Review of Sword Art Online

Probably going to get down voted for this but I'll give it a shot nevertheless. For the fans of this anime, try to think a little before becoming angry and down voting me because you think this is a masterpiece. The main problem with Sword Art Online is that it has no idea what it is trying to be, and when it does attempt to be something, it fails at it. Sword art online begins with a few episodes displaying a wide world full of amazing lands and buildings. It displays very amusing game play mechanics in this game world that Kirito is thrown into. This isquickly ruined by the developer of the game making the announcement that all players currently logged in are locked inside the game and that death in the game means death in real life. The anime builds a great amount of emphasis on this in the next few episodes, stressing the need for the players to work together to overcome the challenges, and showing just how difficult having someone die can be. It makes you excited for the next episodes to come. You start to wonder what's going to happen next?, will everyone die?, Will Kirito be able to get to the 100th level? How hard will it be?

You start the next episode and a little girl and a bitch are fighting over who gets some shitty item drop and the little girl ends up leaving their party in anger and goes out alone into a party dungeon area. She then encounters a few monsters who kill her pet and are about to move on to kill her when our stupidly strong solo player chick magnet badass comes along and kills the apes like the fucking alpha that he is. The little girl and Kirito proceed to go on a treasure hunt to find a flower that will revive her little lizard.

How do I feel about this? Pretty disappointed. I wanted to see how a population of gamers facing a tragedy work together and win the game or break down and die off. I instead get a filler episode that consists of our hero saving a little girl damsel in distress, and proceed to help the little girl revive her pet.

Filler in a 25 episode anime? I thought maybe that was the only part but I was sadly mistaken. Move forward a few episode and the alpha and his new girlfriend are fighting about how much of a rare meat they get to eat. Move on another episode and our SOLO player single handedly kills an OP as shit boss.

11th episode now, ELEVEN, Asuna and Kirito have had a few fights with bosses together and have hung out/eaten food once or twice and HOLY SHIT THEIR GETTING MARRIED.
*Claps*

As I said before, this anime has no idea what it wants to be and fails horribly at any attempts it gives to try and be something.

Nevertheless, art was spectacular and music was good. It had many fight scenes that looked pretty epic, usually consisting of the solo player completely obliterating the enemy with no help what so ever, but they were entertaining to watch nevertheless.

I give this a 7/10, it's fun to watch but shouldn't think too hard while watching this.