OMG yesss! I'm a fan of the genre (transmigrated to a game) but it always devolves into useless harem saga or something too depressing. Please make them right... (except log horizon, that shit is still good for now)
I just realized how Tiff is able to do what he does. . Tiff put all his points into bartering, and as we know, max out a skill and you become the best ever. No wonder he sells shit items and everyone hates him for it like Laughing Coffin. He's so good at bartering he can sell crap gear for top dollar.
9:18 I suddenly decided to take a closer look at Kayaba's open tabs on his browser window, and from (his) left to (his) right, they say: - Scanners Head Explosion - Dolph Lungdren - IMDb - Metacritic - Sword Art Online - Game Design for Dummies Which reminds me... I wonder how he expected anyone to post scores to Metacritic if everyone who played SAO is still trapped in the game, including any reviewers? I can only assume Schmitt and other game critics haven't had much access to any internet web browers while stuck in SAO.
@@teresar6348OH MY ARCEUS. SO KIRITO IS PART OF WHAT DROVE HIM INTO THAT FRENZY THAT CAUSED THE BUG IN THE FIRST PLACE. SINCE KIRITO WAS ONE OF THE BETA TESTERS! IT COMES FULL CIRCLE. ITS F****** BEAUTIFUL!
Well, given that there is at least an intra-game file sharing server as given via his famous humanity clip, as well as the mention of people livestreaming the game in prior episodes, it isn't impossible to believe that Kayaba put some browser integration into his full-dive VR MMO that would almost certainly require at least a fan wiki just for some of the quests (looking at you Pina). Besides, he could've put it in as an appeasement towards people stuck in there 24/7 with no way out. He already quadrupled down; whats one more layer, really?
@@timfortune9 the only thing I ever remember of him having his own personality is that he liked to prank the girls but he only did it like 2-3 times in all 4 seasons
I just remember him being the tipical broodish morally righteous anime protagonist, not the hilarious mix of nihilism and vulnerable narcisism the abridged series so wonderfully displays.
25:59 "Next thing you know your tutorial NPC is nowhere to be found and players are dropping like Dorito encrusted flies". The - the midnight black cats stole the tutorial NPC THIS IS LITERALLY ALL THEIR FAULT
Lmfao turn captions on when he says that. Kirito's response : Are you fucking serious?! CC reads: EVERYONE: Are you fucking serious?! Shots have been fired and pierced through the crowd into Reki Kawahara's fucking living room man.
I love how instead of making Kayaba some bland wannabe mastermind who couldn't even remember his own motive, as the original anime, they turned him into a questionably sane guy who had absolutely no idea what the fuck he was doing, but kept doing it because of deadlines and Metacritic. Fucking genius.
@@joemaxwel1997 It's like he said: "Can you even *begin* to imagine 500 uninterrupted hours of consciousness?" Honestly, I'm surprised the man lasted even 1/4 of that time. I watched a video once talking about a man who, with the aid of a medical staff to ensure no long-lasting effects, attempted to stay awake for... I think it was 72 hrs. He was barely functional. Really, the fact that Kayaba managed to get anything done at all with only micro-naps is impressive enough.
@@faerylnhiikira1053 pretty sure he would have been looong dead by that point (the world record for time awake is half as long) but hey big numbers are cool
Honestly..I want to a live a alternate existence where this character survives and somehow joins their dysfunctional team and they pump episodes out like candy..
Just relized that they ended this with asuna quoting Star Wars. Kirito-I love you Asuna- I Know It’s fucking poetic. This is so much better than the actual show
@@UrOtherDaddy957 That misses the entire point. Asuna understands Kirito's references and she's as big a nerd as he is. Her saying "I know" is the last big reveal of her character (in this arc) Kirito saying it doesn't mean anything. We already know he's a big dumb nerd.
@@LiftedStarfish hardcore game hacker: *Dies and gets sent to **_Other place_* *_Loading screen for 1000 years_* "Yeah, yea Satan? I'm sorry, but your gonna have to try harder. true pain is low FPS online games."
I just realized, when Kayaba is saying that forming a guild was the worst mistake he ever made in his life, he immediately says, "well, second worst," implying early on that trapping everyone in SAO, was just a mistake.
after all this time, the "Bring me the head of Kirito! but it'll shatter sire. THEN BRING ME THE SHAARRDSSSS!!" still holds up as one of the funniest things I've heard.
In case anyone is wondering why the King of Ashes has it out for Kirigaya (what a dork name lol), he sent him a message that said “I WILL FLAY YOUR F*CKING SOUL!!!”
I just realized something. "at one point i swear i saw the face of god, but it was actually the night janitor Reki" Reki is the name of Sword art online's creator, so he is god.
@Lionard Kirsch they didn't say he had a god complex, they just said that he hallucinated the janitors face as a god. It's more of an easter egg or reference, shit if i was a god i would probably be a street vendor
@Lionard Kirsch The people who made this show love SAO the joke is he literally seen the face of god and he did not imagine it. Since Reki is the creator. And a light jab at the creator is okay. I mean these people made a loving parody of his work. Most people just look down on SAO
“Players can just kidnap NPCs,” “your tutorial nock is nowhere to be found” Damn you Keita! You caused shit to become even worse! Also, the crafting system being seizure inducing being a reference to episode 7 with Liz’s blacksmithing work with the three mini games at once full of bright flashing colors. Love these callbacks.
I swear the story writing in this is so fuckin good it's not even fair to compare to the original. It really is its own story INSPIRED by the original, not just IMPROVED.
It really did. You can really tell from the first episode that it was just meant to be a parody like all the other abridged series, but it quickly turned into a remastering of the series. They fixed a ton of the problems with the original SAO and flat out made all of the characters far more interesting and entertaining to watch across the board.
@@virulenthunter3017 there were noone to get the clothes in the inventory at that point but after watching this id argue that only something witty should have the permission to make sense of this anime bullsh*t
not exactly a high bar to clear. still, gotta give it to swe that they made a show with complete internal logic that exceeded the original in pretty much every aspect, be it humor, entertainment or the goddamn emotions they keep making me feel. On an unrelated note, why is it raining inside?
One detail I noticed that I don’t know is intentional or not (but more than likely is) is that, aside from Kirito complaining about the boss, Schmitt brings up the most detailed complaints with the game and he’s been established to be a game reviewer. Just thought it was neat.
"Do you know how many of you have died while screaming 'Leroy Jenkins'? More than zero, which as far I'm concerned is grounds to exterminate the species!" I'm dying
Considering he might as well not had any motivations at all in the show. Seriously what the fuck was reki kawahara thinking. Out of every fuck up of the original sao, kayaba's "lol I forgot" moment has to be the biggest one.
I think both cases the best motivation for Kayaba would be "I wanted to really live the adventure, like in all of fantasy. But it still all failed. " You know, coming up with all of this shit to actually live a life he always wanted, would play off perfectly with his personality. He even could reveal he didn't actually kill anyone, just kept them where he kept Asuna and Kirito. THAT would be an ending that unironically makes sense
@@trevorbilliot2625 I genuinely don't. SAOA is literally the only form of SAO I consider to be worth any time and I credit this series as being the only redeeming feature of the original show.
Anyone who ever ran a guild in a video game should resonate with this episode. "You all seem intent on dying in the dumbest and most avoidable ways possible!" By far my favorite episode.
The first time i saw that scene i send it to my guildmates 😂 so on poiny specially the part you ignore my strategies! refuse to work together and then BLAME MEEEEE!!!
I guess that's where the "LEEROY JENKINS" battle cry comes from in the first place. Planning a strategy only to have it derailed by some blood knight screaming and attacking head on.
@@Bree420 Nah, nah, you see that's marketing achieving it's purpose~! so their numbers are gonna be lookin great. I'll be sure to forward this data to team at EA :')
@@apieceoftoast7103 if yandere dev can still get patrons when he started the game in 2014 and it's 2022 now, then kayaba probably has a fair chance of getting reviewed fairly
@@Hawk_of_Battle It's more that we sometimes get some bug that's caused by something so absurdly obscure that it might as well be the power of love causing it
@@GoatsBaa-dk7nw "If you move with the velocity of light when entering this cutscene, gravity shuts off. Dont know what caused, dont know how we got that fast, but it's a thing now."
