Project RE: (.hack//New Conglomerate)

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'“The repetition, reimagination, remake, reboot or anything that becomes part of recreation of our time and events, and so the life itself began to restart, but the divergence of that life became our difference... our new reality”. -Tagline'

BEWARE FOR MAJOR SPOILERS

.hack//RE: Project Saga is a brand-new sub-franchise of .hack series which are based on the story of the original PSP Game, .hack//Link in commemorate 10th to 15th anniversary since it’s release which consisting on four main titles and several project that were directly ties on the main sub-series, while it’s a major bridge with 3rd Season of .hack project and the Final Season of .hack project.

Background/Development
RE: Project saga is based on the same name lores from it’s sub-franchise of .hack which in different types of the retelling stories which connecting to the concept of Time, Event, and Directions in terms words of “RE” toward four main title series, such as RIVES as Reboot, Chrono Link as Reimagination, RISING GEAR as Restoration, and REMISSION Code: Truth as Repetition.

The original project saga was titled as CHRONO RiSING, before being rebranded as RE: Project Saga which is originally as an expansion and remake stories to the original PSP Game version of the main series, .hack//Link in commemorates for it’s 10th Anniversary and originally first idea to consist trilogy series with Revision, Terror and Countdown while the second idea would be with RIVES, Chrono Link, and RISING GEAR. With the final idea which now adds fourth chapter which now consist RIVES, Chrono Link, RISING GEAR and ReMISSION Code: Truth.

The development of this saga was the originally wanting to expand and rebooting the main story of Tokio Kuryuu which how it set in alternate divergence of the series timeline from the third season of .hack project, and now with the shifting changes toward the project while retains the original ideas, as how RE: Project would add the story elements which where those stories are indirectly sequel to the original .hack//Link or .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- and so with those two universe are now bound connecting to each other which given a new fresh, methods, directions, atmosphere, and something that would take fans to the next level with it’s major plot-twist elements within story development through it’s narratives and characters driven.

RE: PROJECT Saga is not just an ordinary saga which are separated timelines from the canon one, but it’s also how this story saga is also brings a new narratives, new lores, new mystery, new twist, new world, new atmosphere, new discovery and new things that would truly connecting to the canon universe and something that we didn’t even know in Third Season of .hack series since Thanatos Report and Bullet as how exactly those two would intertwined toward each other as the series move forward on it’s own feed and connecting in a very deep twisted direction.

What is "RE"?
'Canon or Non-Canon?... Is it set in canon universe or alternate universe?...'

In this work of saga, everyone can debate which the right answer was for the context of the story, but the truth, choosing those only complicated these matters. It’s useless for you to find and understanding that concepts or the context that what’ve you think, even you understand, only adds more questions beyond of that. This story, this context are deliberately mystery and very cryptic, and everyone would wonder where this could follow…

You can tell that this story is non-canon or alternate universe or canon or canon universe, choose and you might thought it was a best choice, but it’s more than how reality was, everything cannot be shown by words, it only lets you to see with your open eyes and see those mysteries for yourself. But the point is how I want to take you to understand not just the story context of Canon and Non-Canon, but to understand the purpose and meanings behind the creation of this saga project.

The recreation of that context… recreation of that story… could brings a new one…

RE, that words being used for a different meanings and uses from the other titles outside of .hack series. In this Saga however, those words capture something important whether it is meta or beyond that could imagine, capturing the keys of that words between Context and Story. It capture on a different meanings from that concept which can be named such as Reimagination, Reboot, Restart, Redirection, Replay, Reconstruction, Retold, Redone, Rework and so on, but the key behind those meanings that being captured, it brings us our story, time, events, and context bringing all ties together that we called Recreation.

You might know the example of that Recreation, which means everything can be recreate in a new and different ways, even the movies, anime, manga, and the othe works can be recreated by their own hands, thus bringing toward a different story and context to be told. For example DMC: Devil May Cry rebooted title series from Devil May Cry Series, Planet of the Apes Trilogy recreation title series from the 2001 Film version, Final Fantasy VII Remake a remake title series from the original Final Fantasy VII, Rebuild of Evangelion a rebuilding series to Neon Genesis Evangelion and so on and on… They continue to recreate that context and made with their own context, their own story to tell… they can succeed, they can also failed in that process. What most important is where that story you recreated can go next, everything is beyond mystery, it all depends what they choose to be.

