You're not mentioning the horrendous performance / frame rate? To everyone, stay away from the game until it's patched. It clearly needs a lot of optimization.
This is exactly what I was wondering about. I heard that it might run decently on a monster PC but I just want it on console so I was wondering how bad the frame rate is.
@@SerpentsFang27 From what I have read online, it even runs kinda terrible on the PS4 Pro. Not as much as on the regular PS4. But still terrible. I recommend you to wait and keep checking the reviews online. Once a major patch releases that fixes the frame rate issues, you're good to go.
Fang27 I have it on Xbox. While the frames aren’t amazing, anywhere near it, I don’t think it’s unplayable.. I’ve been having fun. That doesn’t mean I don’t think they need to put a patch asap
I love the Anime, but I never liked any of the games. I've grown tired of low-quality anime games since Attack on Titan 1. The worst part about it is, most Anime video game licenses are owned by Bandai Namco, so we're bound to see more of these types of games.
Great review! For the people that have fps issues in the beginning of the game, the game is still installing when you just started the game ( i play it on ps4 pro) after a while i closed the game and booted it up again and the fps issues where almost all gone. But the town in the beginning has still a little bit of fps issues. Played the game with the 1,01 patch on ps4. 3 hours in and im really enjoying the game. Same with some quests that dont show you where to go. I love that there isnt much handholding.
I've also had a couple of issues in the outskirts of Centuria but everything seems to fix itself fairly quickly (around the first 10 seconds after loading in then it fixes).
Fatal bullet took some steps in the right direction but it was still really rough around the edges. I hope one day we get something better in that style.
is anyone else completely turned off by how laggy the controls are? also it feels like you're sliding while running?? I'm playing the PS4 version btw. I really hope we get a patch soon cuz for me, this is unplayable as it is now.
This game sucks so bad. The combat system is so stiff, the performance is atrocious. I wish games like YS are given the budget that these mediocre games are getting.
Is the game fully on the cartridge or disk? Or dose it require you to download a portion of the game? Because I detest developers that do that😈 it is completely counterproductive to buying physical games in the first place. And it’s something I won’t support. How dose this run on the switch
You’ll be grinding if you want the better weapons since they require materials. There are still dungeons, but they’re more like caves. Not the 50 floors that the series is known for.
There basically are no dungeons. There's technically 3 or so, but you are in the dungeon(s) for less than 10 minutes each time. 90% of the game is spent outside, the other 10% is inside BUT 90% of that 10% is cutscenes and dialogue. I know this because I've beaten the game and explored everywhere in-game.
I've Just Started And Oh My God The FPS On XBox Is Atrocious! I Hope They Come Out With A Day One Patch ToDay To Address This Issue,In The First Town/Village Where Eugeo Lives I'm Getting Like 10 FPS.. :(
That’s probably the worst of it. Not sure how different PS4 and Xbox versions are. Fps improves, but load times are long. If you’ve seen the anime, I’d say skip all the story except for Medina’s route. You clear chapter one around level 20 and that’s when the real game starts.
I just refunded my pc version because of it. My system should be well equipped to deal with the game, but even on the lowest quality settings I can't get more than 20fps. My GPU usage is just stuck at 100% for no reason, and turning the camera and fighting literally throws me below 10%. Playing 20 levels in an area with such attroxious performance issues is an absolute no-go. At first I thought it's a pc porting issue, but apparently console players have the same issues. What a mess of a game..
I fully understand peoples frustration with the game but get past the first chapter, its heavily story based. I think this is because instead of taking the theme of the SAO anime and mangas and starting with a fully new and original story this game takes what Alicization was and build on that completely changing the ending after Kirito beats Quinella. Due to this the game went the direction of gameplay being in line with the story so new weapons, armor, and other things are unavailable until you get to the point where the original story is pretty much 100% original. I promise the game is amazing after chapter 1. Hollow Realization being the best SAO game so far by popular opinion chapter 2 of Lycoris feels like Realization but on crack. Its amazing!
so i know absolutely nothing about SAO except for characters. fatal bullet was alright imo but i got it on sale and didnt feel it was a AAA title worthy of $60. is this the same way?
Few questions. 1. Will the game summarize the previous arcs? ( The only arcs I watch was the 1st one, the Fairy one, the gun one, and I believe some fillers after that) 2. I heard you could customize the character after chapter 1. If so, how long does chapter one take? ( Not trying to rush the game just more intrested in playing as a custom character then the main character) 3. Can you save multiple character creations? 4. Can side quest be done any time or they have to be done on the chapter they appear on?