I still live for "debating the pro's and con's of lobotomy via soupsoon." Followed closely by "A quantum supercomputer calculating for 1,000 years could not even approach the amount of f"cks I do not give."
“As we speak, SAO is being wiped from the servers and all remaining players will be logged out of the game.” “But not in that order, right?” ... “I’m gonna have to get back to you on that one.” I love how absolutely incompetent Kayaba is
It's less incompetent and just more overwhelming sleep deprived that specific important points got looked over. With more time and rest, whole thing would have been avoided.
@@Wittymations it's both he's incompetent and was sleep deprived because even after being in the game for a while he still does really dumb stuff like having one of the leaders of his guild be a cat.
Knowing now that Microsoft owns Bethesda just makes the story even better. Microsoft made the nerve gear and Kiaba was on Bethesda's team working for Xbox game studios. DEEP LORE.
It really is, a better ending since it show's how one bad day, or in Kayaba's case, THREE WEEKS, probably more, lead him towards what would probably be the BIGGEST and SLIPPERIEST slopes ever, stupefying historians decades to come, and baffling all of mankind when the truth somehow comes to light
I can’t believe the real SAO missed the cheat code for hype moments in anime. Putting the title theme into the final fight is *easily* one of the hypest things you can do.
Well, maybe they will do it in the series finale/around-second-to-last episode... Assuming they don't pull a Kayaba and have it go for so long that they don't remember what the song was anymore...
I've watched this so many times but only just realized his tabs (9:19) are: Scanners Head Explosion Dolph Lundgren - IMDb Metacritic - Sword Art Online Game Design for Dummies
@MrCyion I suppose reviving kirito with the resurrection stone thingy from the Christmas special was a minor plot point, assuming that's what's actually happened with that thing
@@Suny-Halo No I'm pretty sure it was because it was a submission for a short story writing contest or prize couldn't be longer as its exceed the word limit. If you want longer aincrad read Sao progressive, it's what the story would have been if he spent as much time as he wanted on it and it goes floor by floor
Well to be fair, the author made a one-shot book at the beggining that have just the s1st episode and the last 2. People thought it was good and make him expand it. That's why it felt anticlimactic. a beggining and end in just 1 book
Yeah. The original SAO thing was deeply unsatisfying. If I had written that story, I would have made it slightly different. Like, that dying in the game didn't actually kill you, but removing the Nervegear without logging out will place you into a coma. The story would unfold the same, since both the characters and the audience still initially think that death in game = death in realworld, but the creator would be less of a screwed up character - instead of willfully killing thousands, instead it would be someone unhinged that wanted people to 'role play realistically' as if they were truly transported into a new world and had to survive. You know, capturing that kind of magic, which would in his opinion be impossible if players could simply log out. And if they knew dying in game would log them out, they would suicide in droves .... That would also give him a bit of plausible denyiablity. He 'never intended' for it, it 'was a bug', he 'didn't know' what would happen if they died ingame, etc.
@@nordos idk about the coma bit, because people outside the game tried to remove the helmets too, so if they only pit you in a coma, they'd probably have gotten everyone out via coma and just worked to study them and find a way to wake them up. But I do get what you mean. Honestly, I wouldn't mind him being a total psychopath trying to kill thousands if there was just a reason for it. You could even use the same logic of wanting them to roleplay realistically, it'd work even better if they still died since there's nothing more realistic than true death. But the fact that he didn't even know was too bad. You can have a villain be cruel and evil, but you've gotta at least tell us what he wanted and why.
@@justme22154If I recall correctly the him not remembering line was followed by a summary of "I have a god complex" basically, but I do think it's somewhat less satisfying than "there was a bug, I panicked, and everything, and I mean *everything,* spiraled out of my control from there because by the time I learned it existed I was too delirious for rational thought."
God, I just realized. every other time Kirito tries to do some big, dramatic reveal, he gets cut off, or someone else does it, or something like that happens. however, we're shown kayaba and Kirito relate to each other, they're two sides of the same coin, and this, up against Kayaba, is the only time that Kirito manages to get his big reveal out, because kayaba respects him enough to let him.
Yeah, the poor guy was pushed to the brink by Bethesda, causing him to go insane, endangering the lives of innocents, and doing all he could to make sure as many of them survived with all he could do. I mean, he didn’t think things through, but who would after losing 500 hours of sleep?
Raid leading can best be summed up as an advanced forum of tard wrangling. Once you’re playing with four or more other people you stop actually being able to talk to people and hope and pray to god they all just shut THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN FOR FIVE GODDAMN MINUTES. But no the idiots will just continue to ramble into the uncaring void clogging coms chattering with their actual friends forcing you to lay down rules and suddenly it’s no longer fun. God only knows how much worse it is for guild masters that have to delegate as they try and manage well over two hundred people. I’ve chatted about things with my GM a few times. They’ve said it’s like managing a business, with no pay.
"Tell Liz I didn't actually call it the piece of shit." The idea that this manic sat down by himself, gave the sword a meaningful name, and only joked about it to Liz is really sweet and still hilarious. It's a small detail among many, but it just hammers home how much effort goes into this series. It's never gonna get the recognition it deserves, cause it deserves everything for all the work its small cast and crew put into every second. I love this series. I surpass RvB as my favorite web show. Well done.
and still the sword shattered in the most crucial part , if it didn't , the shield would've knocked away and he would've won just like the initial fight in the arena (if kayaba didn't have his cheats on that time) 😂 but i could be wrong since they just fought a boss and didn't repair his weapons in which case , never mind..
“You know how many of you people have died screaming ‘Leroy Jenkins’? More than zero. Which as far as I’m concerned, is grounds TO EXTERMINATE THE SPECIES” best line ever written.
25:57 Oh my God... 4 years. 4 years, and not once did I realize, the leader of Kirito's old guild kidnapped the ONLY tutorial NPC, which is why nobody knew how to play the game.
Honestly you can apply them to everything they do. New Vegas was rushed and it needed the community to fix what Obsidian couldn't, 4 was a pile of overrated shit and barely worked on and the lest said about 76, the better. Fuck game publishers.
@@bendystrawz2832 couldnt agree more, i cant even recall a single sentence of the original, i always hear the abridged version when sao comes to mind and/or see shorts of it. 😂
***** this series already did what the og didnt, an actual plot i dont know how they go do fairy dance since its FULL of plot holes and its gunna take a while.
I found this gem by watching the RUclips shorts and I don’t regret watching the whole thing in one sitting at all. That is a masterpiece and I can’t believe it’s 10 years old. SAO was one of the first animes I ever watched so it holds a special place in my heart but it definitely has its issues. This version is 100x better! Thank you 😊
Rewatching this series (again), a thought occurred: Whenever this parody gets to the GGO arc, part of me kind of hopes that Death Gun turns out to be Don Fluffles. Would be f**king hilarious.
I don't know about that, they've already laid the groundwork for that character. In the GGO arc Kirito remembered the players name was Johnny Black. In SAOA one of the Laughing Coffin guys that came to kill Schmitt was Johnny Black. "Meat toboggan"
I'm honestly just waiting to see how they abridge the scene with kirito asuna and obarron(can't remember his real name) where some disturbing things happen. Are they gonna turn it funny or keep the creepy factor.
Developers being forced to crunch hard and rush out a game that could've used another few months of work is a tale as old as time. And will probably exist for the next decade at least. It's industry culture and hard to change.
Even 6 years afterwards, the needle drop in the fight, all the callbacks and the actual reasoning of Kayaba is still PEAK writing and editing, I dare say this may be my favourite series of all time, also hats off to all the writers and performers involved for helping put together such actualized characters
@@areo3466 yea, if you can get the messages or pictures they're all pretty funny, like the message Asuna gets in the cottage is asking her bikini shots
@Liam Berg (STUDENT) idk I just remember it was fucking stupid. Oh right because some bullshit of "No one would ever watch another person play an MMO" or something
@Liam Berg (STUDENT) If memory serve me right, it was because Kirito remember back when he was dueling Heathcliff he clearly stroke him but didn't hit for some reason.
