SAO Last Recollection Launches Critically Well BUT... IF as usual | Dead Game Report September 2023
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Sword Art Online Last Recollection launches well critically, but seems to fail on financials, Variant Showdown officially closed doors in September, whereas Integral Factor is doing as average as it can get! Extensive Analysis of Sword Art Online console & mobile games, SAO Last Recollection, SAO Integral Factor and SAO Variant Showdown in Dead Game Report by Gamerturk! Deep Dive into September 2023 Revenue & Popularity Ranking of SAOIF and SAOVS along with perceived potential issues and launch data for Sword Art Online Last Recollection on PS5, PS4 and PC!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Welcome to Dead Game Report & Overview of SAOLR, SAOIF & SAOVS
3:02 Sword Art Online Last Recollection Launch Performance
4:36 But what has gone wrong with SAOLR? SAO Fatigue?
6:02 SAOLR Review Scores, Comparisons to previous SAO Games
8:33 SAO Alicization Lycoris casts a dark shadow for many on SAOLR
10:50 Abysmal SAOLR Physical Sales in Japan, added context
11:30 SAOLR Player Numbers on Steam
12:20 Final thoughts on SAOLR performance
12:53 SAO Integral Factor, the same as ever, expect a drop though
14:42 Declining interest in the SAO Brand in general
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And yes...if I want this to be the last game in the Gameverse because the way the ending was and the Epilogue is very beautiful...I hope that here the circle of the gameverse closes.
I personally love the feel of combat in LR. Its smooth and slick.
But the biggest negative for me is the rediculous life pools of enemies. Like 16M for most foes at Rank 32+. Jeeze... my weapons are decent, respectable and my team tactics are solid, but spending 20+ mins on a single field boss is.... draining to say the least. These are the kinds of values designed for MP content.... real players rather then AI.
Now, I know im on hard difficulty, but even still. Its just a bit much. I'd rather enemies output more damage then have HP values that just dont scale well.
Overall, im still enjoying the game and will continue the ride (At least till Spiderman 2 comes out lol)
I'm still very much on the edge when it comes to buying last recollection. Especially due to my experience with Lycoris. One of the reasons I feel like I did end up buying Lycoris, was due to the anime hype going on around the same time. However since the interest in new sao games has been lowered due to Lycoris and almost nonexistent hype for the Alicization arc doesn't really help sell me on the new game. I would probably much sooner play an aincrad game due to the fact that we've only had the progressive movies in the past few years
It's a good game but I really think the buffs need to be increased and the ability to enhance your equips would be even better. Also removing specific cool downs for commands would be nice.
Just finished the game. Really enjoyed it. Clocked in about 37 hours. I'm a bit annoyed because the only two things worth going for now in the game is getting to Lv50 and getting character events. I ended the game with only about 4 or 5 characters getting to Lv5 affinity and I believe they need to be at Lv5 or at least high Lv4 to access their event. I did some testing and found that it would take several hours for a single character to go from Lv2 to the top of Lv5. This means I'd be playing the game twice or three times longer than I already have attacking monsters and without anything other than really tanky bosses to do this on - I think I'm gonna wait for an update where they make the earn rate faster. It just feels unnatural that the ending, while very beautiful, felt a little hollow because I'd only made a few wonderful memories through character events and I'm still missing about 90% of the gallery. It's very disappointing.
In my opinion the game is fine...its performance on PC is much better than Lycoris...my criticism is: the story feels a little short (but it's fine) you don't have much interaction with the characters...and what I most criticize I think that having the DLC and paid bed scenes showed Bamco's greed... greed breaks the bank and Bamco is seeing it right now
The story length is absolutely feels like it was a response to the Alicization Lycoris feedback. Even there, they significantly shortened Chapter 1 with a patch, which indicates their data showed a significant bad player retention there. Imagine having to trim your intro chapter to such an extent in an attempt to bring it to 1/10th of the length... They clearly wanted to have a story that flows this time around.
I enjoyed Lycoris' lengths, but not many did sadly... And even I have to admit there were a lot of redundancy just to pad for time...
As for the Bed Scenes, that is a more complicated situation than just "greed". For a decade, a lot of people despised Bed Scenes, or having to do them for achievements. It also gave them issues during Lycoris production with platform guidelines and the like. There is more to talk on that front and maybe I will make a separate video on that one day.
