Because noone could possibly know that there is a whole batch of incoming characters to be slaughtered/commit suicide right before his eyes, right? I mean who could've possibly predict that, its not like the anime was done after the light novel was published. And no, I'm not taking a sarcastic stab at you in particular, Matthew Rubenstein. Because I do agree with your assumption. It just goes to show that 99% of the time A-1 Pictures doesn't give a damn about material, coherency of the plot or quality of their product.
The phrase "This takes place on the beta of the relaunch of SAO" feels like code for "we couldn't be arsed to fix the bugs and came with a crappy excuse".
@@KingofYggdrasil well. actually, that info wasn't even in the published version of the novel. So much was changed from the online version of sao to the published version
Honestly, the moment when everybody turned on Kirito because "LOL Beta tester" is the moment I dropped the show. Everybody in that game was too stupid to function correctly.
Also the reason I hate Kibaou from the very start he showed up. Why would he even go after beta testers, he is too selfish to think, they would mindlessly help others, they also want to survive god dammit. Otherwise, if it came to playing games that were there, I would try them, just for the feeling. Perhaps I would choose other game, but that I would love to try that concept
King Harkinian The thing I like about Senran Kagura is that like Bayonetta, it knows its over the top and stupid. And that's where the fanservice works so well.
It's not that I hate it (I'm definitely watching SAO III when it comes out), but I'd rather watch something like Log Horizon to be honest, there are better anime with the SAO genre.
"We Want a plot about Kirito but we also want a custom character" "I have an great idea guys that can solve all gaming making problems on trying to make a custom character protagonist with interesting interaction, let's make kirito customizable but not change his name or story" Like seriously, i know they just wanted slap it's a Sao game and has all characters but how much more interesting it would be if it was about you being a new player, making your own character and venturing yourself into the world as you meet your own new friends and even aleadry known ones from the show, besides making kirito customizable, cheat asuna, and everything else? Since the game wanted so much to have the MMO feeling.
really are there anyone that want to be kirito in a game. i would kill to be a joestar with my personal stand or any charcter of overlord or log horizon
Oh yeah, being Shiroe and having a taunt or special move with visuals like this would be awesome: s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f9/89/f5/f989f5a71e2393b7367d0ed07fe650ef.png
I'm gonna be perfectly honest: I don't think SAO is the worst anime ever. Defeinitely the most disappointing anime ever because it had so much potential. I actually kinda liked the first half of season 1, and I also enjoyed the first half of season 2. The latter half of season 1 was bad and the latter half of season 2 was just boring.....
Kurt Yarish It's basically Devil May Cry - The MMO, which actually makes it a GAZILLION TIMES better than what could be considered the Matrix sequel that's worse than Reloaded and Revolutions combined lol
Fuck .hack. What kind of game franchise makes you watch an emofest anime before it in order for its story to make sense and on top of that is episodic? This sounds like a scam and all of you that have been backing it for years are dumb.
I'm interested, you talking about G.U.? Because yeah, G.U. is kinda dumb. But I'm talking about the original quadrilogy. And the fact that there are four games in the main series doesnt mean you are getting one game in 4 disks. Nah mate, these are four separate fuckin' games, with four games' worth of content.
The turning point for me was when Laughing Coffin, you know, one of the biggest threats to the players in SAO, gets completely obliterated OFF-CAMERA, and only mentioned in a few seconds flashback on the 2nd season, oh but those 3 random assholes looking for a random murderer of a random person that we never see again, that was more important to see
The Onyx Viper The moment where a relatively interesting amine turned into a sexist harem fanservice sandwich complete with tentacle rape sauce, was the moment where SAO was executed by a firing squad
@@formula2233 Going back to this comment after a few years.... Yeah, agreed Forgot about the incest stuff And the baby dimension And jumping off a cliff because the generic anime protagonist told you to do so. God the writing in that game was abhorrent
kyle hague aslo where is the overlord game i think is because japan like that styles of the mc with zero personality that is basically a male version of bella from twilight with the respective harem like sao or infinete stratos or the worst of all mahoka
The dude that made it went to jail for tax evasion - kinda fitting, considering his protagonist- and I guess that must make getting the rights to it very hard or downright impossible.
"Hey I'm craving playing an Offline MMO,, Xenoblade was literally the greatest thing ever so SAOHF should at least be playable right?" Nope, That was as big of a mistake as buying Conception 2.
Nice video, I appreciate that you actually took the time to explain that you don't think the entirety of the show is god-awful, just everything past the point that they turned it into Harem Art Online.
Episode 3 was a red flag for me, very rushed, I had no time to get attached to any of those characters to feel sad about them. Then it went down hill super super hard after that. God I hate how this series has an amazing dark start then just turned into generic trash and people still just ate it up. It's like I can enjoy some trashy shows but generally they are more honest about it where is SAO feels like it tricked its audience into making them think it's good. These games just look plain terrible though honestly the ps2 .hack games seem worlds better.
I remember watching SAO years ago. I also had high hope for it because the beginning of the anime and the plot stuff was actually pretty interesting... Then it derailed into what you mentioned in your video. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!! I never heard of the games, but goodness... Those are some games. :U
Apparently the creators of SAO are thinking about revamping the show and I'm totally all for it, also there's a total of 5 english SAO games on the PlayStation and the one in this video was by far my least favorite of the games. Also to any who are confused the games take place in a separate time-line where Kirito and others go through all 100 floors of Aincrad, introducing more characters exclusive to the game time-line, and no Oberon rape lmao.
Man feels like I haven't seen a video from you guys in forever nice to see this review. What I really like in your critique of SAO is the fact that you managed to pull out the good from it before saying how it all went to hell. I felt the same as you when I was watching it between episode 3 and 4 felt like they could have had a whole season or at least make Aincrad a full twenty something episodes instead we rushed into something way inferior for no good reason like incest and rape dungeons albeit lite versions of it but still why? Anyway good to see a video from you guys after so long.
They have nothing in common. You won't 'enjoy a SAO game' playing it because it's its own thing. Instead, play Xenoblade because it's simply amazing and everyone should experience it at one point.
AdventDoom You're right...I didn't think about that. Actually, now that I think about it...how about Agent Smith overwrite Asuna and the other psuedo-love interests? Oh, and Yui too.