It summarizes the arcs you haven’t seen pretty much. Chapter 1 is about 10 hours mostly linear story telling. I’m not sure about saving multiple character designs. You can complete side quests whenever they aren’t absolutely needs but are anything from fighting, item collecting, or going somewhere.
It might be the best looking SAO Game of them all but... it still looks dated to most current Generation Games and the Enviroments don't have a Anime Art Style to them like the Characters, it looks really weird.
Bandai does something with this game ... I play on ps4 and the frame rate is horrible in forests and cities 10 fps to 20 fps and that was embarrassed by the company
The 13 dislikes are from the petty people who are imidiatley gonna hate it because it's under the SAO name and can't understand that other people can like things that they don't. Either way, amazing review! This game is definately the best so far in my opinion. My only real issue is the frame drops and some of the pop in that occurs. Great game from a great franchise with a great review 😂💜
Hey, that means a lot. People are definitely allowed their opinions lol but I think we made a good case for our score :) our issue mainly stemmed from the pop ins as well.
I dunno why some of you are having issues with the gameplay but I for one on PS4 Pro not having too many issues at all. Remeber a few things to help. One make sure you have some save space extra on your system and also clear your systems memory cache. Another thing will say make sure to keep your system clean. My PS4 Pro has been silent playing this game around. I admit some things need adusting but remeber game just came out give the devs time to patch and fix things up. Another note remeber not everyone is working in office either so that tends to slow some things down to real life issues going on.
For those seeking to get this on ps4, do it now as price might be bugged.. Deluxe 1 month edition for 70€, whereas on pc / steam atm 90€.. Just a heads up in case it changes :) Edit: dont know if its intended or not, but console games tend to be slightly more expensive, so a 20€ price differ where the console vers. Is cheaper is kinda weird Edit 2 : Price is now 110€ for deluxe edition.. Was indeed a mistake.
@@NoisyPixelNews for sure. Some standard physical copies in stores near me gets sold for almost the price of the deluxe edition in the ps store, like, 5€ cheaper... Seeing as the price of the premium pas is 40€ In the ps store, that would already be a big save.
Reeaallyy weird... There’s a month 1 Deluxe edition for 69,99€ And then there’s also another month 1 Deluxe edition but with the cover poster of the normal edition also for 69,99€ And then there’s the Premium Pass for 44,99€
An 8? Thats surprising given just what I have seen in the video. It looks and runs horribly, I played Fatal Bullet on PC and it easily looked a lot better then this mess. The combat looks flashy but even justs from watching it feels like there is a delay or some wierd frame/animation skipping. I have no clue about the story since I dont watch the anime, so thats something im willing to be surprised at, glad to hear they once again go a different route form the official plot tho :) Also, question, I saw you fight as an OC, I assume thats one of the things you unlock later on right? I dont like to play as Kirito, but it seems its only visual right? Its not like in FB is it? I liked that entry the most because we played as ourselfs :(
I like the orignal stories of the previous games they were fun and gave me something different from the anime, hopfully strea and Philia are still here
For real... I've beaten this game, I have a few things to say about it too. First of all, this is easily the worst review for this game I've ever seen. Literally zero talk on the game besides story based elements. Is the insane optimization issues not a problem? The countless bugs? the hundreds to thousands of oversights that any gamer would notice almost instantly? Even if you were to judge this game SOLELY upon story based content, I would rate it 1/10. The story is so bad, in fact, that the terribly un-optimized combat / gameplay brings it up to a 3/10 for me. If Bandai fixed every single problem that I have with this game, I would rate it a 7-8/10. There are so many things (calamity plants being high on the list) that I can't believe made it to a finalized version of this game. It's hard to find the words to appropriately or adequately explain the hot trash that this is. That being said, it's not like there aren't things this game DOES do well. The combat and skill system is actually pretty well made, when you can look past terrible auto-camera issues and fps drops. I DID have fun playing through a bit of this game, but is it worth $60? And with an additional $45 for DLC that isn't out yet, holy fuck I cannot recommend that anyone buy this game until it's on sale AND has been fixed, thoroughly.
