Review of Sword Art Online

By now everybody is pretty much aware of what Sword Art Online is and what it brings to the table. So I'm not going to write a review as such, as I've seen many people negatively criticizing it I'm going to write a response as to why I really enjoyed it, I personally thought it was great, despite its shortcomings, and I'll admit SAO had many. I really dug the story. Or the premise at least. The whole VMMORPG thing really appealed to me. Not only because I like to consider myself an avid MMORPGer type person. But it also really helped to present thestory in a somewhat realistic way. I really got into it. I personally didn't have any qualms during the SAO arc at all. Next to the seemingly dispensable "heroins" that kept appearing. That I thought, was an issue.

I do agree with most of the other reviewers that the ALO arc was a little all over the place. It had lost a little of what I had found appealing in the first arc. That sense of wonderment and awe that I found my self feeling time and again whilst Kirito spent his two years in Sword Art Online. But despite all that I still found myself having a great time watching this anime.

That's what it really comes down to. I've read what other people have said in regards to SAO and I agree with a lot of the points that have been presented (including the negative ones) But what this anime came down to for me was how much fun I was having watching this. Yes, it is over-rated, Yes, it was over-hyped. But you know what? I lost myself in the world, I lost myself in Sword Art Online. Maybe a little even in Alfheim as well. And to me, that's what matters in the end. How much damn fun I had whilst I got to watch this Anime.