.hack//Link -RISING GEAR-

'Is this, what hero you meant for? how much far have you rejecting them? How much consenquences that lead up to this? How long did you have to pretend to be something you are not? Is this who you really are? - AIKA'

.hack//Link -RISING GEAR- is the third trilogy of IMMORTAL DUSK Saga, sequel stories to the Chrono Link Story, original new story of .hack, but also remade version of last portion story of LINK (PSP), which is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch Pro, Steam, and Windows 10.

RISING GEAR Game is considered as the biggest game that ever been developed by the company. As the Open-World still retains as you once again travel through The World R:X, it included all-new unique features, including a new silly-ness and great humors within the World-Building and substories, although this game will be the first time receiving R-Rated games. According to the developers, The story will be entering darker level of the developments where you will enter in a Gray Area (Story direction) during the progression.

As it faithfully lead up to the last portion LINK (PSP) where you save Kite and Fight against Aura, the queen of demise, a brand-new original stories which is a never-seen before story with new settings, new directions, new higher stakes, and more, which has to be a lot unexpected things to happen as you progressing the game.

As it mixed together, with all-brand new content story bringing a biggest expansion toward the story progression and its element concept as it's faithfully expand something that they never ever make it since the PSP version released.

The story will bring new and old characters of .hack together and solve the untold stories surrounding previous .hack titles, while continuing the stories of Tokio after the events of CHRONO.

Setting
Major Spoilers from Chrono Link Story!!

The story of RISING GEAR took a place a year following the starts of IMMORTAL DUSK events which means the process of the Real Digitalization has already begin and each of peoples around the world began to disappeared one by one for each days without stopping, all the cases has around corners with the governments had no ideas to further handling the case files for people's disappearance. Even though they suspecting CyberConnect Corporation, they had no evidence regarding their involvements with a disappearance.

Further after Geist was presumed "Dead" and the collapse of Dark Time Records which was truly known as Akashic Unrecords the side dark of the Akashic Records. With Jyotaro Amagi was also presumed dead due to the effect of the Outer Dependency Syndrome causing his body cannot be found anywhere. The cause of this began cause turmoil along with ENTIES's true identity to be Saika Koshizumi, who also be known of her real name as Saika Amagi, the one who responsible for The Massacre of the Players events in The World R:X, which was now that she began to disappeared soon after she disbanded Chrono Hunter Guild and her location was partially unknown.

The events that transpires after IMMORTAL DUSK begins, will known as The Disappearance of 35% Populations and now it begins to increasing in any months or days without stopping as it is continues even in 2021 A.D. along with many violence since 2020 A.D. has happened around the world in this massive outbreaks, turn against the authorities. This was seen more disaster than it was ever since the events of Massacree of Players events, but turn out to be much worst as possible as soon they've begin to disappear after.

As for now today, however, The World R:X still continue to operating, however, people already made calls to the company and request to shut down immediately in a lights of the recent events, including Massacre of Players, but no response they can get from CC Corp, instead using the highest authorities if people oppose their decision will given a sentences much harder in order to avoid the chaos to occur in their company. As while the Twilight Knights player return to the real world, however, Kazumi Ito is still in a coma and has no signed for the recovery, and Flugel along with the members of Schicksal began to resign from CC Corp since their contract has been exterminated, although Akira Yoshinori's condition right now is in a coma state.

At this situation of The World begans roams in chaos at much times, and people starting to outcry for government to make an action resolved, but nothings came forward as much as it progress, every worlds turn into chaos, and the same time, slowly they began to be non-existence from the face of the earth.

Synopsis
The consenquences for not pay heed for great dangers arrival, the worlds now plunged into disaster...

Ever since the Chrono Guild's disbandment and each of them gone into their seperated ways one and another, to keep continue livings to survive following the beginning of IMMORTAL DUSK events as it planned by Geist himself, but since his gone, there's no way to stop it.

In a worst, the gate between Real and Online World has closed, and they unable to find Black Copy Disc ever since Saika Amagi's disappearance, and Tokio, without his brother at his side ever since he fall into a coma, has brought regrets and guilt for his responsibility for what happens to Aura and to The World, felt nothing to do except return to his normal life, dealing with different issues of his personal life and wait for another turns for chance to save Kite once more.

...

