.hack//RE:

.hack//RE is a brand-new trilogy volume titles of the series which are considered as a Finale Chapter Saga to the whole franchise of .hack and direct-sequel to .hack//Re: FRAGMENT and .hack//Link -The Final Twilight- which setting up for a whole new world following the events of Final War of the Twilight set in few millennia years and completely new themes, settings, world, environments, and more. The story would cover up a brand-new saga which titled as "Worldwide Network War" and the story would focuses on Akira Kuryuu.

RE is available on PlayStation 6, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch 2, Microsoft Windows (Steam), and Microsoft Windows (Epic Game Store).

WARNING: Players are very recommended to watch CODE: 81311 anime series, as this story contains several spoilers from the anime story.

About .hack//RE:
.hack//RE: is a brand new title series quadrology and rebooted titles from the original .hack while it is a direct-sequel to .hack//Link -The Final Twilight- and it is a brand-new saga to the series as well a final chapter to the whole franchise. RE is a will took a whole new innovation and evolution of the Action-RPG in totally new direction while still maintains an action-fast paced RPG, however, it's a whole new different experience featuring a combination between sci-fi, fantasy, and realism which took a whole new level in creating new massive adventure-war style of the game and it would took a major evolution toward returning elements and setting up introduction toward a whole new elements toward gameplay system since this an Action RPG.

RE is a massive chapter saga which impacted not just in one places, but to the whole world while it took the Isekai elements in whole new different direction with adds of realism and sci-fi to it also all ties elements from the previous titles of .hack series and directly connected to the "True" Real World in the outside of the game. However, this game would not just talk about network, realism, hackers or something, but also the all-out bounty hunt and war against the players user who using the characters for all different online game titles which they are now currently received a bounty against Akira Kuryuu, the former God of War and Destruction due his action few millennia ago had destroyed the plans as what it known as Project .hack which seems that all players from around the world from different server and different online game are eyes on him, including the Noir or formerly known as the people who had been Outer Depedency Syndrome and lastly The Administrator of World Network is far worst enemies to him who also bount for his head.

It's whole new different direction, different stories with a returning cast from previous .hack titles, RE: FRAGMENTS and whole new cast would appeared as the story progresses which lead up to this whole new moments and very deep crisis that happens to him, while introduce a whole new world environments, species, cultural, language and more as it brought you based on it's reminisce from four eras of The World online game and the story would take a new turn despite as a sequel to the previous game and somehow direction would be different and totally evolve from the original concept, while familiar feelings from first game and other previous one might return to fans in new places and new direction.

While .hack//RE: continues the story of Akira Kuryuu in a whole new crisis, new directions, new themes and new turns that would happens as the story begin and his characters would take a different turn from his previous roles and lot new different side would shown up in the new story brings you toward unexplored side of him. He would meet not just whole new faces, but familiar faces he wishes he wouldn't met them after few millennia years that become his nightmare and trauma due to the crimes he did in the past as the one who responsible for the great war. Takes on four volumes full-games will take you a journey to new lifes and redemptions, while in search for something that he had long abandoned, his Human Self that he long taught dead which soon he would reclaimed it, but there's twist turn that makes it complex through his story.

Each four volumes is a truly full-game featuring all-new innovatives open-world game with fast-paced combat and all-new innovative gameplay elements that could bring whole new experience to .hack games as this story will not be a generic Isekai which has it's unique and combination through based on Realism, Sci-Fi, Action, Psychological, Cyberpunk, and Fantasy. Akira and I-7 will venture a whole world meets a new people, making progress of his journey self toward redemption, and their mission to destroy the memories core that were attached to the Administrator World of Network Tower while needs to beware twist and turning points can be happened as the story progresses. Multiple Playable characters is very possible too.

Development
See .hack//RE: Development History (Fanon)

Chapters

 * .hack//RE Vol.1: Resurgence
 * .hack//RE Vol.2: Annihilation
 * .hack//RE Vol.3: Reconnection
 * .hack//RE Vol.4: Final Game

World Settings
The Final Game will set 3.528 years following the Final War of the Twilight or as the setting of The Final Twilight and the game will took on themes of Post-Apocalypse settings which goes as a main setting to "Worldwide Network War". Many events that were transcribes what happened following the great war which impacted to all peoples and survivor following the tragedy that happens in the war, such as:

Post-Final War of the Twilight
The following Second War of the Twilight and thanks to Tokio Kuryuu 's great sacrifice for destroying cores of The Creator Administrator System and The God of Twilight, Akira defeated has lead humanity to the path of victories after three-long years of war which now been concluded.