@Liam Berg (STUDENT) He noticed his health didn’t go below green when everyone else almost died, then a flashback to the duel made him remember the impossible speed Heathcliff used to block one of his attacks. Kiyaba later tells about how he had to cheat to increase his speed to block the attack. Kirito basically had a very vague idea that Heathcliff might be Kiyaba and decided to stab him. And they weren’t even locked in the boss room in the original anime.
Isaiahs channel Yeah same, but what *_really_* got me... was thinking up which of the known characters might've actually done that, & actually thinking up what -more than likely low level- monster they charged. I thought this up, add I *_ALMOST_* stopped laughing. it hurt so hard.
"Forget mole people! About halfway through I swore I saw the face of God!... Until I realized that was the night janitor, Reki." I love this little detail. Reki is the family name of Reki Kawahara, who is the writer of SAO. Basically, the god of this whole thing, since _he_ is the creator. And Kayaba said he saw the face of God. Sounds like a connection to me...
He was carried by his mates the whole time Tho at that point I prob would have ditched specifically him within the first month, he would have gotten everyone killed.
@@Obsi399 Tfw you're raiding with someone who's parsing in the 99th percentile but that same person wouldn't surprise you if he told you he ate paste as a child.
Either got carried, or was so out of focus he was hellishly good at fighting. How does that work? Hit it until it dies, and don't freak the fuck out, I guess-
...The entire SAO incident caused by unforeseen glitches, stress to meet deadlines, and poor Developer choices brought on by said stress and sleep deprivation...That is so realistically believable its terrifying.
“...I love you, Asuna.” “I know.” I refuse to believe Asuna’s response isn’t a Star Wars Episode V/VI reference. Edit: I figured as much when I made the comment. It was clever.
I adore how in the original Kirito is the only one not paralyzed because protagonist I guess but in this version it's because Kayaba not only feels a connection to him but thinks he's the only one smart enough not to pull something
''tutorial NPC is nowhere to be found'' the fact that this instantly reminded me of that asshole that filled his guild with NPC's made me laugh so hard.
@@trequor I got my mate to watch this, he's never watched the original, and he kept pausing and popping up to me to mention how he was catching references to loads of shit I haven't seen. So I consider this series a damned masterpiece and half of it has flown over my head. That's quality shit right there
Abridged!Stacia Asuna: I’m sure as Hell not gonna die like that dumb bitch Yugioh. Abridged!Kirito: E-eugeo… Abridged!Stacia Asuna: Shhhhh. It doesn’t matter. He’s dead now. I promise things are gonna be different this time.
![The Genius of Sword Art Online (Abridged): Fixing What's Broken [Part 1]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/46jzSn9SLlg/mqdefault.jpg)
![Blox Fruits Dragon Rework Update [Full Stream]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EqDAp8udhm0/mqdefault.jpg)
Just to be clear, we plan to abridge all of SAO. This is merely the end of season one :)
This is the best news I've heard all day!!
Something Witty Entertainment Should we expect it within 2017?
Yes! YES! YES!
im new here but im excited xdxdxd
OMG yesss! I'm a fan of the genre (transmigrated to a game) but it always devolves into useless harem saga or something too depressing. Please make them right... (except log horizon, that shit is still good for now)
I just realized how Tiff is able to do what he does. . Tiff put all his points into bartering, and as we know, max out a skill and you become the best ever. No wonder he sells shit items and everyone hates him for it like Laughing Coffin. He's so good at bartering he can sell crap gear for top dollar.
How did the "WHAT!" guy managed to survive SAO all these years lol XD
I really want to meet the WHAT? guy now
jim55ize he killed all the monsters by screaming WHAT
Here's hoping the 'WHAT?' guy shows up again in season 2.
FUS!!! ROH!!! WHAT!!!!
Because Stone Cold said so!
Kayaba: “So glad I kept that tabbed.
Me:” FOR TWO DAMN YEARS!!”
It's... Oddly relatable
hahahaha yeah, what weirdo would keep something tabbed for two years? *kicks two year old tab of reference material for podcast under carpet*
Omg right🤣🤣
Tvtropes
Can you imagine if he accidently used it in those 2 years?
9:18
I suddenly decided to take a closer look at Kayaba's open tabs on his browser window, and from (his) left to (his) right, they say:
- Scanners Head Explosion
- Dolph Lungdren - IMDb
- Metacritic - Sword Art Online
- Game Design for Dummies
Which reminds me... I wonder how he expected anyone to post scores to Metacritic if everyone who played SAO is still trapped in the game, including any reviewers? I can only assume Schmitt and other game critics haven't had much access to any internet web browers while stuck in SAO.
beta testers? Like Kirito.
@@teresar6348OH MY ARCEUS. SO KIRITO IS PART OF WHAT DROVE HIM INTO THAT FRENZY THAT CAUSED THE BUG IN THE FIRST PLACE. SINCE KIRITO WAS ONE OF THE BETA TESTERS! IT COMES FULL CIRCLE. ITS F****** BEAUTIFUL!
Well, given that there is at least an intra-game file sharing server as given via his famous humanity clip, as well as the mention of people livestreaming the game in prior episodes, it isn't impossible to believe that Kayaba put some browser integration into his full-dive VR MMO that would almost certainly require at least a fan wiki just for some of the quests (looking at you Pina). Besides, he could've put it in as an appeasement towards people stuck in there 24/7 with no way out. He already quadrupled down; whats one more layer, really?
He probably has nightmares about someone escaping the game and immediately writing a negative review on Metacritic
Someone managed to play bejeweled in sao so I wouldn’t completely write off the possibility of being able to post a review
I've rewatched this so many times that I've actually forgotten what the original Kirito's personality is like.
Well, that implies he had a personality there.
@@timfortune9 the only thing I ever remember of him having his own personality is that he liked to prank the girls but he only did it like 2-3 times in all 4 seasons
I just remember him being the tipical broodish morally righteous anime protagonist, not the hilarious mix of nihilism and vulnerable narcisism the abridged series so wonderfully displays.
No personality
@@timfortune9 he does if you watch the series without the intention of hating it.
25:59 "Next thing you know your tutorial NPC is nowhere to be found and players are dropping like Dorito encrusted flies". The - the midnight black cats stole the tutorial NPC THIS IS LITERALLY ALL THEIR FAULT
Always remember
To jump
Jump!
Oh my god, how did I not realize that 🤣
I never realised this
@@ReggieGiggas ME NEITHER. THIS MAKES IT EVEN MORE HILARIOUS
Godamn it Sachi.
"two years and that's what I give you? man that would be unsatisfying!"
SHOTS FIRED
honestly that comment is very deserved
Tristan Klingler coughcough
At who?
Lmfao turn captions on when he says that. Kirito's response : Are you fucking serious?!
CC reads: EVERYONE: Are you fucking serious?!
Shots have been fired and pierced through the crowd into Reki Kawahara's fucking living room man.
I didn't watch the original, and by that coment, i can safely say i don't plan on doing so
Man the Kayaba scene was so fucking good lmao.
"Double, triple and even quadruple down"
🤔🤔
Made even better by the voice actor's delivery of the lines
@@jadenwalker2052Taka always gives it 150% with abridged work
@@JoeFanik I agree on that number from what I've seen/heard from him in other projects.
Bethesda being the publisher of SAO is now indisputably canon now
Then why didn't the players just add a respawn mod?
@@ryanmartz6203 idk, have you seen Skyrim players coding in Thomas the tank engine from *inside the game*?
@@ryanmartz6203 they weren’t the developer, unfortunately
@@lukefox718 Don't give them ideas
@@lukefox718I'm actually surprised no one mod the hell out of the game during beta testing
The fact that Sachi's guild is the reason for 2000 deaths because they took the tutorial NPC, is brilliant
Kenny Kurniawan ahahahaha so true
And Sachis death as well.
I’m literally just catching that after re watching this for the 15th time
OH SHIT I JUST CAUGHT THAT HAHAHAAH
Ikr, that to me was the funniest thing in this episode.
