With my first review I felt like I'm being too generous.
I had to choose overall score and 3 was the best way to describe Sword Art Online, its poor, nothing more, nothing less.
Story was dreadful, 2.
The story was lackluster and changes pacing and genre every 2 episodes so there's not much of a story going on and you feel you're watching extras of a actual series.
The premise is interesting though.
Art was good, 7.
Art and sound are the best things going on in this series, the battles are flashy and awesome but some episodes have noticeably worse animation but in general is good.
Sound was fair, 6.
I'm giving a 6 because sound was admittedly OK and fits every scene but I forgot about each and every one of the openings for some reason. All I remember is that the second season's opening is horrible.
Characters are pathetic, 1.
Here is possibly the worst part of the anime, the protagonist is incredibly overpowered, the main character's love interest is introduced as a strong independent female but ends up being literally useless.
Both antagonists are interestingly bad; the first one is a "mysterious" figure who is never explained in the anime and the second one is too evil that its hard to take seriously.
The villain of second season is literally a demon from hell playing a character, its too evil and like the protagonist has 0 charisma whatsoever.
Also be prepared for characters to be introduced in a episode to die on the same episode or disappear for no reason.
Enjoyment was dreadful, 2.
I did not enjoy this anime at all, it made me feel uncomfortable with several scenes, was bland and boring and did not portray MMOs in a correct way.
Final Score is 3.
I can't recommend to anyone this anime, go watch Log Horizon if you came here for the MMO aspect of this anime.
