never even discovered before that also become relevant to fans as how later in the Chapter 20 and Final Chapter. Also you can find the mysterious key items known as Blood of Memories which allows you to unlocked the Hidden Records of the Memories that allows you to transporting Tokio and his party to the unknown and out of boundaries areas which has secret connection and untold stories that never even told in the franchise which is they key, there are more hidden records of memories you can travelled using the Blood of Memories to explored the unknown places.

You will found a new and weirdness types of the treasures as you proceed through exploration, The Distorted Treasures contains amounts of Virus Core and hidden materials known as .hack//BOX as you bring those and decrypted those data to Jikanet which allows you to upgrading Tokio's weapon like Gear Blade, Chrono Edge and other rare equipments which can also be used for your party members, but it also has requirements for you to open the treasure by needs help for hacking the treasures from Saika using the Virus Core or fighting against the monsters who guarded the treasures, The Bug Spiral which is a harder to defeat than other monster in Akashic Records.

Exploring the dungeon floors deeper to the lowest underground level contains '''Phase LV. Floor as the floor levels has different definition and themes which picked by the dark myths and dark lores, while contains new challenges as you progress and in order to go move on the next lower floor is to defeat the Guardian of the Unrecorder, the strongest and forbidden enemies, it has an unique resemblance with Cursed Wave from IMOQ where their HP is infinity or being bug which is same as the other Guardian of the Recorder''', but their attack skills is totally different and strategies you need to defeat them is also different from what you had expected. Defeating them allows you to proceed toward the next lower floor, including earned the CC Corp Secret Files contains classified information that give insight behind scene of the previous titles of the game with new lores connected to each other, also connected with the Hidden Records of the Memories that they had experience it.

However, the Dark Time records contains a side effects for Tokio and his friend for exploring this areas, as you failed defeating the Guardian Unrecorder caused your player characters unable to travel through Akashic Records and even corrupting your Doubleware PCs which could also impacted your equipments (except Gear Blade and Chrono Edge) and items that become unusable, in order to recover parties PC from data corruption, you need to go to Toki-Runty for self-maintenance to recovered the bug that inflicted to the players and you might had no choice but to buy a new equipments, unless you could upgrade the self-maintenance to complete restore corruption which allows your equipments and items to be more usable again.

The best course action to prevent the consequences for failing defeating Guardian of the Unrecorder, you need to follow the level requirements in order to proceed toward next lower floor phase which can be unlocked as the story progresses and following completion of traveling alternate records timeline. To get an easy access to the Dark Time Recorder without waiting for few minutes to get fall to lead you there, you can accessed it on the Center of Plaza in Oblivion City of Mac Anu as you go through Monument Plaza which transporting you that forbidden dungeon.

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 or should be called as a Server Town is a non-combat area where all players usually to go buy particular items, equipments, materials, upgrading weapons and more that fitted or usable for their level characters in order to prepared themselves to exploring the areas or even accepting the quest from the shop, while they can also enjoy doing a mini-games or slacking off to watch the sunset or even doing a trading items like Crimson VS which filled with all popular and legendary characters from R:1 and R:2.

As for Tokio who now travelling the timeline to the past era of The World now been fully remade using Unreal Engine and each of server town in a different eras of timeline can now allowed to free-roam to explore and discover a new things happens freely and anything players can do freely without limitation since it has been redesign and remade into fully open areas where it has lot new variations, activities, new faces, gathering rumor information and more, even players can trading their items for exchange which faithfully iconic features in the server town as you meet players around the server, players can also witnessed few activities through animations along with silliness thing happens as you continue watching them.

Each of the server town from different timelines between R:1 and R:2 has a different structure as it is not just purposely to bring back old elements and memories for the old players who had played the previous main title games, but also enjoyed a new experience and new features like Exploration, sub-quest, brand-new server town facilities feature, and more crowded in a new dynamic animations which are not even presented in the past titles thanks to the power of Unreal Engine 5, allowing new and old fans to enjoy a new refreshing experience while nostalgia of how you used to explore this areas in the past titles, the server can also can be use for combat areas only during storyline progression.

The World R:1
Grunty growth system returned from IMOQ and it allows you to riding a Grunty during the exploration, but another uses how allow you to prevent any necessary making contact enemies that lead toward a combat mode, however, you need to feed them with any foods that really exclusive for grunties in order to keep going, but it can't allow Grunty to enter the temples or specific buildings, but you can have them wait outside or transporting them back to the real world. It also has a major improvements and features from Re: Login toward a root town server, but in the Chrono Link has added a free-roam exploration, new faces, side-quest, and even riding canoe as you be able to ride through the river in Mac Anu, it allows to explore a certain different places and even for the hidden place that can now be accessed.

Grunty Growth can now be used in the second half in the Grand Whale which you can feed them and use it as a exploration in R:2 as well which is good incorporation toward R:1 elements to the The World R:2.

The World R:2
Server town features in The World R:2 still retains the elements from the previous game, but it's has been fully remade with Unreal Engine 5 which all features from G.U. has been redone and reworked in a new visual power, also it adds an improvements toward the features system, free-roam elements, open areas, sub-story mission implementation, brand-new shops and new areas that Tokio can now explored using the Canoe to accessed through another town which never even seen in the previous title of G.U. while you can also be able explore the alley or even the secret hidden passage that allows you enter the secret areas to find more treasures, new faces, hidden easter eggs behind.