SuperHackaDaru Same even through I wouldn't say it's for the casual anime viewer but rather people who already have experience with MMOs or at least RPGs
After analyzing the in-series functions and features of Gun Gale Online, I realized that a game similiar to it, an MMORPG poorly disguised as an FPS, already exists as well. No, it's not Destiny. No, it's not Borderlands either. It is... Star Trek Online. Seriously. o_O
I just love that even those of us who think SAO and most of the things branching from it are trash can still agree that Sinon is a total cutie. Not only that, but she was the new refreshing female character that we needed after seeing Asuna quickly turn to a life of domesticity and weakness. Sinon was presented with an interesting backstory and life addressing the seriousness of PTSD. She was a skilled player who simply trumped Kirito's game knowledge in every category, and without Kirito being Jesus-kun and immediately OP at any game he plays, she could have been in the combat spotlight for much longer before handing it over to the main character. I honestly believe that Reki Kawahara rushed into putting Kirito and Asuna together, because Sinon simply fits that role better. Unlike every other girl in the series Sinon didn't start developing apparent feelings for Kirito until the very end of GGO, and even after she did develop those feelings we rarely saw the irritating tropes that plague SAO girls. Rather than being purely focused around romance, their interactions also have a playful and real feeling to them that builds on their platonic relationship and only sometimes hinting towards a possible romance in the future. One example of this is the scene where Kirito jokingly pulls on Sinon's tail, and her reaction is admittedly pretty cute. In addition, Sinon seems to have kept her skill and combat relevance even after switching to ALO. She still serves the role of the sniper and scout, and she uses a weapon type that none of the other main cast members use. We still see her as a present combat force, and she still has some awesome moments. While Asuna does rejoin the group for quests in ALO again, she's taken quite the support-like role as opposed to her previous frontline fighter personality. The only times she pulls out her sword is when they all get a chance to wail on the enemy at once. Sinon is shown to tease Kirito semi-frequently rather than be the usual meek girl who gets unjustifiably angry when Kirito interacts with other girls like Asuna, Silica, Lisbeth, and Leafa do. Her bold, outgoing, and fun personality perfectly complements his calm but socially awkward one. Contrast this with Asuna's borderline bitchy but weirdly meek personality that just screams "Yes Kirito-kun, whatever you say Kirito-kun." and I think you'll see who fits better. And honestly...Sinon would make Kirito a better character if done right. Like I said, she acts as a wonderful foil to him that brings out a much more interesting character than "Edgy black swordsman Jesus-kun who saves the day and gets all the girls...Who is also apparently a genius hacker." But you know, maybe that's just me. Canon Kirito really doesn't deserve her anyway.
I've never seen an anime trigger so many people so intensely. It's neither an overly great or overly bad anime. It is what it is. Why does everyone act like SAO murdered their family?
It's because it started off really good and went to complete shit. If the world was built well then it would be great fanfiction fodder like Naruto or Harry Potter. Unlike those two though, it didn't just get stagnant and full on deus ex machina, it betrayed it's premise (anyone can die and a lot of people will) and changed to a dramatically different genre. It's like if Guts from Berserk started healing people through the power of friendship, the Youma took over Tokyo, killing half the Sailor Scouts resulting in a dark & gritty story of survival and revenge, or Trigun turned out to be a video game the cast was all part of and then became a sports anime about, I don't know, badminton.
Thank you for making my decision easy. I'm glad I found someone with a small amount of distaste for pointless fanservice, instead of trying to pry honest reviews from the hands of fanboys.
Ah damn you! You just made me want to go back to Gundan Breaker 3 as well! only problem is that the only console I can play it on is my brother's PS4 so I barely get the chance :( What a great game!
SAO is the popular example of what is wrong with anime culture in general and mindless otakus eat it up. It only makes it worse that it could have been good and that this is what the rest of the world sees as "anime". It does nothing but glorify introversion and make anime look bad
I really think it's unfair to say that SAO "glorifies" introversion. I think it merely (and correctly) points out that many gamers (myself included) happen to BE introverts that use games as an escape from our problems. As far as it being the problem with anime culture in general, I disagree with that entirely. It's literally just a bad anime. It doesn't have the wide-reaching effects that you're insinuating. What truly ruins anime culture are the rabid fans. You can't admit that you like certain animes (especially popular ones like Naruto or One Piece) without being attacked and discredited as one who isn't a "true" anime fan. If you don't like an obscure anime that came out 30 years ago, that also happens to be crap, but it's still good cuz it accurately portrays politics in the Edo period, than you're automatically a pleb with no taste. I'm obviously exaggerating, but you get what I'm saying. Behavior like this make the community exceptionally hard to get into for people who might be curious about anime, but aren't well-versed in it. There are some overused tropes as well, but honestly anime is superfluous as a general rule, so I think most people expect them. Doesn't make them any less glaring or unbearable in certain situations, but I don't think it ruins anime by any means.
What destroyed this show was useless romance, ecchi, harem and Asuna. I was SO hyped to watch it, and them BAM, Asuna comes in and my first though is "This is going to be another shitty romance with annoying female characters, isn't it." I started to watch it for action and adventure not for some ginger bitch that wants to play house with some random OP dude.
Regarding the A.I., you have to train them using a compliment system that encourages them to perform certain actions more frequently. For example, if a character attacks a lot, they will get the "Warlike", "Outlaw", or possibly "Planner" status, among others, that refers to the nature of their last action. Praise them for that and they will do it more frequently. Likewise, if a character heals and you praise them for that, they will heal more frequently. This praise system combined with the group comand system defines how the characters behave. It's really awesome actually. :-D
Yeah, I remember watching up to episode 6 and really liked it (episode 4 was weird), and then once it stopped being about leaving the game and people permanently die and I found out about the harem part, I dropped it like a rock into the depths of the ocean. I've actually gone back and looked at it and I think it's good up to episode 11. Episode 4 and 7 were the intrusive harem/forced romance parts. Episode 5, 6, and 10 were great since they brought the whole high stakes thing, people permanently die part pretty well. Episode 11 and forward is when Yui appears and becomes their daughter somehow and from there it's pure *cringe*. It's too bad that they dropped the grim GTFO out of this game where you can die into a harem and power fantasy anime (loses all the stakes as Kirito becomes level infinity and no one else you care about dies permanently or long enough for it to matter). It reminded me of the .hack series for those episodes...haha.
I like Lost Song but it’s character customization isn’t very good. Hollow Realization was *TERRIBLE* - btw I was stuck on that tutorial for half an hour... I agree the directions were unclear Also it’s riddled with stupid “fan-service” and the skill system was nonsensically designed
@@anushmichealbiju916 dude, you replied 3 years later, in which time they put out an SAO that let's you make a customer character. Hating for the sake of it is just sad.
considering how the anime went and how this game is, i'm surprised Kirtio wasn't able to attract any of the game monsters to his harem. all he had to do was look at the girl, smile and be a little nice and boom, she's now apart of his ever growing harem which really sucks because the show was really dark with a good commentary on mortality and a few other things. i almost forgot Sacchi because she's only in that one episode, if they had extended it over the course of say a few episodes truly getting to know her and then they rip your heart out with her death, that would have had more of an impact and then reference her through out the rest of the series. but nope, that's not what we got
The novels really are not too bad if you pay attention to their surrounding circumstances and target audience. You can especially notice increased maturity of the author as he gains experience. I can't promote them as particularly good, but they are not terrible - largely because later on they introduce some interesting ideas.
Gonna be honest. Even if I'm into the whole waifu harem crap, I seriously couldn't get into SAO. I mean I wanted to since I eat this type of stuff like the junk food they are, but something about SAO just rubs me the wrong way. Plus the fact that combined, the anime is now at least 85 episodes long its like, how is this anime still going? People still eat this thing up? The games as well always keeps me wondering. Why even make the player character customizable complete with the ability to rename yourself when its Kirito regardless? That seriously reminds me of how white knight chronicles pisses on you when it allows you to make your own character but they have 0 relevance in the plot and just hangs out in the background. You seriously can't be your own guy when you have to live in the shadow of the existing main character. I want to date Sion as my own dude! Not as Kirito secretly having an affair on Asuna which she'll never find out cause she's as dense as a brick. At least take a page from the Dragonball Xenoverse games. Your character in those at least has relevance and you're your own guy. Not Goku pretending to be someone else.
holy fuck.... glad i didn't look into THIS Anime after i thought "hey it might be as cool as .hack" i liked the PS2 games and the anime but THIS omg... Pantyshots, Dating sim... omfg
The only thing that will be as good as .hack is... well, more .hack. The originals, I mean. None of the G.U. stuff or whateverthefuck this LINK thing is.
