Sword Art Online: Lost Song

Here are reasons you might buy this game: 1. Fan service. All the girls have bikini, school, and towel outfits. 2. Flight. You can fly in “ALO”. 3. Fan service. Breasts jiggle. I was genuinely surprised by how much those things get around. 4. Swords. It’s an SAO game with swords. 5. Fan service. Body types range from Silica to Sakuya. Flying around in ALO sounded nice, and the game was on sale for about $3, so I got it. If the things I listed above are all you ever wanted in an SAO game, then I suppose picking this up for 85% off will be great for you. Last I checked, the game is often on sale for that much. The gameplay is mindless hack-and-slash against hordes of damage sponges that respawn faster than you can kill them. It will often feel too grindy, even if it’s not very difficult. Anyway, the rest of this review is me complaining that the story and characters suck. ALO is frankly a great setting. You might be looking forward to engaging in the fairy wars that are supposed to take place in ALO. Let me tell you what actually happens: A girl called Dr. Rainbow preaches to the world that PvP in video games is real violence. In response to this, Kirito, who loves PvP, say…

I am Pibble, wash my belly

I bought *SWORD ART ONLINE Lost Song* because I wanted a fun action RPG. What I got was an **Asuna appreciation simulator with optional gameplay**. The flying? Amazing. The combat? Pretty fun. The story? I have no idea. **Asuna? 11/10.** Every time Asuna showed up, I immediately forgot what quest I was doing. NPC talking? Skip. Enemy attacking? Ignore it. Important story event? Doesn't matter. **Asuna is on screen.** That is the entire game. The developers somehow managed to create an open-world flying RPG where my main objective became flying around looking for Asuna like my life depended on it. Kirito can save the world or whatever. I'm busy appreciating the greatest character ever created. And don't even get me started on Asuna's outfits. The game could have crashed every 10 minutes and I'd still be sitting there like: *"Worth it. Asuna was on screen for 7 seconds."* The title says **Lost Song**, but the only thing I lost was my ability to pay attention whenever Asuna appeared. **Final score: 10/10.** Would play again. Would ignore every quest again. **Would simp for Asuna again.**

No amount of SAO story-telling can make me enjoy this game in any sense. This was a poorly handled port, and honestly I dont think it should have had a port. It should have stayed dead where it was. The game barely lets you make sense of anything, before overwhelming you with enemies that have no downtime, they respawn the second you kill them, and the game just expects you to navigate all that, towards an objective, that it doesnt even do a good job of directing you towards. Theres also the problem with the plot, only highlighting Dungeons that you can even access until your past the tutorial (I assume). I felt as if I was soft-locked out of everything. Dont even get me started on the combat.. it feels stiff and jilted. I tried this game with controller and KBM, and... honestly I cant tell which control scheme thinks its competing for 1rst place, because the controls are just... garbage. I enjoy the characters of SAO, but this aint it, I know Im getting 'old' but this game.. is just ass, and you'd miss nothing by skipping this one. The only reason someone would play this today, is for archival research purposes at best. I REALLY wanted to like this game. This game had other plan…

Trash

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