A year has passed, and the summer vacation once again came unto a new, but, the world has changes, soon everyone he knew had disappeared without any trace, every networks approaches many issues to deals by the company, affecting the traffic system network around the world impacting all technologies in declines slowly after.

''Tokio Kuryuu, a 15-years old boy who now soon become a man, has come in great major changes within him, after suffering with his responsibility and trapped by guilt, he begin to questioning about his Hero's ideals about saving the world, only means to had a consenquences for destroying it after what happens. Everything's change within Tokio's eyes soon left in nothingness and only despair, unable to do anything after recent condition of his life gets upside down.''

Except for AIKA, inviting Tokio to the rooftop and once again offering him, for another adventure, for another chance, to retrieved something that he had lost, to reclaim something that he had lost himself, and the memories of the Tragedy days that he had lost.

'And thus, Tokio's story continues... yet, he begin to realize the story will be never be over... it's always continues in through cycles time like a gear moving itselfs repeatedly... but, will he be able to make a chance for himself to break those repeated cycles that he had made over and over again...'

Chrono (Guild)

 * Tokio Kuryuu
 * AIKA
 * Flugel
 * Kara
 * Exa/Miyuki Kuryuu
 * Seventy-Seven
 * Alibaba
 * Neil
 * Kyushu
 * Nishijima81
 * Sol
 * Miki-Seven
 * Toki-Runty
 * Ninjato

Former Schicksal

 * Cello
 * Orgel
 * Klarinette
 * Trommel

CyberConnect Corporation & Conspirators

 * Durga Fiida Sharma/Genius
 * Takiyoda Kuroda
 * Judi Shwarman
 * Noel Outbruns
 * Jingweon Han
 * Xiao Shu
 * Ahmad Herdian
 * Kazumi
 * Hyukimaru
 * Kite01
 * Dr.Octa Asgrodia

Exterminator

 * Saburou (The Leader)
 * Elexa
 * Posaune
 * Sora
 * Lorenzo
 * Helos-Pierce
 * Lot 9 Hunters
 * Inlid
 * Hyokawa1
 * Mia
 * No.9
 * John77

Devil Shadow

 * Saika Amagi/ENTIES
 * Slayer
 * Missy-White
 * The F
 * Merelonia
 * The Raid001

Legion Unity

 * Han Shi
 * Shion
 * Elgo
 * Kuroda
 * Allen

AIDA

 * Yoshida
 * Nanai
 * Kusabira
 * H21
 * Ole99
 * W11
 * WO-OW

Twilight Knights/Alliance Characters

 * Kite
 * Haseo
 * Tsukasa
 * Ovan
 * BlackRose
 * Lios
 * Yata
 * Tohta
 * Chimney
 * Pi
 * Gord
 * Atoli
 * Carl
 * Balmung
 * Orca
 * Kuhn
 * Shugo
 * Yasuo Nagai
 * Zelkova
 * Mimiru
 * Subaru
 * Aina
 * Silabus
 * Gaspard
 * Sakisaka
 * Endrance
 * Saku
 * Bo
 * Midori
 * Shino
 * Alkaid
 * Albeiro
 * Antares
 * Sieg (Female)
 * J-4 (Junichiro Takuoka)

Others

 * Aura, The Queen of Demise
 * Cubia
 * Akira Yoshinori
 * Metronome
 * Jyotaro Amagi
 * Geist
 * Davis
 * Yuna
 * David01
 * Crow
 * Relena Northstein
 * Shinra Takeshima
 * Aida Asumi
 * Gondo/Tanaka Kakeru
 * Balder/Okano Tomohiko
 * Licht
 * Hermit
 * Kusame/David Steinberg
 * Eleanor
 * Dominique Minerabau
 * Veronica Bain

Gameplay
All-gameplay elements is continuation and improvements from Chrono Link and RIVES RE:CONNECT which now has been reincorporated into the third and final chapter, RISING GEAR along with a brand new features with gameplay elements and different new variations which were a key part to the main story progression, and also how Tokio progressing through those levels. There are new gameplay variations which featured in a latest games, such as:

True Akashic Records
The True Akashic Records is a main dungeon to the RISING GEAR which is the true form of the two dungeons which previously appear in Chrono Link, Akashic Records and Akashic Unrecords. It is different from what you had explored before, although it has a same featured with Akashic Realm, however, it contains every memories of PCs log data and their memories had been stored there.