Tbh, the series should of been 100 episodes longer, just up to the point of breaking out of the game. The idea is great and had huge potential, regardless of the shortness of the source material, it was a huge missed opportunity.
Exactly what I think. First half of SAO would be 1-2 episodes devoted to heroes taking on a floor, cut down fanservice, give better character development. Second half gives more development to characters and ALO, remove suguha/Kazuo crush, keep asuna's hero status even while she's captive as she helps bring down villain without detection.
My criticism of you is that you think that Kirito just gets over the tragedy. There are constant time skips in the series. If you want consistent story telling, then you'd get 5 seasons of them entirely just playing through the death game.
Thats a pure excuse. Original author never intented for this to be a thing. Its 1 volume material for few hours which got streched into full season with shoehoorned fillers that out of touch. He wrote all this AI bullshit and etc as side stories waaaaay later.
Sounds like the core of your critique is that SAO starts out with a powerful, evocative driving premise... and then after three episodes, betrays that premise and essentially never returns to it. it starts doing other things. Some of those other things might be enjoyable or not, but there's little doubt that whole 'if you die in the game, you die for real' just stopped being a thing for anyone who mattered after three episodes. In fact, they spliced in book 2 fluffing about in the middle of the show, seemingly determined to ruin the pacing on purpose. Honestly, if you take the games on their own (very limited) terms, the brainless harem VN nonsense can be amusing and even enjoyable. It doesn't even resemble an actual story, but hey. Neither does a packet of sugar. But the tones clash so harshly in this series because SAO clearly THINKS it's some adult, serious show. And it SO is not capable of that. Also, big props Skies of Arcadia background music. I've thought off and on about some kind of 'trapped in a VR MMO but it's like Skies of Arcadia with sky islands and sky pirates' and god that would be cool.
At this point, I'm 99% sure that SAO was already written as a harem/romance series in a fantasy world, but it didn't have an interesting hook. Nothing to really draw people in. Then .hack came out, and the writer took the idea of being trapped in an MMO. That's where the first three episodes come in. This is evidenced by the fact that the first draft of SAO was published online a few months after .hack//Sign premiered. That's the best explanation I can find as to why the first few episodes are so incredibly different than the rest of the series. It's just a hook that was tacked on in order to draw people in, based on something that was popular at the time.
Honestly, as someone that mini-binged some of SAO on Netflix (that kinda "not going through all of it, just the major episodes and the ones I find interesting from the synopsis" mini-binge), I see both sides. It started okay. Then it crashed and burned. Every time I look back at it, through actually watching it or just stuff like this, I realize that the deterioration happened faster and earlier than I remember. First bit of season 1 and first couple episodes of season 2 were good. Everything in between or after that just got worse the later it got. Then SAO II happened and things became downright nonsensical.
it isnt something to argue on SAO is bad no matter how you try to defend it, the first episodes shows that the series were in a right path but they stray away from that in order to have more money from dakimakuras and other ecchi merchandise, dont get me wrong because i love a good old ecchi but when in its conception is an ecchi, but when you start as a more "serious" and more developed anime in terms of plot and characters and then you throw that for obvious fan service yeah you got me lost there. Dot /Hack at least when he had its ecchi moments were just a few moments and it wasnt the main reason of the episode, yeah the plot was kinda meh at times and it wasnt that good but they didnt stray from character development just for more money.
I can tell this video was when you were new. Mostly technical issues, and other issues with you not understanding mechanics. There are really no other complaints other than 'its a harem game'. Which uh, yeah, you know that if you look at the back of the box.....so....why did you buy it knowing that.... Anyway, I played it years ago, found it fun, its a mix of a mystery visual novel and some instanced dungeons with bosses at the end. You know what you are signing up for. I found the chaining specials really fun. You had multiple different weapons to choose, and skill trees that actually rewarded you for being proficient with those skill trees. Plus you could unlock dual wield just like in the show. It is randomly given out after using the sword a set amount of times. Overall, not a terrible game, was pretty mechanically solid. but its an SAO game. So you have to be a fan of the genre to get the full picture. As there are references to the manga and special developments from past games. Aka moving up Sinon's arc to here, and canonizing that in this timeline Yuuki doesn't die. (I think).
Not to rain in your parade, but it was never said that Sachi and Kirito had a shared Inventory. Only Married Avatars can do that. What did happen is that Sachi sent a PM programmed to be sent to him on that specific date. What ends up happening is that although resigned to be a solo player to prevent himself from caring about another player, Sachi's message made Kirito accept their mortality and that if anything were to happen between them or to any members of the guild, that it was not his fault, and that everyone makes mistakes while Kirito overall increased their proficiency in surviving the game... That said, it is a weird disconnect between Ep 3 and Ep4, but basically 3-8 months have passed since that particular XMAS event and Kirito had already moved passed feeling guilty about their deaths and just concentrated on helping to clear the game despite his infamy as a Beater. (Notice how it jumped from Floor 30 something to floor 70's) And with the progression of Floor clearing is terribly slow due to everyone becoming more careful to explore and fighting the mobs it is no wonder that it took them 2 years to even reach Floor 75 and a few weeks to find the Boss Dungeon. And although these 4 substories were supposed to be part of the 1st Book Volume of SAO, The Black Swordsman (Silica's story), Warmth of the Heart (Lisbeth's story), Morning Dew Girl (Kirito and Asuna's married life and Yui), and Red-Nosed Reindeer (Sachi's story and SAO's 1st XMAS, Remember that SAO started late Autumn when the players were told they are trapped inside the game) they are basically still cut content and the 4th story is out of order since it should be the very 1st one to take place, and yet the dark tone is a slight shade darker than what happened at the end of Morning Dew Girl, so they had to re-arrange these to not keep the readers in a state of despair throughout the 2nd book...and Reki Kawahara's writing proficiency was still at its early stages. That said, he does get better at story writing, particularly the Alicization Series and to an effect, The SAO Progressive Series, where it actually feels part MMO and part Fantasy Life. Above all, I think the reason why SAO became this popular was due to the fact that it is the 1st anime taking place inside a Video Game World since the .//hack series that preceded it years before or the subsequent Log Horizon that took over the genre to be a bit wordy and for more mature audiences than the target demographic of 10-14 years old. And like always, everybody started reading the book after watching the 1st few anime episodes...(IIRC I have already Read the 1st Alicization Book during the Fairy Dance episodes)
Sword Art Online sounds awesome. It's pretty much a virtual reality version of Final Fantasy with a survival aspect, which would be amazing. It's just too bad they do little with the idea, replacing chocobos and Espers with cousin on cousin "fanservice"
Obviously I'm not the person you asked and this comment is old but it's substantially more solid than the other games. Turns out having "mashy" gameplay in a shooter isn't really much of a flaw. Story's shit, though, so if you care about that you might want to pass.
