Echoes of Aincrad

I like the game so far

game's fun and i'm really loving the story so far. definitely would love to see more of this and would love one where i can make my character have animal ears and tail. but other than that game is pretty fun.

The game is meh, I was playing for the nostalgia of which it has none. The soul of Sao isn't there. Not even the soundtrack.

The game is alright. It is a story-driven game with your character and their friends experiences through the death-game. For being the game it set out to be, it does it all fine and good enough. It is good enough for what it is. It portrays the world and the setting accurately with it's gamey map layout and NPCs standing about. Most negative reviews are schizo though because they talk about this game being something it was never marketed as. They want a true SAO simulation and this is not it and it was never meant to be. "SAO fans has been screaming for years about a game where all 100 levels can be explored with other players in a true simulated world" sounds cool but this game, Echoes of Aincrad was never markerted as such so they're basically giving a fake review for a game that don't exist.

une vraie bouse la fin, sanctuaire sur sanctuaires, meme environnement pendants des heures. Au final battre un hibou et tu ne savais pas que c'était le boss de fin. Bien baclé la fin

so far these game are very good but certain parts are bores me. imagine spend 2 to 3 hours just to walking simulator in the whole map. i wish i wish and i wish the next content about getting new floors gotta be free hehe

Well, I finished the game now after 64 hours on normal mode, and I don't know. Like many others, I cannot recommend the game at full price for multiple reasons. I am a big SAO fan, and being able to play as your own character in Aincrad was fun, but too much was repetitive. Story and Characters: [contains Story SPOILER !!] For starters, the story has so much potential as a side story of SAO, but sadly isn't even finished and also opened up through many side characters which never really got followed or picked up later on. It feels like big open ends for most likely DLCs. On the note of side characters, they get thrown in but never play a big role, which is a little bit sad. They don't follow up on their story or what those characters are about, like the two player killers at the beginning. You receive later on, two cutscene again that they also received a brooch for the storyline that we play, and after the extra episode that they also have a guild now or cult.. but that's it. Neither do you fight, help, or interact with them again. Same with Cal from the prologue; he is just gone, and at some point, his brother appears with an annoying personality who thinks he is Sasuke from Naruto. (we find out why he likely is liek that regardless is that character trait at the "almoste" end of the game just annoying. And since iam talking about annoying characters, what is up with Lara at the end? A random idol you help which proceedes to on a wim following you because she is bored? Her character personality is super annoying to much of a diva for a random. If you really had a bigger choice, I would've left her in the cave where you find her. World Design and Exploration: The world is big, but feels still somewhat empty, at least it looks nice. In general, there are, for the amount of game time, not enough things that really were worth spending time on. At some point, I was just running through to the TPs to open up the map and then run from chest to chest and to the objective goal. The World is not really open-world, but just a few map areas per quest, feels more like an instance-based game than a truly open-world. Please, devs, do something about the barriers. My lord, every time a cutscene for the barrier, now being accessible, and then one extra for opening it.. thats a tat bit annoying, espacialy if there are round about 50 of those. Plus, I get the arc barriers (defeating a boss to open up the lock on the barrier), but what is with those random barriers that you just need to access from the right direction, and sometimes literally the direction you are anyway coming from right now? So annoying to also then have cutscenes. The chests also don't need to be in such abundance in this game, especially not if sometimes placed next to each other and at other times a million miles apart. Furthermore, the random stuff other than blueprints doesn't need to be in them, especially not the Col (money). This is even more unnecessary if, like me, you didn't even have to spend a quarter of all the money at the end, and I was pretty generous and upgraded a lot of weapons. So what is it for if you don't need it? This makes it feel like they just tried to put something in to make it feel like random loot. Combat and Weapons: You finish pretty fast with obtaining the skills for your chosen weapon, and while you can use all of them and level them all up, the only issue for me is that you pretty much run through 99% of the game with the same skills. Since there isn't really much variety, I got stuck with three specific skills for the rest of the game. Later on, the story doesn't even let you equip specific story weapons because of plot restrictions, which doesn't feel rewarding at all. For example, I was playing with daggers. Guess who wasn't allowed to equip the legendary story dagger? It didn't even show up in my items at all. What the heck is this? Who thought—especially since the story isn't even finished—"Hmm, those weapons should be story-locked for the likely big battle at the end where the side characters have their respective weapon types"? Seriously, let me equip the weapons that I collected! Did they forget what this game is about? It's an MMORPG-style game, which means looting, leveling, and equipping items and weapons. What happened here? All in all, playing a game that leaves a huge opening in the main story is just weird in general, and honestly, it is my biggest issue. - SPOILER ALERT !! I continued playing because there was an "extra episode" available. Well, it turned out to be just a bunch of quests for some gemstones in a dungeon crawler format. These stones basically just give you stat boosts, which you don't even really need. On top of that, there was one boss fight against a level 200 high-level underling of the likely final story boss, whom we haven't even encountered yet. Interestingly, while the boss was level 200, I was only level 70. Yet, there wasn't even a grind required to beat him. .. Instead of making it a separate extra episode, they could have at least used this content as a proper conclusion to the first chapter. But hey, what do I know about story design? e.e

⭐⭐⭐

Best game ever