AniDB wrote:A genius programmer named Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya enters a virtual-reality, massively multiplayer online world called Sword Art Online. There is no escape from this world unless the player clears the game; however getting a "game over" results in the death of the player.
I'm a fan of MMOs (though I don't really play them anymore) and this was pretty interesting. It reminds me a lot of the 1/2 Prince manga with the whole virtual reality game thing and even the twisted part of being trapped in the game, though in the 1/2 Prince manga it's for an entirely different reason. But they're similar in the sense that they're both twisted reasons.
I believe they are hospitalized/taken care of in the real world. Along with that, the NerveGear slows down the body cycles. Keep in mind it's been one month already. "Only" 2k people died. In one month, 8k players survived, so there's clearly external support in place.Jasta85 wrote:And I'm trying to think of all the things that will kill off people without even the game doing it. For example, a power outage or losing your internet connecting for even a second will cut you off and then your brain gets fried. And it sucks for all the people without families or significant others, the game is gonna take probably years to clear so anyone without support to take care of their bodily needs is pretty much already dead.
This is esily answered. There's no magic in SAO. Along with realism, this was done to prevent healing skills, which would make the game a great deal easier. So everybody does melee fight.ibabrak wrote:It seems that they don't have classes to choose from which is kind of weird but hey.. still awesome.
Yeah, I didn't think of healers even after today's AW (yesterday's but I watched it just now). Well, let's just hope that they have at least some kind of hp regenerationmirkosp wrote:This is esily answered. There's no magic in SAO. Along with realism, this was done to prevent healing skills, which would make the game a great deal easier. So everybody does melee fight.ibabrak wrote:It seems that they don't have classes to choose from which is kind of weird but hey.. still awesome.
Also, trivia: main characters here will have a daughter after this is over with... Kuroyukihime of AW. The Brain Burst itself will be made by Kirito. I'm not quite sure if this is confirmed in the novel or otherwise stated by the author or if it's just hinted somewhere and the rest is a fan assumption. But one thing is certain, SAO and AW take place in the same universe, SAO in 2022, AW in 2046. The years to make this match up are there.
Well, the events of SAO will be ended for years by the time the events of AW take place. At best you can see characters from the former appearing in the latter.Jasta85 wrote:wow, I never knew that they were connected. Would be cool if there was some crossover between the series somehow. They need more of that kind of thing in related series. It will be a bit interesting that there is no magic in this series, so hopefully it wont devolve into DBZ type fighting (heck every fighting series seems to end up that way by the end).
Likewise. I think we don't have to worry so much about long introductions to other characters that was going for like 9 episodes in GC but new characters will appear along with possible passion losses.. it's all about executionMagicflier wrote:Just hope it doesn't end up like guilty crown with the 'big start' and the next few episodes slowly go down the charts.