@@Gamerturk I say it's greed because I'm already paying to see the Waifus and above all not saying that those DLCs would come later because that was wrong... one was always gullible that when the game came out that content would be downloaded... not that You would have to wait for them to be done...but anyway
Quality over quantity. The story of Last Recollection was a good one and while certain parts are definitely summarised and skipped over, some parts I wish lasted longer and others really didn't need to be there at all. I'm not sure how seriously others have taken this gameverse storyline but I've always enjoyed it, and so while bed scenes are nice, they definitely detract. Hollow Fragment made sense for these because you're trapped in SAO and don't know if the next boss fight will be your last so you make your possible last moments with your waifu on the cast memorable - even with a different epilogue for your choice in partner. It is true that if all people want to see are the bed scenes, I say let other suckers pay for the DLC (like myself) and then see when those scenes get uploaded. Not having bed scenes in the base game is actually a positive for me so I can take everything seriously, but then again, events take too much affinity to unlock and they invite unnecessary cast members to bloat the roster including that dipshit Itsuki - so maybe I just a bad opinion. Good story, too short in places, too long in others, not a bad length overall. Just not enough interesting endgame content.
@@jamesdempsey4194 I like the bed scenes of the Waifus...the colors are different, as the saying goes...some people thought it was good not to include them and for others, in my case I didn't like them because the story was a bit short, so You stay: I already completed it.. Now what do I do? That lack of content is what I criticize but anyway...it's my opinion
Lol, I was busy playing Star Rail when this went live😅
Most people like me pre-ordered it on Steam and didn't launch the game. And they were waiting for reviews to decide whether to return it or not. Personally, I didn’t like the truncated lycoris combat system in the demo, there were no 2D dialogues in the demo, 30% of 100% of all dialogues in the demo were voiced. And the locations are not remembered. After the demo, when I entered Licorice, I realized how many goals Licorice is compared to the last game. Licorice is many times larger, more beautiful and more refined. If Bandai had no obligation to release a Sao game every 2-3 years, so that the rights to the series would not be taken away from them, Lycoris would be the best game. In essence, we got a cool combat system in Lycoris, a beautiful semi-open world, great music, and not much else. It is clear that the developers did not have time. And if we take such a phenomenon as additional quests, then there are no normal ones in Licorice at all. Normal additional quests are those story quests for the heroines that they started adding after the release. I am very sorry that such an ambitious project was lost in the abyss of Bandai's deadlines. I think if Bandai had given at least 4 years of development time, the game would have been more polished.
my best one still Hollow Realization till today
I think the issue is a lack of new seasons with the anime
Yes it same. Sao consider one of the oldest franchise anime and many young fans didn't like SAO because they say it harem anime. Sadly that bad stigma receive for SAO. And for couple year anime go down recently to get new season. Just come new trash anime that story is just mess up and same pattern like isekai
I hope this is not their last game
I reckon it won't be. Just a new timeline or something.
Just hope SAO come new anime series so it will continue. But many people skepticsm because SAO is one of the hate anime the reason is harem anime. Most people thinking that
How long is last recollection? Compared to the other games. Is it longer then lycoris
It is shorter than Lycoris and flows much faster. Most certainly a decision made based on Lycoris feedback.
I ended the game around the 35 or 36 hour mark at Rank 31 on Normal. The final boss can be pretty intense so unless healing is rampant in your team, a little grinding and equipment tuning may be in order.
I say make a fully fledged console single player game on Intergral factor but in the classic world of Aincard, and we are playing as OC not kirito.
Try to imagine that
It has a good game score to me I put it with good score of hollow realization
No matter how you see it they need to keep the anime and the genre type is perspective with sword art online games but they don’t 🤷♂️
5:16 it’s not exhausting.
It doesn't matter what you think. It doesn't matter what I think. It matters that a huge chuck of people were left feeling burnt out by Lycoris for one reason or another.
If you want to look at data, you need to take a step back from "but that's not what I think".
As a fellow SAO fan, it is a shame indeed that LR is getting the flack due to how AL's situation went. Understandably, AL is extremely exhausting because the padded out cutscenes are unnecessarily long but gameplay wise though, i liked it a lot. It's just the accuracy stat and the enemies on Matricaria DLC is too much of a time sink that most of us would never even get to finish otherwise.
