(04-18-2017, 09:41 PM)Iron Wrote: Same for Sword Art Online.
We can never be friends... I kid. I kid. People don't need to like what I like, and the converse is true.
But truth is I'm not actually a fan of SAO. Found Kirito an irritatingly flat wish-fulfillment character. Likewise, I found the MMO trappings irritatingly forced, like someone who had never played an MMO trying to imagine what an MMO looked like.
Which is ironic, because, I'm all about LIVING IN THE DATABASE.
As a "trapped in MMO" plot, Log Horizon worked for me better because of the world building element. The idea that it was an ensemble cast struggling together to build a harmonious society from very confused, bored and destructive godlike beings and the disruption their arrival causes to the geopolitical landscape rather than one man's journey sold the show for me.
That said. SAO does manage some beautifully frenetic fight sequences.
