SWORD ART ONLINE Fractured Daydream

SWORD ART ONLINE Fractured Daydream

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syncx86 Sep 28, 2024 @ 4:00am
Story mode?
Is there any info about the story mode? How long will it be?
Is this game more like an online game and story mode will be minimal?
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TotemMX Sep 28, 2024 @ 10:31am 
Since you need to play story to unlock characters. It should be big enough since there are 20+ characters.
Balmung Sep 28, 2024 @ 12:12pm 
Originally posted by syncx86:
Is there any info about the story mode? How long will it be?
Is this game more like an online game and story mode will be minimal?
No real information, just pure speculation. We not even know if it is a full story like on fatal bullet or a absolute minimum and low effort one. So it can be literally anything.

And this is not only one story, we also have no clue how many content the multiplayer part really has beside the amount of characters to select.

It would be so ridiculous easy to just give this information out, but no, they don't and companies don't do anything without a reason. The alarm bells should go off immediately.

So many open questions and people still pre-order it. I will never understand how you can be so careless with your money and send the total wrong signals to publisher who make it more and more worse. I could easily buy it, but in the end, I just can't stand the way companies are treating their customers more and more and think they can get away with near anything, because many simply put up with it. Yeah, there has been an outcry here and there, but these companies don't really care about that, it's just a drop in the ocean. They simply adapt and carry on as before, all to maximize profits, all at the expense of the products and their customers.

I really want to believe in this game, I had a lot of fun in the closed beta and in the network test, but the way the publisher is behaving, they are not making it easy for me, not at all.
Last edited by Balmung; Sep 28, 2024 @ 12:17pm
Lestrad Sep 28, 2024 @ 12:22pm 
According to achievements, there's five chapters and multiple endings. What that actually means though, remains to be seen.

They just spent way too much time repeating the same info in six different MP trailers then gave absolutely nothing (outside a basic plot summary).

Given that, due to the extraordinarily limited roster, that's likely the only mode I'm going to be playing (unless you can private room the raids and coop quests and build your own raid groups like Lycoris) it's likely not going to be a day one purchase.
Last edited by Lestrad; Sep 28, 2024 @ 12:22pm
Balmung Sep 28, 2024 @ 12:29pm 
For me it is very simple: before I don't know the most important stuff I will not buy it.

And in a perfect world no one should do that. But because we don't live in a perfect world I will wait and see what players will say. At least for that is the headset very useful, on the normal release day we will already have a lot of information BN don't want to give us, for a reason.
Mokona Sep 28, 2024 @ 2:07pm 
Even just number would of been nice.
How many characters are planned for dlc 1? If its just 3 I'm happy to wait for 75% off, if its 10 now I can give it some thought
How long is the average playtime of the story mode? Would give us an idea if there is actually story or just another boss rush
How many people played the test? Would let me know if the game even has a chance

It really is concerning they cant even give us a simple no spoiler number for anything
I'll tell ya'll after I finish it~
in a few days or so
Lestrad Sep 28, 2024 @ 6:42pm 
There's one character for DLC pack 1: Strea

There are two characters for DLC pack 2: Pitohui and M.
Bourdue Sep 30, 2024 @ 11:27pm 
Someone play grandblue here? I dont know if Sao or granblue will be better.
But the price of SAO hit really hard.

Maybe with a discount people will bought the game but actually i don't think it's a good Idea to pay the full price
Hollowrex Oct 1, 2024 @ 10:29am 
IT took me 13 and half hours to beat the story, It is 5 chapters but chapter 5 is the longest one. Also all the loot that u collect is the same for online, Around chapter 4 is when u got all the characters to play online.
Last edited by Hollowrex; Oct 1, 2024 @ 10:32am
Stj.Srex Oct 1, 2024 @ 11:16am 
Originally posted by Bourdue:
Someone play grandblue here? I dont know if Sao or granblue will be better.
But the price of SAO hit really hard.

Maybe with a discount people will bought the game but actually i don't think it's a good Idea to pay the full price
These are 2 totally different games.
If you want to buy this because you think its like Relink, you wasting your money.
Only thing in commons between Sword Art Online and Granblue Fantasy is that both games are made by Japanese developers.
Magia Erebea Oct 4, 2024 @ 11:38am 
Originally posted by Hollowrex:
IT took me 13 and half hours to beat the story, It is 5 chapters but chapter 5 is the longest one. Also all the loot that u collect is the same for online, Around chapter 4 is when u got all the characters to play online.
Thanks for this i was curious and couldn't find a baseline anywhere. Seems rather short for a sao game
Balmung Oct 4, 2024 @ 12:07pm 
I'm not surprised. I thought right after the ONT that the story mode was probably just superimposed on the online mode and from what I've seen now, that's actually the case. FD is clearly an online service game with a campaign as an addition, not a campaign with an online mode.

The main reason I thought so was the way Bandai Namco promoted the story mode, without really showing anything about it or even giving any info about the length etc. A lot of talking about the background story but that was it.
WalkerAllen Dec 9, 2024 @ 2:24am 
This game is not like other game. JFC this is the first SAO game I ever play to have play by chapter to chapter (chapter 1 to chapter final) by selecting chapter at the menu. There aren't any exploration like previous game. there will be no go to point a to trigger main story quest then explore on your way to point b trigger another follow up main quest.
Frate Dec 26, 2024 @ 5:09pm 
As far as I understood it, this is not part of the gameverse and it's own thing is that correct?

If that's the case, there is no real reason to buy and play this for the singleplayer alone and instead, just wait for a real sequel to Last Recollection.
Last edited by Frate; Dec 26, 2024 @ 5:09pm
[Himitsu] Tosiba91 Dec 30, 2024 @ 11:22am 
i can't say much because i'm only in chapter 4 and will only continue playing when the game is complete with all dlcs out

but it is confusing with this game

it's been said that it's not part of the gameverse but has scenes from many of the older games in it as unlockable memories.

and in the story some characters are treated as if they are meeting again for the first time after certain events (eugeo and yuuk for example).
well theoretically you could also blame this on the event that the memories of the characters got mixed up.

unfortunately not yet through.
but theoretically, the way it starts, it could easily have been part of the gameverse
as a spinoff that takes place after last recollection.

similar to the case of lost song and accel world vs sao.


ps i find the story mode interesting in itself
or rather the theme
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