.hack//Link -Chrono Gear- Story and Characters new element features

See also .hack//Link -Chrono Gear-

.hack//Link -Chrono Gear- will not just remaking and completely overhaul the gameplay, graphics, and more, but it also reworked, changes, expanded, and re-established the story of original .hack//Link in order to match continuities with the 3rd Season of .hack, New Entries titles and CHRONO RiSING Trilogy also improved the story and plot experience in new immersive, complex, and ties connected to each other with other titles of .hack in a new forms or another which allows player to experience the spirit charms of the original while evolving into something more entirely new and dynamic for combining the old and new generation to enjoy, while bringing the plot stories and characters move forward.

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General

 * The story narratives, developments and quality has been reworked, re-established, improved, and adds-more depth toward it's progression toward story and characters along with improvised the character developments for Tokio, Saika, AIKA and other Schicksal characters which were never even deeply explored in PlayStation Portable version which is narratives is even complex, convoluted and depth which deeply impacted to it's storyline.
 * Plot continuities, connected lores, and more has been re-established and reworked in order to clearly connected to the 3rd Season .hack titles and CHRONO RiSING Trilogy in a most clearly unexpected and even mysterious one which has hidden meaning and foreshadowing to the main plots of the game along with characters.
 * Characters point-of views cutscenes is also been added to the game, which expands more depth and fleshed out their characters from their perspective to the story through cutscenes to allow players to get more cherished with them more in this game version, including a new moments is also presented in the game as well.
 * An Easter Eggs from .hack//Link -Twilight Knights- has been added to the main story and sub-scenarios through dialogues, cutscenes, exploration, hidden meanings, reference and more.

RE-ENTER Scenario
RE: ENTER scenario has a new share of information for the players what they will looking forward to, such as:


 * A new scenario which is eventually a standalone from the game story.
 * Took place a 3 Years following IMMORTAL DUSK events and much a few days following the event of Versus Magician in the epilogue chapter of .hack//Bullet.
 * Written by Tatsuya Hamazaki, Masayuki Sano and Kazunari Ito which they considered this as a completely new story that bridge gap between .hack//Bullet and .hack//Link 2, while also possibly connected to the .hack//Versus & .hack//ReCODE: Beyond the World and players would feel a fresh and newly experience in the brand-new scenario.
 * Very recommended for players to finish .hack//X'Over and Integration in order to understand the spoilers of the game along with the lores connected to it, while also read .hack//Bullet Chapter 11 -Tokio Kuryuu- in order to understand his perspective stories and his meeting with Ryuji Sogabe back in few months ago.
 * It is stated that the game will took place a few days following the event of .hack//Bullet Chapter 42 -Versus Magician- , which players are also recommended to read the epilogue chapter as well.
 * RE: ENTER will starring Tokio Kuryuu and Saika Amagi in their high school year and Kikuya Megane will be in-charged to drawn their new appearance as a Senior High School student which both of their new design are much evolving, new breathtaking and fresh from their old design as junior high school student since the original.
 * Geist will appeared as the key characters in RE: ENTER as the one who requesting to Tokio and Saika for mysterious errands which is very likely the key to this scenario plot as well that fans and players will look forward to it.
 * RE: ENTER scenario explores a brand-new side of Geist's character which was never presented in the original along with new expression and personality, which makes Tokio and Saika confused and disbelief that he seems really different from their last encounter which is strange and also little acceptable, but for Saika however.
 * [MORE UPDATE SOON!!]

Main Scenario

 * .hack//G.U. Vol.4 Reconnection alternate timeline has been added to the main scenario, although the story is actually different from the original timeline which featured a main new plots in .hack//Link -Chrono Gear-.