Oh god i thought i'm the only one with that problem :( Hopefully they patch this and i can start this game. Cause i have it like 2 days and didnt even play the first chapter because of this
So the game itself looks fun for gameplay but regarding the story is my point. Does the story split off after defeating the admin btch or does it follow the original story? Depending on how the story goes i might get it bc seeing the same story over and over is boring.
The first chapter is so lengthy, I'm happy to hear it gets better, I got the game on pc and it runs pretty decent but some things can definitely be fixed
Fatal Bullet was the only SAO game I ever played that I enjoyed played nearly every SAO game I have ever played was so clunky and bad I never played more than 2 hours.
fatal bullet is a generic attempt from that freedom wars game on the ps vita. while it is slightly better than the previous instalments but I still found it to be quite mediocre
Daniel Emberton The first chapter is filled with a lot of dialogue but based on the trailer the game gets really good later on like it goes into the underworld arc which I wasn't expecting, I thought it would end after the pontifex
Because they barely put any effort into these games? Now let's take a look at a free anime game that came out not too long ago and for FREE. Genshin Impact, not only are the Japanese voice actors popular and really good, the English dub is really good. I wonder how a game like that ended up blowing away most of these other trash anime titles.
Fair warning if it’s not mentioned the end of the 1st chapter is like 5 hours or more of just dialog and 1 fight here and there that your locked into through the dialogs. So be mentally prepared for it lol
For me this game was the disappointment of the year. I purchased the title on Steam (deluxe edition). My system meets the requirements but even on the lowest settings this game play with lower than 20 fps. It does for some unknown reason just eat my gpu (GTX 1080) alive, even in the title menu. Does anyone know how this game performs on a normal PS4 console? Maybe I'll get it for PS4, now that I learned that it's literally unplayable on pc for me. I can't even get more than 30 fps when turning it visually into a PSP game D:
@@NoisyPixelNews Yeah.. it's really odd on pc. I can play The Division 2 on ultra settings with constant 50fps, but I can't play this game on it's lowest graphic configuration with more than 20 :( I'm an IT guy so I tinkered a while with this game, but I couldn't even figure out why this game runs so poorly. It just immediatelly drives the graphics card to it's limit. It's reall weird, and frustrating. I took my day off due to the games release. I shouldn't have done that :'D But thanks for letting me know that you recorded this on the PS4! I thought you were using a PS4 pro. I think I get my hands on the PS4 version next week then. And I won't touch any Bandai Namco games on pc anytime soon after today. This pc version made me furious :D
A friend passed me the game from game share. It’s really really bad. You have to play like 20 hours just to get online access. Also the battles are crap, you can hit the enemy 20 times with whichever attack you like and it still won’t cancel theirs out. Also the gameplay feels the same every single fight it’s boring This is the only review you need. It’s trash in every way
I have all of the precious 5 games but have not completed any. I've tried completing the first one before I play the others to play them in order but it is such a slog. I love the anime and have always wanted to love the games. Seems this might be the best one so far. Edit: from the other comments it doesn't seem as good. Maybe it is better to get on PC on a sale when you can brute force the fps into playable territory.
Does anyone think that people are being a little too fucking forgiving of Bandai, it is fucking 2020 and look at the JRPG games they’re releasing are shitty, the arena fighters just to cash in on fandom.
I've been playing this all day....the camera is trash regardless how you adjust it and the a.i omg they just stand there and do nothing 90% of the time...the fighting is ok most of the time ..the duels are complete garbage the enemy can just stand there with their back turned and you deal zero damage cause that's not how they want you to win......did I say the camera is trash? Gl dueling when you're near anything (trees, rocks, pillars, god forbid a wall) I wont shit on the story cause idk it I've skipped every single cutscene...the man this game needs a patch bad! Fix the camera fix the input lag and stuttering and dropped fps fix the (when you dodge sometimes you end up facing away attacking nothing) fix the targeting system, add a quick focus camera button somewhere so when camera gets confused you can quickly reset it behind you...fix the load times! Why is there a load screen almost every few steps?