I don't know what version of the game you've been playing, buddy, but I've been hitting on Agil (which you're pronouncing wrong, by the way) and Klein practically since I bought the game, and it hasn't tried to stop me. I even bridal carried Agil around the Town of Beginnings for a while. It was kinda hilarious to watch, because I'm a girl of average height and he's a freakin' giant.
The Phone game was pretty fun... The one where you make your character and its 3d and super customizable not the side scroller... That one's not bad tho
Maybe the blue haired guy was actually a genius? He could foresee that the show would go to shit, so he was like "nope, im out"
Juanfran Hawks I actually like the show, but you said funny
Because noone could possibly know that there is a whole batch of incoming characters to be slaughtered/commit suicide right before his eyes, right? I mean who could've possibly predict that, its not like the anime was done after the light novel was published.
And no, I'm not taking a sarcastic stab at you in particular, Matthew Rubenstein. Because I do agree with your assumption. It just goes to show that 99% of the time A-1 Pictures doesn't give a damn about material, coherency of the plot or quality of their product.
"Fuck this shit I'm out~"
Juanfran Hawks
Gun Gale online is better than the first season
The phrase "This takes place on the beta of the relaunch of SAO" feels like code for "we couldn't be arsed to fix the bugs and came with a crappy excuse".
hey that's my bit!
Mother's Basement When your stand steals your own shit
+Mother's Basement This is the stands secondary ability
Guys guys we can all equally hate SAO together.
sokumo tanaka let us all enjoy the hatequality😊
Do a crossover with Jordan Underneath.
Let the basement battle BEGIN
Don't you see? THAT'S the Hollow Realization. That it's STILL fucking Kirito.
Wait if in the light novel Kirito and sashi shared inventories doesn't that Imply that they used the games marriage system
Bingo! Which makes her death far more tragic and the moment asuna "dies" has a lot more context for kirito's despair.
History repeated itself.
@@KingofYggdrasil well. actually, that info wasn't even in the published version of the novel.
So much was changed from the online version of sao to the published version
And with that I hate asuna even more
You mean at some point Sachi had a purpose?
That's suprisingly interesting
How to embarrass yourself 101
Arcadea I love sao and I don't agree with you but...i respect your opinion
Nicholas Rodriguez asuna of course
Arcadea I'm so glad someone hates this show as much as I do I stopped when they got married and adopted that stupid kid.
Hey, will you ever review Danganronpa?
Next time, you oughta look at a good game to karmatically balance SAO out... Hoooow abooouuut Yakuza 0? :)
My favorite Sword Art Online game is Persona 3.
Jackald My favorite Sword Art Online movie is The Matrix.
Make more videos boi
Jackald hi toaster
I like persona 4
I like Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 9.
Honestly, the moment when everybody turned on Kirito because "LOL Beta tester" is the moment I dropped the show. Everybody in that game was too stupid to function correctly.
"We might all DIE, so let's ostracize the people who know the game better than we do. THAT'LL INCREASE OUR ODDS OF SURVIVAL!"
Also the reason I hate Kibaou from the very start he showed up. Why would he even go after beta testers, he is too selfish to think, they would mindlessly help others, they also want to survive god dammit. Otherwise, if it came to playing games that were there, I would try them, just for the feeling. Perhaps I would choose other game, but that I would love to try that concept
I don't think that's how gamers would act if this happened in reality. Even MC is a moron only surviving because of the plot armor.
@@pasindudinusha6507you are L and don't my pfp ever again fake
No L
WE MUST SAVE MY FAMILY!!!
THE BANDITS ARE COMING
ALLWAYS REMEMBER TO JUMP
Krangronum agca Gary!!!!!
You have been playing for FOUR THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHT hours now. Maybe you should take a break.
I would IF I COULD MOM!
The abridged series honestly does a better job than the actual show
no troll
@@sorryyourenotawinner2506 you are correct, he is not a troll. He speaks truth.
What's with the hair, did you lose a bet? Did you go Super Sayan God!?
He lost a bet and cosplayed as Chie Satonaka at Mag and the hair still isnt back to norma lol
1Kenny30 Rosé isn't Super Saiyan God
when did chie have pink hair?
Well, he IS a god.
1Kenny30 SSG had dark red hair, pink is exclusive to Black Goku's SSRose.
This type of fanservice is weak. You need to go full ham like Senran Kagura
Except SK is a much better game ;)
King Harkinian The thing I like about Senran Kagura is that like Bayonetta, it knows its over the top and stupid. And that's where the fanservice works so well.
Nothing worse than fanservice half-measures. Either don't do it or own the shit out of it.
Exactly. Take refuge in audacity! Do it 110%!
DO A KEIJO OR DO A NO-GO!
I love it when people bash Sword Art Online.
Pleb.
It is addictive
Falcovsleon21 is sao you favorite shit or something
It's not that I hate it (I'm definitely watching SAO III when it comes out), but I'd rather watch something like Log Horizon to be honest, there are better anime with the SAO genre.
because its shit
I remember when this was called "DotHack".
So many people try to deny that this is dotHack and actually get irked if they think they detect that you'll draw the comparison.
"We Want a plot about Kirito but we also want a custom character"
"I have an great idea guys that can solve all gaming making problems on trying to make a custom character protagonist with interesting interaction, let's make kirito customizable but not change his name or story"
Like seriously, i know they just wanted slap it's a Sao game and has all characters but how much more interesting it would be if it was about you being a new player, making your own character and venturing yourself into the world as you meet your own new friends and even aleadry known ones from the show, besides making kirito customizable, cheat asuna, and everything else? Since the game wanted so much to have the MMO feeling.
Icằŗūs Kūŗøı might as well play fatal bullet althou Kirito was is still there SAO might be good if Kirito dosent exist like the SAO Alternative GGO
I somehow figured out how to get him out of my party very early on in fatal bullet
That's why we have Integral Factor, where you can romance the other girls as YOURSELF and not as Kirito.
really are there anyone that want to be kirito in a game. i would kill to be a joestar with my personal stand or any charcter of overlord or log horizon
Fer Zum
I would hurl Jonathan's dog in an oven to get a "build your own stand" JJBA game.
You're Wrong I would curbstomp Iggy for that
Really? You'd wanna be one of those lifeless larpers from Log Horizon? You must really not think too highly of yourself then.
Oh yeah, being Shiroe and having a taunt or special move with visuals like this would be awesome: s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f9/89/f5/f989f5a71e2393b7367d0ed07fe650ef.png
Falcovsleon21 At least larpers have personality.
I think the dot hack series did the whole MMORPG simulation way better, and that game came out in the early 2000s on the PS2
Thank u
naaaaaah
I'd believe it.
Here's how you make an SAO title game Put "Lost" or "Hollow" and boom you got your title
Sword Art Online: Lost Sodomy
Sword Art Online: Hollow Fellatio
Sword Art Online: Lost Abortion
Sword Art Online: Hollow Story
Hollow convention hall
You cant make a joke better than Hollow realization.
Sword Art Online: Lost Two Years Worth Of Semen That Made A Glopping Noise As It Flowed Endlessly Into Asuna
I'm gonna be perfectly honest: I don't think SAO is the worst anime ever. Defeinitely the most disappointing anime ever because it had so much potential. I actually kinda liked the first half of season 1, and I also enjoyed the first half of season 2. The latter half of season 1 was bad and the latter half of season 2 was just boring.....