But this saga can also brought use one questions, “What if our past can be recreated into a different one? The one that turns into something that we never recognized or never even we experienced before”. And that’s how the point where this story goes. What if our past suddenly turn out different than what we did back then? Thus another question pointed out of how this stories was meant to be and how it would gonna work. Thus brings out our past context can recreated into a new one, all depends what paths that would choose and how outcomes can turned out to be.

More question meant to be add as you experience this, “What if we gone on different path?” “What if we go to the different places than what we were before?” “What if we meet a person that we didn’t even met in our past?” and lastly “What if things just go different than what we did in the past?”. It sounds like we’re going to a time travel and change things up, fixing the mistake that we did and choosing the right time that we supposed that.

But that was wrong… there’s no such a thing exist… it’s not for person who already experience that past can go around to the past change it… not in .hack universe can do that… everything in this world went move forward and without repeating the same experience in real-time…

Why is that? That’s another point of this saga which we knew it, Replay. Those events can only meant to be replayed like DVD or streaming online where you can replay the video to see what you missed. But this has different context behind it, meaning replaying those means that the other version of you would experience the past of your experience, but he would choose a different choices than what you did in the past. In these events of saga can replayed, but the cost is the react and choice can played out differently and the outcomes can also played different, and so you might can hear something like Multiverse is real or there’s an alternate divergence path that took branch timeline from canon verse. This saga has complicated settle when it comes to settings, verse and timeline. Everything in this saga players out very strictly secret and no one knows what’s truly happen.

'So what does that mean for our other version of the characters in this saga? Do they aware they were living in the recreation and replayed timeline? Living in the some kind advance technologies virtual world that has ability to experience the past story and context of our experience in our past that can go played out differently?'

The answer is no… this saga, brought us to where they don’t realize that eventually they were experiencing our past which recreated it’s story and context, replayed in different told of it’s story. It can be a branch timeline, our could be another universe, or something else that took that story from our favorite series timeline we know, .hack. Their choices is the reason why that recreation of that past came out differently, can these be caused by backfired, bugs, or virus? That questions can be left by someone who wants to find it as they progressed it. However, even though the recreation of that past can go toward different direction, can bring a possibility of the same outcomes could happen, besides that’s the failure and flaws of the humans designs of the choices, and because of that, every history, every events, every choices leads toward repeated outcomes, because it’s fate or something that was left to be as it was or there are no other choices left for it… the risk their choice could bring that change, but if they’re not, thus repeated story happen, no one could ever escape that same fate of your past.

The same nightmare… would happen and happen again… no one in this world could be able to prevent that, even thought they able to recreate and change that past, it’s pointless to change what’s the event that already done…

RE Project Saga is a new conglomerate .hack series which is standalone to all three seasons of .hack series, while it’s a replaying and recreation of the events of IMMORTAL DUSK which comes in almost totally different directions. As I said before, that settings weren’t meant to see by words, but something that you needs to see it with your own eyes. This resetting world, focus on Tokio Kuryuu or the other version of the real Tokio, his story, characters, motives, driven, life, experience would be totally different than how original .hack//Link being told.

Fans would witnessed the cryptic message, cryptic mystery, and the hints that brought bridge between this saga and .hack//Link. As for where it does set... it's secret...

Audience
Compared to .hack//Link which according to the CyberConnect 2 CEO, Hiroshi Matsuyama on Piroshi Q&A #27 -.hack//Link on other consoles? explained that the Link was supposedly aimed for the younger age, like for the elementary and middle schoolers to enjoy and re-experience the world and stories of .hack series.

While RE: Project was aimed for Shonen and Mature or Seinen Audience who had enjoyed the series in the past and also a newcomers who didn’t know about .hack series which are freely to enjoy without knowing about the past series until they’re ready to explore it more after experiencing this. .hack//RIVES was served as a major reintroduction about the MMO Aspects, communities, deep exploration, discovery, mystery tones and much more which new players also really interested to entered this series, although they can choose between .hack//IMOQ Re: Login, Link -Chrono Gear-, G.U. Last Recode or RIVES for them to experience the series once more in different ways, while still holds more faithful to that aspects. While this series would be more views toward realism which are matters to our real worlds problem.

The RE: Project saga was considered for PG-13 to R-Rated as the story will contains a violence and mild language, while also how the story development would be darker and mature in comparison to the other previous .hack series, including .hack//Link in order to open the story in two types, it’s narratives and character-driven. Along with adds a major plot twist story elements as it took story developed on it’s level intensity.

Premise
The story begin with RIVES as it started with the beginning of two brothers, Tokio Kuryuu and Akira Kuryuu on their adventures into the massive critically acclaimed popular MMORPG, The World R:3 and suddenly got involved in the events which was called The Massacre of the Players Tragedy which was responsible by Schwarz who targeting and killed the major players that causing the major distortion to the network within online game and the real world.