I love how instead of making Kayaba some bland wannabe mastermind who couldn't even remember his own motive, as the original anime, they turned him into a questionably sane guy who had absolutely no idea what the fuck he was doing, but kept doing it because of deadlines and Metacritic. Fucking genius.
500 hundred our of consciousness..... most people start to hallucate after 72, is it any wonder he was off his rocker?
and no wonder he got a little staby
@@joemaxwel1997 It's like he said: "Can you even *begin* to imagine 500 uninterrupted hours of consciousness?" Honestly, I'm surprised the man lasted even 1/4 of that time. I watched a video once talking about a man who, with the aid of a medical staff to ensure no long-lasting effects, attempted to stay awake for... I think it was 72 hrs. He was barely functional. Really, the fact that Kayaba managed to get anything done at all with only micro-naps is impressive enough.
@@faerylnhiikira1053 pretty sure he would have been looong dead by that point (the world record for time awake is half as long) but hey big numbers are cool
Honestly..I want to a live a alternate existence where this character survives and somehow joins their dysfunctional team and they pump episodes out like candy..
Just relized that they ended this with asuna quoting Star Wars.
Kirito-I love you
Asuna- I Know
It’s fucking poetic. This is so much better than the actual show
Finaly someone mentioned it
Bro it would have been better if kirito said it
He is just like Han Solo
@@UrOtherDaddy957 That misses the entire point. Asuna understands Kirito's references and she's as big a nerd as he is. Her saying "I know" is the last big reveal of her character (in this arc) Kirito saying it doesn't mean anything. We already know he's a big dumb nerd.
@@captinchillin ig u got a point I was just thinking about the Star Wars theme
“Where am I? Is this heaven?! No, heaven wouldn’t have a loading screen. This is definitely the _other_ place.”
My senior quote.
@@LiftedStarfish hardcore game hacker:
*Dies and gets sent to **_Other place_*
*_Loading screen for 1000 years_*
"Yeah, yea Satan? I'm sorry, but your gonna have to try harder. true pain is low FPS online games."
then he sees asuna and confirms its hell
You mean the place where the Pebble was forged long ago?!
ςяιмѕσи тнσяи omfg
Kirito: I regret not joining your guild Klein, probably would have been a lot of fun.
Klein: *Minecraft Enchanting Table Language*
Y𝙹⚍∷ ⊣𝙹↸ ↸ᔑᒲリ ∷╎⊣⍑ℸ ̣...
If I remember correctly its the standard galactic alphabet.
Edit; it is
Hahahahaha
@@theoperative017 heheh
@@filmcase1683 y/Гμ¿^·θ¤ГГ´>][ГμГ]Ωθ¤θμ·`{Ω§{￦¥>
I just realized, when Kayaba is saying that forming a guild was the worst mistake he ever made in his life, he immediately says, "well, second worst," implying early on that trapping everyone in SAO, was just a mistake.
When?
@@itstotallynotsai6577 At 11:17, Kayaba talks about making the worst mistake in his life, but he faintly corrects himself afterward
Damn!!!
lol
Well they are called Something Witty Entertainment
after all this time, the "Bring me the head of Kirito! but it'll shatter sire. THEN BRING ME THE SHAARRDSSSS!!" still holds up as one of the funniest things I've heard.
Can't say I get it. Mind an explanation?
@@guyperson650 When you kill someone in SAO they burst into shards. There's no ability to bring him his head.
@@Theorchero oooh. Yeah, I really shoulda been able to figure that out, huh. Thanks, dawg
It’s little details like that that show how much love the creators have for this series
In case anyone is wondering why the King of Ashes has it out for Kirigaya (what a dork name lol), he sent him a message that said “I WILL FLAY YOUR F*CKING SOUL!!!”
I find it personally offensive that you managed to make me care about these characters
"How dare you make me care about them"
Found Kirito's account.
@@mintbrownieangelfish-6114 dammit you beat me to it
No joke their is no filler here,everything has value
I don’t!
I just realized something.
"at one point i swear i saw the face of god, but it was actually the night janitor Reki"
Reki is the name of Sword art online's creator, so he is god.
@Lionard Kirsch how is that cyberbullying?
@Lionard Kirsch they didn't say he had a god complex, they just said that he hallucinated the janitors face as a god. It's more of an easter egg or reference, shit if i was a god i would probably be a street vendor
another reason why abridged is superior
@Lionard Kirsch The people who made this show love SAO the joke is he literally seen the face of god and he did not imagine it. Since Reki is the creator. And a light jab at the creator is okay. I mean these people made a loving parody of his work. Most people just look down on SAO
@Lionard Kirsch Sometimes fans will reference the original in their work (eg the staff of the original)
Takahata’s delivery of “so NOW you’ve seen TRON!” is legendary.
Actually, I dare say it’s _perfect._
P is for priceless, the look upon your faces...
as preston garvey would say, impeccable
I think best executes line would have to be between this one and “FINE, IM SORRY I KILLED YOUR WIFE”
As a soon-to-be-broken man once told me, you're either perfect or you're not me.
@@hellboy19991 E is for Extinction, all your puny races...
“Players can just kidnap NPCs,”
“your tutorial nock is nowhere to be found”
Damn you Keita! You caused shit to become even worse!
Also, the crafting system being seizure inducing being a reference to episode 7 with Liz’s blacksmithing work with the three mini games at once full of bright flashing colors. Love these callbacks.
Keita and Gary they were responsible for the deaths of more than 2000 people... for a comedy series that's pretty dark
The "Not a Piece of Shit" sword broke. Lizbeth Quality Guaranteed
Always.
@SpectacularNub Still snapped when it was needed most, fucking flimsy dragon shit.
Which is weird as It had 2200 durability compared to his other sword which only had 1350 or something I think.
he used a piercing skill instead of slashing skills. of course it broke.
Did he really name it "Sunlight Heart?"
"I love you, Asuna!" "I know."
Kayaba in the distance: "Star Wars!"
XD
@@Not4CatsInACoat does he actually say it cause i didnt hear it
@@akhamza12 he doesn’t
@@chricramo9999 Really?! Where?
Empire
"The tutorial NPC is nowhere to be found..." Yeah, because the Moonlit Black Cats stole him and then he died lmao. Nice detail I didn't notice before
This is only in the abridged version right? Or was this in the actual anime?
@@bbfuita5427 only in the abridged.
"...and there's no good news!"
I swear the story writing in this is so fuckin good it's not even fair to compare to the original. It really is its own story INSPIRED by the original, not just IMPROVED.
you are telling me only a single person can take the tutorial at a time?
This isn't the same without the fan-made closed captions, where every time Kirito said "for you see", it said "FOR YOU SEE™"
THIS WHOLE TIME I HAD NO IDEA NOOOOOOOO
why did they have to go
My favorite: 404 tact not found
It's also 3/4 of a fuck being given
I miss seeing the “WHAT?” Guy being called “The idiot from ep 1” or something along those lines
They did the thing! _They played the opening during the final battle! _*_That is so anime! THEY OUT-ANIME'D THE ACTUAL ANIME!_*
Just Some Guy with a Mustache FAR BETTER TO!?!
Not gonna lie though, I got goose bumps when it kicked in
O B dude I feel you. Had the same thing happen to me. It was beautiful
Just Some Guy with a Mustache YAASSS
Just Some Guy with a Mustache Yep. Just like a real anime.
That Bethesda joke has aged like fine wine.
Shhh. Todd Howard is Jesus. That is all.
@@ashwindsouza606 Fuck Todd Howard. He still signed off on Fallout 76.
Duffy Boi at least the updates made it better
@@kinghershybar4294 The word "better" doesn't say much when it comes to dumpster fire 76 (no offense to dumpster fires)
Just wait until you see who published Alfheim.
(Hint: it's a company that protected rapists and racists.)
*when u don't close a tab for 2 years*
That why the game crashed
I'm pretty sure I've done that
@@eriks1765 same
Yo he said at the start I'm just gonna keep that tabbed
I currently have 17 tabs open and I just realized that one of them has actually been open for 2 years XD
I love the idea that Kayaba kept that video tabbed for about 2 years straight
You never know when you might need it 😂
its methuselah honeysuckle
"what exactly were your plans?"
