Review of Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online (seasons 1 and 2) 3/10 Summary Sword Art Online is about a virtual reality video game that that has been diabolically designed so that logging out is impossible; logging out is only possible once the game has been beaten. But the biggest twist is that death in the video game equals death in real life. The main characters are Kirito and Asuna. A love story quickly develops around these too as they use their skills to continually try to beat the game as well as helping others survive along the way. Upsides The uniqueness of the story is beneficial to viewers. There have not been many other animesthat have infused video games and life and death situations.
After going through many life and death situations themselves Kirito and Asuna develop a strong bond with one another that is captured throughout the story.
Downsides
As unique and exciting as the plot may sound, the writing makes the plot anticlimactic and boring. Sword art Online does not follow Kirito and Asuna throughout their entire journey; instead it just follows them through a few of their more intense fight scenes which can come months after each other according to the date that appears at the beginning of most episodes. This can be annoying. Also the fight scenes are painfully predictable. There is almost never a point where you doubt the fact that Kirito will win as he establishes himself as being virtually omnipotent for no apparent reason after the first couple episodes.
Even if for some reason one really enjoys the fight scenes in Sword Art Online they won’t be too pleased with the anime. This is because the better part of the anime is spent with Kirito and Asuna going on picnics and flirting with each other.
After the first arc where they are trapped inside the video game the story somehow manages to get worse. It really seemed like the writer had no idea what was going to happen after the first arc so he just kind of made it up as he went along. However the Death Gun arc that takes pace later in the series does present itself as better than all of the arcs that occur after the first one. Even so that is not saying much. There is even an arc that is simply Kirito and his friends trying to find an item in a video game where it doesn’t matter if they die because they won`t die in real life! Most of the series is tantamount to waiting in line for your chance to play a video game.