But this however, leads to an inevitable outcomes and with the merged between Real World and Digital Spaces which has no way to revert it ever since CAS (Creator Administrator System) Core been destroyed, which this leads to a possible doom for humanity. And since the merged, over 80% of humanities had lacked of performance quality resistance toward abusive of Digital Spaces with their flesh and bones since they went Real-Digitized, and causing them to eventually went berserk, being affected by Outer Dependency Syndrome, turning them into a monster after reaching the final phase, which we all know as Noir.

In at least over 20% of Humanities survived due to their high performance quality resistance toward Real Digitalization with their gained ability as Doubleware. In exchange that they don't have ability to reproduce a child and able to stop their aging due to their high resistance toward the internet space. However, as the knowledge known that Doubleware is used for extension it's resistant toward the Digital Spaces for long period of time, however, continue using those through millennia wouldn't hold it's resistant any longer or possibly could reached it's limit before reaching decades or century after, Outer Dependency Syndrome is a very inevitable leads and outcomes.

The Discovery of the Nexus World of Memory Records
For few years later, the research had discovered The Tower of Nexus World of Memory Records which located in Yunari Island and mysterious man name as Diener who is a resident of the tower, offer them a great solution to greatly extends their Doubleware abilities that could possibly allow them to survive for many millennia and upgrading their limits in greater beyond of it's unlimited.

They have to sacrifice their old identities and memories of their past life in order to evolve their bodies to a greater extension, also to prevent Outer Dependency Syndrome in order to survive for a many millennia. By Store their old memories to the Core Unit Server in Nexus World of Memory Record which could hold any possibility that could prevent Doubleware resistant reached it's limit, but keeping their emotion in check is possible to slowing the limits. Which means they had no choice but to evolve their bodies of Doubleware through their experience.

Their old memories that includes of their traumas of genocides and war which became a main focus that lead them to the ODS and storing memories which is very important to prevent their negative emotions that could lead syndrome to happen in them. Which means that they will store their memories for every centuries to prevent overloaded physical emotions, conditions, and personality which could lead to ODS. Which means a new persona and identities could be developed and this also means to strengthened and evolve their bodies so it could increased it's limit of Doubleware without any issues.

Although some people against their old memories to getting store to the Core Unit Server, but one of them who were against became victims as Noir due to the trauma memories that caused from The Second War of the Twilight and the Genocides, which they had no choice but to participate with it. This is how it allows people to continue survived through millennia and because of they developing a new identities after their old memories been stored, the new environment, tradition, and anything begin to change.

Terminology
See Terminology (.hack//RE:)

Akira Kuryuu/Edward Valentine [Over 3.000 years old (Biologically 37 years old)]
Following the Final War of the Twilight he was the only survivor (or so he thought) even though the war and everything was started from him as brings thought that he should had died as the shadowlord who were defeated by knight heroes and save the world. But instead, that Knight hero, his brother, Tokio Kuryuu sacrificed his life and transferring Akira's soul into Tokio's body to give his brother to live once more even means he had to die for sake of his brother that he must atone for what he did.

Now that Akira owned Tokio's body permanently along with all of Tokio's power and data combined with Akira's data had left a major impact and change toward his life, without his love and someone who he wants to avenged for, all he felt is emptiness believing his life is not even worth to life and this body that he should not used with, for rest of three millennia years, he spent his whole life to not just traveled through whole world and survived from against Noir, but to put at end his on life by committing suicide for hundreds of times but failed due to his Original Doubleware has mutated completely that caused prevent him from ending his life which causing his suffering and nightmare continues due to his greatest sins and consequences that becomes burden to him.

He lived as Edward Valentine in north america as a Farmer who've been took the jobs ever since the original owner died several decades ago and now lived in peace only continuously having a nightmare and memories that he wishes he don't want to remember, thus continue living as an alcoholic. As the day continues quiet for him until a woman searching for man with the word name, Akira Kuryuu and his journey begin anew.

His power compared to what he has in the past, due to his data rates being combined between him and his brother Tokio Kuryuu, causing his data rates increased to 20 times highest than what ordinary rates which seems he become a most powerful person who could beat them, however, he always held his potential back because he no reason to using for unneccesary and more importantly because how he desires to die or attempt to suicide during a combat.

i-7/Saika Amagi/Inori (RE:FRAGMENT) [32 Years old (Biologically 25 Years Old)]
The following the Aesir Colon War [RE: FRAGMENT] and Inori been transported into the "Sacred" World which was now passed in three millennia following the war and now her friends being seperated to other side of the world, she spent 7 years looking after the Real Akira Kuryuu whose revealed to be a former god who destroyed a whole world and the main responsible behind the The War of the Twilight events from first to final, while he has a totally different captivating aura which described as a worst terrifying aura that she had felt different from Akira she used to know in the world of Re: FRAGMENT.