"I don't remember"
"ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?!"
-Everyone's reaction to the original dub.
Too true
thats why this abridged series is awsome
At least they give an explanation lol
@@ja87son *try to give one*
@@beastunleashed657 Better than the original.
When Kirito's sword shatters at 20:03 I just think "Lizabeth quality guarantee".
Simply Tragic me too 😂
Simply Tragic Dragon's poop quality guarantee
guess it really stay true to it's name as the piece of shit...dragon shit that is.
The Illustrious "Lizbeth Quality Guarantee" vs essentially god of the game with the best shield possible. sounds like easy col to me.
it was a piece of shit sword.
Start as parody ended as remastered
WAS ALWAYS REMASTERED
I think it was both
Theres no better way to put it. These men and I will follow you into hell itself
REMAKE
It really did. You can really tell from the first episode that it was just meant to be a parody like all the other abridged series, but it quickly turned into a remastering of the series. They fixed a ton of the problems with the original SAO and flat out made all of the characters far more interesting and entertaining to watch across the board.
“STAARRE…”
“Easy, girl.”
Still one of my favorite lines from this series. Just shows off Kirito and Asuna’s relationship in such a simple way.
"Do you know how many of you have died screaming Leroy Jenkins?"
That one slayed me. XD
My favourite part of that bit is "More than Zero!"
@@Hi-kw5xf really all that needs to be said, doesn’t matter if it’s 1 or 1,000. It’s more than zero, and that’s way too many!
That hit soo hard
It slayed them too.
I spent this whole series waiting for a Leroy Jenkins joke. They really know how to save a good joke for the best possible moment.
So, I just realized that the only reason Asuna’s sword didn't despawn is because she and Kirito shared an inventory
You could argue her clothes shouldn't despawn neither but good point
@@Kaldrin They were probably put into his inventory. Meaning that when she showed up in the void, she was probably naked and had to reequip her shit.
@@jiralishu lmao that makes sense
@@jiralishu But Kirito went to the void with his clothes on
@@virulenthunter3017 there were noone to get the clothes in the inventory at that point but after watching this id argue that only something witty should have the permission to make sense of this anime bullsh*t
Kayaba's reveal here actually makes more sense than the official anime
Blazingmadman98 Indeed.
As a developer I could relate to it.
Honestly, most of the abridged show makes more sense than the original anime.
not exactly a high bar to clear. still, gotta give it to swe that they made a show with complete internal logic that exceeded the original in pretty much every aspect, be it humor, entertainment or the goddamn emotions they keep making me feel. On an unrelated note, why is it raining inside?
Jeff from Mother's Basement called it "Watch this if you want to see how SAO should have gone"
One detail I noticed that I don’t know is intentional or not (but more than likely is) is that, aside from Kirito complaining about the boss, Schmitt brings up the most detailed complaints with the game and he’s been established to be a game reviewer. Just thought it was neat.
Wait that was Schmitt?
@@firestorm165yes
HOLY CRAP, YOU'RE RIGHT!!! I HAVEN'T REALIZED THAT FOR 7 YEARS!! Thanks!
"DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE DIED SCREAMING LEEROY JENKINS?!"
Kaim Argonar MORE THAN ZERO.
I was waiting for a Jenkins reference and it came in an unexpected but extremely pleasing way.
Garret Daniels which as far as I'm concerned, is grounds to exterminate the species.
This show is fucking gold
Kaim Argonar the mans a legend
"Do you know how many of you have died while screaming 'Leroy Jenkins'? More than zero, which as far I'm concerned is grounds to exterminate the species!"
I'm dying
Lol tru dat
At least they have chicken
No the guys screaming Leroy Jenkins are dying
This is my favorite quote of the abridged series 😂
13:38
Heathcliff's other tabs are "Game Design for Dummies," Metacritic's review of SAO, and the IMDB of Dolph Lundgren.
WHAAT
Thats perfect the fact they put such a detail in
facepalm mirror admin web browser 9:20 plus the head boom is now ruclips.net/video/pjnZO5ZgWE8/видео.html
FUKIN A
I loved how Kirito had said before
“The power of love is bullshit”
Only to be saved by the power of love. Something Witty always on point.
"It's a big open world. No one will notice a few glitches."
- No Mans Sky
Have you seen the new updates for No Man's Sky. They are pretty cool...
I just like bringing them up.
Skyler Tesar You can do anything
Tonyy cee talking about minecraft
leave a like if you xd'd during vido
Tonyy cee can't *
"I did it because of Metacritic" is unironically a better motivation than what Kayaba Akihiko got in the actual show.
Considering he might as well not had any motivations at all in the show. Seriously what the fuck was reki kawahara thinking. Out of every fuck up of the original sao, kayaba's "lol I forgot" moment has to be the biggest one.
@@lelouchlamperouge600 I'm honestly impressed that you even remember anything from SAO proper
I think both cases the best motivation for Kayaba would be "I wanted to really live the adventure, like in all of fantasy. But it still all failed. "
You know, coming up with all of this shit to actually live a life he always wanted, would play off perfectly with his personality. He even could reveal he didn't actually kill anyone, just kept them where he kept Asuna and Kirito. THAT would be an ending that unironically makes sense
@@trevorbilliot2625 I genuinely don't.
SAOA is literally the only form of SAO I consider to be worth any time and I credit this series as being the only redeeming feature of the original show.
@@ethandonnelly1973 lmao
Kirito turning into Eric Cartman to mock Kayaba is just so on point.
Truly the voice of a generation.
I was looking fr this comment lol
@@ScottieDoejosame
I didn’t notice it the first 20 times through. I can’t believe I haven’t until now.
@messinabout4570 I also didn't notice until my 20th time and then went on comments to see if anyone else realized this
Anyone who ever ran a guild in a video game should resonate with this episode. "You all seem intent on dying in the dumbest and most avoidable ways possible!" By far my favorite episode.
God, even games with raids alone. People find the dumbest ways to screw it up.
The first time i saw that scene i send it to my guildmates 😂 so on poiny specially the part you ignore my strategies! refuse to work together and then BLAME MEEEEE!!!
As someone who recently tried to do the new Extremes in FFXIV... Yeah, that about sums up me and my FC
I guess that's where the "LEEROY JENKINS" battle cry comes from in the first place. Planning a strategy only to have it derailed by some blood knight screaming and attacking head on.
To be fair, Metacritic probably WOULD be harsher on a game the killed people by accident than one the killed them on purpose
I mean, if a game was made to murder people, then it murder people, the game did what it's supposed to do.
@@Bree420 Nah, nah, you see that's marketing achieving it's purpose~! so their numbers are gonna be lookin great. I'll be sure to forward this data to team at EA :')
I hear the publisher promised the development team bonuses if it killed over 85% of the players
The thing is, nobody could review the game for 2 years
@@apieceoftoast7103 if yandere dev can still get patrons when he started the game in 2014 and it's 2022 now, then kayaba probably has a fair chance of getting reviewed fairly
Kayaba: It’s a metaphor.
Narrator: He cried, not knowing the difference between a simile and a metaphor.
Narrator off
Youcansilencemebutyoucan’tsilencethetruth
The tiniest of his brain dwarfed only by the tinniest of his di-
...dik
@@coldshadow7880 TOO THE RIGHT..
"Power of love may cause paralysis to fail."
Bruh I literally just got home from my video game testing job and this gave me PTSD.
Soooo... is that a common bug then?
@@Hawk_of_Battle No, but it's the kind of absurdly specific bug that devs have to deal with.
@@Hawk_of_Battle It's more that we sometimes get some bug that's caused by something so absurdly obscure that it might as well be the power of love causing it
My headcanon is because they were married there would be a attribute where in a desperate situation status effects are removed.
@@GoatsBaa-dk7nw "If you move with the velocity of light when entering this cutscene, gravity shuts off.
Dont know what caused, dont know how we got that fast, but it's a thing now."
There's a beauty to hearing the originator of, "Kirito is always right," say, "God, I hope I'm right about this."
