Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream is the Most SAO Game to Date, But I'm Worried About the Grind 

Much potential, standard concerns. I'd be down to party up sometime at release though!

Do you happen to have a Discord or anything? I wouldn't mind having an in-depth chat about the game.

Yes there should be a link on our website and I think the about section in our video

It looks very interesting. I don't mind some grind to be honest. It's sad that this game is really designed around co-op missions. I am no lover of co-op or on-line gaming. I am purely a single player gamer, so I do not have the feeling this game is for me. The Steam page indicates it's playable as a single player, but I have my strong doubts. It's a shame that this review only focuses on the co-op part of the game, so I have no idea or indication if it playable as a single player. As a result this review is not very usable for me. Maybe an idea to not forget about single players next time?

Wish they'd make more Dot Hack, SAO, and Digimon crossover games!

FD is looking to be very amazing but this was in development at the same time as Aquria's so there's a good chance the next SAO game will be theirs, I just hope they took feedback from LR lmao

same it was my first one it was insanely grindy too but i loved it

FR for me only fatal bullet the most GOOD GAME of SAO series, they were right when they said they only good to make a series or movie, but they are bad to make a game... Lycoris and Recollection for me was the same game with the same gameplay, same visual, graphic and else... nothing different, only the story, but they make the price so expensive for a shitty game.. funny is? i still buy it wtf, but in here bandai was only publish this game, they change the dev for this one that's why the visual was WAY more better, and the gameplay was way more smooth.. i have hope on this and yeah the range character gameplay was surely fatal bullet for me XD I LOVE IT! in here we can play shinon, not only her... LLENN! the most canon character that the fans really love.. i dont have a regret buying the PO for this... it's worth it for me, and this thing was WAY more cheaper btw

Let be real here, before this game, Aquria has always been the one that give their all the most in their SAO games, even within the limitation and budget of Bandai Namco side. Fatal Bullet has lackluster story and bad silent protagonist, with the gameplay just didn't redeemed these flaws at all. I can see there's strong technical polishing this game has compare Fatal Bullet, but unless they consistently delivered quality story mode, Dimp won't surpassed Aquria's effort anytime soon.

Some lobbies will probably be filled with bots like most games do

There will probably be a dedicated discord server for the hardcore SAO FD players

It has crossplay with all the consoles, PC, Switch, PS5 and Xbox. That makes it much, much better as it ensure a healthy community even if the playerbase drops hard on one platform.

@@taigaaisaka6305I agree !

they fill the lobbies with bots even during the network test

it's pretty flat honestly, in trailers they talk about "character customization" but you can't swap your skills lol other SAO games had hundreds of skills to choose for your build

It’s what keeps me coming back.

Long as it doesn't hit gigas cedar legendary level of grind I'm good. That took so many hours of pure farm lol

There’s an mmo in development called Age of Aincrad if you’re looking for an SAO inspired game to play soon!

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Lycoris was honestly a good game last recollection cut out so much that it was a barebone version of lycoris the only reason to play it is to get what is one of my top ending credits since it gives most everyone a happy ending from the whole series and even hints at strea and yui still worrying over persona vabel

@@ElectricGhost66u most of not played day 1 lycoris

@@steelframer i played them all day 1 so yes i know all about the buggy mess it was but not only where all those fixed in patches release pretty consistently but also until the end of its run it received so many great updates if it was enough to make you dropped it fine but acting like the state of the current game isn't great when they have done so much is just closing your eyes and choosing to stay blind again comparing lycoris and last recollection the latter was just a glorified dlc that removed core mechanics for no reason making multiplayer only dungeon based rather than open world like lycoris. the dlc was locked inside 2 dungeons that you had to run 16 times minimum to finish each more if you wanted the special weapon dropped within them. again alicization was a great game obviously it's not ranking number 1 but it's not going to be bottom of the list. Like I said the only reason to even finish last recollection is for that ending cutscene it's the only thing they did right giving everyone a happy ending telling us what the future has for them as well as acknowledging sao vs accel world was the only reason I found it to even be worth it obviously you can just look it up

Because this is the first online SAO game, I think it might divide the player base who enjoys the single player story. I’m up for whatever, but I’m curious how they’ve implemented this in the game. - Azario

Facts

​@NoisyPixelNews Fatal Bullet was online too.

​@@NoisyPixelNewsshouldn't divide people for that reason there's still a full single player game that you need to play to unlock the characters and I don't doubt the dlc will probably include single player episodes for the new characters so there's enough for both single player and multiplayer

The animation lock took me out completely. I was shooting guns into the air most of the time because the boss/monsters kept moving out of the way… I don’t know how much they’ll get fixed on 1.5 weeks but I guess we’ll see

Haha this is true

Dunno If you played on pc but you can disable them

@@Riceisgood777 good to know! PS5 but I have PC as well. Thanks for the info 😊

Believe it or not you only experience a small lag during the zoning area waiting for everyone to load in but once the game starts the lag seems non existent. We tried on a steam deck and laptop and both performed very well.