Its funny how bad this game. From blurry textures, loading times, performance issues, ANNOYING CAMERA, bad combat mechanics ( same button for parry / block ), dodging is bloody annoying character stay glued and commited after every attack so everything feels clunky rather than fluid. TUTORIALS TUTORIALS TUTORIALS.... PRIVACY POLICY that you have to agree and bloody DATA COLLECTION ( for analysis ? just f off Namco )... anti cheat + denouvo.... And a little cherry on top they charge 49.99 + SAO shop ( miscrotransactions ). There is another game that will realease on PS4 that is GRANBLUE FANTASY RE LINK that looks and plays way better
I belive this games was a flukes they mistakenly release to soon i know we been waiting for maybe a year but if giving more time the performance loading screen multiplayer self create a character will be better also fishing hunting sleeping eating just like real life in this game im still in chapter 1i know i miss alot i would really love if they put their back into graphic fun mini games life makes more meaningful
Also adding sidequest mob location literally no mob location no item location I don't know it will unlock at some quest or something i saw some yt has mob mark on map but i don't.... Really need a guid
3/10 poor adaptation to Lewis Carrols book. the only saving grace is that it keeps the same genre; fantasy, literary nonsense. jokes boys, settle down and laugh, please don't get mad.
You're not mentioning the horrendous performance / frame rate?
To everyone, stay away from the game until it's patched. It clearly needs a lot of optimization.
This is exactly what I was wondering about. I heard that it might run decently on a monster PC but I just want it on console so I was wondering how bad the frame rate is.
@@SerpentsFang27 From what I have read online, it even runs kinda terrible on the PS4 Pro. Not as much as on the regular PS4. But still terrible.
I recommend you to wait and keep checking the reviews online.
Once a major patch releases that fixes the frame rate issues, you're good to go.
Fang27 I have it on Xbox. While the frames aren’t amazing, anywhere near it, I don’t think it’s unplayable.. I’ve been having fun. That doesn’t mean I don’t think they need to put a patch asap
I’m playing on Xbox and at the beginning town I had frame rate drops after that is was smooth
so should i crack it now or not?
I love the Anime, but I never liked any of the games. I've grown tired of low-quality anime games since Attack on Titan 1. The worst part about it is, most Anime video game licenses are owned by Bandai Namco, so we're bound to see more of these types of games.
Fairy tale is coming out soon from Koei Tecmo
Great review! For the people that have fps issues in the beginning of the game, the game is still installing when you just started the game ( i play it on ps4 pro) after a while i closed the game and booted it up again and the fps issues where almost all gone. But the town in the beginning has still a little bit of fps issues. Played the game with the 1,01 patch on ps4. 3 hours in and im really enjoying the game. Same with some quests that dont show you where to go. I love that there isnt much handholding.
I've also had a couple of issues in the outskirts of Centuria but everything seems to fix itself fairly quickly (around the first 10 seconds after loading in then it fixes).
Fatal bullet took some steps in the right direction but it was still really rough around the edges. I hope one day we get something better in that style.
One thing Fatal had was replayability.
is anyone else completely turned off by how laggy the controls are? also it feels like you're sliding while running?? I'm playing the PS4 version btw. I really hope we get a patch soon cuz for me, this is unplayable as it is now.
I heard console version has more bugs than pc. Moreover, there is some input lag.
This game sucks so bad. The combat system is so stiff, the performance is atrocious.
I wish games like YS are given the budget that these mediocre games are getting.
@Char Aznable Exactly! I think at this point Bandai is just trying keep that license no matter what. In the end, sao fans will keep buying this trash
Is the game fully on the cartridge or disk? Or dose it require you to download a portion of the game? Because I detest developers that do that😈 it is completely counterproductive to buying physical games in the first place. And it’s something I won’t support.
How dose this run on the switch
How do skill points work in the game? Is it every 10 weapon levels like before?
We need a day 1 patch
So are the running of dungeons out? I like a nice grind/farm to find equipment/materials from time to time.
You’ll be grinding if you want the better weapons since they require materials. There are still dungeons, but they’re more like caves. Not the 50 floors that the series is known for.
Their taking about implementing dungeons and raids at a later time. I’m sure at a paid cost
@@NoisyPixelNews i would end up with other game before... that... not paying for this shit...
There basically are no dungeons. There's technically 3 or so, but you are in the dungeon(s) for less than 10 minutes each time. 90% of the game is spent outside, the other 10% is inside BUT 90% of that 10% is cutscenes and dialogue. I know this because I've beaten the game and explored everywhere in-game.
I've Just Started And Oh My God The FPS On XBox Is Atrocious! I Hope They Come Out With A Day One Patch ToDay To Address This Issue,In The First Town/Village Where Eugeo Lives I'm Getting Like 10 FPS.. :(
That’s probably the worst of it. Not sure how different PS4 and Xbox versions are. Fps improves, but load times are long. If you’ve seen the anime, I’d say skip all the story except for Medina’s route. You clear chapter one around level 20 and that’s when the real game starts.