Unlike previous two dungeons, although it would not be same as Dungeon crawling elements, as it also features a new exploration and discovery places which were not under Aura's watch, as it wasn't even included in Aura's memories as it which offer a clues to it. It is for main story-only which you need to progress by reach through the next floor in order to accessing and unlocking the areas, root towns, lost grounds, hidden areas, and more.

By obtaining Pandora Core which you will earned as you finish each of those stories in order to unlocked for the next stage, but it needs to progressing through the main story.

Gear Link Connector
It is a new features which allows you to detect the victim of Disappearance of the half populations or so known as The Missing Players who were trapped in many areas like Root Town, Field Areas, Dungeon, and True Akashic Records. It also can help you to detect the secret passage which connecting via path where victim were located which eventually leads you to the boss fights, and as you win the battle which earned you a Chrono Lux and evacuate them into Grand Whale in order to extract them into The Real World, before Outer Dependency Syndrome has reached the next stage.

Gear Link connector can also be used to connecting the memories of Aura that were corrupted or broken and scattered in many areas which can be recovered. You need to ties all puzzles of those memories together in order to unlocked a never-seen footage that were contains something that never seen before in Aura's memory. Although ties needs to be careful and in balance in order to not messing up with ties of the memories in order to unlocked those secret cutscenes which can be found of those fragments anywhere through Gear Link Connectors and Hacking system.

Situation QTE
During combat against the enemies or bosses, the QTE will show how much you can perform the excecution with buttons or any controllers you had as you perform different styles and tacticals to defeat the enemies which according to it's story direction in cinematic formats which gone through combination with gameplay combat.

Various excecution abilities which needed to be performed by performing Quick Time Event sequence through battle, and also including the boss battle, incorporated the situation through as how progression cinematic story goes and as you performed very well, you can earned a new rewards and boost the status. Although if you failed it only allows you to drain your HP as you need to do it again in such hard difficult ways to perform, and as risk goes by and you need to perform it very well or try memorizing the excecution buttons during QTE.

Multiple Playable Characters Switch
You can switch Playable Characters at anytime, only in occassional party which be able for you to play with, as you can play, Flugel, Kite, Haseo, Tsukasa, and AIKA which had a different gamestyles through exploration and combats with also a different skils to play the most of times. You can levelling up the playable characters as you wants which includes a different skills on Link Abilities which you can accessing those abilities in order to improved further for the game playability.

Gear Hyde Knuckles
Gear Hyde Knuckle is initial weapon styles for Tokio to be able to use for a combat, and it features an hand to hand combat as it adapt the boxing style techniques which can use to strike enemies in close combat, and it is also using kicks like teakwondo which performing the kick styles in the freedom ways to do it. Tokio still be able to use a skills, magic, and more like he used to in Chrono Link, although he has more tricks to make it more compelling during combat against the enemy.

As you controlling Tokio for using his knuckle fist, you can freely attacking through combos and perfecting the strategies in order to maximize the performance experience as you fight the enemies, although you can use a different fighting styles by pressing a different buttons and skills at the same times to commence a different style of combat attack. His combat will be close to Tribal Grapper, however, you can use attack styles in freedom and using skills with a new features called, Hyde Action as you performed cinematic action against enemies, by pressing Triangle buttons (PS5) or Y Button (Xbox Series X) in order to maximize the performance of Hyde Actions in much flashy or brutal ways, and QTE helps you in order to perfecting the combos.

A new special techniques which known as Double Time which allows you to use Tokio's ability to stop the time toward the enemies, bring much opporturnity to striking and punching the enemies, although you can also have your chance to heal your or party health before the time stops, and it's more sense tacticals but also make easier to use, but it does has it's limit of it's usage.

It also letting Tokio and his party to escape in blindly while the enemies time were stopped (Although, they can't do that in a boss fight), allowing you to stay away at least 1-2 meters in order to avoid enemies notices while you escape which is a new good ways for stealth abilities as well.

God of Chronos Gear Blade
God of Chronos Gear Blade is the ultimate weapons which were used by Tokio when he reached to his true form as Akashic Chrono Gear Form during his fight against ENTIES as it is an superior and upgraded version to his Chrono Gear or Xth Form along with his eyes being now colored as Gold which now he had fully control over the time elements, including all weapons styles from Dual Blades, Flick Reapers, and Harvest Cleric, although he can still use his Knuckle styles, but his Gear Hyde Knuckles has changed which now you can used a transformation knuckle version from the God of Chronos Gear Blade.

