@sp1ti I was wondering if it was worth picking this one up. I hate SAO but the studio (3Hz) and source material author (did Kino's Journey I believe?) suggested it might be something like a good version of SAO. Would you say that's not the case so far?
@maniacb This was penned by Kino's author? Consider me shocked ~.~
3Hz is certainly good from a production standpoint but what I've seen from them is not enough to trust them, esp. Celestial Method turned quite bad towards the end (same director).
As for the show so far; Episode 2 was certainly better for having actual "character" interactions and being the actual starting point of the story but it still has the issue from the first episode in it for me... she can hardly grasp the game mechanics but still manages to make herself a name as the "PK" king of that zone against multiple enemies which one would expect to be better than her (even if it just was the level or equipement).
I did not see many negative comments on Episode 1 when I checked but some ANN staff seemed to look past their pocket money:
The biggest issue with this premiere is the same one that plagues so many light novel adaptations, where the script is obsessed with relaying technical minutiae and the finer points of tactics, but nowhere near focused enough on telling a compelling story. In fact, if you ignore the backstory that comes with the mainline SAO series, the plot of this episode can be described in a single sentence: LLEN is a tiny pink girl, M is a large burly man, and together they shoot some guys in an online game. Outside of getting LLEN and M from Point A to Point B, the entirety of this episode is devoted to M breaking down the mechanics of squad formations, avoiding sniper vantage points, picking out the sounds of different ammo types in a fire fight, and so on. This kind of details-obsessed focus on guns and gunplay is meant for a very specific audience that I don't belong to, because I found a vast majority of this episode pretty boring.
(still a 3/5)
I'd recommend to wait a bit longer if you can and don't want to get burned. Since this is SAO I'm prepared to hate watch anyways.
@sp1ti I will keep waiting then. May check back in with you in a few episodes. Cheers for the detailed rundown so far :)
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How does one manage to make "action" scenes boring? Adapt a light-novel about a FPS apparently. And as it should be for SAO the seemingly incompetent girl is famous and a Mary Sue.