The next chapter which was titled Chrono Link which is the reimagined story to the original PSP game version .hack//Link which is another adventure begin with Saika Koshizumi being transferred into Tokio’s classroom and transferring Tokio and Akira into The World R:3 once more this time to free all the twilight knights, including Kite, the legendary hackers, by obtaining Chrono Core and fighting against the mysterious group of hacker known as Schicksal under the leadership by the man who wield Breieler Rossle, Fluegel.

The final (I guess) chapter RISING which is the most anticipated story of the series which set a year following the Chrono Link event, while focusing the state of disaster between online world and the real world due to the starter the event of '''IMMORTAL DUSK. AIKA inviting Tokio once again to the World R:3''' in order to put a stop the crisis that were happened within two different worlds, and save Kite and Akira from their coma and find Saika. The Crossing battle between hackers and CC Corp conspiracy currently heating and tries to find to put a stop the IMMORTAL DUSK and stop real digitalization to continue.

The true final chapter, REMISSION Code: Truth is something that players would never know until they dive in to the game itself, because no one would ready for the truth.

Main Characters

 * Tokio Kuryuu
 * Akira Kuryuu
 * Saika Koshizumi
 * AIKA

Main Series Titles

 * .hack//RE: RIVES
 * .hack//RE: Chrono Link
 * .hack//RE: RISING GEAR
 * .hack//RE: ReMISSION Code: Truth

Spin-Off

 * Safekeeping of Promise (OVA)
 * .hack//Returners
 * .hack//4KOMA Reborn
 * .hack//Helos Report
 * .hack//126753…
 * .hack//World Rush
 * .hack//RISE

Difference between RE: Project and .hack//Link (PSP)

 * The story that were told in .hack//Link or .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- and RE: Project are almost completely different from each other, even it is faithful to the original one, it introduce a new story direction, characters, atmosphere, tones, and everything that didn’t even included in the original one.
 * As it was explained before where .hack//Link intentionally aimed for younger audience for them to reintroduce the series, while this RE: Project will aimed for shonen and seinen audience and would made you to re-experience all title series of .hack series, although Link can be helped too, but you need to play .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- before entering to this saga.
 * For Chrono Gear is a choice, since RE: Project can be aimed for newcomers of .hack, while old fans can also enjoy this saga as well. Although as player played .hack//Link -Chrono Gear- will shown the disconnectivity with the saga, however, this would expired as it entered to the fourth main titles of sub-franchise.
 * As .hack//Link story is much medium, but light-hearted story while shed some dark subtle during story development. While RE: Project saga story would be mature and darker through it’s development tone and subtle which brought to the story narratives and character driven, but it can be light-hearted but bittersweet than the original as it was indeed intended for the story series to enter the gray tone of it’s story volumes.
 * With The World R:X has been renamed into The World R:3, the date released is also different which R:X was released on June 20 while R:3 was released on January 18.
 * There are many new original characters which aren’t in .hack//Link but only introduced in RE: Project Saga exclusively, that also including Akira Kuryuu which is a brand-new characters in .hack series, which his past are mystery before his adoption to Kuryuu’s family. Although the mystery of him that connect with Geist, and Jyotaro Amagi would be revealed as the story move forward.
 * Saika Amagi last name was been replaced and renamed as Saika Koshizumi in RE: Project, although this was majorly intended to hide her real name and her connection with Jyotaro Amagi which is different how it was in the original .hack//Link.
 * The reason is how Jyotaro Amagi was the responsible for what happen In the Massacre of the Players Tragedy.
 * In original Link, Tokio’s dream was considered as a beautiful and happy dream as she dreamed about him fighting a dragon and saving princess AIKA which happens repeatedly. In RE: Project, Tokio’s dream considered as a atrocious and nightmare as he surrounded by the countless corpse of the players, including his friend and how he pointing his gun to girl’s head (whose strike very resemblance to Saika) as he proceed to kill her.
 * Major nods the difference between his relationship and interaction with Saika Amagi between .hack//Link and RE: Project Saga.
 * In Link, Tokio was surprised as during Saika transferred into his classroom, due to her face being resemblance to the princess in his dream. In Chrono Link, it was same, but difference is that she was shocked in fear, as Saika was resemblance to the same girl that he would one day would pointing his gun unto her as it would be assassinate her.
 * Which was due to Tokio being diagnosed for PTSD due to The Massacre of the Player Tragedy event that were happened. This also because he always watching himself killing her for several times.
 * In Link, as Tokio invited by Saika to the rooftop, Saika tells him that he has been watching him for long time as Tokio was a hero. But in Chrono Link, Tokio was already in rooftop as he was asleep during playing game and being continuously reminded with his nightmare, causing him to awake hysterically and shocked Saika as she did look at him in the eye when he was asleep.
 * In Link, Saika proceeding herself to use black disc copy to transferring Tokio into The World R:X without second thought. But in Chrono Link, Saika made request to Tokio to finding someone which he was trapped in The World R:3 and using the black copy disc to transfer him into The World should he agreed for an offer, however, he ended up refuse and left her as due to him can’t get over with his trauma what happen in that event that caused of his friend died there.
 * But he changed his mind in the next day following Akira is disappeared, and also due to the disappearance of population earth increased in numbers, he decide to accept her offer, but first he invite Saika and pull her in order perform his transfer into The World R:3.
 * Throughout the story development, in Link, Saika turn Tokio into her slave which caused him being pressured due to her order to obtain Chrono Core. In Chrono Link, it was same, but the difference is that he had sense of rebellion and annoyance toward Saika’s other, and didn’t considered himself as a slave, but rather as allies or cooperated. He often mad at Saika when she talk bad toward his friends.
 * There’s a lot more which cannot be disclosed due to spoilers. So there’s more difference than that. But Saika is an intended love interest to Tokio, instead AIKA In RE: Project, although the reason was major spoilerly.
 * The Crossover in .hack//Link was intentionally to let a new audience to let a younger audience to know more about them, experience and their histories that connect to the past titles of the franchise. But in RE: Project, you can truly enjoy this continuation of this character from the past title of .hack series. As they are not created from an AI as Twilight Knights, but preservely being their memories data of the current times are being transferred and thus creating an alter ego AI which formed in their old PC. That’s due to certain incident happen that caused their consciousness being transferred into The World.
 * The story of .hack//Link (PSP) would be fully reimagined into completely new story on Chrono Link and RISING GEAR, and those both stories are directly connected to the anime series .hack//RE: RIVES which how the story flows, incorporated and intertwined to these titles in consistently and surprising.
 * While .hack//RE: ReMISSION Code: Truth would follow the different paths of it’s direction, while follows the themes of it’s main titles as Repetition as the story plays out repeatedly and finally leads up to conclusion and answers from that mystery, while revealing the truth behind RE: PROJECT.

