Review of Sword Art Online

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Story: 10 - I haven't seen a anime with this much story that transition so smoothly in a while now. Art: 10 - The world this anime is built around is just beautiful. Sound: 10 - Quality sound effects and background music is good. Character: 8 - Focal point on mostly 2-3 main characters and the support characters fell out early on. But the development on those 2-3 characters were big that filled up for some of the lost points. Enjoyment: 10 - Loved it every episode especially since I play MMOs in the past and now. Overall: 9.6 (10) - One of the best well constructedanime series I have seen in a while and hopefully we will see a season 2 of this anime.
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The future of gaming is a mystery you sometimes wonder. Sword Art Online brings to light some of these pondering questions.

Sword Art Online is a well crafted series on gaming MMO that brings virtual reality MMO to life. I mean, I haven't seen this kind of Anime series since .Hack. Sword Art Online has done an amazing job on displaying what virtual reality MMO is and the psychological draw backs it has.

But the anime fell back on the character design which disappointed me a little bit because the door of infinite possibility was open. Lets put it this way, introducing a couple of new characters is great. But giving them no development at all has defeat the purpose of introducing them at all. Sticking to 3-4 main to semi main characters was a let down.

Overall Sword Art Online excelled at the setting they aimed for and of course the art on the landscape makes you want to actually play the game, regardless if its a life to death situation. Beautifully well executed anime and I do hope there will be a season 2 for all the fans that are hooked to it.