Sub-story mission can also be accessed through Quest Shop and even through people, which now players can re-experienced The World R:2 quest elements that features Chim-Chim Quest, Monster Hunt, Bikeman Quest and more which it has been redone in new visual given you combination to re-experience the things that fans love about G.U. while adds an unique challenges, experience, and several new puzzles which allows you to feel an open areas as you doing your quest which is part of the evolution gaming experience from the past titles that allows you enjoy an old and new ways to experience the quest.

Anchor Shop allows you to buy or selling your items and equipments, including exchanging with a brand-new rare high-level equipments which how it can be used for exploration and combat to be ready, however, you need to wait for at least three times in row in order to buy it once again or you can just buy an regular high items and equipment which can be used as well.

Trade System
Trade system features is an iconic game elements which was always used starting from .hack//Infection through .hack//G.U. where players can exchange their own items and even equipments altogether but also needs to see percentage of other player's interest to exchange the items with new one, and those system has made an reworked and improvement from the original which now been optimize to brings a new experience and elements that never presented in the past, including a new features, Trade Menu as Tokio can now use it to prepared the items and equipments you want to exchange with other people while can also predicting the player's interest toward the items, but it can be hit or misses, although it's a best elements that players can do in order to perform the trade system very fun and friendly.

While you trading your rarest equipments and items to the other players, they can giving you some of their rarest items and high-level items which Tokio and his party member can use, there's also a new features, Send Gift to... which can be used as a trading gifts to another person for another player's friend which is likely happen as players might can ask you their favor for items or equipments allows the opportunity for Player's interest gauge to made higher than before as how it's part gratitude to help people who needs help, and you can found them stay on the area, instead walk or run, but they will as you already given them items that they ask a favor to you, also you will be given a new rewards from the other players that you help them in a favor as they are gathered in the Chaos Gate to wait you to give you reward.4

Trading system can also be used in a field and dungeons area as you found players there who currently doing an expedition or even exploration and you can trade same as how you do it in the server town. Interesting new things during trades that you can recommend the other player and their parties for strategy advise for defeating monster which you need to select the best or recommended strategy you advice them, if those strategy works allows you to received amount of rewards from them, but failed strategy will caused them to fight you or even taken your items away if you lose the battle against them, either players can choose to help or ignoring seeking advice in order to avoid any necessary consequences, just in case if the strategy won't work or maybe you can't find a right strategy tactics to advice them.

In similar ways from how .hack//G.U. did, players can also exchanging their items, equipments, and materials same as how the other players did, including sending gift to party members, while customizing the tactics or strategy that really works for defeating enemies, however, you might not getting a punishment or reward for yours strategy work or failed since they are your party members, but you can exchange your fighting playstyle to your players as well in a temporal states which allows to using party members playstyles as a part of exchange which can only worked in one battle in row.

Shop
Shop is always what other RPG games elements do, buying equipments that really suit their current level and items as a support recovery or can also used for the attacks, The World online game has that too, equipments and items can buy or even can upgraded their weapons to increased their attributes status and even buying magic skills that also can be used during the combat system which is all what players really need to go to the root town server, either slacking or enjoying chat with other players, buying equipments and items is also a part of preparation for players for the exploration and combat, but they also mustn't forget to save their data at the Save Shop.

While the equipments, accessories, and elements can be replaced by the party members with a suitable fit to their current level one, Gear Blade as a Tokio's main weapon cannot be replaced with the new one which is essentially considered as the special weapons has control over distortion time data from Akashic Records and Alternate Records Timeline even though he can buy an armor, accessories and even elements, but his main weapon is a different stories, however, Tokio can buy weapon for his left hand or so called Second Weapon which you buy it to increased the buff status and more damages in much accordance toward between upgraded main weapons and secondary weapons which can increased it's attack power and status elements during exploration and combat.

The elements which are retains from .hack//G.U. are Fire, Ice, Winds, Lightning, Light and Dark as it become a major elements for attributes magic for your weapons that either can be used for infliction, resistance, or nullified, while players can also ask the shop to upgrading weapons and modifying it's techniques skills and magic elements buff that allows you to delivered the damages toward the enemies, depends on their resistance, weakness, nullified or even in critical attack, this can goes same for his Gear Blade, however, as you can't replaced those weapon and all you need to do is an upgrade it's strength and materials in Jikanet Shop, but as for Chrono Edge can be replaced or keep it by upgrading those as well, however, you need to buy a new weapon that exclusively for Tokio in Xth Form in the same shop as well.

Chim-Chim Shop is a new shop features which exclusively allows you to buy an exclusive present items, unique items, magic key and more which is not even listed in the regular shops, however, you can buy it using your money, but using the Chim-Chim's point that allows you to buy those items at the shop, and for unique present items that you can give to your party members or other players or even non-party members as well.

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
There's a rumor from the time Tokio and Akira in The World R:X, about the legendary irregular shopkeeper which known as Jikanet as he had travelled through inhabitant or even habitant areas, can be everywhere depends how he want to be there and even in the alternate records time travel, but he appear toward the areas can be randomize as you can accidently meet him in certain areas everywhere to provide selling his items, equipments and even upgrading your and your party members equipment, but you can always find him at the entrance of Akashic Records, while he can also appear in the main areas as the story progresses prior against the boss battle and he can give you and your party members a special support treatment to boosting your parties status and even healing through HP and SP as part preparation to fight the boss battle.

