Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Review
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Review
A lack of tangible stakes and some muddled RPG systems dull the blades of Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization.
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March 10, 2019 @ 8:09 pm
Is it online on ps4 co op with friends
March 10, 2019 @ 8:12 pm
They changed the story quite a bit in this game.
March 10, 2019 @ 8:13 pm
I like this game alot better then lost songs ?
March 10, 2019 @ 8:13 pm
I’m honestly tired of sao. I feel like they’re milking this franchise
March 10, 2019 @ 8:14 pm
Can they just make an aincrad MMO?
March 10, 2019 @ 8:15 pm
"Sword Art Online? More like, Sword Art Offline! Hah" – IGN
March 10, 2019 @ 8:15 pm
Typical IGN……they even gave fatal bullet a mediocre score and I had a lot of fun with that and I still am If this was a call of duty game however………..
March 10, 2019 @ 8:18 pm
Come on I bought the game was pretty good and I have more then 250 hours on it
March 10, 2019 @ 8:18 pm
Do you begin at the cobalt king
March 10, 2019 @ 8:19 pm
i am a big fan of sword art online. i have all three games on my ps4 that i remote play whenever i visit my grandmother’s house. i even have the movie on my ps vita called, sword art online: ordinal scale.
March 10, 2019 @ 8:20 pm
I feel like every SAO review nowadays is based off of the popular opinion that they don’t like how the anime turned out..
March 10, 2019 @ 8:22 pm
I still don’t get why Nintendo is giving us this game instead of the more fun one which is the "the ones with guns"
March 10, 2019 @ 8:23 pm
It’s 4:99$ rn on psn should I get it?
March 10, 2019 @ 8:27 pm
So this is about Season 1 , and not 2?
March 10, 2019 @ 8:28 pm
Nothing meaningful happened -BTW, I skipped all of the conversations.
March 10, 2019 @ 8:28 pm
This concept could potentially be the best game ever created. I mean in maybe a distant future, where "nervegear" is practical and legal. It’d actually be super fun.
March 10, 2019 @ 8:28 pm
is this online?
March 10, 2019 @ 8:29 pm
I’m buying it! I loved SAO.
March 10, 2019 @ 8:30 pm
They need to make SAO not a SAO game
I’m saying they need to make a game that is the same game from the anime and not a Game based around the anime
March 10, 2019 @ 8:30 pm
I was thinking of buying this on pc on steam because it is cheaper now. Do u guys think it is worth it?? And can u close in the view on the character when u run around P.. P it seems so far away ?
March 10, 2019 @ 8:32 pm
Got 50 hours and 50 minutes mixed up.
March 10, 2019 @ 8:33 pm
Single player ff14?
March 10, 2019 @ 8:34 pm
I watch tons of game reviews, this one was on point. Amazingly well done. Who did the cast?
March 10, 2019 @ 8:34 pm
Now i really wanna get this game XD
March 10, 2019 @ 8:37 pm
"many likeable characters from the anime"… I’m not convinced you’re talking about the right anime
March 10, 2019 @ 8:37 pm
So basically you had a realization that this game is hollow. Something you could have figured out from the title.
March 10, 2019 @ 8:39 pm
i came here just to dislike this shitty anime
March 10, 2019 @ 8:40 pm
Is it pronounced mana or mana?
Like if you read it different ways
March 10, 2019 @ 8:41 pm
This game is bad. Don’t buy it.
March 10, 2019 @ 8:41 pm
is this game fun
March 10, 2019 @ 8:43 pm
4:12 here is what u have been looking for
March 10, 2019 @ 8:44 pm
Gives SAO 6.7
Gives COD 8.5 every year lmao IGN is shite now days, the reviews on steam are very positive, just a few people complaining, i already buy the game from steam after see some gameplays, can’t wait to play!!!
March 10, 2019 @ 8:46 pm
If you like SAO, get it. If you don’t, don’t…
March 10, 2019 @ 8:48 pm
Viciously nuked its fun ?would be fair summary i thought bout getting but not into 1 click combat i have phone games for that
March 10, 2019 @ 8:49 pm
lis is best girl like if you agree ;D
March 10, 2019 @ 8:49 pm
He said mana instead of SP….
March 10, 2019 @ 8:50 pm
"Both of which betray the things that make the anime great"
I don’t know what world your living in but in this world the anime is *far* from great
March 10, 2019 @ 8:50 pm
ONE BUTTON ATTACK SYSTEM?! WTF, DID YOU EVEN PLAY THIS GAME?! *sigh* You didn’t lock on to any enemies, you probably don’t even know about SSC, you barely use any buffs, thinking they came from the party members, and for gods sakes, people are so used to being handheld, it’s nice that we get to figure things out for a change!
March 10, 2019 @ 8:51 pm
2018?
March 10, 2019 @ 8:52 pm
I was looking forward to play this game,but to me, I feel like I’m not playing the game at all, I like sword art online but I don’t like this game, I want to make my own characters and my own abilities, I guess I can never get that wish, I’m debating on selling this game, what do you think?
March 10, 2019 @ 8:53 pm
It’s not Call of Duty so anything less that a 6 is a gift to the game.
March 10, 2019 @ 8:55 pm
Games like Dark Souls better replicate the concept of Kiritos’ gaming style in Sword Art Online.
March 10, 2019 @ 8:57 pm
I want to creat a custom character
March 10, 2019 @ 8:58 pm
I think this game deserves a higher rating but I do admit I can’t get used to those JRPG skill trees.
March 10, 2019 @ 8:58 pm
✍
March 10, 2019 @ 9:02 pm
looks like a good game for the switch
March 10, 2019 @ 9:02 pm
I think SAO Hollow Realization is much better and easy to play that SAO lost song or accel World
March 10, 2019 @ 9:03 pm
So it’s literally a single player MMORPG. What..who..why would anyone want to play this?
March 10, 2019 @ 9:04 pm
The dialogue was way to long for me
March 10, 2019 @ 9:07 pm
ign what did you think about the game? did you come to realization that it was a hollow and mediocre game?