Do the devs actually know what they are doing??

[KaliZaddia]

Don't get me wrong I get its meant to be a new story and all, but how can they honestly ♥♥♥♥ up the back story man? Kirito is sat there talking about SAO in the past and then talks about his sister and said that she is a former SAO survivor? bruh she never played SAO

[DEAD S.n.A.k.e.]

Originally posted by EwagineDwagons:

Don't get me wrong I get its meant to be a new story and all, but how can they honestly ♥♥♥♥ up the back story man? Kirito is sat there talking about SAO in the past and then talks about his sister and said that she is a former SAO survivor? bruh she never played SAO

Sorry, but it's not Leafa, who never played SAO (or devs, who "don't know what they are doing"), but you, who never played Infinity Moment/Hollow Fragment.
There are two different storylines - one in ranobe/anime and another one in game-verse. And in game-verse story both of Sinon and Leafa (even Yuuki, but it's more difficult) played SAO and was SAO-survivors. Leafa just wanted to meet her brother, so she dived into SAO with the help of her friend. Sinon was in the middle of her PTSD-treatment in Medicuboid, when something system-wise happend (when Kirito almost won against Heathcliff in the beggining of IF/HF) and because of it she was teleported to SAO.

[RJusto]

I never played those games before lost song. I even thought that this one was previous than Hollow fragment (it's seems that it isn't).

Anyway, I will not mention much (since I'm still in the beginning of the game) BUT many things don't fit well, expecially for lost song (world of ALO):
- Sugu/Leafa playing ALO before and teaching Kirito the new features of ALO (sinse it only past a few months after the SAO event, wich both had been stuck there, and being Kirito a madman for VR games...)
- (in the same page) Leafa knows the leaders of the factions. New guys don't know the leaders and for Leafa being in SAO it meens that she could not be playing ALO for much more time than Kirito (1-2 moths tops)
- Agil mention that he also has a shop in ALO (I mean in ALO-ALO, not this new "update" of the game)
- Worse part was all the hype that all the characters have with this (first) NEW (and second) UPDATE. It lifts soo many questions... Why this game? Why this hype? Why this so soon after SAO? (the Anime revealed very well that SAO players where traumatized, some of them beyond medical help) and the worse part of all WHY ALL TOGETHER??

They are some features of the story that don't make sense, even if I exclude the anime information, only with what I saw in the beginning of lost song, and the informations posted here.

[Karien]

Play Hollow Fragment first and all you stated will become clear. Gameverse runs on it's own timeline. Think parallel worlds.

[DEAD S.n.A.k.e.]

As the previous person said - just play HF first and most of the questions will be answered. But, okay, I will answer them anyway.

Originally posted by RJusto:

- Sugu/Leafa playing ALO before and teaching Kirito the new features of ALO (sinse it only past a few months after the SAO event, wich both had been stuck there, and being Kirito a madman for VR games...)
- (in the same page) Leafa knows the leaders of the factions. New guys don't know the leaders and for Leafa being in SAO it meens that she could not be playing ALO for much more time than Kirito (1-2 moths tops)

Firstly, noone said that Lost Song is taking place right after SAO. Moreoever, the time gap is pretty decent, cause everyone in party is familiar with the game mechanics, skills, etc. (main game I mean, not this Svart Alfheim update). Secondly, Leafa could do all of this pretty easily - she joined Kirito in SAO on the second year of his playthrough, on the 76th floor. So she had like two years to play ALO while her brother was captured in death game and after that joined him for n-weeks/months to help him and finish 77-100 floors.

Originally posted by RJusto:

- Agil mention that he also has a shop in ALO (I mean in ALO-ALO, not this new "update" of the game)

So... what? He can't have two shops at the same time? He just relocated his business for his friends and only for the time of the SA exploring (I think he even said something like that once during the game).

Originally posted by RJusto:

- Worse part was all the hype that all the characters have with this (first) NEW (and second) UPDATE. It lifts soo many questions... Why this game? Why this hype? Why this so soon after SAO? (the Anime revealed very well that SAO players where traumatized, some of them beyond medical help) and the worse part of all WHY ALL TOGETHER??

Well, I don't know where to start...
Games can't have updates or what? "Why this game?" Um... Why not? Every game - especially multiplayer ones - have updates. This particular update was so hyped, cause it added whole new area, that wasn't in the game before, with brand new items/materials/etc.
And ALO was created by RCT as attempt to restore fulldive VR-games reputation. Their target audience were new players, cause when ALO released all people captured in SAO were still playing it and couldn't play ALO. So, yeah, it's pretty cruel, but all those developers (RCT, Zaskar and others) never thought about SAO-survivours as their possible playerbase. Cause there were only 10 thousand of them (6k alive) and non-SAO-players like what, dozens or even hundreds of millions worldwide? So they just created their games for them, not for SAO-survivours.

[Jinxxed]

Starting with this game is a huge mistake. You have to actually play them in order. All of your questions are answered by playing Hollow Fragment and beating it.

The games' universe has a butterfly effect that affects all the games after. Characters that die int he show are now alive in the game's universe. There are new game only characters. Characters that were just supporting cast in the anime are now main/more important characters in the games.

Oddly enough, you still need to watch the show in order to understand what's going on and to know about character personalities and stuff. Especially Hollow Fragment because the game starts during kirito's fight with heafcliff and change from there.

Also when you play Hollow Fragment, I highly recommend beating the Hollow Area before you start clearing floors. That way you can have Philia in the main area with you and she can be apart of the story all the way through. There are a ton of events in the game that progress the story and they can play with and without Philia if you don't have the Hollow Area story finished. So it's better to have her be apart of the story from the start rather than playing through the game twice.

[-BritishEcho-]

Originally posted by KaliZaddia:

Don't get me wrong I get its meant to be a new story and all, but how can they honestly ♥♥♥♥ up the back story man? Kirito is sat there talking about SAO in the past and then talks about his sister and said that she is a former SAO survivor? bruh she never played SAO

Maybe do some research before posting this, because now you sound like an idiot...
The game in on it's own timeline.

[KaliZaddia]

Originally posted by -BritishEcho-:

Originally posted by KaliZaddia:

Don't get me wrong I get its meant to be a new story and all, but how can they honestly ♥♥♥♥ up the back story man? Kirito is sat there talking about SAO in the past and then talks about his sister and said that she is a former SAO survivor? bruh she never played SAO

Maybe do some research before posting this, because now you sound like an idiot...
The game in on it's own timeline.

It was basically on a first jump in so dont go flaming on an old post boo