@@NoisyPixelNews I have the same problem with fps on the Xbox One. So you are saying the fps improves after the start?
Ps4 here and i agree on the fps drop especially when i turn the camera view.. Omg
@Cubic Man i heard that if you disable de vsync on pc it helps with loading time check out Havian's video ruclips.net/video/J7t7LeQzjWI/видео.html
I just refunded my pc version because of it. My system should be well equipped to deal with the game, but even on the lowest quality settings I can't get more than 20fps. My GPU usage is just stuck at 100% for no reason, and turning the camera and fighting literally throws me below 10%.
Playing 20 levels in an area with such attroxious performance issues is an absolute no-go. At first I thought it's a pc porting issue, but apparently console players have the same issues. What a mess of a game..
I fully understand peoples frustration with the game but get past the first chapter, its heavily story based. I think this is because instead of taking the theme of the SAO anime and mangas and starting with a fully new and original story this game takes what Alicization was and build on that completely changing the ending after Kirito beats Quinella. Due to this the game went the direction of gameplay being in line with the story so new weapons, armor, and other things are unavailable until you get to the point where the original story is pretty much 100% original. I promise the game is amazing after chapter 1. Hollow Realization being the best SAO game so far by popular opinion chapter 2 of Lycoris feels like Realization but on crack. Its amazing!
Totally agree. It’s like Chapter 1 is training for the what the real game holds. Although Medina’s storyline in Chapter 1 is pretty good.
so i know absolutely nothing about SAO except for characters. fatal bullet was alright imo but i got it on sale and didnt feel it was a AAA title worthy of $60. is this the same way?
Ps4 pro and the game runs clearly for me, no lag or frame drop. 28 hours in and nothing to complain about but certain button lag and multiplayer
there are reason it not really a real time attack...
Few questions.
1. Will the game summarize the previous arcs? ( The only arcs I watch was the 1st one, the Fairy one, the gun one, and I believe some fillers after that)
2. I heard you could customize the character after chapter 1. If so, how long does chapter one take? ( Not trying to rush the game just more intrested in playing as a custom character then the main character)
3. Can you save multiple character creations?
4. Can side quest be done any time or they have to be done on the chapter they appear on?
It summarizes the arcs you haven’t seen pretty much. Chapter 1 is about 10 hours mostly linear story telling. I’m not sure about saving multiple character designs. You can complete side quests whenever they aren’t absolutely needs but are anything from fighting, item collecting, or going somewhere.
@@NoisyPixelNews One more question. How many chapters are in the game?
@@PATOfThePAT 6
It might be the best looking SAO Game of them all but... it still looks dated to most current Generation Games and the Enviroments don't have a Anime Art Style to them like the Characters, it looks really weird.
Will a 3600x and a 5700xt with 16gb ram have this game run smooth? Wanna get some opinions before I buy.
Is this footage from a basic PS4 or PS4 pro? I'd like to get this on a basic PS4 but I'm scared of the frame rate.
Basic PS4
@@NoisyPixelNews Thanks :)
lol is it bad that i played these games on the psvita which had bad framerate to begin with so i'm used to bad frames?
This like Fatal Bullet is pretty talky, but the combat and environment is gorgeous
Bandai does something with this game ... I play on ps4 and the frame rate is horrible in forests and cities 10 fps to 20 fps and that was embarrassed by the company
pc with power gpu work better... why would you paid for this shit...
The 13 dislikes are from the petty people who are imidiatley gonna hate it because it's under the SAO name and can't understand that other people can like things that they don't. Either way, amazing review! This game is definately the best so far in my opinion. My only real issue is the frame drops and some of the pop in that occurs. Great game from a great franchise with a great review 😂💜
Hey, that means a lot. People are definitely allowed their opinions lol but I think we made a good case for our score :) our issue mainly stemmed from the pop ins as well.
I dunno why some of you are having issues with the gameplay but I for one on PS4 Pro not having too many issues at all. Remeber a few things to help. One make sure you have some save space
extra on your system and also clear your systems memory cache. Another thing will say make sure to keep your system clean. My PS4 Pro has been silent playing this game around. I admit some things need adusting but remeber game just came out give the devs time to patch and fix things up. Another note remeber not everyone is working in office either so that tends to slow some things down to real life issues going on.