There are new game elements combat which was used for Tokio during his Akashic Chrono Gear Form, such as:

Combat Weapon
As Tokio using The God of Chronos Gear Blade which is basically improvements and combination shapes of the weapons between his Gear Blade and one Chrono Edge, which now he can be able to use it freely, whether would be one-handed or two-handed, it has it's own styles that Tokio can freely choose as much as he want to, although it was designed to oppose Tokio's original job as Dual Edge as now Tokio can maintain his weapon in flashier and lightly to move without any gain balance.

The fighting styles is much faster than he previously use in Chrono Link or even in RIVES RE: CONNECT which now he can strike enemies faster 3x than his previous form, as you can stabbing much hardly or striking behinds in flashy moves which be able to hinder the enemies to read your moves, although it has much things to do in order to make the enemies confuses. It even much faster with using a different weapon styles, however, it has it's own balance, as for Knuckles will be faster, but harder at the same time since how much his abililty combat can now decreasing effects the grativities in order to perform the attacks very faster.

God of Chronos Gear Blade has it's unique abilities to control the enemies movements and decreasing their speed times in order to open the chance and the opporturnity to strike, also using Skill Trigger can now be able to it in the free-ways with any various combos that connected through without any limitation as long as in his Akashic Chrono Gear Form.

You can upgrading the God of Chronos Gear Blade in Jikanet Shops by obtaining the Pandora Chrono Core in order to enhance the status effect and boosting the status weapons, also unlocking a new weapon skills to used during a combat.

Data Typhoon Abilities
It allows Tokio to use a three different powers from the legendary heroes like Kite, Tsukasa, and Haseo which has allowed him to using those powers as Tokio's power on it's own, which now can be freely to changing the weapons as much as possible in a freedom ways without any limitation.

Not just that, with Tokio using the three legendary heroes power as brought him further to use theirs in a different looks and different styles, such as:


 * Tokio be able to summon a different look of Guardian from Tsukasa.
 * Tokio can perform heat with Azure Blaze from Kite which allows him to increase the strength and hard-combats to strike against the enemies.
 * And for the Avatar Skeith from Haseo, which now can be used as Avatar Trigger which allows Tokio to change his form into like Chrono-Skeith which further increasing the power force within immesurable speed, powers, defense, and more during battling against the stronger enemies, or more, which he can activated at his own will.

Free-Weapon Change
Tokio has three weapons which he had much freedom to choose a different weapons during combat as now that he can using four weapons, such as The God of Chronos Gear Blade (Tokio), The Holy Guardian Staff (Tsukasa), The Blazing God Skies (Kite), and Death Shadow Scythe (Haseo) which now can be use without limitation by using D-Pad which specialize for Tokio as Akashic Chrono Gear Form.

It is same as how Adept Rogue originally use when using D-Pad to choose four different weapons, however, you can press R3 to use Knucles Style fighting by using the transformation weapons from The God of Chronos Gear Blade. Although in order to improves and unlocked more potentials in freedom ways, you need to accessing all abilities from LINK Ability in order to learn a more abilities and combat style.

Time Elements & Manipulation
His new form has allowed him to obtained the elements of Time, including the time manipulation which is more tactical and powerful which is very benefit during the combat against the enemies, as you making a chance opporturnity to strike against the enemy and manipulating their speed movement in order for chance continuously strike.

Time manipulation which allows you to control their movements, although it could only cost SP in order to cast the manipulations skills, and you can also use those elements to predict the future for when will the enemies strike next which allows you to be able to evade and counter the enemies in the blind. Although you need to accessing those abilities through LINK Abilities in order to improved the performance of how it uses.

As part of his new form and abilities of time, he can earned a new abilities like, Stop Magic, Light Magic, and Speed Magic which was formed due to the Time manipulation controls that he had to do.

Flash Time
Tokio's new form is also received a new abilities, Flash Time. Although his initial abilities, Double Time is still exist as you setting those abilities in order to accessing it during combat. The Flash Time is unique abilities, as the enemies speed movement came in normal, but, Tokio will able to strike the enemies much faster 3x than initial combat as you can go through blind spot for surprise opporturnity, while also allows you to perform the Skill Trigger in flashy ways.