Until the day had changed following the all players from different online game had come for him, and one members from Administrator World of Network came for Akira for bounty head of him which caused their adventure begin on their journey together to find her friends who had been scattered around the world. She would acted as a support to Akira throughout journey and through out titles volumes, she can change formed many things, even as Pod which mainly uses, but her magical skills is even something that higher tier magician can do, possibly she has ability of the goddess to uses an infinite possibility of magic, but held her potential due to her lack of confidence. Inori's face as what Akira described really greatly resemblance or reminds him about Saika Amagi.

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

.hack//Re:FRAGMENT
See .hack//Re: FRAGMENT

.hack//Re: FRAGMENT -Finale- (Anime x Live-Action)
See .hack//Re: FRAGMENT -Finale-

.hack//RE: The Void of Wanderers (Manga)
It's a prequel to .hack//Link -The Final Game- focuses on Akira, which set a decades after the death of his granddaughter, Saki Kuryuu, and following a century after Final Twilight. The story of Void of Wanderers tells how he had travelled around the world and continuously fighting against Noir who stand against his way, his story start when he struggled to survive with all nightmares, sins, and bloody of his past following him without stopping, and his story will tell how and what he had doing during travel around the world for millennia years.

This story also goes in major depth toward his character along with his grief not just toward Saki, but to those whom he had massacre, including the death of Geist, Tokio and Saika which leads to his full of regret.

.hack//RE: The Rise of the Queen of Exterminator (Manga)
It's a prequel to .hack//RE: Vol.1 Resurgeance focuses on AIKA, which set few days after the death of Tokio Kuryuu and The Final War of the Twilight. The story of Rise of the Queen of Exterminator tells how she become what we know in the game as Zero, The Queen of Exterminator. As the story start when she survived and try to hold the Outer Dependency Syndrome in her body due to her lack of any resistance toward Abusive Virtual Space, including the merged between Virtual and Real World, with major problem is how she couldn't pull out her consciousness from her body to become AI without help from Saika, which is the reason during progression of the story, thanks to Dr. Morgen Silas, that she could use model prototype Autonomous Sophia that could had resistance toward Abusive Virtual Space since it's machine and object that couldn't affected by Outer Dependency Syndrome.

The story also tells how she had continuously fight against Noir as an Autonomous Sophia for several decades and century, also how she had killed over 2.000 Noir and the birth of her new identities as Zero, The Queen of Exterminator. This also explaining a major character development from previous titles, along with suffered and grief over the loss of her lover and her sister, and the hatred and trauma toward Akira which caused how she turned into cold, bloodlust, straight-forward, rough, and ruthless toward her opponents, except toward innocent, but her philosophies between good and bad will be different for her, but still never laid hands toward allies and innocent people, but she choose to fight alone.

This manga story will greatly developed her characters in major way, which shows her major transformation from AIKA to Zero.

CODE: .hack (Manga)
It's a sequel to CODE: 81311 focuses on Nolan Edgar, which set immediately after the final episode of Fourth Season of anime original NETFLIX Series, CODE: 81311 which how The United World Conference tasked Nolan to become observer for THE WORLD Program in order to make sure the plan of 81311 which is truly known as a Project .hack plan was carrying out successfully in several phases to work for and eliminated those if they tried to made those plans fail, as he worked behind the scene of every events of .hack series. While this manga will also revealed several bits the connection between all titles events of the series with .hack Project also how it leads now to The Second of the Twilight, but this story also explored more about Nolan, along with his new backstory, and how he silently suspicious about the way of the conference using .hack project in regardless how begin to see something else besides those plan progress.

Nolan will discovered something else that leads how he became a secret agent in the Final Game, which regardless how those project and it's phase went out of control ever since the Conference meddling it. This story will shows the corruptions, ideals, and different philosophies which regarding what goes lies beyond after the project reached to it's fruition, despite how many people had been sacrificed for project.

Trivia

 * .hack//RE: is a pronounced as a reboot titles to .hack games series which set in totally new settings and new worlds, while it is a direct-sequel to the .hack//Link -The Final Twilight- which how stories would continues while blending through a whole new world and completely new direction, it is a big games which are for players who already a long-times fans and also a brand-new fans who wants to enjoy a new direction of .hack series.
 * RE: is a very fitting for conclusion that depiction to conclusion of the players in the online game, or so it would for Akira Kuryuu as the players, it represents the reality of what means to be as a player and what roles that he meant to play or certainly wants to breaking it's wall to find a freedom to his own path he choose.