Lets rant about the story... ==Spoiler==

[Aldrnari]

The new added story is so bad, lots of thing doesn't make any sense. The Japanese MC and their childish thinking + 'Oh lets keep this info a secret, because why not?'. One could say that Kirito is still a teenager, but with so many life/death situation he pulled through, I'd expect more. First and Second Chapter is filled with nothing but Bully Scenario from those 'Noble' (Yes normal noble with expected quality such as uselessness, short sighted and I'm the center of this universe mentality). Their inability to deal with new threats is astounding. Alice stop using integrity knight authority because it's wrong? because the Pontifex abuse it? Now she has the opportunity to use it for good but nope, not gonna happened. Kirito never fully explained stuff to Medina as well as about the Way-farer? Great job buddy, BS thinking as always. Medina and her annoying family's honor restoration project. If the noble aren't gonna help with the crisis, them lot should het their heads lobbed off and property seized, seriously annoying. Oh, combat is very fun btw, despite the trashy story.

[Major Bug] Embrace but can't share bed and can't let them down? Use Emoticon.
Sit down on the dating site and can't get up? Restart the game.
Can't go down from floor 95th due to invisible wall? use attack skill that move you forward.

[ForThatB]

Messaggio originale di Aldrnari:

IMHO her method aren't that bad though. Drastic situation requires drastic measure and all that. If Medina can break her seal (idk, not done with the game yet) she could bring a great change to the underworld, a revolution of some kind.

I blame most situation on Kirito being too dumb to manage his harem (Yes HIS HAREM, JP novel really like to throw Harem situation to the MC but rarely grant them the mindset and a Big D to deal with it. All we usually get is a wimp and boring monogamy in the end)

Most certain Kirito being dumb that drives the ending to be it Kirito's fault. Even the sad part all fan-services event telling Kirito be more decisive. The difference mostly lack of soldiers, I'm pretty sure Bercouli did take over the Axiom Church and retrain the army of 4 empires before war in anime. I guess fact the hiding Quinella death is problem that anime addressed because they had soldier more than enough to fight.

[Tiasmoon]

Messaggio originale di Aldrnari:

IMHO her method aren't that bad though. Drastic situation requires drastic measure and all that. If Medina can break her seal (idk, not done with the game yet) she could bring a great change to the underworld, a revolution of some kind.

I blame most situation on Kirito being too dumb to manage his harem (Yes HIS HAREM, JP novel really like to throw Harem situation to the MC but rarely grant them the mindset and a Big D to deal with it. All we usually get is a wimp and boring monogamy in the end)

Her method is bad because she goes berserk on everyone and everything. The only reason why Alice is written to be stupid and ''but I cant use mah authority'' is so that Medina gets to do something. Since her acting is opposite of Alice not acting.

But why would Alice not act? Her whole reason she broke the seal is because she wanted to bring the fight to the ''bad guys'' Its just poorly written.

Notice how in Chapter 3 Alice was ''I cant reveal im an Integrity Knight'' and Deusolbert (the other Integrity Knight travelling with you all this time) was suspiciously not present in the scenes?

They had to actively write him out of the scenes for them to make somewhat sense. But then why was he there in the first place? I dont know if it was planned like that from the start, or changed in between development.

Personally I only blame Medina and all the plot written around her.

[Tiasmoon]

Messaggio originale di Gilgamesh-sama:

Messaggio originale di Aldrnari:

Kinda like, reading the SAO novel. Everything goes from bad to worse then it get better near the end of the arc. Some might like this kind of plot, but I find it very tiresome on the mind.

I find it strange. Reki CAN write good stories as well as develope characters, but for some reason most of the time he use "Characters acts dumb for plot to happen, and suddenly Kirito saves the day", and of cours "Kirito is so strong, he's so good, he's so awesome". Just, why?

Is the plot for this actually written by him tho? Somehow I doubt he'd dumb down Alice like that, or write Medina when virtually every other AL characters is better written then her.

[Tiasmoon]

Messaggio originale di wakey wakey:

You can clearly see that the game was planned in another way and was midway changed.

Low lvl Weapons and mats which are only accesable in highlvl endgame zones while some of the best non devine weapons are found early or even sold by merchants.... The Healer statue locked behind a zone you won't visit for around ~20 hours is another obvious thing from an earlier build.

I am rather sure they changed the whole game somewhere in the development when they noticed that they can't keep the pathing of chapter one because it was boring.

I agree that some things feel like they were changed midway. (plot) And the plot its indeed quite bad half the time. But your examples are poor ones.

You can unlock the healer statue first time you visit it if youve done the requirement. Its also still part of the north section of the game, and all the EX base skill statues are in either North or South, with the advanced ones all being in west and east.