He can also upgrading your and your party members equipments using a different forms of upgradation in higher-advance design which known it's features as Weapon Core Upgrade as your equipments can be upgrade and modified through increased by Jikanet himself, it can also allows you to increased the damage rates change for the critical attack for during Skill Trigger and even Co-Op Skill that could delivered it's damage against the enemies depends on their weakness or none, however, it can also upgrading a specialize items that would be useful for distracting the enemies.

However, he's didn't just selling equipments and ability to upgrading your equipments, you can also upgrading the Natural Upgrade in Jikanet Shop which are very useful for travelling toward Akashic Realm and Dark Time Records as how it contains a new ways to upgrade the boost earning experience and money, including the drop rate item chance and changing the structure of the condition areas in temporal ways, but you need a Chrono Lux which is the special grinding just like Money or even Chim-Chim points that can be earn as you travelled through and even defeating the monster in the Dark Time Records or even selling the bug virus items which only came from Dark Time Recorder.

Nikon Gift is a special and unique coupon items which are very exclusive to use in Jikanet Shop, and selling those coupon to him allows you to buy the equipments and items in a discount rates percentage to decreased the prize values. However, the coupon can only be found through the rare treasures or even during defeating the enemies or as a rewards from the Sub-Story Mission and Quest Shop.

Chaos Gate
Chaos Gate is main iconic to all players transporting themselves along with a party members which is a gate away to access for destination to the Field Areas or Dungeon depending on the are words you choose freely that might really suit for levels as a training, exploration or as part request from the quest shop, not just that, Chaos Gate can also become another gate away access to transporting them into another server town or even a lost ground and you can received an access of Area Words for field, dungeon, lost ground and even other server town through email, forums, and during certain event as the story progress.

Chrono Link has introduced a brand-new features exclusively for Chaos Gate known as The Rank Types Area System allows player to choose the kind of the type keywords that you want to explored in each different variations type with it's own unique content deep inside of those area for field and dungeons, also has new benefitted experience a new exploration and new challenges inside a depth of areas which is more open areas than the past titles, while also includes the puzzles, traps, easter eggs, and enemies depending on the rank types area that you choose. There are many level rank types of the areas for players to choose, such as:


 * D-Rank Type - Contains an enemies appearance only which are very recommended for beginners to choose for exploring and train in the combat.
 * C-Rank Type - Contains an enemies appearance with adds a different types of puzzles, but mostly is very much can be recommended for casual or average players who wants a normal challenges through exploring and combat as well.
 * B-Rank Type - Contains an enemies appearance with a different types of puzzles and several traps that has been implemented to the several parts of the areas, this somehow can be a good hard challenges for the players to get through, while it also contains a bosses as they will appeared in middle or at the end of the areas or can be both depends on it's number.
 * A-Rank Type - Contains the strong enemies appearance with a different types of puzzles and more traps been implemented in all areas along with the hard and rough bosses in which are recommended for players who ready for the harder challenge, but it can rewarded you with amount bonuses items, rare equipments, experience gain boost, and other rewards that is very benefitted to you and your party members.
 * S-Rank Type - This is very exclusive for the main story progression and all enemies appearance, puzzles, traps, and how strong the bosses is eventually depending what kind the area words that you've been received through the emails or certain events story progression.
 * X-Rank Type - Contains all types of difficulties that can includes strongest enemies, bosses, several types of traps, and puzzles which are combined in one rank types of the area and it is very recommended for Pro-Players to try the hardest challenges that you can find with this rank types of the areas. *You can unlock this when you choose a Critical Mode in a New Game+*

Another brand-new features, Area Level Design allows player to creating their own designation of areas with adds of challenges, ranks, and more depending on the areas you had created through accordance of your vision, it purposely given players more freedom to creating something through their perception of wanting to creating something easier or harder and by choosing the rank type of the areas that were fit for the player characters level along with party members, it can be available as Downloadable Content of Season Pass.

Field Exploration
Field Exploration is now been reworked from the past title with an implementation of open-areas which are now in a bigger size with depth and density than how it was in the previous game. There are two types of field exploration such as Field Area and Dungeon as the players can explores either has different structures and even the contents it's used there depends on you choose the area words and rank-type as it features a enemies, traps, puzzles, and more intentionally to given a brand-new experience for players which can only be found in Chrono Link however, the several elements from .hack//Games and .hack//G.U. has been retains and which has been reworked to enhance the experience through visual, features and new challengeable system to give players a new things that players didn't even explored in the past main game titles.

However, two different version of The World has a different exploration field and dungeons structures from each other how in the past timeline alternate records would let players to explores the field and dungeons that depends on it's version includes the features like Golden Eggs, Grunty, Chim-Chim, Lucky Animals and Chim Robot, however, Chrono Link adds a new implementation to enhanced the nostalgia experience combining with a brand-new experience since it has open-areas exploration which now has new shortcut skills that allows you be able to control your party through commanding them, hearing music or even ask for assist, but it still faithful toward to each two version structure of the exploration including all features that retains from the past game.

But in creating areas design levels which available as a downloadable content later is also means that allows player to combine the features from The World R:1 and The World R:2 in additional implementation features from The World R:X that would combining it together, while also adds a new monsters from two version of the World as well, allows fans of two main games to nostalgia about how cool exploration that can intentionally for nostalgia and also for new experience that old and fans can enjoy together.

There will be a new dialogue moments outside of the cutscenes which can be presented during exploration and even combat along with a more things which also been implemented as during the story progression or sub-story progression in a real-time experience.

