At this point, hating on recap episodes must be a universally adapted circlejerk, and it's definitely annoying sometimes. This recap, or, for better words, recollection is a retelling of what happened from the start of the season from Kirito's perspective, recapping both us and Alice on the fast-paced tale of Alicization thus far. I really like the chronological drive for this episode, it makes sense from a storytelling perspective and it does what it set up itself to be, definitely the best recap episode in the series so far. I guess the episode stands out more like a recap for Alice than for as though, it focuses heavily,to quite entirely on what happened inside of the fluctlight machine, so we get to see nothing prior to that, as much as it excels at recapping the simulation, it is not per see the recap to go with, as far as recaps go.