Much you need to be more careful where will you targeting it, although it keeps a balance when it comes attacking during speed movements and continuously confusing enemies in the process for several of them, through manipulation abilities will allows you to bring a dual-combat in sync such flashy and freedom without any risk, but it still perform it better in order to keep it in main balance.

Ultimate Finisher
Continuously strike against the enemy with perfectly balanced combo as it sync accessing into an Ultimate Finisher allows Tokio to connect performance through Double Skill Triggers in a row and continuously strikes until it reached a low HP, brought a perfect opporturnity for an ultimate finisher movements which delivering great damages toward the enemies instantly in top-notch.

Using the Ultimate Finisher freely which allows to look for chance opporturnity for strikes against the enemies whether you want to use with Skill Triggers or only attacking the enemies in normal ways, also looking for it's weakness is much important in order to sync accessing the finisher in easy ways, only when the enemies in Staggers condition.

Scanning Memory
During a major boss fights, as the enemies is much stronger due to bugs or another unknown specification which made the status look invisible. Scanning Memory is used in order to read the enemies weakness or changing the course of the enemies movements and status in order to look for the opporturnity chance to strike, however, you need to do it repeatedly if there's interupted during scanning the memories.

Although the few bosses has extension limit memories as you can read with your scanners, which somehow unable for you to read in such circumstances or in low ability level. It needs to unlocked upgradation through LINK Ability in order to extend it's speed scanning and limit usage, while also increasing the performance during combat.

It can also allows you to read their memories of the past in order to free the missing players from Outer Dependency Syndrome, but their illness is much still weakening their bodies which needs to be treated immediately before it happen again.

Hacking
Another ways to weakening and modify the invisible status of the enemies with Hacking system by pressing Hold Triangle Button, which allows Tokio to changing the course of their log data, as it means to hacking their status and spread the virus inside in order to change their status to become more visible, also inflicted the random aliments buff status toward the enemies during combat, but you need to find a chance in order to perform the hacking system toward enemies.

It allows you to received a bonus rewards and draining their HP or SP or both from the enemies as you complete the hacking sequence.

Hacking Area System
Hacking Area System is really in good use for accessing an unseen areas, dungeons, and the lost grounds which were still missing on the records that didn't discovered by any other PCs which means to be an out-spec creation out of developers will as you can explore a brand-new unseen areas that makes it feel looks in different atmosphere than how they used to explore areas they know during in the online game.

It could also allows you to accessing into anonymous areas, the same features that were added in .hack//G.U. Vol.3 Redemption, a new improvements which allows you to unlocked another new parts of anonymous areas in order to unlock a the unseen areas. It is possible to visit the old areas from previous titles of .hack series as well.

Grand-Whale Combat System
Grand Whale is a submarine ship which only purposed to travelling through data server and the past time log data, in legal ways, or illegal ways, however, those ships cannot be used for a Combat System, since it wasn't programmed for the purpose to do in a combat which it could fill with peoples inside which is not proper way to accessing or installing the ship into a submarine ship that has no purpose to it.

Unless, you need to find a ways to installing the submarines ship data for combat, by finding the Print Data Work which is the original data that were scattered in a deep sea of the data ever since The World R:1 Era or before the Pluto Again incident which contains an abilities access for a combat data which allows you to fight against the abnormal monsters, enemies, and even the giants that were resides within the network space that were came in life-form creation by Aura, the Queen of Demise.

It can be found in a numerous areas which were found behind passage that were hidden as you across through, and you can found it on the lost ground as well, which those data already scattered across network scales server which can only be found in The World. As you obtained all those print works which fufilled the requirements, allows you to upgrading the ships with more new features and abilities for the combat.

Grand-Whale is a big ship which can shooting the enemies in every directions, it can also evading from the enemies attack as long you do properly, PCs can take in charge for shooting the enemies or taking a sub-Airfighter known as Jet Whale which allows you to help Grand-Whale to attacking the enemies by shooting the each of those directions. It can only accessed by finding more Print Data Work in order to upgrading the ships abilities.

Unison Party Job-Extend
Unison Party's PC can now be upgrade into a new form by performing the Job Extension which granted them a new styles abilities, skills, and profound a new special powers which depends on how those PCs were designed for each of those characters and how it look fit toward characters design theme and it's personality based not from their online personality, but their real world's personality.