Field Area
Field areas is now more open-areas as the size of the maps is much bigger and has a new density than how it was presented in the previous titles as it gained a lot new features system that could possibly allows you to enjoy a new experience during exploring and discovered many secret things as you progress through the areas, while you can fight monsters and bosses in a real-time. While depending on the Rank Type Level Areas you choose featuring a puzzles, traps, and more that could adds a new challenges toward the exploration, however, since the traps and puzzles used to appeared only for dungeon in the past titles.

Now the field areas has it's own unique varieties of puzzle and traps as it unique design that will made more difference from the dungeons as it can be covered in illusions, enemies traps, hole traps and more which is assembly presented natural trap in a field through game progression. While a new area design is not just about field land, but also featured a wild forest as well as a new free-roam exploration and features like Lucky Animals, Chim-Chim, Golden Egg, Grunty Riding and more is also can be implemented toward those areas depending on the version areas you are.

Dungeon
Dungeon has now a bigger areas and density from the past titles as it also features a traps, puzzles and more depending on the Rank Type Level Areas, however, there's a new element implementation in the dungeons as you can find a new situation at the bigger dungeons, which can be darker, lighter or even different beyond that which is how depending on the area words which brings a different varieties from the past title. Players can also find a secret hidden passage that allows you directly toward the areas, missing players, and even obtaining the rare treasure or even trap treasures there, but how much bigger areas in dungeons gives a new opportunity to explores a new discovery and glimpse of easter eggs from the previous past titles and The World online game.

Lucky Animals
Lucky Animals is a typical cute animals, but there's more than just catching the cute animals, you can pet a different types of Lucky Animals if you unharmed them and can also join Tokio and party members into the battle as not just giving you a booster status buff during combats, but also helping you to battling against the boss fight as well that is very helpful. However, you need to make sure petting the animals in the right ways or not letting them to be defeated, because the consequences is that you won't be able to get a support from him in the next upcoming battle so you need to taking care your animals better.

Tokio can petting them, given them a food, cuddle them, and playing around with him which is the first thing to do when it comes a petting the animals that could increased they're interest toward you and help you during the exploration and combat which most likely that he will join you during main story progression which is how excited would be if the animal are appeared in the story cutscenes, but although you need to finish the requirements in need in order to do that and it's recommended to petting and taking care the animals with love.

Combat
Chrono Link combat system is very different experience from past titles and even for the original .hack//Link from PlayStation Portable version as the game would be a fast-paced action RPG combining with an MMO aspect and real-time experience, it doesn't need to enter the sequence for combat mode as now Tokio and his party had more freedom to taking out the enemies or letting it be which seems based on Kingdom Hearts III and Nier Automata, however the aspect is different from them since the combat mode is more incorporated between Action RPG, Hack & Slash, MMO Aspect and Real-Time experience.

It's gameplay itself is a major evolution and greatly improvements from .hack//Games and .hack//G.U. along with adding the hack & slash into the game given a new action RPG experience in fast-paced combat while keeping tradition gameplay features elements from past main titles in the different direction as they travelling through times toward two eras of The World and the system features in the combat would be different to each other, however, attacking, skills and more are very different from two past title games as how it eventually focus on fast-paced action RPG.

General
As it is mentioned above that you can have a freedom to directly attacking enemies to enter the combat or just ignoring it in the real time as many times as you encountered them directly without using a transition sequence from .hack//G.U. and while it also given you a chance to strike them directly using a surprise attack from behind in a different freedom experience from the past game, but players had freedom to choose whether you can do when the enemies is in front of your eyes.

Tokio now has ability to dodging the enemies using dodge roll or guarding from the enemies attack and perform the counterattack against them as the combat progress, but more interestingly that now Tokio can now allowed to attack the enemies in a mid-air or in the air without using Skill Trigger as you unleashing air attacks toward the enemies and using the attack combo with skill trigger simultaneously allows you delivering a fantastic performance damages toward the enemies more as you can staggered them, using skills magic in the air is also possible against the enemies as well which could be able to weakened the enemies in a new performance as much smoothly than how they usually do in the past titles since this game is incorporation elements based on Kingdom Hearts III Gameplay.

Rengeki and Co-Op Rengeki
Rengeki originally featured in .hack//G.U. as it worked through the uses of skill trigger that allows to delivering major critical hit damage against the enemies and this features is also received a major evolution from the original as now Tokio can perform attacks and skill trigger simultaneously without adds another transition which allows players to have more freedom to having more engaging combat experience in fast-paced action, while rengeki is also has a new potential co-op teamwork, Cross Rengeki, Trinity Rengeki and Ultimate Rengeki exclusive for work team for him and his party members during a combat.

As it is a part of the major evolution from Cross Rengeki now being reincorporated into a brand-new system features for three co-op teamwork such as Cross, Trinity and Ultimate Rengeki which took the inspiration from Technique from Final Fantasy XV as part of the teamwork that Tokio and his friend can now working together not just performing their skills together in new style to land more hit damages against the enemies, but also can be fully support boost for the combat and even restoring parties HP. By pressing L1 allows you to choose different techniques depends on teamwork rengeki types you use with your party members as it consumes RG or known as Rengeki Gauge on shortcut or even in command menu.

In order to obtain those teamwork rengeki techniques you need to levelling up your Bond of Unison with your one of your party members by increasing the affection bond points on each characters in your party members allows you to unlocked those skills and able enhanced the critical chance rates against the enemies, but in order to accessed the abilities, you need to activate it on LINK Abilities in order to obtained and use it during a combat.

