Sword Art Online is medieval-time Virtual MMORPG game where the player would put on a helmet, and enter the game. taking place in a 100 floor giant floating castle call Aincrad where each floor (Lvl) has in own monsters, quest, bosses. To pass to the next floor someone needs to defeat the Floor Boss for someone to go forward.
But after the Beta came out, and it was public for the world, the creator Akihiko Kayaba takes out the log-out bottom, so all the players would be trap. And the only way for everyone to escape is to beat all the 100 floors and defeat the last boss. And if anyone would of die or someone from the outside world takes out the helmet, the helmet would send a electric shock to the brain burning it and killing the player.
The whole series, takes place in the game seeing a few cut-scene of the outside world. You see how the players interact with one each other finding out to get out of the game without dying. Some players decide to join gilts and others decide to stay in the first floor hoping someone would beat the game. And others had the decide to make the ultimate action and killed themselves.
Like that is how we meet our, Protagonist Kazuto Kirigaya a.k.a Kirito as his Avatar name, after being one of the lucky 1000 players that were chosen to play the close Beta. Kirito has some inside knowledge of the game, and how it works he puts out his goal to finish the game before anyone else. But finding out that his trap in the game everything changes. Kirito being a Beta player decides to go Solo instead of joining a party, because the fact that he thinks they going to slow him down, and he can't withstand the dead of other players. You cannot really connect with Kirito, just the fact that his to much of a cocky player, thinking his above everyone else. Two years has passed and no one has pass the games. Later on Kirito meets this girl name Asuna even though she's in a gilt, she shows that she's is a good of a Solo player like Kirito. Kirito ends up falling in love with Asuna promise her that he will find away to beat the game so, they can be together in the real world.
If you like a anime with a mayor conflict, action and some romantic in it, this the anime for you.
