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Glordit
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Too bad the game absolutely sucks, unless you are an absolute die hard fan of the series.
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FanGamer24
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Honestly I’m surprised they actually made a proper movie. I’d be surprised if they don’t release it separately at some point.
As for buying it I’ll probably wait for a deep discount before checking it out. The demo just wasn’t impressive enough to warrant a day 1 buy. |
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Fluwm
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Is there some reasoning behind the movie being so expensive?
It sounds kind of interesting. But is the plot meant to be entirely non-canon, or does it ultimately conform to the anime/novel/prog continuity? (As for the game... yeesh, so many of the SAO game concepts seem so cool -- flying fairies! Predictive shooters! -- and then you play the actual adaptations of those games, and they never come close to living up to the potential of their premises...) |
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Richard Eisenbeis
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While the timeline is almost impossibly tight, it does seem to take place in continuity. Events from Progressive (namely Kirito's first fight with Morte) are not only mentioned but tie directly in with the main plot. |
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SaiyanHeretic
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Great premise, it might have even been a good story if Reki Kawahara wasn't personally involved with the movie. Tonal whiplash is a persistent feature of his writing and Emirun smacks of being an author fetish object more than a fully fleshed-out character.
But honestly, the thing that annoyed me the most is that when the true villain is revealed, spoiler[Rex loses all dimensionality and humanity. He becomes just another cliched leering pervert like you've seen a million times in anime and manga. His stated motivation is hilariously shallow and his grandiose goals would fall apart in the planning stages if he actually stopped to think about it for two seconds. The script does everything possible to make it easy to hate Rex, because if any sympathy remained for him after the big plot twist, that might leave the audience with (GASP) ambiguous feelings about taking him down? We can't have that, no no no! We can't possibly think he might have a point criticizing the selfish way Kirito conducts himself, especially in the dark early days of this death game. Our dear hero must remain unimpeachable, so Rex must instantly become so detestable that the audience wants to see him punished without remorse. God forbid there be any ambiguity...] |
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Greed1914
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Yeah, especially since it does something that I wish more anime tie-in games would do, which is be about something other than recreating events from the anime. Being in the game, but as one of the other people besides Kirito at least offered a chance to do something more. |
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FanGamer24
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To be fair most of the SAO games aren’t straight adaptations of canon instead taking place in an AU where SAO didn’t end on floor 75. But yeah I was hoping we’d get a game that appealed to more than just existing SAO fans. |
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