That might seem like gibberish to you if you haven’t seen the first half of the anime, but don’t worry, it makes even less sense if you know anything about SAO. With nothing else to do, they decide to clear the next 25 floors of the game and seek the exit, but along the way they’re beset by further glitches and become aware of a strange conspiracy. Sword Art Online Hollow Fragment takes place in an alternate version of the SAO universe where Kirito defeats Heathcliff without dying and a subsequent glitch prevents the game’s players from logging out. Yet somehow, despite being irredeemably awful, the show is strangely watchable (part of that may owe to the excellent animation and direction by superstar Sony division A-1 Pictures). Initially, SAO differentiated itself with a dark pseudo-horror aesthetic, but that was quickly pushed to the wayside in favor of harem anime nonsense and tentacle rape. SAO’s basic premise – people getting trapped in an MMO – is so clichéd that Bandai Namco (publisher of the licensed game we’re talking about today) has made use of it in two different games (If you want to see the concept done right, check out Log Horizon). Say what you will about Attack on Titan, but at least that show has a personality. Of all the anime to attain mass popularity in the last few years, Sword Art Online is probably the worst.
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