Messaggio originale di wakey wakey:

Low lvl Weapons and mats which are only accesable in highlvl endgame zones

Which would these be? North isnt a high level endgame zone.

[isick]

Lmfao after season 1 of acilazation this show turned into a cluster ♥♥♥♥ of random ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like the orginal show lmaoo

[Gilgamesh-sama]

Messaggio originale di Tiasmoon:

Messaggio originale di Gilgamesh-sama:

I find it strange. Reki CAN write good stories as well as develope characters, but for some reason most of the time he use "Characters acts dumb for plot to happen, and suddenly Kirito saves the day", and of cours "Kirito is so strong, he's so good, he's so awesome". Just, why?

Is the plot for this actually written by him tho? Somehow I doubt he'd dumb down Alice like that, or write Medina when virtually every other AL characters is better written then her.

Probably not. I was talking more about original SAO novels. Though games plot is not so different overall, but I agree that some things that main characters(like what Alice did in Lycoris, or how Kirito acted in the end of Millenium Twilight) do in the games isn't looks like they were writed by Reki.

[Scyris]

Well, the nobles in chapter 1, at least they got what was coming to them, can't say there is many series where the ones being bullied gets some sweet revenge to the extent kirito/eugeo did. When I read that scene in the LN i was like "**** yes! about time they get some payback."

Chapter 1 also has a major issue in the game, it doesn't show any of the real world stuff, which in the LN/anime was almost half of that part of the story/arc. Was many things that just were not explained to the player that if you didn't have knowledge from the LN or anime, you'd be completly in the dark about. Like in ch1 they just started using the term fluctlight without explaining what so ever what it was till near the end of chapter 1. I mean I read the LN so I knew but imagine a player who didn't read the source? Was a few other cases of this in chapter 1 where they used terms with no explanations as to wtf they were.

[Gilgamesh-sama]

Messaggio originale di Scyris:

Well, the nobles in chapter 1, at least they got what was coming to them, can't say there is many series where the ones being bullied gets some sweet revenge to the extent kirito/eugeo did. When I read that scene in the LN i was like "**** yes! about time they get some payback."

But what about Medina's fiancé? He didn't get what he deserved(or he'll get it later in the story?)

[isick]

lol its recycled stor its all trash at this point

[Scyris]

Messaggio originale di Gilgamesh-sama:

Messaggio originale di Scyris:

Well, the nobles in chapter 1, at least they got what was coming to them, can't say there is many series where the ones being bullied gets some sweet revenge to the extent kirito/eugeo did. When I read that scene in the LN i was like "**** yes! about time they get some payback."

But what about Medina's fiancé? He didn't get what he deserved(or he'll get it later in the story?)

No idea if he does or not, I am at the start of chapter 2, I stoped once mp unlocked to wait for a friend and for the dev team to patch the game which I heard there is a patch coming on the 22nd of july. No idea if true or not, just heard it on these forums here.

[Scyris]

Messaggio originale di hXmS:

lol its recycled stor its all trash at this point

You could say that about pretty much anything these days, they are just running out of idea's as almost everything has been done to death already.

[isick]

Messaggio originale di Scyris:

Messaggio originale di hXmS:

lol its recycled stor its all trash at this point

You could say that about pretty much anything these days, they are just running out of idea's as almost everything has been done to death already.

but seriously how many times are they gonna get lucky and be able to somehow upload someones conicouness to the cloud and how many time will jesus kun be there when shes getting raped by her sterotypical abusive bf lmao its getting annoying lol like be orginal reki

[ForThatB]

I can imagine this where Reki Kawahara trying make Medina feel different than other SAO heroine, but lack the experience to write to write story of that meaning. I have seen bad book story mix with video games (recent WoW BFA experiences).

This my personal views.

From this article regarding interview with Reki Kawahara, he make some promise about strong female. If they want make Medina that character, this would require making us see story from her point of view.
I think best way go about revising this story would've been 3 game plays with 3 character arcs by themselves (Kirito, Alice, and Medina). In those story, there sense of the character lacking something the other character has, and show how each character alone is incapable. Then later story try make work together have Kirito be person fixing bad friendship.

The story for chapter 5 and 6 is what you expect from standard SAO game, but something was up with chapter 3 and 4 felt like last minutes change this to this type deal.

https://sgcafe.com/2019/01/sword-art-online-creator-says-treating-female-characters-trophies-wrong/

Even comment section was telling Reki Kawahara don't do it.

[Tiasmoon]

We already had Alice as strong female character. Ironically this game's plot weakens her character for the sake of another.