Sub Scenario

 * The sub-scenario story narratives and dialogues has made an extended from the original, including additional new cutscenes been added to the game which also fleshed out their characters a little deeper and lot of new moments added to the sub-scenario as well also lot new fleshed out that reflected to Tokio is also made implementation to the game scenario as well.
 * Brand-new sub-scenario which was never even added in the original, such as:
 * .hack//Schicksal - "5-Chapters" [Post-Game Contents]
 * .hack//X'Over - "Additional 5-Sub Scenario chapter" [Post-Game Contents]
 * .hack//Bullet - "3-Chapters" [Post-Game Contents]
 * .hack//Link -Twilight Knights- "5-Chapters" [Post-Game Contents]
 * .hack//Quantum "4-Chapters" [Post-Game Content]
 * .hack//Beyond the World "4-Chapters" [Post-Game Content]
 * .hack//Versus "3-Chapters" [Secret Chapter Content]
 * UNKNOWN "3-Chapters" [Secret Chapter Content]
 * AKASHIC WORLD "5-Chapters" [Available by Converting the Save Clear Data from RISING GEAR and unlocked it after clearing RE: ENTER]
 * .hack//T(&)(^(%)(&&$ "4-Chapters" [Available by Converting the Save Clear Data from RISING GEAR -The Ultimate "Chrono" Edition- and unlocked it after clearing RE: ENTER]

Remake Ending of .hack//Link
The ending from the original version has been retconned, rewritten, reworked and also expanded through cutscenes, characters expression, and dialogues between Tokio and Saika which basically an "evolve version and warmth ending from the original" while left some big major cliffhanger that surround in this ending with implementation of Timeskip elements.


 * The setting of ending been reworked which took place in a year following IMMORTAL DUSK incident which allows a new set of cliffhanger and adds a new plot holes of the story as this version will truly open continuities and connection toward 3rd Season of .hack and CHRONO RiSING Trilogy which been implemented as a hidden meaning and connection to the game as a set a major cliffhanger toward the ending.
 * Although the remake ending will stay faithful toward the original but evolved from the original to create a new emotional and powerful ending which surpassing the original ending through accuracy time chronological, re-fit continuities and reworked, with implementing a major cliffhanger added to the game.
 * It's set in the same day where Tokio been called by Saika to the rooftop that leads her to use Black Disc Copy toward him and transporting him into The World R:X.
 * A brand-new character design outfit for Tokio and Saika which exclusively presented for the remake ending of the game, along with Ryuji Sogabe, Mrs. Kuryuu, Miyuki Kuryuu, Gemomaki and Kyon will presented in the game.
 * The scene post-final battle against Aura, the Queen of Demise and AIKA's sacrificial which conversation between Tokio and Fluegel, along with Tokio POV what happens afterwards before ending has been remade and reworked from scratch, there are following the changes to this prior ending, such as:
 * Following the final battle and incident, Tokio has been in coma for few months due to exhaustion of psychological emotion through trauma and harsh battle against Trauma, and Fluegel is the one who took Tokio back into the real world and brought onto the hospital.
 * After Tokio awoke in the hospital and met with Flugel's player, Ryuji Sogabe for the first time and after learning that he been in coma for few months also due to the effects of Doubleware which he's not allowed to go into The World R:X even without PC due to him will be ultimately perform a monthly checked up of his Real Digitalization and make sure he didn't suffered a secondary effect even he has a doubleware ability.
 * He also learned that what happen to AIKA while also learning that Saika been moved away to another town and given her message to him about her apology toward Tokio, but it seems that there are no news or replies from her ever since the event and he being fall into a coma which causing how much he very worried about her and especially what happened to AIKA and Jyotaro back there has put much stressed and depression she had been through.
 * Although, Ryuji revealed through calling Lilie that he didn't told Tokio that Saika Amagi has gone missing since a month following the events, police couldn't even found her wheredoubt as it has been few month that she never ever been found and his intentionally didn't want to tell him due to he made promise to Tokio's mother to not getting involved with these matters, especially the condition Tokio is now been through got worsened and including CC Corp has kept an eye watch toward him in order to not login to The World R:X until the issues has been dealt with since the incident that brought by Aura.
 * Which leads continue directly toward Tokio's POV as he now been released from Hospital and his parents worried about her except her younger sister and return to his school life, although he never even heard Saika ever since she was transferred to another school and he ultimately performed a check-up to make sure Syndrome didn't happen on him and he cannot login to The World because his parent took his P-COM although he still can go to arcade as usual with his friend, while also explained that CC Corp treated IMMORTAL DUSK events as another Network Crisis distortion, and thus directly set on several months following that or a year after the incident in the same post-summer vacation that he had started his journey in The World R:X.
 * Tokio got call from Ryuji that he had found Saika's location and which thus lead-up to the remake ending.
 * More information about Immortal Dusk events has been added in the cutscenes through news, media and more which can be shown through Tokio's point-of views dialogues or even during that which due to has been a year ever since the incident, while also building up the world states, opinions, pros & cons, and more which delving a deeper context of society that actually been affected by the event of network distortion phenomenon which caused by The World online game.
 * The ending will powerfully establish more about Saika's grief, sorrow, and guilt of her action that caused incident happens and dragging Tokio into her problems that caused what happen to him, along with AIKA as well, asking him to kept AIKA's memories alive while begging Tokio to forgetting her.
 * It shows emotionally and physically hurt of her guilt that he hurts someone for her own desires which only given her more pain of the truth that she couldn't handle thus her expression been fully fleshed out very deeply.
 * Tokio's dialogue speech will be more impactful and dramatically improvement from the original which given how important he was to not forgetting the adventures that truly define who he really is, if were not for Kite, Haseo, Tsukasa, Fluegel, AIKA, and even Saika. Gear has been perfectly described about time cannot be able to change and regret maybe is only inevitable, but some gear move forwards and can't do alone without others, and us can keep forward hoping for what best of us to do and what comes next.
 * He asked Saika not to shed his tears and sorrow alone, not too shunned herself and keep her expression hidden from her and also asked her to not ever forget about him, which causing her lifted her eyes as she remembered something important that brought her tears.
 * Her lifted eyes also has a hidden meaning and hidden connection through of her gestures which seems that it gives out something that she ever forgotten or the words that she remembered, which left players and fans for major cliffhanger.
 * Saika smiles is more warmth and heartwarming in a fully animated cutscenes for the ending which truly let it out of her expression in beautiful ways significantly how she begin to understand why AIKA really thought Tokio as a Knight Hero given a powerful satisfying ending to the game in which for Tokio and Saika.
 * A new roll credit design which are still holds the original spirit from the original, including a brand-new credit roll ending which follows after the ending song theme of .hack//Link -Chrono Gear-.