You mean the Kirito Is Always Right Foundation? With its grand re-opening?
"Fucking Bethesda."
Honestly, this is the funniest joke in the series to me.
It has aged like fine wine, keep in mind, this episode came out over a year BEFORE Fallout 76
And then he uses a Shout to disappear
It just works
I still live for "debating the pro's and con's of lobotomy via soupsoon." Followed closely by "A quantum supercomputer calculating for 1,000 years could not even approach the amount of f"cks I do not give."
I wanted to like this comment, but it's at 666 likes so I didn't want to mess up the number lol
I was reading the credits and...
"Don Fluffles [as] Himself"
Dubious implications indeed.
That’s the name of one of the creators cats most likely
I saw that too lol, I'm guessing that was their own cat and they named h don for real but then added fluffles
“As we speak, SAO is being wiped from the servers and all remaining players will be logged out of the game.”
“But not in that order, right?”
...
“I’m gonna have to get back to you on that one.”
I love how absolutely incompetent Kayaba is
He’s so smart but so dumb
@@michaelliang953 he is one of those geniuses that don't know shit
@@tashunagray7720 That tends to happen when you're surrounded by absolute morons, like he was for 2 years
It's less incompetent and just more overwhelming sleep deprived that specific important points got looked over.
With more time and rest, whole thing would have been avoided.
@@Wittymations it's both he's incompetent and was sleep deprived because even after being in the game for a while he still does really dumb stuff like having one of the leaders of his guild be a cat.
Honestly the use of "This Is War" as the theme is absolutely perfect.
FR, one of my fav songs
I absolutely love the credits song too. Makes me emotional every time I hear it
"WHAT WHY DID I PUT ALL MY POINTS INTO BARGINING" Is the absolute most relatable line ever.
I thought he said pottery, but bargaining makes more sense, now that I think about it
*bartering
@@KarmasAB123
Y’all are both wrong.
“Why?! Why'd I put all my points into Bartering?!”
@@maxrichards3881 for a while i thought it was laundering not bartering
Timestamp?
Knowing now that Microsoft owns Bethesda just makes the story even better. Microsoft made the nerve gear and Kiaba was on Bethesda's team working for Xbox game studios. DEEP LORE.
Oh god, NerveGear was based on Windows Mixed Reality
OMFG, even the godamn future is a reference here
F**K, even in the future nothing works!
Dialgadude 101 Soooo, death screen will be blue screen, I suppose?
@@CiromBreeze Replays the episode 1 scene of that one guy getting repeatedly punched in the face.
My god I forgot how they somehow saved the “I forgot my own plans” ending and somehow made it both hilarious and genuinely depressing and twisting
It really is, a better ending since it show's how one bad day, or in Kayaba's case, THREE WEEKS, probably more, lead him towards what would probably be the BIGGEST and SLIPPERIEST slopes ever, stupefying historians decades to come, and baffling all of mankind when the truth somehow comes to light
God I laughed like hell when he told them the truth behind the death game, I laughed so hard I was crying...
It's ok, SWE did even better, they fixed the whole incest subplot and managed to make a heartbreaking and emotional in it's stead.
@@thegooddoctor2009they somehow take shitty storytelling and revamp it into actually interesting storytelling
I'm dying waiting for the season 1 finale
I can’t believe the real SAO missed the cheat code for hype moments in anime. Putting the title theme into the final fight is *easily* one of the hypest things you can do.
Well, maybe they will do it in the series finale/around-second-to-last episode...
Assuming they don't pull a Kayaba and have it go for so long that they don't remember what the song was anymore...
I've watched this so many times but only just realized his tabs (9:19) are:
Scanners Head Explosion
Dolph Lundgren - IMDb
Metacritic - Sword Art Online
Game Design for Dummies
AHAHAHAHAHA OH MY GOD
Thanks, I tried pausing to read the tabs, but I couldn't make it out. :)
I feel like I'm missing something hilarious
Somebody please explain why the Russian guy from Rocky 4 is that important
@@jotheunissen9274 He was in He-Man I guess. And Kayaba is like both the villain and a hero from it. Maybe.
@@Storyfrombolvar Thanks
I like how Klein is not only a character, but is important, not a whole lot, but his words have made a difference in the story
He's got more impact than in the main series, which isn't saying much. But for Klein? It's the little victories that matter.
*incomprehensible wails of happiness*
Klein is the Joey of SAO in Abridged. Or the Bolin.
@MrCyion I suppose reviving kirito with the resurrection stone thingy from the Christmas special was a minor plot point, assuming that's what's actually happened with that thing
BallsDeep69*
“Ending it 25 floors early”
“Anticlimactic Letdown”
“Imagine”
The blatant shout out is amazing
The show ran out of time
Or because the wanted the final boss for Ordinal Scale
@@acanadianpumpkin I thought it was because they just wanted the series to end
@@Suny-Halo No I'm pretty sure it was because it was a submission for a short story writing contest or prize couldn't be longer as its exceed the word limit. If you want longer aincrad read Sao progressive, it's what the story would have been if he spent as much time as he wanted on it and it goes floor by floor
Well to be fair, the author made a one-shot book at the beggining that have just the s1st episode and the last 2. People thought it was good and make him expand it. That's why it felt anticlimactic. a beggining and end in just 1 book
6 volumes of progressive out so far and I'm loving them should be getting next one this year
It is wild that they gave Kayaba a better justification for doing SAO than the series ever gave us.
Yeah. The original SAO thing was deeply unsatisfying.
If I had written that story, I would have made it slightly different. Like, that dying in the game didn't actually kill you, but removing the Nervegear without logging out will place you into a coma.
The story would unfold the same, since both the characters and the audience still initially think that death in game = death in realworld, but the creator would be less of a screwed up character - instead of willfully killing thousands, instead it would be someone unhinged that wanted people to 'role play realistically' as if they were truly transported into a new world and had to survive. You know, capturing that kind of magic, which would in his opinion be impossible if players could simply log out. And if they knew dying in game would log them out, they would suicide in droves ....
That would also give him a bit of plausible denyiablity. He 'never intended' for it, it 'was a bug', he 'didn't know' what would happen if they died ingame, etc.
@@nordos idk about the coma bit, because people outside the game tried to remove the helmets too, so if they only pit you in a coma, they'd probably have gotten everyone out via coma and just worked to study them and find a way to wake them up. But I do get what you mean.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind him being a total psychopath trying to kill thousands if there was just a reason for it. You could even use the same logic of wanting them to roleplay realistically, it'd work even better if they still died since there's nothing more realistic than true death. But the fact that he didn't even know was too bad. You can have a villain be cruel and evil, but you've gotta at least tell us what he wanted and why.
@@justme22154If I recall correctly the him not remembering line was followed by a summary of "I have a god complex" basically, but I do think it's somewhat less satisfying than "there was a bug, I panicked, and everything, and I mean *everything,* spiraled out of my control from there because by the time I learned it existed I was too delirious for rational thought."
I love how they accidentally humanize Kayaba by having him keeping things tabbed for two years straight
What do you mean accidentally
What do you mean accidentally. He knew he was gonna need that shit.
@@awesomechainsaw you read incorrectly, they didn't say accidentally tabbed, they said the writers accidentally humanized him by making do that
Deddrz Nope I read that right. Just trust me. I like Kayaba never make mistakes.
@@deddrz2549 the writers didnt accidentally humanize him dude
I love how, in the end, this was all Bethesda's fault.
Inkswitch Bethesda WOULD release a glitch like that
Eh, seems more like an EA thing if you ask me
Specifically Bioware, as Dragon Age Inquisition and ME: Andro showed.
Fallout 3 and 4 I'm looking at you.
Fuckin' Bethesda
this stopped being a parody and just became a better version of sao
'Just became'? Dude, it's been a better version since the first episode.
depends on who you ask.
you mean asking a normal fucking person with taste?
Benjamin Fuller you got that right
Benjamin Fuller i honestly think in my mind that this is the real SAO and the "real" one is actually the parody
God, I just realized. every other time Kirito tries to do some big, dramatic reveal, he gets cut off, or someone else does it, or something like that happens. however, we're shown kayaba and Kirito relate to each other, they're two sides of the same coin, and this, up against Kayaba, is the only time that Kirito manages to get his big reveal out, because kayaba respects him enough to let him.