Same as how the system features from the original PSP version game, .hack//Link which allows you to change their PCs into Xth Form, however, it is different from original one, as it also allows them to earn a brand-new abilities that were given from Job Extension, and those features will be useful during combat and exploration that can be more extensive and dynamics depending what form changes to use that fit to their PCs designation.

In order to fufilled the requirements for job extension, it needs an Omega Virus Core which is the materials that used for upgrading their PC characters in a brand-new design which can be useful to accessing their enters to the True Akashic Records and fighting against a strongest monster during combat. Although there's also a several to few party members that were no in needs to perform the Job Extension since it depends on how Character PC was.

The Arena God Tournament
Same features as the Arena Tournament from Lumina Cloth, however the Arena God Tournament is very much different levels or so unto the next level from the initial one which is the tournament against the strongest in many different forms of the enemies came like God, Monster, Devil or anything else which makes the difficulties is much strongest than the previous one, considering as The Most Hardest and Strongest Tournament of all time which doesn't applies the rules of anything when they can be able to participated more freely than anything.

You can fighting against the Pro-Players from many different servers region around the world which you be able to fight against them, and it applies only one rules, is to survive in a death battle match, which is the hardest challenges for players will come to play of it, however, it needs a level recommendation in order to become strong enough to defeat the opponents of pro-players and raising through ranks for the top in order to fight against the God-Players.

Ranking System is much same from Arena, however, raising through ranks, will allows you to fight against the strongest opponents in the god arena which they a super skills that were even strongest and much pro than what players could even imagine it's difficulties could even gone crazier, as it needs to balanced the strategies and good evades in order to land damages against them. Winning the opponents will allows you to earn rarest rewards with best items, equipments, and more, that only you can do as you raising through rank and reached to the God Players to fight against.

The Battle Royale, 1 in 8 Battle, Climax Battle, War Battle, and Monster Boss Battle is still retains in Arena God Tournament, however, a specific levels enemy opponents is a whole new difficult levels to try which allows you to make new experience and levelling up your characters.

Premium Adventure
Premium Adventure is a new features which allows you to enjoy a post-game contents as you clear the game which only available after, although in Ending D, you need to delete your save files which is part of requirements, however, before that you need to transfer your save clear data for the Premium Adventure in order to enjoy post-game contents and finishing the unclear mission which were left a side or didn't even finished it during the main story.

There are brand-new post game contents which were added into the Premium Adventures such as:


 * Brand-new post-game storyline which set a few months after the main stories.
 * Additional 30 Substories mission added in the Premium Adventure and allows you to access unclear mission which you didn't even finish it on the main story.
 * New God Arena Tournament Mode has been unlocked.
 * Brand-new Forums, Media Social, Chats, and more.
 * New Key-Words areas and lost grounds.
 * New Quest Shop events for The World R:X.
 * A brand-new super dungeon known as The Hidden Forbidden Twilight Sun which you be able to explore and fighting against the strongest monsters.
 * Few superboss added to the game.
 * A new big substories mission Intergration which after you finish all story in a Premium Adventure which allows you to unlocked a brand-new epilogues and a secret endings.

.hack//Link -RIVES- RE:CONNECT

 * Additional 15-20 story cutscenes and dialogues along with an Easter Egg which those were fully ties to RE: CONNECT stories.
 * Optional E-Mails from CC Corp, Anonymous, and several E-mails from Davis, Geist, Akira, Ju21, Yukio, Kruger, Kyushu, Sol, Neil, and Shoko Adashino.
 * Bonus Items and Equipments, such as:
 * Restore Drink 10x, Emperor Soul 10x, Resurrection Soul 5x, Smoke Screen 3x, and Fairy Orb.
 * Additional bonuses Equipments and Costume Packs.
 * Key Items: The Reborn of Dragon Chrono Gear and The Bringer of Calamity.
 * Video Bonus Footage, such as:
 * 2 Bonus Video Footages of .hack//Link -Parody Mode.
 * 2 Bonus Video Footages of .hack//4Koma -Reborn-
 * 1 Bonus Footage about Saika's CC Corp Job Interview.
 * Over 12 additional sub-story mission that were ties up to .hack//Link -RIVES- RE:CONNECT and three movies of .hack//Link -RIVES-.
 * A brand new 15-minutes video documentary about insider developers of the .hack//Link -RIVES- (by A-1 Pictures) and .hack//LINK -RIVES- RE: CONNECT.