Games should run fairly smooth on release. If they need serious fixing after release, the developers didn't do their job right. That simple.
In short, they rushed the game.
Give a $60 title time to fix itself and become the way it should’ve been at launch? No thanks, I’ll wait til it’s $20.
For those seeking to get this on ps4, do it now as price might be bugged..
Deluxe 1 month edition for 70€, whereas on pc / steam atm 90€.. Just a heads up in case it changes :)
Edit: dont know if its intended or not, but console games tend to be slightly more expensive, so a 20€ price differ where the console vers. Is cheaper is kinda weird
Edit 2 : Price is now 110€ for deluxe edition.. Was indeed a mistake.
Weeeird
@@NoisyPixelNews for sure. Some standard physical copies in stores near me gets sold for almost the price of the deluxe edition in the ps store, like, 5€ cheaper... Seeing as the price of the premium pas is 40€
In the ps store, that would already be a big save.
Reeaallyy weird...
There’s a month 1 Deluxe edition for 69,99€
And then there’s also another month 1 Deluxe edition but with the cover poster of the normal edition also for 69,99€
And then there’s the Premium Pass for 44,99€
@@viisovari4544 ikr, at this point its like buying the game almost half price, At RELEASE DAY xD
it's been changed to 109.99 now
An 8? Thats surprising given just what I have seen in the video. It looks and runs horribly, I played Fatal Bullet on PC and it easily looked a lot better then this mess. The combat looks flashy but even justs from watching it feels like there is a delay or some wierd frame/animation skipping.
I have no clue about the story since I dont watch the anime, so thats something im willing to be surprised at, glad to hear they once again go a different route form the official plot tho :)
Also, question, I saw you fight as an OC, I assume thats one of the things you unlock later on right? I dont like to play as Kirito, but it seems its only visual right? Its not like in FB is it? I liked that entry the most because we played as ourselfs :(
I like the orignal stories of the previous games they were fun and gave me something different from the anime, hopfully strea and Philia are still here
this is one beefy anime rpg. probably one of the largest of all the jrpgs to date in terms of storage size and it is more than 50gb ( on the ps4)
The gameplay was barely an afterthought in this review smh
For real... I've beaten this game, I have a few things to say about it too. First of all, this is easily the worst review for this game I've ever seen. Literally zero talk on the game besides story based elements.
Is the insane optimization issues not a problem? The countless bugs? the hundreds to thousands of oversights that any gamer would notice almost instantly? Even if you were to judge this game SOLELY upon story based content, I would rate it 1/10. The story is so bad, in fact, that the terribly un-optimized combat / gameplay brings it up to a 3/10 for me.
If Bandai fixed every single problem that I have with this game, I would rate it a 7-8/10. There are so many things (calamity plants being high on the list) that I can't believe made it to a finalized version of this game. It's hard to find the words to appropriately or adequately explain the hot trash that this is.
That being said, it's not like there aren't things this game DOES do well. The combat and skill system is actually pretty well made, when you can look past terrible auto-camera issues and fps drops. I DID have fun playing through a bit of this game, but is it worth $60? And with an additional $45 for DLC that isn't out yet, holy fuck I cannot recommend that anyone buy this game until it's on sale AND has been fixed, thoroughly.
Ergh.... played it up to the lvl 8 bat and began to lose my lock on and couldn't even attack so I gave up. lol
Oh god i thought i'm the only one with that problem :( Hopefully they patch this and i can start this game. Cause i have it like 2 days and didnt even play the first chapter because of this
Is there a lot to do at the end of the game?
There’s almost too much to do and the developers said they’ll be adding more.
@@NoisyPixelNews do you know exactly what if I may ask?
Hey great review, are there towns in the game?
Yep, there’s a central town and then other towns in the various areas
Noisy Pixel sorry last question can you turn off the quest tracker arrows?
Yes you can with O, you can also turn of the map and battle details with the D-pad
Noisy Pixel thanks pal
This game literally has the longest tutorial/intro I have ever played.... and it desperately needs an optimization patch.
very japanese....
So the game itself looks fun for gameplay but regarding the story is my point. Does the story split off after defeating the admin btch or does it follow the original story?
Depending on how the story goes i might get it bc seeing the same story over and over is boring.
don t worry after defeating her the story takes a different route so just pick it up and have fun
Informative review. Thanks. I subbed.