@Tyeler Nowell i like ggo
The music is really good too. If I remember correctly I liked the music more in part 2 of season 1
@Tyeler Nowell that's the only way they can get views
yep
except for mothers rosario
SAO Abridged is pretty good, tho.
Kurt Yarish It's basically Devil May Cry - The MMO, which actually makes it a GAZILLION TIMES better than what could be considered the Matrix sequel that's worse than Reloaded and Revolutions combined lol
Pretty good?
Thats just a abridge
Hustle Art Online is way better.
That comma was unnecessary
I mean not gonna lie but, at least the game isn't trying to sell you something it's not, it is after all a hollow fragment
razorthecurse ba dum tish!
Haha good one
*rimshot*
That seriously had to be liked, even though I own and completed the game 🤣😂
I thought the same thing razorthecurse
yo I want that .hack video.
You, me, and probably at least 1/6th of this dude's subscriber base.
same
Fuck .hack. What kind of game franchise makes you watch an emofest anime before it in order for its story to make sense and on top of that is episodic? This sounds like a scam and all of you that have been backing it for years are dumb.
I'm interested, you talking about G.U.? Because yeah, G.U. is kinda dumb. But I'm talking about the original quadrilogy. And the fact that there are four games in the main series doesnt mean you are getting one game in 4 disks. Nah mate, these are four separate fuckin' games, with four games' worth of content.
+FeralPhilospher 1) Don't lie to me. I know better. And 2) I am also talking about the original quadrilogy.
I want .Hack back. ;_;
Jasmine Sidney yeah where is . hack hd collection and .hack gu hd collection
Oh god, really? Well, there goes my respect for THAT franchise.
Jasmine Sidney Then you have no taste because that's a franchise for edgelords.
Oh my god.
Falcovsleon21 Same can be said for sao
The turning point for me was when Laughing Coffin, you know, one of the biggest threats to the players in SAO, gets completely obliterated OFF-CAMERA, and only mentioned in a few seconds flashback on the 2nd season, oh but those 3 random assholes looking for a random murderer of a random person that we never see again, that was more important to see
I completely forgot about them, but yeah that was exceptionally bad writing.
I hear laughing coffin gets way more screen time in sao abridged
Log Horizon did the genre waaAAAAaay better.
is it on funimation
As someone who has seen Log Horizon, I can tell you that is simply not true.
I recommend .hack
Log Horizon had the same potential but it too delved down into the shit category
Log horizon is way better as MMO and World building story telling
but the slow pacing kind suck
I'm so sorry you had to do this for us Austin.
Great video though
Im the only one who likes the games
im really glad Zarya made a youtube channel
zman2748 LOOOOOOOL
Sao is shit. Tho the first three episodes were good
+What's up nah man it always sucks
If only the first episodes were enjoyable then it was promising, not quite "good".
The moment Asuna turned from a strong female lead into a damsel in distress is when it all went down the shitter.
The Onyx Viper The moment where a relatively interesting amine turned into a sexist harem fanservice sandwich complete with tentacle rape sauce, was the moment where SAO was executed by a firing squad
What's up I'd say the first arc was good
"This game is also a dating simulator"
It's like Fire Emblem Fates, just not good.
And Anankos
And the incest implications
actually a lot of Fates was bad
Last I heard I'm sure it is stated in a book that Arete and Mikoto aren't actual sisters
is better
@@formula2233
Going back to this comment after a few years....
Yeah, agreed
Forgot about the incest stuff
And the baby dimension
And jumping off a cliff because the generic anime protagonist told you to do so.
God the writing in that game was abhorrent
How about Growlanser?
You can't date Klein ?? Worst game ever
Oof wish kirito would break up with asuna
Who’s Klein? Oh, you mean balls
@@Strawhat.Lachee ballsdeep69
Klein shall always be alone 😢
I never realised that some of the UI is veeeery close to FFXIVs
Strekks Almost... Toooo close.
Strekks it's almost like there the same thing............😓
is that game bad? I never played it, not into mmo’s
Harry Strupp It's very good for an mmo. Only interesting game besides old wow.
I disagree with "only interesting MMO besides WoW." I love FFXIV, but Guild Wars 2 is also really good.
why is there no Log horizon, the better sao, video game?!
kyle hague right?
kyle hague aslo where is the overlord game i think is because japan like that styles of the mc with zero personality that is basically a male version of bella from twilight with the respective harem like sao or infinete stratos or the worst of all mahoka
Yeah, but a least overlord has a cool design.
The dude that made it went to jail for tax evasion - kinda fitting, considering his protagonist- and I guess that must make getting the rights to it very hard or downright impossible.
Because Log Horizon has a less realistic MMORPG world.
*sees the first episode*
Hey, this looks pretty good
*never sees the show ever again*
No L
Sao abridged 3 quote: "it's not a good tutorial"
And "just because I can't play the game doesn't mean I can 'play the game' *wink*"
I bet when you had Yakuza 0 in the background you were totally thinking: "Shit, I would much rather be playing actual non-garbage games."
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over did a better job with the stuck in a video game concept.
★ULTANOKA★ dear god that movie kept me up at night it was so bad it has scarred me Netflix why
Just a heads-up, but when "it" is possessive it's written "its", no apostrophe.
+ChesuMori My bad, all-nighter lol
No worries, just wanted to point it out before someone else did in a significantly less polite way.
+ChesuMori I appreciate that!
"Hey I'm craving playing an Offline MMO,, Xenoblade was literally the greatest thing ever so SAOHF should at least be playable right?"
Nope, That was as big of a mistake as buying Conception 2.
How to truly enjoy Sward Art Online:
1: Watch the 1st 3 episodes
2 Stop watching
Fido Kitsune Fox Actually...
How to truly enjoy Sword Art Online:
1: Watch the Matrix trilogy
2: Watch the Animatrix
@@Ticketman99 i liked . seasons 1 and 2 . seasons 3-4 . still havent got the english dub
morganna you know Alicization has a dub right?
Nice video, I appreciate that you actually took the time to explain that you don't think the entirety of the show is god-awful, just everything past the point that they turned it into Harem Art Online.
Episode 3 was a red flag for me, very rushed, I had no time to get attached to any of those characters to feel sad about them. Then it went down hill super super hard after that. God I hate how this series has an amazing dark start then just turned into generic trash and people still just ate it up.
It's like I can enjoy some trashy shows but generally they are more honest about it where is SAO feels like it tricked its audience into making them think it's good.
These games just look plain terrible though honestly the ps2 .hack games seem worlds better.
I only felt bad for Klein cuz he was better MC than Kirito.
I remember watching SAO years ago. I also had high hope for it because the beginning of the anime and the plot stuff was actually pretty interesting... Then it derailed into what you mentioned in your video.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!! I never heard of the games, but goodness... Those are some games. :U
Sachi died for nothing
Apparently the creators of SAO are thinking about revamping the show and I'm totally all for it, also there's a total of 5 english SAO games on the PlayStation and the one in this video was by far my least favorite of the games. Also to any who are confused the games take place in a separate time-line where Kirito and others go through all 100 floors of Aincrad, introducing more characters exclusive to the game time-line, and no Oberon rape lmao.
And I was so happy that Hollow Fragment tackled the brainwashing plot without using rape
When I was growing up SAO was known as dot hack (and its various spinoffs)
Why make sword art online games when you can bring . hack// back?