I was actually a bit held back on my expectations to LR demo because of AL but it showed that they changed most of my criticisms on AL thank god for that. Anyways LR is great for me, i have 65 to 70 hrs on LR in steam easily but i kinda wish they included the bed scenes in the game instead of being a dlc.
How much size for saolr?
Depends on your platform. But thanks to the engine, it's much more optimized in size compared to previous Aquria games.
In some ways it is better than lyrois the thing they missed is not giving us cloths or being able to openly explore with our friends that’s why I play the old one for now until they add that back to the game
I bought the game but I need to finish all the Aliciazation Lycoris DLC, first.
I was hoping this game would go out with a bang and I imagine for a lot of causals it does, but as a hardcore fan it feels like it goes out with a whimper and sorta is a slap in the face. And seeing the mixed reception and current physical sales in JP and the steam charts just makes me sad. But that could also just be me being burnt out or tired of this series since I’ve been playing it a lot for the past decade (I think I have a problem lol)
I'm admittedly one of those players who just hated Lycoris to the point I couldn't even be bothered to finish the main story, and as such was not overly excited for Last Recollection, but seeing that a lot of my views are paralleled here and people are still saying the game is overall good I might grab it. Do we need to know the full story for Lycoris to understand the story for LR? I only have a rough idea of Lycoris's overall plot since I didn't finish it.
Technically, you can easily assume canon WoU with a little bit of changes here and there and roll with it. If you have a general idea of Lycoris' events like the girls diving much earlier, with non-goddess accounts, how Gameverse Girls arrived as Wayfarers etc, you'll have 0 questions.
@@Gamerturk good to know. Thanks
Honestly, aside from FB, Last Recollection is the most fun I’ve had in an SAO universe game. The story was fantastic. I just wish they didn’t follow in Lycoris’ footsteps in some parts. Specifically the weapons. You have to kill divine beasts hundreds of times to unlock the skills, who has that time especially when bosses in LR have such inflated HP totals? There’s also no navigation arrow leading you to where you go, a lack of proper explanation on some mechanics, but I still love the game. Definitely worth,
IF on the other hand is losing my interest. The subpar story mixed in with all the event reruns and no new story events is just plain annoying. Less new floors focused on the main cast, that’s all I ask. They’re cool but they don’t need more spotlight.
Sorry for the essay XD
AL left a very bad taste for me but i still decided to give LR a chance because i had fun with the demo. I'm at 250hrs now, But, if they update the game so slow like AL, I wont think twice to drop this game.
It is sad to see that some people will not give LR a chance just because they think it’ll be garbage again.
It's natural to have doubts specially after a garbage game like AL.
Tbh the game is decent but the lack of coop for story killed me. Gameplay wise its a step up from AL . I just hope they continue to update this game with more content.
I hope Bandai doesn't think that the reason for SAO Last Recollection's low sales is the lack of fanservice (lack of bed scenes for example) in Japan and make the next game very focused on that to please the Japanese...
my only criticism for Last Recollection, it feels like there is more talking than actual gameplay. I've spent more times in talk scenes then actually fighting anything. it feels like biomutant, take 2 steps incomes lengthy cutscenes. sees boss, incomes lengthy cutscene, defeat boss incomes lengthy cutscene.
also the physical sales would have been much better if they had a figurine come with the collectors AND it wasn't locked to a specific region/platform.
The former is generally a "complaint" for all SAO games really. I put the complaint in quotes, but that's because the marketing of the SAO Games fail to advertise how heavy their Visual Novel parts can be. Funnily enough, this game is criticized by long term SAO fans that it is too short actually ^^'
As for the physical sales, Japan actually had a lot of goodies, quite the cool ones (albeit no figure) so it was surprising to see sales so low. But since you mentioned, I'm curious whether the data actually includes the special editions or not.
@Gamerturk I'm a massive SAO fan so I always buy the collectors, and of course I'm still going to play the game, even though it lacks the customization that AL had. I'm a hack n slash freak.
Lo malo del juego es que Last Recollection es prácticamente un DLC del anterior por eso no tiene la misma recepción que el anterior cuando decían que Lycoris era el juego definitivo de Sao.