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.

Cross Link
Cross Link is basically a brand-new features that were inspired from Link Strike features from Final Fantasy XV gameplay that allows your party lending a hands for automatically cooperation as it leading it's attack together against the enemies when they reached staggered, weak points and even can do continuously landing a critical hit against the enemies instant or in one blows. For enemies, is the same, but the difference as the boss enemy got staggered which allows you to cooperate with your allies on your parties together performing their skill triggers together which landing a critical hit against them as well.

Temporary Party Member
Temporary party member or in more specifically can also be called as a Guest Party which exclusive for those who are not officially on your list as a party members due to how it needs a member address in order to add them, and this features is for characters who can join in for only during story progression parts and left when it's already over which they really important for their parts role in the story, but what most interestingly that they can land a hand for party members for attack, defends, skills, aids, boosting status support and restoring their health which seems very useful for a combat or even during the exploration.

Although you can't optimize or even setting up the guest party and not even players could able to changing their equipments as it is very automatically only during the story progression, but you might can't trade with them too since they are a guest party, however, it's very possible to given them an items, equipments or even a coupon as a gift, that is also allows guest to boosting their status during a combat and there's might even a slightest chance for this can be triggered during a story events.

Command Mode
in .hack//Games, there's a features system that can be used during exploration and combat known as the computer-controlled characters with guidelines and issue direct commands which are exclusive to commanding your allies in a guidelines or even issues direct command that allies can use during a combat which are very helpful tips for another teamwork system. This features is now completely upgraded and evolve into a brand-new system features, Command Mode which is inspired from the two feature system from .hack//Games which are same helpful commanding the allies through the combat and even exploration, but this has a several new changes and features would be presented in .hack//Link -Chrono Link-.

A new system features, Command Mode can be useful in much freedom ways for strategy component through uses for combat mode that not just commanding Tokio himself or even issues direct-command on him to choose skill and items that can be used, it also helps players to direct-commanding Tokio's party to use what available such as skill, magic or items that not just to help Tokio, but also for his party members as well and it helps increased the performance of strategy for player who wants more challenging and smart ways. It could replace the ability to open menu and choosing the skills and items during combat in the past two main titles because the transition can gave your more time in slow motion sequence, which allows you to choose whatever shortcuts and commands you will issues to direct toward your allies to use and even controlling parties with guidelines for first aid, attack, magic and more.

Shortcut
Command mode also featured a Shortcut system which allows you to use skills and even skill trigger for free through using a buttons which also can be used simultaneously during a combat battle as it allows you to use those repeatedly without choosing what kind skills that you can use against them as it needs for you to customize it from menu to choose items, magic and skill trigger that you can choose, but this actually exclusive Tokio as a playable characters while you hack and slash against the enemies in real-time while using a shortcut to use it repeatedly, however, for magic and skill trigger can also cost you an SP as you repeatedly using them.

Skill Trigger
Skill trigger originally came from .hack//G.U. now has been evolved to had a brand-new mechanics which can be incorporated between attacking the enemies and even using the skill simultaneously without putting using a sequence to show-off your skill trigger name because now you can perform it in real-time experience and continuously can be used to delivered a damage against the enemies in a double time, there are types of skill trigger like Bonus Trigger and Double Trigger which can be accessed through Link Ability as you levelling up Tokio's character to use growth development of skill triggers that can be used for combat.

It also allows you to customize Tokio's skill trigger through Shortcut system features, there can one or two skills in the shortcut depending how you customize it which allows you continuously using those only with buttons that allows you to execute the skill against them, but somehow your skill can be cancelled as you dodge or even attacked by enemies, but you can always try that again until you got a chance and opportunity to strike and delivering the damages against the enemies.

Awakening
Awakening system return from .hack//G.U which also has a massively improvements from the past titles which now as a new implementation features for command mode which can be unlocked when you entered the second half of the storyline, which can be fully accessible as player maximize the awakening gauge which can be filled through Command Mode bar in which can be use during full or even half as it is enough to performing these techniques that eventually delivering the critical hit damages against the enemies, and it thus placed in a special treatments than all types of co-op rengeki techniques.

Three awakening that are retains from past titles are Beast Awakening, Demon Awakening and Divine Awakening which now has accessed a brand-new sequence without using cinematic background which was presented in G.U. and now can use it freely with new sequence and different techniques that Tokio could performed with their parties in a different styles from Haseo to unleashed the damages against the enemies. Two Awakenings technique been implemented to the command mode which listed are Speed Awakening and Rengeki Awakening


 * Speed Awakening - Allows you to unleash the powerful speed movements during attacking against the enemies, however, the attacks are still normal than how it used for Demon Awakening, but it relies on players and party to attacking the enemies very faster and much solid than the Beast awakening along with a faster counterattack with a many instant strikes can be delivered a damages in increased combo toward the enemies.
 * Rengeki Awakening - Allows you to use those techniques in cooperation with your party members which instantly allows them to increased the damages and the critical rate chance toward the enemies in three times bigger than before in performing combination between all the awakening styles in different phases and act that Tokio and his party can use simultaneously, next sequence is how they use a Rengeki Awakening techniques together in a cinematic sequence by commencing a quick time button or rapid smash button.