Trivia
 
 * RE: PROJECT Saga is more than just depicting on reimagined the event of the story which was orchestrated by Jyotaro Amagi’s AI, Geist which leads to IMMORTAL DUSK. It is more than just meet the eyes, something that could expand the mystery of .hack universe through as a whole.
 * While RE: Project saga is bringing a new discovery regarding about context of it’s connection between concept of time and event, along with the divergence of the time that brings the completely different events comes to play.
 * It might considered as a standalone saga stories to the third season project, but it is deliberately intent to connect not just third season of .hack, it is too expand the lores stories of first to second season into a completely new lores which never been discovered in the past title of .hack series that connecting to the future of .hack titles.
 * This saga is possibly brings an opportunity of this story, lores and characters toward restoration of third season and implementation of the final season of .hack project
 * As fans thought that this saga is not canon to the .hack universe, but as they speculating the mystery surrounding the plots, lores, foreshadowing and anything that players can discover until .hack//RE: ReMISSION Code: Truth brings revelation that this was ultimately indirectly sequel to .hack//Link all along.
 * RIVES is an anime series, while Chrono Link, RISING GEAR, and ReMISSION Code: Truth would be a game series.
 * Although as RIVES can be adapted into the game series as well, while intentionally to fleshed out something that the anime didn’t do.
 * It was originally commemorate 10th Anniversary of .hack//Link since it’s released until it wasn’t.
 * As the event set in the alternate timeline, however, the year date was set to 202x which was very intentionally to hides the twist within that date event while given a freedom to bring a timeskip toward characters between Chrono Link and RISING Gear. Although it is solidly to given us an unknown date which given a mystery weird vibes happen to the event setting of RE: Project.
 * Another example for the name of The World R:X which was originally was renamed into The World R:3 which was intentionally to adds mystery and twist within this saga which remain undisclosed as well until ReMISSION Code: Truth.
 * Tokio Kuryuu and Akira Kuryuu first login into The World R:3 at March 4 which is the date for .hack//Link (PSP) was released on Japan, however, the year was remained undisclosed.