Sao is good .hack they havent made them in a while probably because the story finished .hach gu is on ps4
@@xdialga361445x you fucking high?
Man feels like I haven't seen a video from you guys in forever nice to see this review. What I really like in your critique of SAO is the fact that you managed to pull out the good from it before saying how it all went to hell. I felt the same as you when I was watching it between episode 3 and 4 felt like they could have had a whole season or at least make Aincrad a full twenty something episodes instead we rushed into something way inferior for no good reason like incest and rape dungeons albeit lite versions of it but still why? Anyway good to see a video from you guys after so long.
I was just having this conversation last night with someone. .hack//did it first and did it better.
StrayThreads The Matrix did it before BOTH...although the Matrix MMO was released later...
Graeme Williams ...funny
Congrats, you manages to make me hate SAO even more than when I tried to watch the one and a half episodes I could barely stand.
Do you want to enjoy a Sword Art Online game?
Play Xenoblade Chronicles
Wanna play a Sword Art Online II game?
Play Xenoblade Chronicles X.
?
I liked Xenoblade X better. Kinda hope they make a sequel to THAT one, if only to resolve the bullshit ending.
They have nothing in common. You won't 'enjoy a SAO game' playing it because it's its own thing.
Instead, play Xenoblade because it's simply amazing and everyone should experience it at one point.
Kirito inclusion in anything actively makes it worse, he's like a reverse Mai Shiranui.
AdventDoom I don't know...what if someone puts him in The Matrix and have him get overwritten by Agent Smith?
No, that would mean Agent Smith would have a bit of Kirito in him resulting in him being a worse villain.
AdventDoom You're right...I didn't think about that. Actually, now that I think about it...how about Agent Smith overwrite Asuna and the other psuedo-love interests? Oh, and Yui too.
Log Horizon is sooooooooo much better!!! (Also, I love the Hajime figure on the desk!)
SuperHackaDaru Same even through I wouldn't say it's for the casual anime viewer but rather people who already have experience with MMOs or at least RPGs
I started playing FF14 A Realm Reborn after I was done watching SAO. It really fullfiled my MMO online anime needs after watching SAO.
Thatssomegoodpie Animations FF14 is actually good - and I don't like MMOs.
Yeah same, I didn't really play it like an MMO, I just do the story quests.
Thatssomegoodpie Animations There's a lot of story in the side quests too. Not MSQ level, but there's some good stuff in there.
After analyzing the in-series functions and features of Gun Gale Online, I realized that a game similiar to it, an MMORPG poorly disguised as an FPS, already exists as well.
No, it's not Destiny. No, it's not Borderlands either. It is...
Star Trek Online. Seriously. o_O
Thatssomegoodpie Animations Go play a real FF game like 6. Everything past 9 is meh or garbage.
SAO abridged is so much better if I'm being completely honest
No lol
I just love that even those of us who think SAO and most of the things branching from it are trash can still agree that Sinon is a total cutie. Not only that, but she was the new refreshing female character that we needed after seeing Asuna quickly turn to a life of domesticity and weakness. Sinon was presented with an interesting backstory and life addressing the seriousness of PTSD.
She was a skilled player who simply trumped Kirito's game knowledge in every category, and without Kirito being Jesus-kun and immediately OP at any game he plays, she could have been in the combat spotlight for much longer before handing it over to the main character. I honestly believe that Reki Kawahara rushed into putting Kirito and Asuna together, because Sinon simply fits that role better.
Unlike every other girl in the series Sinon didn't start developing apparent feelings for Kirito until the very end of GGO, and even after she did develop those feelings we rarely saw the irritating tropes that plague SAO girls. Rather than being purely focused around romance, their interactions also have a playful and real feeling to them that builds on their platonic relationship and only sometimes hinting towards a possible romance in the future. One example of this is the scene where Kirito jokingly pulls on Sinon's tail, and her reaction is admittedly pretty cute.
In addition, Sinon seems to have kept her skill and combat relevance even after switching to ALO. She still serves the role of the sniper and scout, and she uses a weapon type that none of the other main cast members use. We still see her as a present combat force, and she still has some awesome moments. While Asuna does rejoin the group for quests in ALO again, she's taken quite the support-like role as opposed to her previous frontline fighter personality. The only times she pulls out her sword is when they all get a chance to wail on the enemy at once.
Sinon is shown to tease Kirito semi-frequently rather than be the usual meek girl who gets unjustifiably angry when Kirito interacts with other girls like Asuna, Silica, Lisbeth, and Leafa do. Her bold, outgoing, and fun personality perfectly complements his calm but socially awkward one. Contrast this with Asuna's borderline bitchy but weirdly meek personality that just screams "Yes Kirito-kun, whatever you say Kirito-kun." and I think you'll see who fits better.
And honestly...Sinon would make Kirito a better character if done right. Like I said, she acts as a wonderful foil to him that brings out a much more interesting character than "Edgy black swordsman Jesus-kun who saves the day and gets all the girls...Who is also apparently a genius hacker."
But you know, maybe that's just me. Canon Kirito really doesn't deserve her anyway.
I swear, every new Eruption episode gets better. I'm proud of you, Austin!
+SpellboundWolf thank you! :D
Oh my god, you look like a fluff piece of angelic cotton candy, It's beatiful.
I like to imagine that while Kirito is moving closer like a total creep he’s slowly sticking out his tongue to be ultra creepy
I've never seen an anime trigger so many people so intensely. It's neither an overly great or overly bad anime. It is what it is. Why does everyone act like SAO murdered their family?
I suppose it's the idea that wasted potential is worse than having had no potential at all.
I mean, that's a lot of games/anime these days. I don't see people getting this worked up over Konosuba or the "Tales Of" games.
Ubylmoen I suppose.
SAO isn't a trigger. We hate on it cause it's so fun to hate it. It's like Twilight but for weebs! What's not to hate on?
It's because it started off really good and went to complete shit. If the world was built well then it would be great fanfiction fodder like Naruto or Harry Potter. Unlike those two though, it didn't just get stagnant and full on deus ex machina, it betrayed it's premise (anyone can die and a lot of people will) and changed to a dramatically different genre. It's like if Guts from Berserk started healing people through the power of friendship, the Youma took over Tokyo, killing half the Sailor Scouts resulting in a dark & gritty story of survival and revenge, or Trigun turned out to be a video game the cast was all part of and then became a sports anime about, I don't know, badminton.
Thank you for making my decision easy. I'm glad I found someone with a small amount of distaste for pointless fanservice, instead of trying to pry honest reviews from the hands of fanboys.
I see that Jojo poster and Zeta Gundam (is that the MG?) in the background. Great taste.
After seeing that, makes me think about jumping back into Gundam Breaker 3.
Ah damn you! You just made me want to go back to Gundan Breaker 3 as well! only problem is that the only console I can play it on is my brother's PS4 so I barely get the chance :( What a great game!
SAO is the popular example of what is wrong with anime culture in general and mindless otakus eat it up. It only makes it worse that it could have been good and that this is what the rest of the world sees as "anime". It does nothing but glorify introversion and make anime look bad
I think it's the dumb Ecchi harem shit that makes Sao bad but I still like it.
