The interior of every dungeon looks the same as the last, and the same can be said about the caves. There are three areas to explore – town, field, and dungeon/cave, and the three have varying gameplay elements to attempt to break up tedium to minimal effect.ĭungeon exploration gets old fast. The other part of the Sword Art Online: Lost Song gameplay equation is that of a semi-competent action RPG. I was playing Lost Song during my commute to and from my day job, and on more than one occasion I prayed to a higher power that no one else was looking at my Vita screen. Scenes of the girls in hot springs (one such scene even involves tentacles), or being tricked into modelling their underwear are not a rarity, and feel completely shoe horned in to satiate the lust of one particular demographic that I am thankfully not a part of. The objectification of its female cast is distressing at best and troublesome at worst, seeing them reduced to a group similar to that found in the harem genre of manga, becoming awkward, flirtatious, and at times just inappropriate when talking to Kirito – even his own sister. The dialogue consists mainly of hammy exposition, the majority of which is repeated several times in a fashion that would even make Hideo Kojima beg the writers to please just get to the point. Conversations play out with static character portraits and a text box and go on for far too long, the content of which varies between actual plot progression, awkward and perverse ‘comedy’, and blatant time wasting. The majority of the game is played out in a visual novel style, and the voice over is entirely Japanese, so if you do care about the tissue paper thin plot then prepare to do a lot of reading. Something the writers threw together at the last minute to link together perverted fashion shows, blatant objectification, and suggested paedophilia into something that vaguely resembles narrative if you lower your standards and wish really, really hard. Either way, the story feels like an afterthought.
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Maybe it’s a post-modern quip at online games being full of paedophiles, or maybe I’m giving it too much credit. Things take a turn for the strange and uncomfortable when you see avatars belonging to people it is safe to assume are adult males swooning over her. There’s a story line in there somewhere about a world famous internet idol and child genius named Seven, who’s doing a secret experiment with VR and sings a lot, who changes her mind at the last minute because of plot devices. Kirito and friends are playing the expansion to Svart Alfheim because they want to be the first to finish it. I’ve been trying to figure out what the story is since I’ve been playing it, and when all is said and done I’m not entirely convinced there is one. The island needs to be cleared in order to move the ‘plot’ forward and open the next island, which needs to be cleared and so on until all four islands are done.
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Svart Alfheim is a series of islands, each slightly higher than the last. Lost Song takes place in Svart Alfheim – an expansion for Alfheim Online, the second MMORPG featured in the anime and manga.
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