I find this argument completely absurd.
The "DLC for Lycoris" had a total of 4 new maps, both of them each. Last Recollection is a completely new game, featuring all new areas, only two repurposed from Lycoris and is just used as transitional maps to the new game, with a full on new story.
This isn't a case of AWvsSAO where they slapped some glitched bits onto already existing maps.
@@Gamerturk Me di a entender mal. La gente en general cree que es un DLC. Por ejemplo en Latinoamérica así lo he visto. Yo por mi parte apoyo totalmente al juego, incluso compré la versión Ultimate a $99.99 todo sea por apoyar Sword Art Online Gameverse.
Not sure if something got lost in translation, but my response is specifically to the notion of "It should have been a DLC". Nothing personal to you.
for me the thing that drag this down is the decision that they made to cut out the quality cinematic cutscene and replace it with screenshot from different post of the 3d model lol
not just that but the 3D animation in the main story just so bad compare to the previous game.
the combat in this game is mostly the same thing but if someone pick this up as the first game i bet they would probably have trouble playing the game because the tutorial is bad.
and the plot being mostly the same as the anime. in the anime we watch it play out in the real world POV but in the game we watch it play out in the Underworld POV which make it feel a bit awkward. they should have added the section of the story and let us play a part in the real world.
I'm still in live with SAO, NOTHING IS BETTER ❤❤
after playing the demo, I kind of dissapointed with the graphic
They said they using UE, but this is really hideous, if we comparing with Tales of Arise and Scarlet Nexus, both are UE games under Bandai
Anime was fire but every single SAO game feels underwhelming and not exited and idk why
The only SAO game I liked is Fatal Bullet because of how fast everything is, story is horrendous though.
Honestly I miss Fatal Bullet's gameplay
For the algorithm
Always appreciated!
I love how lycoris was soo bad that it ruined the next game😂😂😂
Lycoris wasn't all that bad. It's the best game for many people actually. But the circumstances revolving around it, its characters, its story and particularly the first impressions of a terrible technical performance just left a mark for many as well.
It was good until they started updating the game with the last update being the worst imagine having to kill all the divine beasts 999 times and they having to kill a level 999 round robin for a gold background on a weapon 😂😂😂
This is true as someone who played the games back to back before lycoris release for me lycoris is my fav sao game,i haven't started last recollection yet.@@Gamerturk
We must take the fact most people like game mobile than console game especially from hoyoverse. Bandai namco got bad stigma in people eyes because they mess up many mobile games.
Lycoris put me to sleep once I started getting into the extreme dungeon grinds, but I'm willing to give Last Recollection a shot since I've heard it's supposed to be a lot better
I wouldn't mind if this is the last sao game with kirito . They could do a game with Llenn as the protagonist
SAO Last Recollection is literally a copy and paste with minimum changes to the system and mechanics. It is destined to fail for sure.
Monsters don't drop anything (makes me ask myself "why bother hunting?"? and the amount of skills is so low, it makes the already repetitive combat even more repetitive. Story is ok, customization is poor and we get stuck with Jesus-kun again, so...yeah, average game
Still the sad fact is SAO franchise is drown by other anime or games. Bandai is struggle to keep SAO in good shape because hoyoverse mess up everything. Bandai just got little budget to do game so many of their game not improve so much. More likely their game will fall into chaos like mobile. For pc game many player must help with paid dlc. Which more player didn't like the that, but we got no choice 😢. But SAO LR still improve lot since lycoris. Sad this the good bye for entire franchise SAO
I enjoy long games and visual novels, but SAO games are way too grindy and feel like a drag. The criticisms I have for SAO games are always all the same, they never choose to do it better. I wish SO MUCH that SAO games would copy Persona. Combat should be more mainstream, proper good action combat or else, as always, it will feel like a job to play, not to mention how annoying it is that the UI is taking 70% of the screen (someone pinch the devs about it please)... Everyone would rather have anime graphics or their cinematic graphics as ingame graphics than whatever it is now. And finally the most important thing, the story, should be as mature as anime and novels, the game is way too PG and its boring, some characters should not exist, if they are gone, they are gone. If the games were better and properly mature, they wouldnt have to censor it to sell more copies.