.hack//Link -Chrono Link-

 * Additional 15 story cutscenes which includes story dialogues and special easter eggs which were fully ties with Chrono Link.
 * Featuring JYOTARO AMAGI's Secret Files Folder which contains a lot connection regarding about Akashic Line, R.A. Plan, Doubleware, Chronic Mind Virus, and more, which contains lot valuable information that were tied up with RIVES and the 3rd Season of .hack title project, while it also lead up to some surprising development.
 * Optional E-Mails from CC Corp, Anonymous and several E-Mails from several character's perspective message from Flugel, Cello, Klarinette, Geist, Saika, AIKA, Kite, Haseo, Tsukasa, Helba, Lios, Miyuki, and more.
 * Additional E-Mail message from Jyotaro Amagi which was originally sent to Saika Amagi as how the real message was delivered to his little sister.
 * Bonus Items and Equipments, such as:
 * Restore Health Drink 10x, Emperor Soul 10x, Resurrection Soul 4x, Smoke Screen 3x, and Fairy Orb.
 * Additional Equipments and costume pack.
 * Key Items: The Path of the Stairway Time and Joker Card.
 * Bonus video footage, such as:
 * 3 Bonus Videos of .hack//4Koma Reborn
 * 2 Bonus Videos of .hack//Link -Parody Mode-
 * 1 Bonus Video Footage of Akashic Line Beta Test.


 * Optional Bonus Footage regarding .hack//Link -Chrono Link- and .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- behind the scene, including Insider developers comment regarding future plans after the development of the saga.

Season Pass DLC

 * Downlodable Story Mode Content
 * .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- The Calamity of the White Flower
 * Episode DLC
 * Metronom's Episode "Atonement"
 * Seventy-Seven's Episode "The Right Choice"
 * AIKA's Episode "The Story of the Knight and Princess"
 * Helos-Pierce's Episode "Pluto Kiss"
 * ???? Episode "Code No.0001"
 * Seasons Pack DLC
 * Fall Season
 * Winter Season
 * Spring Season
 * Summer Season
 * Legacy Outfits
 * .hack//Link -Twilight Knights-
 * .hack//Quantum
 * .hack//Bullet
 * .hack//Beyond The World
 * .hack//Versus
 * Guilty Dragon
 * .hack//New World
 * Fan-Request Outfits

.hack//Link -RISING GEAR- ULTIMATE EDITION

 * Contents
 * .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- (Base Game)
 * .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Season Pass (DLC Game)
 * Premium Edition Bonus
 * Music CD "Original Soundtrack (Disc 1,2 & 3) + Character Song CD.
 * Drama CD "The Day inflicted in Chaos" & "Miyuki's First Login".
 * Anime OAD ".hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Interlude-
 * Premium Booklet
 * .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Archive Files.
 * Character information, Design Proposal, Weapon Design, and The World View setting for RISING GEAR and The World R:X -2021-.
 * Mechanics design proposal, Terminology, Illustration, and RISING GEAR Special: SECRET FILE.
 * Original Story Novelization "The Girl who had Suffer from Anything"
 * Message Letter from Developer staffs, includes Hiroshi Matsuyama, Kikuya Megane, and Kazunari Ito.
 * Including Message Letters from Seiyuu Characters which includes from Tokio, Akira, Saika/AIKA, Miyuki, Flugel and all Chrono Guild members Seiyuu.
 * Also from Kite, Tsukasa, Haseo, and other older reprise Voice Actor characters.
 * Art Bonus
 * Poster Key Visual of .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- along with 4 Alternate Key Visual which drawn by Seiichiro Hasokawa, Megane Kikuya, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.
 * Three Key Illustration card by Megane Kikuya and Seiichiro Hasokawa.

Microsoft Windows (Steam)
.hack//Link -RISING GEAR- will be also availabe on PC version, however, unlike from base game, it has a new features which allows to experience more live true earnest of dothack series and amazing adventure with Power of Unreal Engine 5. Available on Steam Store and the downloadable contents formats is still same from PS5 version.