Link Abilities
Link Abilities is a brand-new features which was introduced in .hack//Link -Chrono Link- and by spending Link Point or in short as LP by levelling up Tokio and his party members, freeing Twilight Knights and completing a sub-stories for LP rewards, allows you to unlocked a brand-new abilities, skills, growth, quality of life improvements, enhance status boost, resistance and nullified boost, and more which not just uses to improves your performance quality for combat, but also can be used to improved the abilities for Tokio can uses for the exploration and survival experience through the open-areas environment, while as you earn the new abilities wouldn't just impacted on him, but it can also impacted toward his allies and party members as well, but there's also a new ability that allows to increased the earning of LP.

All the abilities of skill triggers and awakenings technique can be also accessed through Link Ability, including all skills for co-op rengeki technique that could only unlocked by continuously establishing the Bond of Unison which can be spending more using the LP, but this also allows to unlocked and earn the various skills, quality life improvements, magic support, new combo attacks and combat ability through Tokio's job as a Dual Edge that could enhance his attack combo, skill triggers, and enhance his attack timing performance while using the skill or magic simultaneously.

While for quality-of life improvements that can be learned it's ability, it can also allows you to accessing a brand-new abilities which are exclusive to improved the performance, enhance instinct, and more, exclusively for trade system, grunties growth, grunty riding, lucky animals, treasures, hidden passage, grand-whale, and even more capabilities that can be learned to improved the gaming experience through exploration, combat and many more activities that can be choose to improved our stabilize progression of the game.

Twilight Knights characters can grants you for new access Link abilities as a part of the rewards for freeing them from the Time Stone which allows you learn a brand-new combat abilities that is uniquely allow Tokio to mimic their combat abilities, but this also can grant Tokio a new abilities each of progression that came from Bond of Unison system that allows you earned a special abilities that you can uses in many types experience in needs.

Bond of Unison
Bond of Unison is a new mechanics features system which are introduce in .hack//Link -Chrono Link- which purposely allows Tokio to developed bonds with a party members, including the twilight knights as you can invite them to the most various places or for mini-games depends on what your Bond of Unison would really like to go for spending time together, while it can also further they're affection chance by using different types of co-op rengeki techniques that increased their affection and chance to developed their bonds and it also even possible to explore more about their backgrounds, their unique personality, hobbies, their silliness activities, and more as you can spend time with them.

Further the developments of their bond of unison can allows you to obtaining a brand-new co-op rengeki techniques, skills, abilities for exploration, boosting the status, and synchronize your attack and skills with your partner of Bond of Unison as well during combat. But as the Bond of Unison had been progressed through allows you to unlocked a brand-new sub-scenarios, events, sub-story mission, and more that could allow Tokio to enhance their affection through dialogue choices that can use during conversation and as you choose the right answers or impactful answers resulting the increased of affection, each of the characters has their own Bond of Unison moments depending their characteristic, background, personality, twist, surprise, and more as players have more freedom to explore their unique characters.

You can unlocked their bond of unison as the story progress or even through the emails, and they will be at the different places with their own paces as Tokio can invite them to commence the progresses of the Bond of Unison, some characters development through bond of unison can also be impacted through the story progress as you notice something changes in them that could allows you to unlocked a brand-new story cutscenes as you complete some of the characters bond of unison.

Demon Palace Tournament
Demon Palace Tournament is an exclusive tournament challenges against the opponents which are located in Lumina Cloth City from The World R:2 as the arena size had been extended it's size to become wider than before, you can registering along with selecting your opponents is same as how the players did in .hack//G.U. and normally goes for Chrono Link as the story progress. The difficulties, challenging opponent is now received an major improvements and changes from the original along with the arena rules, traps, and situation effects to adds more challenges that could be implemented into the arena palace.

The arena palace will includes a brand-new features which was been introduced in .hack//Link -Chrono Link- as you choose those new challenges features to test your strength on the arena battle, allows you to getting more popularity and a big impactful prize to earned following beating each of arena challenges, such as:


 * Battle Royale - A new challenges which consist 6 different teams that you can challenges against them in order to raise your rank faster than before as it took place in a bigger size and different places of arena as you need to defeating one on one enemies or both or even multiple during the combat, as your objective is to defeat every last of the other team members in order for your team to win the palace tournament.
 * 1P vs 8Ps - A new harder challenges which consist Tokio alone against other eight players that was purposely for pro-players and even ways to increased your rank of arena tournament even faster to reach a top-rank, depends on the enemies level that you might find it easier to defeat and if the enemies has a high level could be your possible hard challenges to defeat eight of them that could consume much cost of your HP and SP, so it's very recommended to entered it with your compatible levels that were fit to fight against them. As you win, there's much more rewards that you can received than the normal one as you able to pursue the challenges against all eight players in less high or even higher level from Tokio.
 * Climax Battle - A new challenges arena that allows you fight against the pro-player team members with more experienced than Tokio's team and each of the opponents has an unique skills and can commence a different abilities, including a skill triggers which is lot stronger than the other opponents since the pro-players can read ally team movements attack that could almost impossible to given a chance to defeat them, also the combat is intense than other opponents could, unless you are more leveled than them which is why players need to read it's requirements to enter.
 * Monster Hunt - A new challenges to invite all participants to race themselves to hunt against the monster which can be big, bigger and biggest than what they expected and there are many different types of the monster that you can fight against, it might be same as you fighting against boss fight, however, it contains a rules from arena palace tournament in order to keep it safely during hunting the monster. Tokio and his team can also assisted another team players member for a combat against the monster and even heal them as well.

