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SWORD ART ONLINE Alicization Lycoris Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Anime fans around the world will be familiar with Sword Art Online. The light novels and the sprawling media empire that they spawned follow the exploits of Kirito as he stumbles from being trapped in one online video game to another. Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris is the latest game to follow Kirito’s misadventures and the first to attempt to directly adapt the events of the light novels. The results, unfortunately, are mixed at best. The story of Sword Art Online has always lent itself toward video game adaptation, allowing characters to reference things like hit points, experience, and levels without breaking the fourth wall. In this iteration, Kirito finds himself in a strange virtual place called Underworld with no memory of how he got there. His quest to contact the outside world is hampered by the fact that none of the other people he meets seem to know they’re in a video game. Most of the inhabitants that Kirito encounters are flat and lifeless TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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adding to the shallow feeling that we got from the rest of the game. It sure makes a good first impression, though. The opening cutscene is stunningly beautiful, with fluid motion and gorgeous animation that looked like it could have come from the best bits of the anime. The developers did an amazing job of recreating the anime’s epic feeling. Unfortunately, the game seldom looks that good again. Most subsequent cutscenes and animation are stilted and plain, with villains not even given mouth flaps when they speak. It feels like something that you would see two console generations ago and stands in stark contrast to the high bar the opening sets. It’s like giving us a Michelin star-worthy appetiser and then quickly replacing it with a fast-food main; it’s serviceable but didn’t live up to our expectations, leaving us frustrated. The skill and ability are there but either budget or time constraints prevented developer Aquria from delivering.

They always shared the same moments

The technical issues with the game don’t end there. Several times during our playthrough, characters wouldn’t animate in a cutscene, meaning that their model would merely slide across the floor rather than walk. Despite how wide open the world looks, the developers have managed to make it feel painfully small thanks to invisible walls that pop up without warning. There are frequent and long loading screens, the most jarring of which appeared in the middle of a cutscene. Every hour we played we experienced at least one or two of these issues. These issues hamper what is, at its core, a decent action-(J)RPG. The combat is smooth and fun, with visually exciting auto-combos and powerful sword arts to unleash on enemies. It starts simple and adds layers of complexity during the game’s first ten hours. Even grinding isn’t a drag here because fighting the average enemy is engaging. Camp Buddy 

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When Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris gets out of its own way, it manages to be a decent game. Throughout the excessively long tutorial, you’re introduced to its combat system. Tying attacks together with your AI companions is the key to success against the more powerful foes you’ll encounter. New skills are unlocked through the Skill Tree system, though they can’t be assigned until much later in the game. This became a running theme of our time with Alicization Lycoris – showing us all the fun stuff we’d be able to do several hours before we were able to do it. It is a frustrating and confusing design choice. When you’re not slaying monsters, the story unfolds through a combination of 3D and 2D scenes that are heavy on dialogue and light on action. Because most of the game is so plainly animated, it is easy to get bored as characters dump lore on you.

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The plot for the first several chapters mirrors the source material closely before it diverges to tell a new story. The transition to the new story is handled somewhat clumsily, with large time skips that brush over major plot points. It is pretty clear that Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris is intended for existing fans of the franchise, complete with the option to skip much of the opening plot to get to the original material sooner. The game gets off to a slow start and takes a long time to recover. As we mentioned before, new features and systems will continue to pop up more than ten hours in. Even something as simple as fast travel, which is introduced almost immediately, isn’t accessible until you’re four hours into the game. Multiplayer aspects are locked until nearly 20 hours in, which keeps you from using the most interesting features. Joining other people’s games, either friends or random strangers, can be a fun way to pass the time but you have to invest so much time getting there that it loses all appeal. Camp Buddy Scoutmaster Season

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Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris hits all the notes you’d expect. Players can craft their own armour and weapons, go fishing, and complete side quests. These aspects feel shallow and tacked on, though, lacking any challenge to improve on the game’s dry opening. It doesn’t do a great job of satisfying JRPG fans who want depth, and also manages to disappoint fans of the series as a whole. This one is safe to miss, then, unless you simply have to see every possible story within the Sword Art Online world. While there’s a good game in here trying to get out, there are better RPGs and better Sword Art Online titles out there. Video games based on anime usually go one of two ways: they either try to emulate the anime as closely as possible, beat for beat, or they go their own way to offer something fresh. It’s hard to have that both ways, and Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris’ attempt to pull it off ends badly.

Kirito meets a boy named Eugeo

Not only does its long-winded visual novel-style recounting of the story become dull and interfere with the intensity of the action, which could’ve thrived if allowed to do its thing, it locks out features as fundamental as co-op and character customization for far too long. On the one hand, there is a lot of faithful adherence to the source material: just as in the latest season of the anime, Kirito finds himself trapped in a Matrix-style virtual world known as Underworld with no way out, and many of the show’s familiar characters, such as Eugeo, are here in full force and fully playable. The premise leads to some clever fourth-wall breaking humor and lots of technical jargon with made up sci-fi terms. For the first third or so of the adventure it follows the anime storyline as a blueprint, although it unfortunately skips over many significant events and retcons several key plot points along the way that would have helped add necessary context in an attempt to make the lore more accessible.

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Instead, it feels incomplete. So, even though you don’t really need to have seen the anime to follow what’s going on generally, it helps a lot. But even then in some other cases, though, prior knowledge could confuse you because Alicization Lycoris diverges so dramatically.The result is a story that lacks focus and spreads itself too thin. It dives deep into things that didn’t need the extra focus, such as between-quest side character conversations that go on for more than 30 minutes, while glossing over entire arcs of the story in latter portions. There’s also no option for English voiceovers, which is a drag for me personally as someone who prefers to watch the show dubbed. It’s kind of shocking how much time you’re forced to spend reading the story through subtitles. It’s kind of shocking how much time you’re forced to spend reading the story through subtitles.

It’s not uncommon to literally spend five minutes on a quest to kill a monster and then spend the next full hour bouncing between long load screens and 2D character illustrations talking to each other relentlessly. I’m all for character development, but dumping tedious dialogue with descriptions of events that happen off-screen isn’t interesting when they could be shown or experienced instead. These visual novel chapters interrupt the action-RPG side of Alicization Lycoris so frequently that it never settles into a rhythm in either genre. Which is a real shame because actually playing Sword Art Online is engaging. Everything happens in real-time with beautifully flashy art and animation, so even though the fiction is set within an MMO the combat doesn’t feel like one. It’s much more like a traditional action-RPG with fast-paced combat, combos, aerial juggling, and several abilities that can chain together between party members. Carnal Instinct

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