Kinda weird seeing Sachi ingame cause... You know.. Shes kinda dead?

[aPairOfSocks]

Its a good little gesture but like idk... Throws me off xd

[SCamp]

Something about storing person's emotional status by the Cardinal System (the emotional support master computer) due her being an anomalous emotional pattern (saved for reference) and she's basically a ghost in the system. Someone explained to me that there was a plotline in ALO (Light Novels) where she was trying to contact Kirito through Asuna, but her existence is temporary data.

Her thing in the games (I haven't played the others) is probably something similar, however it's a different timeline. Supposed to be a thing in Hollow Fragment. And she's taken out of the system (like how Yui is taken out of SAO).

[SCamp]

Sachi also doesn't have any memory of the SAO incident and Kirito in general in question. She's just another AI/NPC/GITS abducted by Kirito in his quest for the ultimate harem.

[aPairOfSocks]

Originally posted by SCamp:

Sachi also doesn't have any memory of the SAO incident and Kirito in general in question. She's just another AI/NPC/GITS abducted by Kirito in his quest for the ultimate harem.

But she died in Aincrad before all that other stuff REEEEEE

[aPairOfSocks]

My immersion is ruined </3

[WaRHaMMeRnl]

It's anime and a videogame anime at that.. You know death doesnt mean squat.
Heck they might even resurrect whats-her-face whom nobody gives 1 crapnugget about from the bridge scene with jesus-kun and silica.
It's videogames man,..
None of the writers/devs gives a flying F who gets resurrected and if it fits a storyline or not xD

[SeribiiGaming]

Check out the Hollow Fragment Hollow Area ending =)

[letoze]

Cardinal System was around the entire time of Aincrad. Yui, as only a fragment of the system, only formed later because the happy feelings of KiritoxAsuna were an unknown/uncommon concept to it and had to be investigated.
"Today, when I learnt that strong emotions from players could be saved on the SAO server by being lodged in the landscape or items from Yui… I thought of this. "
https://taptaptaptaptap.net/the-day-after/
The concept of snapshotting someone's entire psychological being and modeling an AI after them gets mentioned later in the series. So it's entirely possible the Sachi of GGO is a kidnapped AI.

Then there's this game being noncanon to the LN/anime timeline. So heyyyy

[RokuroCarisu]

Don't even bother trying to make sense of SAO canon. Sachi is in this game for fanservice, just like every other character. That's all the reason needed.