What is your outro music? it's dope
A song that was made by an editor at Idea Factory ^_^
The first chapter is so lengthy, I'm happy to hear it gets better, I got the game on pc and it runs pretty decent but some things can definitely be fixed
So no real mention of postgame or the fps???
Anyone experience any crashes with this game or is my ps4 is at fault? :(
Fatal Bullet was the only SAO game I ever played that I enjoyed played nearly every SAO game I have ever played was so clunky and bad I never played more than 2 hours.
lost song is better.. you can fly in that one...
fatal bullet is a generic attempt from that freedom wars game on the ps vita. while it is slightly better than the previous instalments but I still found it to be quite mediocre
I think it’s worth it on sale.
Considering you said the first chapter is lengthy does that meant the others a lot shorter
Daniel Emberton The first chapter is filled with a lot of dialogue but based on the trailer the game gets really good later on like it goes into the underworld arc which I wasn't expecting, I thought it would end after the pontifex
@@PrOtaku123 how long is the game?
Calvin Vi Brittania well no underworld arc but after the administrator fight you will get a new story around medina and her past :)
Zer0Gunner with cutscenes? Easily 50 + hours with mostly main quests, I would say 35 + if you skip most of cutscenes
Can anyone give me some advice On the Alice boss fight
Do they explain how kirito is female if you play as a female?
No lol. He’s still Kirito during cutscenes it’s just an avatar, but you can change the voice so it can be a girl Kirito with his voice lol
Can it not be digitally downloaded?🤨
Why wouldn’t it be digital? I bought it digitally
I doubt in this day and age there are any game that’s physical only
Pvt. Prinny Ring Fit Adventure for Switch, Lego Dimensions, and the entire Skylanders series of games
CazAttack Because those games needed add ons
Hat about performance issues!!?!
Is yuuki in this game? She was in the previous game titles so I would assume she’s here
You talking about Asuna yuuki or Konno Yuuki?
@@pillowtoucher9928 konno
lets hope she is not all those unnecessary characters ruin the games i wish asuna silica and lisbeh werent in it either
@@vfx3659 agreed, I dont' know why peeps are so obsessed with yuuki
I stopped watching midway as you were just dropping spoilers after spoilers without any warning
I wonder why today’s Anime Games don’t have English voices
Because they barely put any effort into these games? Now let's take a look at a free anime game that came out not too long ago and for FREE. Genshin Impact, not only are the Japanese voice actors popular and really good, the English dub is really good. I wonder how a game like that ended up blowing away most of these other trash anime titles.
For ppl that are hating if You play on ps5 like me the fps is not a problem or crashing lol
Can a newcomer enjoy this?
I think that’s the point since it goes over the new season of the anime.
So I'm guessing it is newcomer friendly then?
Holy crap this first chapter has more talking than action parts....
Wanted a dub for this game god dammit.
Fair warning if it’s not mentioned the end of the 1st chapter is like 5 hours or more of just dialog and 1 fight here and there that your locked into through the dialogs. So be mentally prepared for it lol
The game is still not out on US psn store. There was no pre order either. What a messy release
Sadly anime games had that problem quite often. Dont understand why. Its their money if you can pre order
It's out on EU, and usually when its on EU it is on US.
I just had to type the full name of the game to find it.
Don't type Sword Art....just type Alicization ....it's there
@@glenmcl
In EU stores (or atleast The Netherlands) you have to type the full name. Not one half but like the full thing
It still hasn’t dropped and it’s 10am Mtn for me
Manga?
I know there is on but no one reads them
I think you mean light novel
Neeeeerd
I can’t find this on the PlayStation store, am I doing something wrong here or...?
Drops 12pm est today in the us on the ps store
Any idea if there's plans to port it to Nintendo Switch?
Do you really want it on the switch seeing how to performance on the PS4 is terrible?
thanks for the review
Thanks so much for watching
For me this game was the disappointment of the year. I purchased the title on Steam (deluxe edition). My system meets the requirements but even on the lowest settings this game play with lower than 20 fps. It does for some unknown reason just eat my gpu (GTX 1080) alive, even in the title menu.