Mid-Credit Scene
A new mid-credit scene ending is a shocking twist and giving us a major cliffhanger, features a news events regarding of a year anniversary following the IMMORTAL DUSK Events which caused by the phenomenon of the network as according to the CyberConnect Corporation, however none of them had ignore those event that transporting people to the real world has resulted over 10.000 people had been declared death in the same time following the end of the events after returned to the real world due to the secondary effects, it become one of the written history of all.

However, the arrival with a news that become the most major importance in the history, as it's been several months ever since the biggest tragedy of all occurred in all over the world which was known as The Total Network Disaster which over 25% Population around the world been massively massacred due to external problems of traffic, airplanes crash, electricity, hijack system, and more which origin of the caused are totally unknown and caused a lot massive debts and loss due to this incident, the Journalist had been asking toward CC Corp studio company for several times, but deny to answer regarding the possibility that it came from us and the Government under CC Corps permission to consider those event as another normal tragedy by group of hackers instead unnatural caused of tragedy that caused unknown probability of network distortion.

However the society concern about the possibility for another Network Crisis or even a Second Coming of IMMORTAL DUSK which has yet to be over along with CC Corps handle toward this situation and media press is still worth questioning even now, no answer that were given by them, but one biggest question from News Anchor "Just where all this caused of this disaster even came from to begin with?".


