Review of Sword Art Online

Fan base Rant: Pretty sure the age group who rated this series a 8-10/10 MASTERPIECE are in their 12-15teens and are probably going through a phase in which they really really really want/need a girlfriend. Seen way too many kids with Kirito pictures on their profile and acting all cutesy and adaptable with the " ^_^, its okay, I will beat this boss 4 u , etc etc". Another reason is video games. Video games make us feel unique. But not all of us are exceptionally good at them nor get praised or rewarded from playing them. Kirito does though, hes rewarded with females, andpopularity(which is why you guys like him so much or want to be him).

Plot/Story: I don't blame you. Our world is boring as balls. Who wouldn't want to stay in the digital world of monsters and dungeons and all that fun stuff. No jobs, no school, no bills, tons of people, no responsibilities, endless possibilities.
The concept of a video game being a life or death situation amused me. (10/10, for now)
[SPOILER TIME, MOVE THE FAWK DOWN IF YOU DON'T WANT TO RUIN THIS SERIES]
What made it drop to a 4/10 was not only a huge plot hole in the story, and the characters too (will be explained further below)
In the final episode, Kirito is fighting the main antagonist (the boss) and the boss places a spell that supposedly should have made it 10000% IMPOSSIBLE to get up (since the boss is the fricken admin and that he coded immortality , he probably coded the spell to have no other option to get up, like this
var bind.gamespell {
percentagechancetogetup = 0%, none;
bind.strength = infinite;
}

BUT THEN: Asuna gets up and MAGICALLY with the power of loveeee and takes the hit.
In reality, the game would crash because someone did something that was literally programmed to be impossible to do. Programming is really strict. Its like if you gave a kid two options, a banana or a strawberry and the kid magically pulls out an apple from your hand (not a magic trick) because apparently he really wanted an apple and with the power of love, he can create one from thin air.
This ruins the whole CONCEPT of video games, like what the fuck?
Imagine you have killed the strongest boss in whatever game you were playing and you get the strongest item known to man. You quickly teleport to a safe zone in which it is specifically coded to turn off all damage. BUT THEN, some guy kills you in the safe zone and takes your item.
You're probably sitting there shocked and angry and wanting to just smash everything around you because apparently some guy can kill you in a safe zone.
Again, this ruins the whole plot and the concept/logic of programming/videogames.
What ticked me off even more is that the creator of SAO stated "i 4got why i did this".... Kids, you don't spend countless hours developing a game of death just to forget it. He could have said "i hate the world" etc, would have made it better. You don't spend years and years developing something so complex and then forgot why you made it.
[END OF SPOILER]
Characters:
The females are weak as hell. Asuna was literally a badass in the beginning of the series. She wore a hood, was mysterious, showed that she can use a sword extremely well.
But then you see her turn into this weak little kid who wants to be rescued. She basically turns into your Disney princess (damsel in distress) who needs a prince charming to come by and rescue.
Whats her name, the cousin of Kirito even has a crush on him. Why? I don't even want to ever know. They are related by blood and yet the author has to drag her into the harem party.

Answer me this, What female in this series take pride in being independent? name 3
None.

Mostly every single female falls for him apparently hes defined as a "UNIQUE HUMAN BEING" .
In reality, there are a shit ton of men who play games and are chill about it yet they don't get squat. Instead they are insulted for "wasting time on games".

OVERALL: TLDR;
-Very annoying, turns every female character into some damsel.
-Started off great.
-Turned into a teenagers harem FANTASSYYY.

Series could have been very very good but it flopped. Enjoyment wise as a gamer, it reminded me of Runescape, very nostalgic. I can see why people like this series and I have nothing against them but... there are most likely better series that have a similar plot