Does anyone know how this game performs on a normal PS4 console? Maybe I'll get it for PS4, now that I learned that it's literally unplayable on pc for me. I can't even get more than 30 fps when turning it visually into a PSP game D:
We’ve been hearing the PC version isn’t good :/ the PS4 version is what you see in the video
@@NoisyPixelNews Yeah.. it's really odd on pc. I can play The Division 2 on ultra settings with constant 50fps, but I can't play this game on it's lowest graphic configuration with more than 20 :(
I'm an IT guy so I tinkered a while with this game, but I couldn't even figure out why this game runs so poorly. It just immediatelly drives the graphics card to it's limit. It's reall weird, and frustrating. I took my day off due to the games release. I shouldn't have done that :'D
But thanks for letting me know that you recorded this on the PS4! I thought you were using a PS4 pro.
I think I get my hands on the PS4 version next week then. And I won't touch any Bandai Namco games on pc anytime soon after today. This pc version made me furious :D
A friend passed me the game from game share. It’s really really bad. You have to play like 20 hours just to get online access. Also the battles are crap, you can hit the enemy 20 times with whichever attack you like and it still won’t cancel theirs out. Also the gameplay feels the same every single fight it’s boring This is the only review you need. It’s trash in every way
Your voice over is very quiet
Trying to sing you to sleep
I have all of the precious 5 games but have not completed any. I've tried completing the first one before I play the others to play them in order but it is such a slog. I love the anime and have always wanted to love the games. Seems this might be the best one so far. Edit: from the other comments it doesn't seem as good. Maybe it is better to get on PC on a sale when you can brute force the fps into playable territory.
Does anyone think that people are being a little too fucking forgiving of Bandai, it is fucking 2020 and look at the JRPG games they’re releasing are shitty, the arena fighters just to cash in on fandom.
There is nothing dark in this game
I've been playing this all day....the camera is trash regardless how you adjust it and the a.i omg they just stand there and do nothing 90% of the time...the fighting is ok most of the time
..the duels are complete garbage the enemy can just stand there with their back turned and you deal zero damage cause that's not how they want you to win......did I say the camera is trash? Gl dueling when you're near anything (trees, rocks, pillars, god forbid a wall) I wont shit on the story cause idk it I've skipped every single cutscene...the man this game needs a patch bad! Fix the camera fix the input lag and stuttering and dropped fps fix the (when you dodge sometimes you end up facing away attacking nothing) fix the targeting system, add a quick focus camera button somewhere so when camera gets confused you can quickly reset it behind you...fix the load times! Why is there a load screen almost every few steps?
The sao games do take place in another universe. Sachi is alive and the girl that died with cancer is also alive.
Spoilers!
Dude wtf.....
This game shouldn't be 30fps
good review
Thank you!
No pvp. Multi-player takes forever to get. Ill pass..
Its funny how bad this game. From blurry textures, loading times, performance issues, ANNOYING CAMERA, bad combat mechanics ( same button for parry / block ), dodging is bloody annoying character stay glued and commited after every attack so everything feels clunky rather than fluid. TUTORIALS TUTORIALS TUTORIALS.... PRIVACY POLICY that you have to agree and bloody DATA COLLECTION ( for analysis ? just f off Namco )... anti cheat + denouvo....
And a little cherry on top they charge 49.99 + SAO shop ( miscrotransactions ).
There is another game that will realease on PS4 that is GRANBLUE FANTASY RE LINK that looks and plays way better
Lie-core-is, not lick-er-is. It's a flower representing sadness, look it up.
Why look it up when nerds like you will correct us?
@@NoisyPixelNews Fair enough. I didn't mean to be like offensive, I just meant the symbolism was interesting \(o.o)/
@@coltonf8601 We love you, don't ever change
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.
That is all.
Ugh.. the duel mode just horrendous... i refunded the game alrd.. sorry this game just bad
This game it’s a step back to the past .........poor execution and lazy unskilled DEV = Garbage ......Avoid it !!!!!!
I belive this games was a flukes they mistakenly release to soon i know we been waiting for maybe a year but if giving more time the performance loading screen multiplayer self create a character will be better also fishing hunting sleeping eating just like real life in this game im still in chapter 1i know i miss alot i would really love if they put their back into graphic fun mini games life makes more meaningful
Also adding sidequest mob location literally no mob location no item location I don't know it will unlock at some quest or something i saw some yt has mob mark on map but i don't.... Really need a guid
Playing on the Xbox X,no problems!
Good to hear!
3/10 poor adaptation to Lewis Carrols book.
the only saving grace is that it keeps the same genre; fantasy, literary nonsense.
jokes boys, settle down and laugh, please don't get mad.
We appreciate jokes here
@@NoisyPixelNews lmao do you think i should get it i love mmorpgs
Looks really ugly tbh
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