Review of Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online is a two pronged story divided into a very good arc and an okay arc. The first arc is the very good arc that is centered around 10000 players trying to escape a game where if they die then they die in real life. The second arc is about one of the players from the first arc trying to rescue his love. With that being said lets go into the review Story: 6 I give the story a 6 and that is due to how different both parts are. The first part is very superior to the second part and builds up a betterstory and drives the plot more efficiently since every character introduces is trapped in the game, thus strives to return to reality. In the second part only one character is trapped in the game thus taking out a conflict which everyone can get behind. If I could I would give the first part a 9 and the second part a 3, but since I cannot I will stick with a 6.

Art-8

Art was pretty good. The landscapes and battle scenes were expected and typical but still had the ability to impress. So I'll give it an 8

Sound-10

Sound was where this series really took flight. The soundtrack was really only instrumental based but still set every scene perfectly. If you can you must buy this soundtrack. It deserves a 10

Character-4

The character's were below average, due to the series only really focusing on 3 character's while they had the possibility to expand on two entire worlds, and just chose three characters. Out of these three two felt rushed and only the main hero was fully developed. A 4 is being gracious.

Enjoyment-8 and Overall-6

I liked this series even with it's downfall's. It is not a hard series to sit through and something you can use to get your friends into anime. Overall I give it a 6. This to me says, you should try out 5 episodes and if you don't like it then drop it.