Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet

One of the best sao games.

Eh, I guess it's an ok game, but it falls short on several aspects. Definitely do not buy at full price, it is just insulting for what this game is worth. The gameplay is decent, fun combats, many weapon options, gear choices, skill choices, leveling etc. It's probably the game's strongest point despite being nothing really special. Your party's AI is... abysmal. The music is fairly good, but sometimes seems chosen at random. You'll get what sounds like combat music while walking around the hub for example. The game design is so horrible, I hope they fired whoever was lead designer. The start of the game is an in-game tutorial, cool, you learn to move around and shoot... and then you get lots of dialogs, and story, and dialogs... It takes over 2h to get through the tutorial (and by that I mean, a couple minutes of the in-game tutorial you play through, and then hours of dialogs and info screens), you are bombarded with dozens of tutorial screen, introduced to a ton of characters you'll want to forget about immediately after. They could have made everything progressive, teaching you about new aspects as you go... but no, you get a massive tutorial about stuff you probably won't need for a couple hours and will forget about by then. You can't rebind keys, and the shortcuts displayed are horrible. Want to cancel? hit backspace! (why not escape? why have me move my hand all the way to the right of the keyboard?) The worst part is most of the time, there are alternate keys for these actions that make more sense (for example, right click to cancel) but the game displays the worst ones and lets you guess the others. You can not chain quests on the main quest line. So you'll do the quest to get to Point B, then you have to go back to the hub, to get the quest to do something at point B, then go do it... and go back to the hub to get the quest to move to point C... and so on. This makes the game very tedious, and there is quite frankly no reason to do this aside from artificially making the game longer. Some things are poorly explained. You'd think a 2h tutorial would explain everything you need, but no, appraising items for example, is not really explained, and you could easily miss it for a very long time. The story... I honestly have no idea what the story is. After hours of useless dialogs I just tuned out and started skipping every cutscene. it is that bad. The writing is absolutely terrible. I wouldn't mind some fluff/discussions with the anime characters, but it's just hours of filler text that says nothing and does not advance the story in any way shape or form. You also get tons of dialog choices, where you get to pick your answer, but 90% of the time, the choice makes absolutely no difference, and you are choosing between "yes" and "certainly". It is absolutely pointless. At the start of the game you find a special item, and every single person you talk to for the next 20 mins has to tell you how lucky you are. Repeatedly. What should have been 1 sentence from 1 character is something like 200 sentences from 10 characters who all repeat the same thing. Thanks game, I get it, I should feel lucky. Please move on. Soon after that there is even a question that an NPC asks you, and 5 minutes later, another NPC asks you exactly the same question, and one of the options is to mention the other NPC already asked you. Selecting that option does essentially nothing, and you get to pick another answer. This is such poor writing I can't understand what would possess someone to think hey, why don't we have more than one NPC ask you exactly the same thing? That does not sound like a waste of time at all! TLDR: Decent gameplay, terrible design/dialogs, get it for very cheap, but at the price asked, it's an absolute no from me.

Really fun game if you enjoy grinding for slight improvements in gear and replaying hardcore co-op missions for bounty; if you don't like grinding too much then just play the normal campaign if it's on sale. You don't have to be a SAO fan to enjoy this game but it would definitely help justify buying it

I played Fatal Bullet a lot on the PS4, and it’s amazing to be able to play it on PC. Fatal Bullet was something new compared to the other SAO games we had before, and it really stood out. However, multiplayer is no longer much of an option since it’s often dead and there aren’t many players online. If you have friends to play with, though, it’s still fun to enjoy the game together. The campaign is a 50/50 mix of good and bad, but overall I enjoyed it.

我玩过的游戏里经济系统最数值崩坏的。推到一周目中后期，干什么都越来越贵，但是打怪给你的钱却是始终不变的，跟一开始完全一样。打最后那几个boss给的钱和材料甚至还不够升级一把枪。 商店价格也是贵得要死，我要是纯靠个人攒钱的话，直到现在都不可能买得下神秘情报。 这是我玩过的所有游戏里，唯一入了风灵月影宗门的。

very good game if you're a fan of SAO especially the phantom bullet arc or GGO spinoff