 * The Mid-Credit scene is set to be a major cliffhanger that gives us a turning point that takes a new direction in dothack series and also take up a lead direction toward a new entry, given a dark themes is also been implemented through realism and gray situation that gives us new exploration behind the dark side of the universe in .hack franchise which now been revolving with this tease and foreshadowing through this cutscene.
 * Total Network Disaster is a major new main connected lores to the game which straight forward connected for a future entries of 3rd Season .hack and Final Season of .hack series.
 * It is spoiler revealed that the caused of the tragedy was came from Yunari Island, in Akashic World during the events of .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- where another Tokio Kuryuu or his brother Akira went berserk along with the "True" Origins power that caused a virus and total out of control toward all system which is the origin of the caused, due to his anger and vengeance toward Saika for the death of Seventy-Seven that caused his power overflowing like a virus, outbreak, and spread through network around the world and caused network control system became out of control and thus lead to the Total Network Disaster events.
 * In other words, the very tragic incident is very had connection with the event of .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- which given a new opening for the story to connect with CHRONO RiSING Trilogy for new entries of 3rd Season .hack series.

Post-Credit Scene
The post-credit ending cutscenes presenting the setting in the unknown island on the beach where the boy standing in between sand and ocean, staring toward a blue sky and thinking what lies beyond the sea and although his appearance shown, but his eyes didn't shown on his face, but only mouth and nose which how it left us so many question that happens and connected through altogether which left us wanting to know more.


 * It will be same as the post-credit ending in .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- which left us for a major cliffhanger and fans wanted to question more about this scene, but directors and producer cannot given much answer and hoping could explain this in the future.
 * [SPOILER ALERT!!] It is revealed in .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Ultimate "Chrono" Edition the man who stand in the beach was Akira Kuryuu himself who play as Tokio Kuryuu which set in the summer 2021 following their woke up from Ultimate VR, Akashic Records which was now purposely to finally direct connected to the canon universe while also those ending of post-credit scene been expanded from scratch which in order to fully add layers toward endings that now make sense.

New Ending
Promises is a brand-new ending for Post-Game Content focuses on following the Netslum Party and Tokio with Saika watch the sunset in the park chair on Netslum and thinking that what would AIKA doing right now out there and begin to promises to Saika that one day he will find her someday and made sure that they would fulfilled their promises again one day, she heard the words of promise that she had reminds those about someone that she thought it was Tokio, but she nodded and smile and believe together they would find AIKA together.


 * Post-Credit scene will be comic style cutscenes as it will continues from Promise ending as Helba watch two of them afar while she made conversation with mysterious figure, which interestingly revealed that he's the one who brought back AIKA's Chim-Chim Doll and knew AIKA's location, but another important conversation regarding about Saika and Tokio which revealed to be his brother (although those word is distorted), however the unknown figures voice is rather distorted.
 * Helba's sound is also distorted when it comes calling mysterious figure's name which something that left us more question than answer along with cliffhanger that left us for more question regarding his identity.

Secret Ending

 * A new secret ending for Post-Game content which title as Lurking in the Shadow featuring a meetings between the higher-up branches of CyberConnect Corporation discussing all medias been approached them regarding about several incident that happened around the world, including the first appearance of Veronica Bain being now presented in the game following the discussion and which she stated that the founder had failed to bring their plans to succeed using Aura and she ought to use her own ways for another IMMORTAL DUSK.
 * Which can be unlocked after you obtained the unknown secret reports which are being placed on the inactivated of Sea Memories in Akashic Records when you partying with Fluegel.
 * Those scene might possibility direct-connected to the .hack//Bullet with Veronica Bain later appearance in those title as well.
 * Awaken is another new secret ending which is very more spoiler than what fans and players could imagine, however, this very much lead-up a teaser of .hack//Link -RIVES- which very much lead up to the opening lead to the CHRONO RISING Trilogy.
 * While RISING is a brand new secret which can only be unlockable if players transferring their save clear data of RISING GEAR to this game, however the story in this new secret ending is ultimately classified and spoilers which players are need to watch in order to look forward what's next for the new entry of .hack series title.

Saika Amagi

 * Saika will had a brand-new outfits and clothes which would be presented as the story progress which she not just wearing a school uniform, but wearing another outfits during her activities in the real world which she had a sense of fashion, but bed outfits is also can be presented in the main scenario as well.