I really think it's unfair to say that SAO "glorifies" introversion. I think it merely (and correctly) points out that many gamers (myself included) happen to BE introverts that use games as an escape from our problems. As far as it being the problem with anime culture in general, I disagree with that entirely. It's literally just a bad anime. It doesn't have the wide-reaching effects that you're insinuating.
What truly ruins anime culture are the rabid fans. You can't admit that you like certain animes (especially popular ones like Naruto or One Piece) without being attacked and discredited as one who isn't a "true" anime fan. If you don't like an obscure anime that came out 30 years ago, that also happens to be crap, but it's still good cuz it accurately portrays politics in the Edo period, than you're automatically a pleb with no taste. I'm obviously exaggerating, but you get what I'm saying. Behavior like this make the community exceptionally hard to get into for people who might be curious about anime, but aren't well-versed in it.
There are some overused tropes as well, but honestly anime is superfluous as a general rule, so I think most people expect them. Doesn't make them any less glaring or unbearable in certain situations, but I don't think it ruins anime by any means.
What destroyed this show was useless romance, ecchi, harem and Asuna. I was SO hyped to watch it, and them BAM, Asuna comes in and my first though is "This is going to be another shitty romance with annoying female characters, isn't it."
I started to watch it for action and adventure not for some ginger bitch that wants to play house with some random OP dude.
"Pube window"
I died xD
Man, I'm so sad we can't go after the guys. :c I wanna woo Klein.
*reads title*
Yeah, and water is wet.
When Sword Art online uses the Success text from Dark Souls.
Regarding the A.I., you have to train them using a compliment system that encourages them to perform certain actions more frequently.
For example, if a character attacks a lot, they will get the "Warlike", "Outlaw", or possibly "Planner" status, among others, that refers to the nature of their last action. Praise them for that and they will do it more frequently. Likewise, if a character heals and you praise them for that, they will heal more frequently.
This praise system combined with the group comand system defines how the characters behave. It's really awesome actually. :-D
sounds both interesting and incrediby inconvenient vs just having a menu option.
Actually, I know this is late, but you can date anyone, literally ANYONE not just the guys but also your own daughter
Yeah, I remember watching up to episode 6 and really liked it (episode 4 was weird), and then once it stopped being about leaving the game and people permanently die and I found out about the harem part, I dropped it like a rock into the depths of the ocean.
I've actually gone back and looked at it and I think it's good up to episode 11. Episode 4 and 7 were the intrusive harem/forced romance parts. Episode 5, 6, and 10 were great since they brought the whole high stakes thing, people permanently die part pretty well. Episode 11 and forward is when Yui appears and becomes their daughter somehow and from there it's pure *cringe*.
It's too bad that they dropped the grim GTFO out of this game where you can die into a harem and power fantasy anime (loses all the stakes as Kirito becomes level infinity and no one else you care about dies permanently or long enough for it to matter).
It reminded me of the .hack series for those episodes...haha.
Dot hack infection on ps2 was an amazing game!
I like Lost Song but it’s character customization isn’t very good.
Hollow Realization was *TERRIBLE*
- btw I was stuck on that tutorial for half an hour... I agree the directions were unclear
Also it’s riddled with stupid “fan-service” and the skill system was nonsensically designed
We wanna play a character. Not boring ass Kirito.
if they let us make a charcter it would be good btw eugeo is way better than kirito
@@anushmichealbiju916 dude, you replied 3 years later, in which time they put out an SAO that let's you make a customer character. Hating for the sake of it is just sad.
@@symbiote1982pk yeah bro but the characters I find are boring and forced colourful characters
I love how you used Mother's Basement's intro to shit on SAO.
considering how the anime went and how this game is, i'm surprised Kirtio wasn't able to attract any of the game monsters to his harem. all he had to do was look at the girl, smile and be a little nice and boom, she's now apart of his ever growing harem which really sucks because the show was really dark with a good commentary on mortality and a few other things. i almost forgot Sacchi because she's only in that one episode, if they had extended it over the course of say a few episodes truly getting to know her and then they rip your heart out with her death, that would have had more of an impact and then reference her through out the rest of the series. but nope, that's not what we got
The novels really are not too bad if you pay attention to their surrounding circumstances and target audience. You can especially notice increased maturity of the author as he gains experience. I can't promote them as particularly good, but they are not terrible - largely because later on they introduce some interesting ideas.
I see that Jojo poster, do a Jojo video! Yare Yare Daze.
Jacob Connerley Gureto daze yo, koitswa.
Good grief...
"Can't date best bro Klein." -IGN
1/10
yay hate over SAO
it's music to my ears~
Raf the Gamer Same. It makes me feel better knowing that I am not alone on hating Sorry Ass Online
TheGirlWithTheWolf667 how about Shitty Ass Over the Road Racing xD
Raf the Gamer Its the music of the night 😊
this should have been in the OST of any movie ever
Raf the Gamer I know right!
Gonna be honest. Even if I'm into the whole waifu harem crap, I seriously couldn't get into SAO. I mean I wanted to since I eat this type of stuff like the junk food they are, but something about SAO just rubs me the wrong way. Plus the fact that combined, the anime is now at least 85 episodes long its like, how is this anime still going? People still eat this thing up?
The games as well always keeps me wondering. Why even make the player character customizable complete with the ability to rename yourself when its Kirito regardless? That seriously reminds me of how white knight chronicles pisses on you when it allows you to make your own character but they have 0 relevance in the plot and just hangs out in the background. You seriously can't be your own guy when you have to live in the shadow of the existing main character. I want to date Sion as my own dude! Not as Kirito secretly having an affair on Asuna which she'll never find out cause she's as dense as a brick. At least take a page from the Dragonball Xenoverse games. Your character in those at least has relevance and you're your own guy. Not Goku pretending to be someone else.
SAO had such potential but went to shit so fast. after the first few episodes it became so damn cringe. and just got worse.
holy fuck.... glad i didn't look into THIS Anime after i thought "hey it might be as cool as .hack" i liked the PS2 games and the anime but THIS omg... Pantyshots, Dating sim... omfg
The only thing that will be as good as .hack is... well, more .hack. The originals, I mean. None of the G.U. stuff or whateverthefuck this LINK thing is.
well i'm from Germany... we didn't get .hack//GU :-/
Don't worry, I dont think you missed much. Uniqueness was thrown out the window in favor of very generic and uninspired cookie-cutter characters.
you saved yourself good job😅
Tbh, the series should of been 100 episodes longer, just up to the point of breaking out of the game. The idea is great and had huge potential, regardless of the shortness of the source material, it was a huge missed opportunity.
Exactly what I think. First half of SAO would be 1-2 episodes devoted to heroes taking on a floor, cut down fanservice, give better character development. Second half gives more development to characters and ALO, remove suguha/Kazuo crush, keep asuna's hero status even while she's captive as she helps bring down villain without detection.
If Sword Art Online Progressive is ever finished and adapted, this could happen.
My criticism of you is that you think that Kirito just gets over the tragedy. There are constant time skips in the series. If you want consistent story telling, then you'd get 5 seasons of them entirely just playing through the death game.
+furyberserk I agree with this! But unfortunately due to how the story is told, we get the jarring transition into episode 4.
Thats a pure excuse. Original author never intented for this to be a thing. Its 1 volume material for few hours which got streched into full season with shoehoorned fillers that out of touch. He wrote all this AI bullshit and etc as side stories waaaaay later.
