Bandai Namco Localising Two Sword Art Online Games For Switch

I don’t like this anime, but I want to make an LP of this series for the novelty of making a web series about a video game about an anime about a video game. Alternatively, I might play the game while watching the anime and listening to an audio version of the light novel to maximize my hate output.

In all seriousness, I've heard good things about the games, so I’ll keep an eye on them.

I know SAO is a very divisive series. I think people either love it, or hate it. I understand the complaints many of the haters make, but I also can't help but enjoy it despite those issues. SAO is a case of extremes in my opinion. The things it does right, it does very right! But the things it does wrong, it also tends to do very wrong!

But if you're in the group of people who love to attack the show and its fans when you haven't seen more than a couple episodes, please get a life and mind your own business.

I'd be interested in giving these games a chance.

SAO is a dumpster fire of a show, but I am somewhat interested in these games. How much Kirito do they have?

I loved the show. I'm in the middle of watching season 2 on Netflix right now. English dub all the way, baby!

I'll be down for Fatal Bullet. Was still knee deep in Hollow when it came out on PS4, so it'll be fun to eventually grab it on Switch.

@Mew You play as Kirito in Realization.

You see him and Asuna as prominent allies in Fatal Bullet.

Due to the storylines of the games diverging from the end of Arc 1 (inside Sao, arc 2 is Alfheim part 1) of the anime, some events are played out of order.

Most noticable is that Shion is already a close friend of Kirito's, due to appearing in Hollow Fragment in a strange login glitch. (Sao got really glitchy in the video game universe upon the clearing of the floor 75[or was it 100?] Boss, which spread across the internet)

If it helps, Realization only considers you as Kirito for storyline stuff, the cutscenes.

Wandering around you are pretty much you, as you have full customization in playermodel and weapon choices.

Never played the games before. Now I have a good chance to give one a try.

I hope the Accel World crossover gets ported to Switch at some point too, as that was the main one I was interested in.

The trailer doesn't convince me about anything on why I should pick these games up or why I should be excited for them. Gotta try better than this Namco.

I heard most of the games were as bad as the anime and light novels so I will stay away. Any series with an underage xxx scene (yes there is a real chapter in the light novels like this although people defend it as “fan fiction” even though the creator wrote it) that heavily focuses on sweat gets a no from me.

I enjoyed the show and the games. Looking forward to this. ⚔️

Loved Sword Art Online Anime - BUT YOU HAVE TO STOP WATCHING AT THE END OF EPISODE 13 !

My 10 year old is going to totally lose it when he hears this. He has watched this over and over, read a load of the books and has sketch pads full of his drawings from the book illustrations. I really like the first season of the anime to.

Checked the reviews on pushsquare a 6 and a 7, still need to check some actual gameplay but so far meh...

This is possibly my favourite anime of all time and I've never played the games so I'm interested for sure 😄

How's the gameplay of these? Like Naruto ultimate?

I preferred Sword Art Online when it was .//Hack.

Hollow Realization was ok. I preferred Hollow Fragment more though.

I am really excited about this announcement I will pick up both. Hope they are physical..

My wife and I thouroughly enjoyed the shows. The drama, the fact that something like that could actually happen, the romance, though I disagree witb the "love-making scenes".

I've never seen the anime. I bought Fatal Bullet on X1 a few months ago. The actual gameplay seems kind of fun. The characters are kind of fun. But there's an hour of cutscenes between the first gameplay and the second gameplay. I keep trying to start it, and never make it through the CS, and keep restarting at the same spot. Heck maybe handheld would help.

Liked the anime until the second arc of season 1. There were things I could nitpick, as a gamer, and it wasn't amazing. But I enjoyed it, until the second arc, which I forced myself to watch all the way through. But I hated that second arc so bad I stopped at the end and didn't bother with the Gun Gale arcs. So the ip isn't a great draw for me.

That being said, I'll check it out if the gameplay is good. But nothing I've seen so far has impressed me. Looks like a typical generic licensed game.

Oh boy, poor man's .hack, here we gooooo :/

Hooray for the people that like this series tho. Eh.

@DanteSolablood

They have crossed over before, due to the games for both being done by Bandai Namco.

@OdnetninAges I'm sure they have! Looks like it's possibly Shugo from .//hack Legend of the Twilight in that image... though it could by Kite as they shared a skin.

Can't say I've actually watched Sword Art Online past the first few episodes, but it must be pretty good to get this much attention with such a stale idea (trapped in game, die in-game die in real life).

Oddly enough a lot of .//hack has found it's way into Gundam Build Divers. A Bandai anim... HEY!!!

the first season i enjoyed it was all about staying alive or end up biting the dust and the second arc was ok just alittle too creepy with that one guy doing to asuna but the gun arc was way better then the fairy one.

@Heavyarms55 agreed