While it's not just arena palace tournament featuring a major improvements and brand-new challenges system, but the Ranking System is also been adjusted in brand-new ways to grind your ways to the top level as a top champion and while it also allows Tokio and teams to earn a brand-new bigger rewards, boosting your party status temporary and earning the GP that allows you to buy an exclusive arena shop for different pro-level equipments, rare maps, items and more, but it also allows you to gaining a recognition from all players and also allows you to increase a chance rate for trade system as well.

Grand Whale
Grand-Whale is a submarine ship that are use to travel through time data and are not specifically used for the combat and the areas along with the facilities has been made fully remade and explorable using the graphical power visual of Unreal Engine 5 that now allowed Tokio to walk around the Grand-Whale which filled with so many crowds of Twilight Knights players once Tokio had already free them and you can witnessed their activities in a brand-new ways as possible or even seeing your guildmate during their activities in a Grand Whale as well, but instead just fully remade the ship, Grand-Whale introduced a brand-new facilities and features that could be implemented on the submarine ship to bring players for new expression freedom experience from the original, such as:

Grand Whale Customization & Decoration
Players can now have more freedom to customize the facilities and decorate it as accordance to your taste, this features allows you to editing and designing the room facilities by adding new parts to fill the room and decorate the facilities design, or even can design the whole interiors of the submarine ship with more freedom to their taste within facilities and scenery places that makes you nostalgia about the iconic places from past title of .hack, and how it increased the party members affection toward the facility room that players had designed for them or for other people brings a new natural, expression, charms and feels to make them comfortable in grand-whale areas as results of player's decoration and customize facilities area rooms.

However, in order to get a new parts interior for the grand-whale facilities, you need to complete each of Guild Mission that was taken request from Toki-Runty and completing those mission will not just rewards you for items, equipments and virus core, but also rewards you for a new parts interior features for the facilities room and decorations to complete maximize their vision toward the design of interiors that they really want according to their taste, while to upgrade and expand areas for new customization and decoration which needs to ask Toki-Runty for Grand-Whale system upgrades that allows you to unlocked a new features, including expanding and brand-new facilities that players can decorate more of it.

Upgrade Facilities
Facilities in grand-whale can be expand and upgrade to adds a brand-new features which purposely to expand the experience that you had with this ship for shop, music collection, briefing, gallery museum and many more which contains a new contents there as you keep upgrading with your moneys, also expanding the size of the facilities map to fit the capacity of the players in that room as well, while upgrading the facilities also adds a new bonus features as additional experience toward facility that more useful for your free-roam inside the ship and possibly look like a server town.

However, several facilities cannot be upgraded using a money but rather can be unlocked by completing the guild mission and ryu-books in order to unlocked a brand-new facilities and also upgrading features which was never even seen in the original game, allowing players to expand their experience with new room facilities has been implemented to the ship, including its features that also can be added to the facility as well or even for scenery room.

Upgrade Time Discovery
Grand whale also allows player to upgrading the abilities to expand your discovery in Akashic Records and Dark Time Records as it capable to improves the exploration, travelling and open a brand-new gates toward alternate records timeline of the past as it allows you to spread wider seeking request in order to open up the brand-new sub story mission and a brand-new chance to explore a new or hidden areas, also locating the missing person which located in Akashic Records and even Dark Time Records that can only be upgraded through Toki-Runty as it improves the system of grand-whale is given a new abilities that could be use for exploration and combat, while also improves the chance of survival, guides and clues toward survival challenges in the Dark Time Records.

To upgrading it's time discovery is not just using your money, but it can also cost your chrono lux as well in order to purchase the upgrades, and as for the other special discovery upgrades feature can be unlocked as you completing Toki-Runty's request on Guild Mission.

Upgrade Unison PCs Form
As you maximize your Unison Bonds with your party members and even several party members of Twilight Knights allows you to upgrading their parties PC form which could resemblance toward their original version of Xth Form, however, it would not same as the previous version as the new form for Twilight Knights allows you to unlocked a brand-new forms and names which is more than just classical Xth form, but it given a name that are very match to their new form appearance and it allows them to obtained a brand-new weapons style, new moves, skill triggers and updated their co-op rengeki techniques with uses of their new weapons.

Chrono Guild members however, has their form of PCs being automatically upgraded to a brand-new forms as the story progress with a brand-new name to the form which fit to their new form appearance and each of their characteristic during the Chapter 15: Doubleware which they would also given a brand-new skills, weapons, moves, and upgrade co-op rengeki techniques during the exploration and combat. Although in the grand-whale during upgraded PCs might not change them into a brand-new forms, but instead upgrading their weapons, obtained their special abilities and limit break.

Training VR Mode
Training VR Mode is a brand-new features which are introduced in .hack//Link -Chrono Link- exclusively for grand-whale which allows you to train and hone your skills along with a challengeable enemies and monsters data that you had already captured and researched by Saika and Alibaba in order to put Tokio and his party members for the test in order to improves their strategy skills, including boosting status and character level. You can selecting the difficulty levels toward monster that you want to challenges which are really fit toward your level or wanting to challenges an enemies that with an higher levels in your simulators which brought an higher chance to not levelling up Tokio and party members but also able to predict their moves as part of his parties training.

