Review of Sword Art Online

Aaahhhh every other review stinks lol. This used to be one of my favorite animes but I agree with pretty much every other review :P i'm not sure if i like the anime as much anymore lol. I still like it and remember my time watching it pretty fondly, those reviews just sort of pushed down my rating cause it opened me to the truth. Don't get me wrong it was still good :) ~6~ Story: This was actually pretty smart and I enjoyed it. The idea of being trapped inside an mmorpg is pretty smart. I know it wasn't the first one of it but itsure did it pretty well. All the menus and skill points to invest in. Not to mention 100 floors (which we only saw about 22) with lots of items and special places. It looked amazing at first looked perfect but that time skipped shocked me. I managed to get over it and continue to enjoy it. But they went from floor 2 or 3 in the main story line hit a bunch of filler and ended on floor 50 at christmas. Half the first arc was spend hiding in the forest on vacation and spent in fillers, sort of necessary but wasted those precious episodes making me wonder why I was wwaiting for the next episodes. Pretty much the worst thing happened that left the main character alive every single time... it got predictable.

~10~
Art: This was one part I really enjoyed. Seeing the towns and landscape in HD was pretty cool :). They did a very good job with the "skills" for their swords and the landscape in the first episode was a cool scene. I loved the towns around Christmas time, but other than that most of the towns looked the same all throughout the first arc. The second arc introduced flying which bugged me but I also enjoyed it. I had gotten used to "almost no magic" in the first arc that all the spells and flying made me sad at first xD. They did an ok job of incorporating the flying into the fights, it was mostly just for looks.

~9~
Sound: I usually don't pay to much attention to the sound except for a few main songs. But I noticed a few main themes in here that fit the situation well and sounded good, so it was fine :)

~5~
Character: This is the part where i truly agree with other reviews. At first I was like WOW! hes really cool!!! And wow they look good together. Then I was like wow.... hes op wow... whats a girl looking like that doing playing a nerdy kind of game. Lol pretty unrealistic. I mean kirito was enjoyable to watch in his fights but it got to the point of you can do what entire armies can't by yourself!!! and you're one of the games strongest players after 2 days.... wtf? Other than that no one else was a main character except for klein...

~8~
Enjoyment: I'm also pretty biased here. I loved the art so much and the fights were pretty BA that it made up for the other areas. The second arc doesn't feel the same but the first arc was memorable! True it should have had more bosses but the ones you saw the players fight were (mostly) a pleasure. And I still love the idea of having the menu and items with equipment, :P I'm just a sucker for that.

~8~
Overall: Lol I would have given it a 9.5 if it were available but the other reviews changed my view some. The characters weren't that good and the story was ok. But the art overall idea and occasional boss fight made up for it!