Review of Sword Art Online

I had high hopes for this anime and it didn't disappoint... at first. I had read the reviews here and after watching the first half, wondered why they were so negative. Up to a point, I rather enjoyed the storyline, the art, everything as a whole. ...Then it reached the halfway point and it just went downhill from there. The story seemed to lose itself after that and by the end, I found myself crying at the screen that it was absolutely ridiculous and wishing they had just ended it much sooner.