Project RE: (.hack//New Conglomerate)

"Disclaimer: I do not own .hack//Franchise or even the series, all copyrighted and it's owned by Cyber Connect 2 and Bandai Namco Entertainment.".hack//IMMORTAL DUSK Saga is directly a expansion and remake story of the original 2010's PSP game, .hack//Link in commence the 10th anniversary since it's release and consist with several projects which directly ties to Trilogy main titles of .hack//Link and also been rebooted to match fit the continuities with a previous .hack series. The saga stories could be possibly major contradict the direction of Third Season of .hack, however it would bring the grand opening to the project as well as a bridge path between 2nd Season and 3rd Season, however, this saga is also important to the series.

The story start with Tokio Kuryuu as the teeneger boy who loves video games, and along with his half-brother, Akira Kuryuu entering their new life of adventures in The World R:3, but suddenly got dragged in the messed and disaster situation with the mysterious PKK known as ENTIES and the world of network began to distorting and twisted lifes of the players in the online game, end with massacre. However, the progression of the story developments leads to a mysterious and twist along the way, the stakes getting slowly increased as the moment they reached through those level intensity of the story. As you progress from RIVES to RISING, All the mysterious that came in question will come to the light, but the moment of the truth is something that they would never escape.

The main titles of LINK (Remake) span in three main-titles, .hack//Link -RIVES-, .hack//Link -CHRONO-, and the lastly the final chapter and the opening to the third project of .hack, .hack//Link -RISING- which considered as the biggest game with a lot higher stakes and dark turn as the story progressing, but still faithful to the original, while incorporated in a new ways.

Background
.hack//IMMORTAL DUSK Saga is a trilogy saga which is expansion and remake stories of the original PSP Version since the released 2010, .hack//Link which consist the three main title numbered of .hack//Link story, and the project development ideas was started in 2019 ever since the game had reached until this year as the 10th Anniversary of the game release.

The first ideas is to make trilogy episodes which was known as .hack//Link -Chrono Link- contains Revision, Terror, and Countdown along with ideas making anime series, the prequel to the game known as .hack//RIVES which sets before the remake stories, although the second ideas begins with RIVES story starts it all which the plot direction came forward, instead back and forward at the same time, like progression of Manga series or Anime series, which makes the whole direction, flows forward. Although due to some fans comments and opinion about this game being seperate episode, along with myself learning development of the games that could take more than 3 years, and so I began another focus for awhile and set up a new ideas to come up with. Although I already write and complete the fanfiction story, The Safekeeping of Promise which is the prologue story of .hack//RIVES.

At the end of 2020 and the beginning 2021 which the end of the 10th anniversary of .hack//Link means that it would be impossible for to continue in the same year since it's already passed for that, and so I reimagining the saga of Link with something different but still faithfully to what I created, and this time it would be something to call whether it would be reboot or lead up to Third Season of .hack that set in canon-universe since it would majorly contradicts the SECRET FILE Timeline regarding MAMA's involvement toward all .hack series events in .hack//ARCHIVE 05 Beyond the World + Versus. Although, the setting timelime chronological is much unique and suprising, which everyone can guess whether this still set in 2020 or another one, but everything is part of my idea, everyone can guess what's now.

Theme
The direction of these trilogy sagas is much soft-rebooted from the original one, but it's also reimagining the story of Link while incorporated with brand-new ones. According to the CEO of CyberConnect 2, Hiroshi Matsuyama last week on Piroshi Q&A, the original .hack//Link was aimed for younger age, like for elementary and middle schoolers to enjoy and re-experience the world and stories of .hack, also allows game for you to play with your friends, to being cooperative together while enjoying an RPG formats unlike any previous titles.

But these stories sagas is aimed for Shonen and Older Audience who had enjoyed the series in the past, which the game will be a single-players, but there's also a lot possibilities for a Multiplayers to play together cooperatives with others which is faithful to the original. The story direction is like a level game, which the story has it's own level, and progressing through and those level intensity of the story will slowly increased, which means lot of twist and truth will come as the story progress.

The story themes is about journey of Tokio, but not because his journey to become a hero and save the world, but to learn that everything that could pass up for his dreams and ideals is not what he had expected, the truth is much harder for him to accept as the story progress. He believes that there's a light and darkness bounds together like in old fashion ways, but once he realize, they're be humans or AI, they can make a lot worst decision of all, and how does it reflect it to what's come after in bounds to consenquences for dream and ideals to keep push forward and someday you get tired of it, neither it would work out that way. Neither there's Light nor Darkness in this story but only he only entering in a Gray Area, worst truth reality of all.

Sometimes he might had realize, that everyone or even someone he admires (Like Tokio admiring Kite) saving the world wasn't even meant to become a hero in the first place, but those sensible choice and determination that keeps forward, choosing something that even matters now to go through, be either getting consenquences or worst, but as longs that they keep forward and changes, somehow it would lead something better or another worse, but that's how life was, be either getting succeded or not.

For Tokio, he has inability to accept the reality that everything doesn't go on way of his direction in the real world, and though there's force of light and darkness decision that makes things alright, but thus ended up impacting to everyone that he met be either they getting dead or suffer or happy, however, this sagas stories will grows and make Tokio developed to believed that sometimes, to save one person or another that he cares so much means that he had to go through consenquences and turn back on people in the real world who wants to do whatever they want, because he knew that the abyss and despair is only happens if you fufilled the mankind's selfish wish or orders, just to believes what it means to take to become a hero and save the world, everything is where the choice and consequences will lead to Tokio as a whole, but still fight and risking his life, even that means to save people that means lot to him than everyone else who walked the earth do thinking selfishly about him, as long they had reasonable intention to do or could unreasonable, that same goes for the other characters as well.

Premise
The story begins with RIVES chapter, which started when they arrived and begin of Tokio Kuryuu and his brother Akira Kuryuu adventure in next version of the most popular MMORPG, The World R:3 where their discovery and secrets came upon them, with appearance of ENTIES brought the disaster toward online game and across the network data, causing distortion, but his appearance had led players to their death, which is starting of The Massacre of the Players Tragedy. and the next chapter is CHRONO which is the remake stories of PSP version, set after previous chapter, beginning for the new adventures as Saika Koshizumi transporting Tokio into The World R:3 once again (which now has been rebranded into The World R:X) and met Kite against Fluegel. the leader of schicksal, entrusting Tokio to free his friend from Akashic Records Time Stone effects by Flugel's Braieler Rossel. Entrusting everything those burden to Tokio, another chapter of the story, begin.

And the final chapter RISING is the most anticipated story of .hack which set a year after the second chapters and this story will be the final chapter to the saga. As focusing on Tokio once more in the state of disaster that the Real World has gone into. With AIKA's inviting him once again to The World R:X, gather his old friend in order to find people who were trapped in the online game and once again save Kite & Akira from his coma, also find Saika. But CC Corp and it's conspiracy begins setting their eyes on Tokio along with his friend, possibly become threat to them. The story continues with their lifes now being branded as Hacker for crossing the line and make stand against CC Corps, while their doing to stop Real Digitalization progress and save them, but the stakes and consenquences become in it's highest and their life is in hanging balance to it's core.

Main Trilogy

 * .hack//Link -RIVES-
 * .hack//Link -CHRONO-
 * .hack//Link -RISING-