The fact that Kayaba did try to be a good guy but it ended up being too frustrating for him is the most realistic part of the whole series lmao
Crunch is a hell of a fucking drug
The life of a healer.
I think that rant is a way for the SWE to rant to their audience lol
Yeah, the poor guy was pushed to the brink by Bethesda, causing him to go insane, endangering the lives of innocents, and doing all he could to make sure as many of them survived with all he could do. I mean, he didn’t think things through, but who would after losing 500 hours of sleep?
Raid leading can best be summed up as an advanced forum of tard wrangling. Once you’re playing with four or more other people you stop actually being able to talk to people and hope and pray to god they all just shut THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN FOR FIVE GODDAMN MINUTES. But no the idiots will just continue to ramble into the uncaring void clogging coms chattering with their actual friends forcing you to lay down rules and suddenly it’s no longer fun.
God only knows how much worse it is for guild masters that have to delegate as they try and manage well over two hundred people. I’ve chatted about things with my GM a few times. They’ve said it’s like managing a business, with no pay.
"Stabbing you in the chest sounds FUCKING therapeutic right about now", Everyone who's ever worked in retail can relate to this.
Can't tell you how many times I wanted to say that over the now 3 years I've been working
Does working at a hotel for a fuckshit bitch of a coworker? With some entitled blonde
I've been working retail for almost a year now and I've already lost count of how many times I've wanted to say that.
Just dealing with customers
@@justabossman6147 took the words right of my mouth!
"Tell Liz I didn't actually call it the piece of shit." The idea that this manic sat down by himself, gave the sword a meaningful name, and only joked about it to Liz is really sweet and still hilarious.
It's a small detail among many, but it just hammers home how much effort goes into this series. It's never gonna get the recognition it deserves, cause it deserves everything for all the work its small cast and crew put into every second.
I love this series. I surpass RvB as my favorite web show.
Well done.
Better yet... it turned out to be a piece of s**t...
RvB?
@@queencobra326 Red vs Blue.
@@LegoCrafterStudiosAnimation "I surpassed"? As "It surpassed" I know it's a small little misspelling
and still the sword shattered in the most crucial part , if it didn't , the shield would've knocked away and he would've won just like the initial fight in the arena (if kayaba didn't have his cheats on that time) 😂
but i could be wrong since they just fought a boss and didn't repair his weapons in which case , never mind..
Klein having an impact on the story is pretty much a summary of why this is a better show than the original.
“You know how many of you people have died screaming ‘Leroy Jenkins’? More than zero. Which as far as I’m concerned, is grounds TO EXTERMINATE THE SPECIES”
best line ever written.
The only line that makes you actually laugh out loud
Honestly he has a point
If I didn't die to mobs at level 3 while trying to exit the menu, that's how I would go
Even funnier when you heard the original SAO Season 1 bloopers. Liz' voice actress screams Leeroy Jenkins as they fell down into the dragon nest XD
And it begins precisely at 13:37
Coincidence, or genius?
25:57
Oh my God...
4 years. 4 years, and not once did I realize, the leader of Kirito's old guild kidnapped the ONLY tutorial NPC, which is why nobody knew how to play the game.
HOOOOOOLY SHIT YOURE RIGHT! HA
And then the NPC died, further dooming everyone who couldn't figure out the menu.
They ended up killing 2000 people lol
Yknow, that makes a lot of sense.
you ever see a comment and just go "i bet this guy woulda been one of the damn side characters in this show, one the main character would mock"
And from that day forth, Kirito and Klein's friendship blossomed, and it blossomed so well, that they never, ever talked on screen again
Well can you blame Klein for never again playing another videogame let alone a NerveGear game?
until the fourth arc, that is lol
Klein was in ALO after GGO, he had the whole Mjolnir arc
@@myoldhandlewasmadewheniwas9 I stopped watching after GGO so I didn't know that.
@@Callmesenpai1337 he played alheim right?
I think a lot of developers find Kayaba's "f*ck ALL y'all" speech way too real lol.
Did anyone catch it was Lisbeth's sword that broke? Really living up to that Lisbeth Quality Guarantee I see.
It even says it in the subtitles.
@@Kwatcher100 Apologies, I don't quite follow- it says what in the subtitles?
@@CorerMaximus If you turn on the subtitles, at the point where the sword breaks, it says “Lisabeth Quality Guarantee”.
@@Kwatcher100 Thanks for clarifying; I completely missed that! That's pretty funny! xD
Man the subtitles removed it
In short, SAO Abridged is a dramedy about the dangers of excessive crunch periods for game developers.
"Fucking Bethesda"
That quote predicted 76 in its entirety
Seriously. *Never fucking rush a game.* That Bethesda shit can't keep flying.
@@59hawks Oh god that quote aged like fine wine.
@@59hawks lmao what.. No its about New vegas and how they only has what 16 months to make new Vegas? Imagine if they had more time
Honestly you can apply them to everything they do. New Vegas was rushed and it needed the community to fix what Obsidian couldn't, 4 was a pile of overrated shit and barely worked on and the lest said about 76, the better.
Fuck game publishers.
"I could totally build a robot" God I can't wait to be 80 and watch the callback in Alicization
my God do I have a reason to live till 80 now
I think they are only going to do GGO
@@johnyreyes3567 someone said they had a timeline of episode releases on their Patreon back in 2019, wonder if it’s still up.
@@tyrannicaltyr7200 If you can find it, point me in its direction! I’m really curious now 😂
@@johnyreyes3567 they *do* mention in the pinned comment on this video that they'll do all of SAO, so we'll see
How to make your villain sympathetic?
Make them an overworked developer who's game is being published by Bethesda
Imagine if he was an overworked developer working for either Ubisoft, EA, Activision, Konami, Nintendo or Square Enix.
"I'm gonna clap for you with my teeth, buddy!" *Klein chomps his teeth together*
Easily one of my favorite moments
We all need a friend like Klein.
Hey Balls, who is Klein?
@@somerandomwizard5799 Klein: Don't ruin this for me!
lmao i legit rolled back the video to clap alongside him
Klein I made a difference!
That awkward moment when the idea of the entire setup being a mistake is still a more satisfying explanation than the actual anime's explanation.
This whole abridged had better writing, arcs, characters, and references than the original, tbh.
Silly child. The anime had no explanation :)
it makes more sense and is a relevant theme for gaming culture
@@bendystrawz2832 couldnt agree more, i cant even recall a single sentence of the original, i always hear the abridged version when sao comes to mind and/or see shorts of it. 😂
So did they ever establish why kayaba did it or are they keeping with the "I forgot" bullshit?
I can just imagine season two ending:
"Screw this, login: Heathcliff."
"Password?"
"Oh, ah... Dungeonmaster?"
"Accepted."
"Hehe."
Crimson Darkness it could actually be fokin fonny af
Crimson Darkness I....really want to see this happen, actually.
***** this series already did what the og didnt, an actual plot i dont know how they go do fairy dance since its FULL of plot holes and its gunna take a while.
I wouldn't be surprised if they thought it would be easier to skip to gungale
ViralJordan no way, they wouldn't skip the chance to have fun with the scene with Asuna and the tentacle slime scientists in the world tree
I found this gem by watching the RUclips shorts and I don’t regret watching the whole thing in one sitting at all. That is a masterpiece and I can’t believe it’s 10 years old. SAO was one of the first animes I ever watched so it holds a special place in my heart but it definitely has its issues. This version is 100x better! Thank you 😊
Rewatching this series (again), a thought occurred: Whenever this parody gets to the GGO arc, part of me kind of hopes that Death Gun turns out to be Don Fluffles. Would be f**king hilarious.
: D (:
OMG YESSSSSSS
No no, Death Gun is going to go by the name King of Ashes, but it is Don Fluffles.
