Review of Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online, what seems like an awesome series based off the first episode, starts to turn really ... crappy-nicest description I can give. The first few episodes really got me excited, watching an MMORPG game that is a virtual death trap, there are soooooooo many ways how this could have turned out, there could be relations between reality and the game like maybe character structure and the economy, but no it just is like regular fantasy anime. There is literal an ounce of character development, "Oh, I like you..." a heroine states and I say "WHAT? How did that happen?" Generally this show isgeared towards kids, small romance, a "badass" MC, like lots of people say, no horror, and a simple plot. After the first two episodes there was a time skip, in some animes that does not matter, but when you want to watch a fantasy anime playing on the virtual reality element, you want to watch how characters go through and progress. With 100 floors there could easily be 200-300 episodes going through the content of the game, the structure of the system, what makes this a MMORPG when the players cannot grind with limited resources, and actions scenes. If this anime had lots of episodes and development with little repetition, it could easily be one of the best ones out there, but instead the viewers are left filling in the blanks and speculating if the MC is secretly giving all these girls roses and the admin is leveling Kirito to make his stay at his high level. When I watch this and compare it to Log Horizon, I would say this is still better because the players in Log Horizon have no goal to complete, like most MMORPG, but without that goal the anime is just basically filler until some type of conflict, not man vs. man but like the MCs are trying to save the world but a guy gets in the way type of conflict, appears.
I would like to recommend this anime to those who like the graphics of anime, although this does not have the best or even top-tier artwork, and to those who like simple plot.