Review of Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale
After this bad Season 2, I didn't expect much from the new movie. But this movie brought back a bit of the feeling that was there in SAO S1. Here is my review and a little explanation: WHAT IS THE AUGMA AND ORDINAL SCALE? The Augma is a new VR device that allows you to experience virtual reality in real life. You wear it on your head or face like a pair of glasses, just like the other VR devices we know from SAO. When you use the Augma, or explore the so-called AR, you are awake and moving in reality, as well as in virtual realityat the same time. Battles are fought in certain places, where you then dive into the AR and move in real life, but see a completely different world. If you activate the augma at a location where no battle is being fought, you see real life and you can find items and minigames etc. everywhere. With this you can level up. In games of Augma, it mainly depends not on the skill and level of your character, but on your physical powers.
*Spoiler* However, you can also dive normally with the Augma, as we know it from S1 and S2 *Spoiler*
Ordinal Scale is the very first AR game, the very first game for the Augma. It is a mixture of SAO, ALO and GGO. Physical strength is more important than skill and level in this game.
My rating :
Story : 10/10
In Season 2, the producers and the author wasted the potential of the story. But this time, almost everything was done perfectly. Ok, it's maybe a bit illogical, since passersby who don't use the augma only see a bunch of screaming people making fighting moves. But the content was still very nice and after the scene of Kazuto and Asuna in Asuna's room, the feeling of SAO S1 came back a bit. Especially the fight at the end was very, very good.
Art : 10/10
The art is really well done. The animations were very smooth and high quality, and some fight scenes looked really, really good!
Sound : 10/10
The sound was also of good quality and had good, understandable voice actors. (I watched it in Ger Dub). The sound effects could also be heard perfectly!
Character : 9/10
All the characters are exactly the same as we know them from S1 and S2. Also the relationship of Kazuto and Asuna remained the same (although I hope that there is finally something more, like a marriage :) ).The new Characktere were also not really something special.
Enjoyment : 9/10
I had fun watching SAO again after my SAO break. The beginning wasn't that special now, but when the SAO feeling suddenly came back, it was incredibly fun to watch the anime. I also liked that it was more about Asuna and Kirito's relationship, because the anime almost became a harem anime.
Overall : 10/10
Why I rated the anime this way, I already wrote above me...I know I'm not that good at explaining, but I still hope this review helped you a little bit. Also, I apologize now for the spelling mistakes and of course the grammatical errors. Because I am German, I have also worked a bit with a translator for this one. Therefore, the text may have errors!