SAO abridged handled Sachi better than the actual Anime. Change my mind.
Sounds like the core of your critique is that SAO starts out with a powerful, evocative driving premise... and then after three episodes, betrays that premise and essentially never returns to it. it starts doing other things. Some of those other things might be enjoyable or not, but there's little doubt that whole 'if you die in the game, you die for real' just stopped being a thing for anyone who mattered after three episodes. In fact, they spliced in book 2 fluffing about in the middle of the show, seemingly determined to ruin the pacing on purpose.
Honestly, if you take the games on their own (very limited) terms, the brainless harem VN nonsense can be amusing and even enjoyable. It doesn't even resemble an actual story, but hey. Neither does a packet of sugar. But the tones clash so harshly in this series because SAO clearly THINKS it's some adult, serious show.
And it SO is not capable of that.
Also, big props Skies of Arcadia background music. I've thought off and on about some kind of 'trapped in a VR MMO but it's like Skies of Arcadia with sky islands and sky pirates' and god that would be cool.
So you REALISED how HOLLOW it was? GET IT!!!! HA......HA........HA.......HA!
btpbtpbtp HA!
SAO games isn't bad.
It's trash.
Why does this game look so much like Yandere Simulator
At this point, I'm 99% sure that SAO was already written as a harem/romance series in a fantasy world, but it didn't have an interesting hook. Nothing to really draw people in. Then .hack came out, and the writer took the idea of being trapped in an MMO. That's where the first three episodes come in. This is evidenced by the fact that the first draft of SAO was published online a few months after .hack//Sign premiered. That's the best explanation I can find as to why the first few episodes are so incredibly different than the rest of the series. It's just a hook that was tacked on in order to draw people in, based on something that was popular at the time.
Honestly, as someone that mini-binged some of SAO on Netflix (that kinda "not going through all of it, just the major episodes and the ones I find interesting from the synopsis" mini-binge), I see both sides. It started okay. Then it crashed and burned.
Every time I look back at it, through actually watching it or just stuff like this, I realize that the deterioration happened faster and earlier than I remember. First bit of season 1 and first couple episodes of season 2 were good. Everything in between or after that just got worse the later it got.
Then SAO II happened and things became downright nonsensical.
7:53 "Always remember: to jump, jump."
it isnt something to argue on SAO is bad no matter how you try to defend it, the first episodes shows that the series were in a right path but they stray away from that in order to have more money from dakimakuras and other ecchi merchandise, dont get me wrong because i love a good old ecchi but when in its conception is an ecchi, but when you start as a more "serious" and more developed anime in terms of plot and characters and then you throw that for obvious fan service yeah you got me lost there.
Dot /Hack at least when he had its ecchi moments were just a few moments and it wasnt the main reason of the episode, yeah the plot was kinda meh at times and it wasnt that good but they didnt stray from character development just for more money.
I can tell this video was when you were new. Mostly technical issues, and other issues with you not understanding mechanics.
There are really no other complaints other than 'its a harem game'. Which uh, yeah, you know that if you look at the back of the box.....so....why did you buy it knowing that....
Anyway, I played it years ago, found it fun, its a mix of a mystery visual novel and some instanced dungeons with bosses at the end. You know what you are signing up for. I found the chaining specials really fun. You had multiple different weapons to choose, and skill trees that actually rewarded you for being proficient with those skill trees.
Plus you could unlock dual wield just like in the show. It is randomly given out after using the sword a set amount of times.
Overall, not a terrible game, was pretty mechanically solid. but its an SAO game. So you have to be a fan of the genre to get the full picture. As there are references to the manga and special developments from past games. Aka moving up Sinon's arc to here, and canonizing that in this timeline Yuuki doesn't die. (I think).
I agree, it's a shame others don't realize that this is a bad review, half of it wasn't even about the game
Not to rain in your parade, but it was never said that Sachi and Kirito had a shared Inventory. Only Married Avatars can do that. What did happen is that Sachi sent a PM programmed to be sent to him on that specific date. What ends up happening is that although resigned to be a solo player to prevent himself from caring about another player, Sachi's message made Kirito accept their mortality and that if anything were to happen between them or to any members of the guild, that it was not his fault, and that everyone makes mistakes while Kirito overall increased their proficiency in surviving the game... That said, it is a weird disconnect between Ep 3 and Ep4, but basically 3-8 months have passed since that particular XMAS event and Kirito had already moved passed feeling guilty about their deaths and just concentrated on helping to clear the game despite his infamy as a Beater. (Notice how it jumped from Floor 30 something to floor 70's) And with the progression of Floor clearing is terribly slow due to everyone becoming more careful to explore and fighting the mobs it is no wonder that it took them 2 years to even reach Floor 75 and a few weeks to find the Boss Dungeon.
And although these 4 substories were supposed to be part of the 1st Book Volume of SAO, The Black Swordsman (Silica's story), Warmth of the Heart (Lisbeth's story), Morning Dew Girl (Kirito and Asuna's married life and Yui), and Red-Nosed Reindeer (Sachi's story and SAO's 1st XMAS, Remember that SAO started late Autumn when the players were told they are trapped inside the game) they are basically still cut content and the 4th story is out of order since it should be the very 1st one to take place, and yet the dark tone is a slight shade darker than what happened at the end of Morning Dew Girl, so they had to re-arrange these to not keep the readers in a state of despair throughout the 2nd book...and Reki Kawahara's writing proficiency was still at its early stages.
That said, he does get better at story writing, particularly the Alicization Series and to an effect, The SAO Progressive Series, where it actually feels part MMO and part Fantasy Life.
Above all, I think the reason why SAO became this popular was due to the fact that it is the 1st anime taking place inside a Video Game World since the .//hack series that preceded it years before or the subsequent Log Horizon that took over the genre to be a bit wordy and for more mature audiences than the target demographic of 10-14 years old. And like always, everybody started reading the book after watching the 1st few anime episodes...(IIRC I have already Read the 1st Alicization Book during the Fairy Dance episodes)
Sword Art Online sounds awesome. It's pretty much a virtual reality version of Final Fantasy with a survival aspect, which would be amazing. It's just too bad they do little with the idea, replacing chocobos and Espers with cousin on cousin "fanservice"
What about Fatal Bullet. That game looks good. What are you opinions about it?
Obviously I'm not the person you asked and this comment is old but it's substantially more solid than the other games. Turns out having "mashy" gameplay in a shooter isn't really much of a flaw.
Story's shit, though, so if you care about that you might want to pass.
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I don't know what version of the game you've been playing, buddy, but I've been hitting on Agil (which you're pronouncing wrong, by the way) and Klein practically since I bought the game, and it hasn't tried to stop me. I even bridal carried Agil around the Town of Beginnings for a while. It was kinda hilarious to watch, because I'm a girl of average height and he's a freakin' giant.
Agil's wife will be pissed
The Phone game was pretty fun... The one where you make your character and its 3d and super customizable not the side scroller... That one's not bad tho
EN7171 SAO IF sadly I wanted to play that one except I'm stuck playing Memory Defrag oh well
@@scarletrose8766Felt your pain, I know I'm literal years late but I know exactly what you mean.
I’m surprised there’s no comments saying Agil is married IRL.
Sadly, I bought the game, I learned my lesson. no more SAO game for me on the next game release.