.hack//Link
Set in a fictional version of the year 2020, .hack//Link's story takes place in a new version of “The World,” a popular series of MMORPGs known as The World: RX. The game focuses on a young man named Tokio…
.hack//Link is a role-playing (rpg) developed by CyberConnect2, released 4 March 2010 on PlayStation Portable.
What .hack//Link is
.hack//Link is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by CyberConnect2 and released in 2010. It was published by Namco Bandai Games. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in a fictional version of the year 2020, .hack//Link's story takes place in a new version of “The World,” a popular series of MMORPGs known as The World: RX. The game focuses on a young man named Tokio Kuryuu, a second year junior-high student who gets transported into The World: RX by a new student named Saika Amagi. After arriving into the game, Tokio is tasked by an artificial intelligence version of the character Kite to be a hero and use a tower of the Akashic Records to save the Twilight Knights, a group of artificial intelligence versions of characters based on casts of previous entries in the .hack series. Using the Akashic Records, Tokio is able to travel backwards in time to…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the .Hack series
.hack//Link is the 12th of 18 entries we hold in the .Hack series. It arrived 3 years after .Hack//G.U. Vol. 3: Redemption. The next entry was .hack//Versus in 2012.
What it launched against
.hack//Link launched on 4 March 2010, within three weeks of God of War III, Metro 2033, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Heavy Rain.
Released around the same time: God of War III, Metro 2033, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Heavy Rain.
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