 * Full-HD resolution preset with 4K and 8K resolution support.
 * Higher-framerate Support with Widescreen 16:10.
 * Dolby Atmos Sound Technology support.
 * Greatly enhance the background User-Interface.
 * Nvidia Gameworks Support.
 * Virtual Reality Support.
 * Customize Keyboard & Mouse for Windows Edition.
 * Auto-save featured.
 * Steam and Windows 10 Achievement support.
 * Greatly enhance graphical and numerous new effects surrounding the environment.
 * The graphical visual in PC will have improvements and also been polished than PlayStation do.
 * Additional new details toward the environment, character models, FX, UI, and more.
 * Psychic is also been improved to make look little realistic for the PC version.
 * Graphical Setting added the game.
 * A few scenes have been uncensored.
 * Gallery Mode added, includes an all-music soundtrack of RISING GEAR Music soundtracks.
 * Several wallpapers for .hack//LINK -RISING GEAR- added the gallery mode.
 * It also features a cinematic movie gallery, which you can reply to one of them or all movies as you like.
 * Photo Mode added the game, it includes a sharing system or saves to he local documents, also added a filter to editing pictures as according to player's vision.
 * Supported graphical options with Anti-Aliasing, Anisotropic, Post-Draw Anti-Aliasing, Environmental, Particle Effects, HBAO, and TXAA.
 * Psychic is also been improved to make look little realistic for the PC version.
 * Choose a dual-voice language, English or Japanese.
 * Language subtitles will include English, Japanese, Korean, France, Europe, Spanish, Italy, and Indonesia.
 * A new system features Cloud Transfer which able to transfering save clear data exclusively for Steam and Windows 10.

Minimum

 * OS: Windows 10
 * CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 or AMD Ryzen 5 1300
 * GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon 290X
 * VRAM: 4 GB
 * RAM: 8 GB (Dual-Channel setup)
 * Stroage: 50 GB

Recommended

 * OS: Windows 10
 * CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 or AMD Ryzen 5 1700
 * GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super or AMD Radeon RX 490
 * VRAM: 6GB
 * RAM: 8 GB (Dual-Channel Setup)
 * Stroage: 50 GB

Recommended (For Ray-Tracing)

 * OS: Windows 10
 * CPU: Intel i5-7700 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
 * GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
 * VRAM: 6 GB
 * RAM: 16 GB (Dual-Channel Setup)
 * Stroage: 50 GB

.hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Ultimate "CHRONO" Edition
See .hack//Link -RISING GEAR- Ultimate "CHRONO" Edition

Trivia

 * The story of RISING GEAR is a combination stories between Original Stories and Remake Stories to last portion of PSP Version games which expand as a brand-new stories in chronological .hack series.
 * For the last portion of .hack//Link stories which covers Rescuing Kite and VS Aura, The Queen of Demise.
 * Crossovers elements in RISING GEAR is heavily inspired by the movies from Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Captain America Civil War, Avengers, Avengers Age of Ultron, Avengers Infinity War, and Avengers End Game. Although the tone story direction will be different from those films.
 * This will be a first game which received Premium Adventure feature, which inspires by Yakuza series, including Yakuza Like a Dragon. Although the way how it handles will be difference since this is an .hack//Games.
 * It is also the first game to received a new features based from Nier and Nier Automata like Multiple Endings Story features.
 * The RISING GEAR Game's scales will be 3x times bigger than Chrono Link and RIVES, and considered as The bigger innovative experience and higher intensity story of .hack titles, also teased a richer stories in several each background of characters.
 * Since it set 2021 A.D. as it could fill a holes within the timelines, but it also given a major contradiction for 3rd Season .hack titles project.
 * Tokio's initial style of combat in RISING GEAR which had similiarity with .hack//Versus during he using the PC Name as 9.
 * This setting might could possibly majorly contradicts MAMA's involvements on .hack//ARCHIVE 05 Beyond The World + Versus SECRET FILE's Timeline which involving the events regardings about MAMA, but the IMMORTAL DUSK Saga could actually transpired directly connected to the MAMA in a new ways, but also fit how it connected to .hack//Quantum and Beyond The World's as well.
 * As for Thanatos Reports, remains unknown, although as it mentioned in previous Trivia of Chrono Link the story might not set in 2020 or 2021, but could be possible or impossible to tell, but actually 2021 might suits better.