It will!

Yup, there's cross play 😊

It is LLENN but ofc customized weapons and appearance.

Oh… If this is ur first time giving it a shot then severely lower your expectations. Because I’m still on the camp that this might be a cash grab. There’s a couple of red flags about this game that don’t sit right with me. (Not the store though I mean if they plan on selling cosmetics that’s never an issue to me)

There is single player content where you can take on missions and customize your party. Also you can switch to other party members on the fly. This was only the online content.

@@NoisyPixelNews Alright, thanks. Good to hear, that there is some online stuff, if you want to play that. But that there is also Single player stuff.

Its similar to Granblue Relink, just.. much more unrefined/janky so beware!

It is mostly multiplayer single player is only for the story content there is a trailer that introduced the game mechanism

@@reisenfer1but the thing is I don’t know anyone playing grand blue relink I know and have friends playing this

Hard disagree there will be more characters unlocked via story and if you only play kirito it forces you to try out either another class or another character in the same category each character has passive skills other characters can equip

@@mondragonmsaul308 well, that will backfire eventually... If they want to stick with one character, why block that? It happens in every game. So no, invalid point. Relink did it right and they can play what they want with others, doesn't matter if the party is made with 4 same characters.

Let me know if you find out 🫣

For this, I think it depended on which time you played. I think there were more bosses than what I played.

There were 3 bosses. The Skull Reaper, the Kobold Lord and the Sword Golem

Boss changes depending on time

@@SilverShionI think he’s talking about the dungeon mission the boss raid had the other 2 bosses also Christmas is around the corner so if they don’t add Santa clause I think it’ll be a hard missed opportunity

Who did you play as the most?

so tierd of pepole crying about that

I feel like this prolem could be smartly solved, by allowing us to customize the pre existing character much more deeper, essentialy turning them into our "own" character. For example allowing us to change the color of the outfits, change the haircut of the characters, being able to put on visible badges or capes on them and so on. Look up Warframes fashion to understand what i mean.

The characters can be chosen only once per party, you can't have 2,3 or 4 kiritos in one party before crying inform urself

@@reisenfer1or even us allowing to use the skin of another character. You could do like Kirito (LLENN) to imply you’re using a kirito skin on a LLENN model. I would’ve taken that too.

god pepole will never stop crying about this

​@@gamerbeast3616 fr lol

​@gamerbeast3616 maybe because we're tired of being forced into playing as him in nearly every game.

​@@idontknowwhatimdoing9932 except in this game you literally don't have to play as him since there's other characters, we know y'all hate his entire being so play anyone else but him.

​@terminate_all not only that we haven't been forced to play as kirito in a while since we have custom characters for most of the sao games

Agree, apart from Fatal Bullet

I actually think most of them are fun with really robust and technical rpg and combat mechanics, but the last few games were lackluster.

Yeah I have bought all of them on sales except the Last Recollection. I loved the anime but I keep being disappointed by the games so I finally stopped buying them.

they arent fanservicey

⁠​⁠@@gamerbeast3616I have all of them except lycrois they do have fanservice but it’s not the main part of the gameplay they do tho keep on sucking off kirito and the “situations” he gets in and him always avoiding the fact that he is in a relationship with asuna. I think the only ones that dont do that is fatal bullet and sao vs accel world if I remember correctly. Always the new female lead gaining fillings for kirito. Philia, strella, seven, rain, premiere, and I haven’t played lycoris but I wouldn’t doubt it’s in there also most if not all of them have a date mechanic that will give you a fan service esque screen shot

They do the same thing but better but they’re not pulling in people like the sao game is also get friends or meet people via the game it’s a lot more fun with friends like any other online game is

Dekudeals usually shows sales a month or 2 after release for about half off. Id pay 30$ for it but not 60-100$

they dont

​@@gamerbeast3616they definitely do lmfaoo

Also i played the beta and loved it. I hate SAO but my wife loves it, and I told her theres finally a game ill play with her

They’re whole review is that they enjoyed it, why are you whining?

@@JimC1984 It's interesting how a simple feature can bring up such a mix of emotions. It sounds like you're processing quite a bit-especially with the mention of your wife and her love for SAO, which we hadn’t brought up but clearly means a lot to you. It’s great that you found a game you can play together, despite your strong feelings. We understand that opinions can differ, and it seems like you're really navigating those personal complexities. Wishing you all the best as you continue share your opinions.

Had to be optimized for switch too it’s cross play

@@mondragonmsaul308 oof

@@DavidWoodMusic yea not the best game in the world but pretty fun especially with friends

@@mondragonmsaul308 Runs very well on switch with almost no fps lag in general for the whole game in the beta test other than for loading into the waiting lobby waiting for match to start which ur not really doing anything in that lobby anyways so doesnt matter too much.