The True Ending PISSES me off

[Sardonic Hawk]

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I understand they had to do something in order to try to get people to get the true ending, but it's almost like they didn't even try to kill Kureha or Ziliska off in a good way. Your character gets his gun knocked out of his hand and has low HP, so instead of dodging or using the extremely rare skill that lets you auto dodge anything, that the game specifically mentioned you and only you got, your character sits there like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ until Kureha or Ziliska jumps in and dies to save you. It's almost like they sat down and said "Hmmmmm, we have to kill Kureha and Ziliska some how in order to make them play the True Ending, so we should just make the player's character lose all his skills and even common sense."

I mean really, the boss was freaking charging his attack for the longest time, and the player character just watches like a idiot, and the other members keep shooting at the boss totally ignoring the fact it's pointing A FREAKING DEATH BALL RIGHT AT YOU. They don't even try to buff you or anything that might save you in the slighest.

I really don't understand why they just didn't have Death Gun kill them off or something during Kirito mode or literally anything else. They cherry pick when the player character and the squad have the ability to use skills in the story when ever it's going to push the story a certain way.

I'm not even going to get into how your AI magically connects back to the system RIGHT after they die through the power of plot. You couldn't have connected 5 seconds sooner and plot teleported everyone to us like you did before my character stood like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and got someone killed???

Edit: Also, I get they had to do something to raise the stakes even more, but Itsuki just feels so forced. It's almost like they said "We realise just beating a DLC wouldn't cause enough tension, so here! Take this forced villian for no reason!" and they just threw Itsuki and his whole villian plot in last minute.


This is just my mini rant about something that has been really bothering me every since I beat the story.

[Lapinoire]

In the game's defense, when fighting Last Judgement, if you actually stand still and let it charge and shoot the purple ball, regardless of whether it hits you or the ground, it bursts into an explosion that takes up a little more than a fourth, if not a third of the stage.

So even all the rolls and dodges wouldn't have saved your character from that ball.

Though I suppose hyper awareness and Shield Matrix would have easily solved the problem.

[MrAskAPirate]

引用自 Remilnelia™：

Though I suppose hyper awareness and Shield Matrix would have easily solved the problem.

Unless, from a story perspective, they're both on CD, :^(

[FallenAmberCloud]

引用自 MrAskAPirate：

引用自 Remilnelia™：

Though I suppose hyper awareness and Shield Matrix would have easily solved the problem.

Unless, from a story perspective, they're both on CD, :^(

I'm more interested of Kureha decision when she runs in front of you to save your live, instead she could have gamble with her life by her rocket launcher and shot it... Just to see if she still alive or not, it's a frigging rocket launcher with a frigging missile.
If by "story logic" that it does "true damage" then the OC is already dead, no everyone is dead because of the AoE that ball can do. (by game logic)

It's a terrible poor story ending regardless how I see it.

[CLG]

the endings are just padding for you to grind the true ending.

[FallenAmberCloud]

引用自 Zeliska's Cleavage.：

引用自 cc：

We can pretty much sum it up with >SAO writing

Even before getting to the ridiculous events of the endings, the official lore is that there's no player info available in GGO and the only way to get it is through the prize system from Bullet of Bullets. None of these three entered BoB. I guess they sent the Nervgears to Santa and had him deliver these presents with his sled?

Yep, just another example of SAO writing.
Remember this is the same series where, rather than using a GM Console in SAO to restore the logout button or at the very least take away Kayaba's immortality, Kirito used the GM console to keep his annoying "daughter" breathing. [/quote]

I prefer if he make a grave for her and release everyone out of the death game, but nope. Kirito is a legit juvenile kid who make decisions on the spot. Hesitation? What's that? Does that exist in his mind? Nope, he just pause what's going on and continue like nothing happened. Laughing Coffin? Instead of killing them why not ignore them because of death risk and make them haunt you down. It's a perfect flawless plan, if I say so myself. I approve it. Perfect plan.