I don't know about that, they've already laid the groundwork for that character. In the GGO arc Kirito remembered the players name was Johnny Black. In SAOA one of the Laughing Coffin guys that came to kill Schmitt was Johnny Black. "Meat toboggan"
I'm honestly just waiting to see how they abridge the scene with kirito asuna and obarron(can't remember his real name) where some disturbing things happen. Are they gonna turn it funny or keep the creepy factor.
"Next thing you know is your tutorial NPC is nowhere to be found"
This is so amazing
KD [ ]
o H my GaWd.
Dammit! Sachi!! Your frickin’ guild killed 2000 people!
@@Lavantte It the guild leader not Sachi tbf.
I was 690th like noice
This came out nearly 4 years ago, and yet the whole metacritic, crunch crisis thing could have been written yesterday.
Holy shit i only just realised this is like 3 years old
It works because of happenstance events taking place, but also because they are universal.
Developers being forced to crunch hard and rush out a game that could've used another few months of work is a tale as old as time. And will probably exist for the next decade at least. It's industry culture and hard to change.
@@doghat1619 *Cough* WWE 2K20 *Cough*
1000th like
Even 6 years afterwards, the needle drop in the fight, all the callbacks and the actual reasoning of Kayaba is still PEAK writing and editing, I dare say this may be my favourite series of all time, also hats off to all the writers and performers involved for helping put together such actualized characters
I love how Klein claims to have a life outside Kirito but loses his mind when Kirito says anything remotely nice about him
i have a life outside of the queen of england, but it would def make my year if i got a compliment from her
It’s negging at its finest
@@tabinb.6984 “I have a life outside of the queen of England…” is easily my favourite phrase now
@@tabinb.6984 this aged well
@@tabinb.6984 poorly aged
I like how the left tab in his web browser is called "Game design for dummies"
Wait is it actually? I didn't notice.
@@areo3466 yea, if you can get the messages or pictures they're all pretty funny, like the message Asuna gets in the cottage is asking her bikini shots
@@1spitfyre "Frontlines!"
I guarantee that every game dev, from amateurs to industry professionals, are still gonna be using that.
The whole “Tron” thing was a better way to reveal Heathcliff’s identity.
@Liam Berg (STUDENT) idk I just remember it was fucking stupid. Oh right because some bullshit of "No one would ever watch another person play an MMO" or something
@Liam Berg (STUDENT) If memory serve me right, it was because Kirito remember back when he was dueling Heathcliff he clearly stroke him but didn't hit for some reason.
@Liam Berg (STUDENT) his plan was to stab everybody until someone failed to die.
@Liam Berg (STUDENT) He noticed his health didn’t go below green when everyone else almost died, then a flashback to the duel made him remember the impossible speed Heathcliff used to block one of his attacks. Kiyaba later tells about how he had to cheat to increase his speed to block the attack. Kirito basically had a very vague idea that Heathcliff might be Kiyaba and decided to stab him. And they weren’t even locked in the boss room in the original anime.
"It's basic psychology, there's nothing more boring than watching someone else play an MMO" basically the dumbest shit lmao
Why does Kayaba's voice sound so _perfect_
P is for priceless, the look upon your faces.
E is for extinction, all your puny races.
@@lazydelibird 🎵E is for extinction, all you puny races.🎵
@@lazydelibirdE is for Extinction of all your puny races...
Because he is the world's fuck-mothering vampire
"DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED YELLING LEROY JENKINS?!?!""MORE THAN ZERO."
I actually lost it 😂
"WHICH, AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED, IS GROUNDS TO EXERMINATE THE SPECIES!"
he's got a point
Isaiahs channel Yeah same, but what *_really_* got me... was thinking up which of the known characters might've actually done that, & actually thinking up what -more than likely low level- monster they charged. I thought this up, add I *_ALMOST_* stopped laughing. it hurt so hard.
LEEERROOOYYYYY JENKINS!!!
... i do that way to much in overwatch and TF2...
Isaiahs channel I read this comment exactly as the video said this and I also burst out laughing.
"Truly, you are a voice of a generation."
Isaiahs channel I
"Forget mole people! About halfway through I swore I saw the face of God!... Until I realized that was the night janitor, Reki."
I love this little detail. Reki is the family name of Reki Kawahara, who is the writer of SAO. Basically, the god of this whole thing, since _he_ is the creator. And Kayaba said he saw the face of God. Sounds like a connection to me...
Dude, that’s amazing
Damn this is clever
@@horimiya7290 Ikr? The writers are _something_
Oh my god
I just realized this and searched the comments to see if anyone else did hahaha
I just want to know how the *“WHAT”* guy survived the entire game
He was carried by his mates the whole time
Tho at that point I prob would have ditched specifically him within the first month, he would have gotten everyone killed.
Probably god tier mechanics despite 0 braincells.
@@Obsi399 Tfw you're raiding with someone who's parsing in the 99th percentile but that same person wouldn't surprise you if he told you he ate paste as a child.
Either got carried, or was so out of focus he was hellishly good at fighting. How does that work? Hit it until it dies, and don't freak the fuck out, I guess-
WHAT?!
...The entire SAO incident caused by unforeseen glitches, stress to meet deadlines, and poor Developer choices brought on by said stress and sleep deprivation...That is so realistically believable its terrifying.
“...I love you, Asuna.”
“I know.”
I refuse to believe Asuna’s response isn’t a Star Wars Episode V/VI reference.
Edit: I figured as much when I made the comment. It was clever.
It is, and that's the point.
And that's when you knew that Asuna loves Kirito, because she responded in his own language.
16:12 When your girlfriend says anime is for children
Of course it is. It's the movie reference game.
I cant find the song for this scene god damn.
I adore how in the original Kirito is the only one not paralyzed because protagonist I guess but in this version it's because Kayaba not only feels a connection to him but thinks he's the only one smart enough not to pull something
I thought it's because he refused to wear the white guild robe thing lol.
@@lilrobodoge6749 then what about klein and Tiffany or the members of the mafia and the other dragon guild. Wouldn't work
@@cuegert9895 yeah i somehow forgot about them lol.
Cause he’s suppose to fight Kayaba no?
It was because Kayaba literally had it on for everyone but him because he wanted fight to the death with the “hero of aincrad”
"I love you asuna"
Realize the the real Kirito NEVER SAYS THAT!
while this one says it twice
please my headcannon is THIS is the real anime
Avery Anderson no I think he said wanna fuck
Avery Anderson when he say that
well, i know this comment was in 2017 so i just wanna disclaim: yayyyyy he actually said it in the Ordinal Scale movie!
Rewatching this again, and i love how asuna makes fun of all of the "stare" moments in anime. Honestly a masterpiece
To quote BallsDeep69
“THIS IS EVERYTHING I’VE EVER WANTED!!!”
I actually made an account on something called ballsdeep69 ballsy has my respect
@@OversteerAllDay Both you and Balls have my respect
@@komagamez2000 you also have my respect for being so kind
@@OversteerAllDay thank you
@@OversteerAllDay ballsdeep69 is that u
''tutorial NPC is nowhere to be found''
the fact that this instantly reminded me of that asshole that filled his guild with NPC's made me laugh so hard.
That's the point
Just cause he didn’t know how to play the game doesn’t mean he didn’t PLAY the game
@@thepagemaster2963 WINK.
This series is so well written. Like there are so many callbacks, set ups, and payoffs. It's better written than most professional tv shows.
@@trequor I got my mate to watch this, he's never watched the original, and he kept pausing and popping up to me to mention how he was catching references to loads of shit I haven't seen.
So I consider this series a damned masterpiece and half of it has flown over my head. That's quality shit right there
Man in about 70 years when we get to alicization, the abridged is going to be hilarious.
I'm really hoping Ariel Hansen(Saber's VA in UBW Abridged) voices Alice.
Abridged!Stacia Asuna: I’m sure as Hell not gonna die like that dumb bitch Yugioh.
Abridged!Kirito: E-eugeo…
Abridged!Stacia Asuna: Shhhhh. It doesn’t matter. He’s dead now. I promise things are gonna be different this time.
Then we’ll all be watching in hell.
I can’t wait to hear abridged kirito’s reaction to getting stuck in Underworld
@@EchoingVision In hell, they only show the original version of SAO.