Sub-Story Mission
Sub-story mission is another brand-new features which were introduced in .hack//Link -Chrono Link- and basically based on side-quest as it focusing on helping bunch familiar and unfamiliar players for their personal request and you get your reward if complete their request that had been given for you, but one makes things more interesting is that the sub-story mission will also taken evolution from sub-scenarios from the original .hack//Link as you able to visit a spin-off alternate records timeline in new experience for example Legend of Twilight, CELL and few more and including the .hack//X'Over which nows been massively expanded from the original which brings another new opportunity and new chance to expand, explore and more interaction between characters to characters from Twilight Knights and Chrono Guild as well.

As the sub-story mission while not just focuses on completing request through finding items, fighting monsters, finding someone, solving puzzles, mini-games, against the enemies who are targeting the clients be either for PKers or even something even more silly in humor ways, but it allows you to explores something different outside of the main story in or out of boundaries as it focuses on interaction, sub-character developments, creating new depth discovery characters for each of them, given a deep sense roam toward any kinds of bonds, interaction, relationship toward characters and more things that you couldn't even seen in the original that would expand a new different genres and themes as you progressing through the story, and possible 4th breaking wall sense of humor is also happen, this has more freedom to expresses new kinds of fan-service that fans didn't even expect they want it for their favorite characters from different eras of the timeline of The World to interact each other, especially with Chrono Guild.

This also given developers a chance using the Sub-Story Mission to explore many things that happens in our current world like self-discovery, internet uses, network problems issues, cyberbullying, media social problems, manipulate information data, privacy & security, social problems, game addicted, public trust, social loner, blackmail, hoax news, and more that are really happens around us which is not just affecting the people in the online game, but also affecting in the real world system that also given a profound message and themes that allows player to understand a world-building of .hack even more since it has connection about the network and internet that could teach them for how you uses and how other people will use the internet, which could impacted to all players around the world for a better.

While it also focuses on exploring a different layers from characters to characters during interaction, moments and other things, but Twilight Knights can also requesting to Tokio and as you accepting their sub-story mission which adds a brand-new side cutscenes that allows you to discover and learning more about their characters which never even explored more in the past title of .hack as it is not just focuses on their in The World, but their real world problem which given incorporation with two side of their worlds and their story is even more interesting to learn more about their backstories, new fresh focuses about them, and their activities in the sub-story while also connecting them with their previous player characters in The World R:1 which allows to open connection to their past.

It given them a chance for a new fresh character development to add a layer of their story character, along with their interaction with the original characters as well with other twilight knights from different eras. But for some characters has a deep mystery insight that could revealed few or several lore that could possibly hinted and connected for the future entries which left us in untold but has a relevance to the story development. Several sub-stories can be unlocked through progression of Bond of Unison for party members.

This same goes for Chrono Guild as it given more opportunity to explore more about their characters, backstories, new fresh focuses about them, their hobbies, their unique personality and even more interaction during the sub-story mission as they have their own personal request which is why the reason you can invite them to your party for their request to progress and theirs a new moments that were never even seen in the main storyline which is also building a new-depth toward their characters and their progression as well, this mission can be unlocked as you continue progressing the Bond of the Unison with other Chrono Guild, except Akira and Saika as their main development characters can be focused on main story and his main story downloadable content.

Mini-Games
There are various mini-games which can be found in the server town, 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, Crimson VS card is also up for a new trading cards that can be a brand-new games presented in your smartphone game and including another new mini-games which exist as the game progresses in the field or dungeon as each of the mini-games has it's own unique in categories that can be a racing and more other new one that keep fans to be interest to fresh their minds from experiencing the main story. (Editor Note: You guys can guess what kind a Mini-Games you all want to add).

New Game+
A brand-new features which didn't even existed in the past main titles of .hack which can now be unlocked following players beating the game from their first playthrough and you have a freedom choice whether you want to do a post-game contents or just restarting the game from the beginning for a second playthrough with your current levels that would carry over, while can also allows player to change their difficulty mode once again which depends on your current level, however, there's a lot contents that will be carry and not carry over in the New Game+ such as:

The features that are carry over:


 * Levels and experience
 * Gil
 * Equipments and Items

The features that are not carry over:


 * Capture Photo Gallery
 * Chrono Lux and Blood of the Memories
 * Key of the Memories
 * Grand-Whale Customization
 * All recorded music, photos, videos and more.
 * Completed sub-story mission.
 * Area keywords.
 * Arena Palace Tournament trophies
 * Chats, News, forums, and Media Social Articles.
 * Map information and Map Points
 * Trade Items, present and more.

The bonus features in New Game+ are:


 * Additional new secret story content
 * HP and SP increased.
 * Additional rare equipments and outfits
 * Grand Whale Customization Bonuses
 * New costume unlocked
 * Bonuses Items
 * Brand-new secret bosses
 * Additional secret reports.
 * Booster Cheat unlocked

Online Multiplayers
Online multiplayers features can now allow players to be more connected with other players through online internet access and also can be one who can supporting you during the combat mode, as your internet are connected and you can find your friends are online and you can invited them through Multiplayer Access Internet Shop on Grand Whale which allows you to connect with them together and starting the online mission and quest for adventure or even join together to defeating a bosses that leads you toward a new rewards, but it's also interestingly that you can invite your online friends to try the area level design that you had been creating to explore for trial and test or as a training playground as well.

You can fight your player online through access of administrator tournament for internet connection that allows you enjoy a new challenges to defeat your online friends with their parties as your opponent which was never even presented even for two main titles of the game like .hack//Games and .hack//G.U. The online access multiplayer can be available as a Free-DLC from Season Pass which would be released in one month, following the game's released.