[Sardonic Hawk]

引用自 Shizunghi：

引用自 MrAskAPirate：

Unless, from a story perspective, they're both on CD, :^(

I'm more interested of Kureha decision when she runs in front of you to save your live, instead she could have gamble with her life by her rocket launcher and shot it... Just to see if she still alive or not, it's a frigging rocket launcher with a frigging missile.
If by "story logic" that it does "true damage" then the OC is already dead, no everyone is dead because of the AoE that ball can do. (by game logic)

It's a terrible poor story ending regardless how I see it.

Lol, I didn't even think about that.

If the death ball is AoE, even if she jumped in front of you, us and everyone else would have died reguardless. With that being said, the ball clearly wasn't AoE and only had a large radius for gameplay and not story wise.

Like Shizunghi said, it's more bothering to me that you need a Arfasys pendent and maximum friendship just to shoot the center of it's mouth while it's charging up the death ball. It starts charging a obvious insta-kill move, and no one bothers to shoot it's mouth or even bother helping you out till the ball is fired and is heading your way? Yeet, I refuse to believe Zaliska and Itsuki are the top players and they don't even know to target the mouth of a monster when it's charging it's attack.

[Sardonic Hawk]

引用自 Zeliska's Cleavage.：

Also, how the ♥♥♥♥ is a PENDANT gonna save you or your friends from a giant laser beam?

The pendent isn't even used in the story. It's not even mentioned lol

[Greis]

Regarding Zeliska's Cleavage. and Shizunghi because Steam is a pile of ♥♥♥♥:
That's because Reki Kawahara admitted himself that Kirito is who he wished he was, someone who doesn't hesitate. It's all wish fulfillment.

Anyways, I don't know what anyone expected. This game - and by extension the anime - is the kind of stuff you shut your brain off to. It's all a guilty pleasure.

[Kick the Bukkit]

*spoiler*

it wasn't death gun who set up the deathgame...

*other spoiler*
deathgun's name was "sterben" in the game AND the anime... the mail they got was directly from a player called deathgun...

it's one thing whining about the writing... it's an other to completely miss key ellements... and then whining...

the only thing left unanswerd (speculated) is why "..." did what they did...


this topic is again filled with people who have their heads up their behind instead of following the story... same happend with SAO the anime... people called plotholes where it was just them being damn stupid and not following the story and then start spouting this nonsence on forums... just stop playing these games and watching it if you keep ignoring what i right in front of you idiots!

[Sardonic Hawk]

引用自 Kick the Bukkit：

*spoiler*

it wasn't death gun who set up the deathgame...

*other spoiler*
deathgun's name was "sterben" in the game AND the anime... the mail they got was directly from a player called deathgun...

it's one thing whining about the writing... it's an other to completely miss key ellements... and then whining...

the only thing left unanswerd (speculated) is why "..." did what they did...


this topic is again filled with people who have their heads up their behind instead of following the story... same happend with SAO the anime... people called plotholes where it was just them being damn stupid and not following the story and then start spouting this nonsence on forums... just stop playing these games and watching it if you keep ignoring what i right in front of you idiots!

We know deathgun wasn't the one who set up the game, and we know who his real self is. Other then me mentioning he SHOULD have been the one to kill them, when in my entire post did you see me even bring up deathgun outside of that?? My entire post was about how your character decided to be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and stand still while a boss was charging a insta kill move, and get someone killed. How did you get deathgun from any of that outside of me bringing him up in that one instance??And no one missed any key elements, we're just talking about how very stupid it is to have the characters die, simply because no one tried to A) Shield/Heal you using skills, B) Move you out of the way, or C) Try shooting his mouth while the boss was charging the deathball.

It took maximum friendship and a stupid pendent that is barly used [if even used at all] to shoot the boss in the mouth and confront Itsuki?? Outside of another boss appearing and your comrades still being alive, nothing is changed. Arfasys still ends up connecting to the system with or without the pendent, so that can't be the reason the pendent was brought along and everyone teleports in to help reguardless of if you have the pendent and maximum friendship or not. The only difference is....They fight harder I guess?? The power of friendship is much stronger? They gain a little more common sense?

Don't get me wrong, I like the game and the story, but the Ending and the way one of them dies is just stupid.