Sword art offline II follows the same format as the two previous iterations as Sword art offline, it is a chibi newsshow that reviews scenes from the main anime and is mainly about the romance aspect of the anime. The story is a newsshow about the entire second season in which scenes are reviewed and talked about. It conists of the same 5 elements as before namely: news headline, trivia, playback corner, viewers questions and slot talk. Trivia is still interesting and there are two segments of it now which is neat. The other sections are all not interesting and focus on the romance which isn'tthe anime's strongest point. The humor is supposed to be a big part of this special but overall it's plain bad.

The characters are the relevant characters from season 2 of SAO.

The animation is about as poor as it gets with chibi characters that stand still and talk. In the playback corner scenes of the main anime are shown and those are okay quality but this isn't a big part of this special. The voice acting is fine and done by the original voice actors and the music is remeniscent of a newsshow but otherwise not worth mentioning.

Overall this special definitely isn't worth watching. Aside from the trivia it doesn't really add anything to the anime and can be considered a very poor recap. If you love the romance dynamics in the anime, think it's funny if kirito gets hurt or liked the previous iterations of sword art offline then you might like this but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else.