Review of Sword Art Online

Truthfully, Sword Art Online had it's flaws; and could have been much more successful with the potential of the first first episodes. Typically I tend to stray away from main-stream popular animes because they don't typically live up to my expectations. HOWEVER, when I first began the series; in the first few episodes I was extremely hooked. In fact, I was until the end of the series. But honestly the flame did die out after episode 14. Alfheim Arc was no where near successful as the Aincrad Arc, but I mean thats expected with any second-part series. Overall, I believe Aincrad could have been stretchedinto a much longer storyline and I would've still been interested. From one episode to another, it moves between months of time and I believe much more could've been added in between. Aincrad Arc deserves a 9.5/10.
As for Alfheim Arc, this was much less enjoyable but I still couldn't put the series down. I believe this was stretched possible too long, and could've been wrapped up much quicker to give Aincrad some more development time. It just personally didn't live up to expectations after the Aincrad Arc; and I felt as if the writers were just 'adding it in'. However it was still enjoyable. 7.5/10.