{"id":8522,"date":"2020-09-23T05:37:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8522"},"modified":"2020-09-25T00:54:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T00:54:54","slug":"sword-art-online-alicization-war-of-underworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/sword-art-online-alicization-war-of-underworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Sword Art Online: Alicization & War of Underworld"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a great many problems with the three<\/a> part<\/a> sequel<\/a> to the SAO Ordinal Scale<\/a> movie.<\/p>\n

The central one is the ill-conceived fusion of the sci-fi modern day plotline and Underworld’s essentially stand-alone fantasy plotline. The two never had any reason to mix. Assassin’s Creed<\/a> does something similar, and the criticisms about the way that franchise mixes its past\/present settings hold doubly true here since Underworld is effectively self-contained as opposed to being a reflection. The author could have easily wrote Alice and Eugeo’s story as its own thing with no association whatsoever to Kirito’s group and ended up with a far more consistent and immersive product.<\/p>\n

Pretty much all of the remaining issues can be tied back to Kirito’s involvement with the story; spontaneous power-ups, random cameo appearances, last minute saves, questionable character motivation, harem elements, and bizarre plot twists all. Really, the only flaw that can truly be called its own is the re-occurring theme of using psychosexual megalomaniacs as main villains.<\/p>\n

Vaguely related to all of that in a ‘you can probably watch this if you’re a fan of the genre’ sense are the series Runway de Warrette<\/a> and Princess Connect! ReDive<\/a>. The first of which is a fashion industry-focused Cinderella story<\/a> overloaded with assholes who magically become nice while the latter is a conventional fantasy action-comedy whose protagonist has the personality of a particularly dull puppy.<\/p>\n

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War of Underworld:
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Princess Connect! ReDive:
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There are a great many problems with the three part sequel to the SAO Ordinal Scale movie. The central one is the ill-conceived fusion of the sci-fi modern day plotline and Underworld’s essentially stand-alone fantasy plotline. The two never had any reason to mix. Assassin’s Creed does something similar, and the criticisms about the way that franchise mixes its past\/present settings hold doubly true here since Underworld is effectively self-contained as opposed to being a reflection. The author could have easily wrote Alice and Eugeo’s story as its own thing with no association whatsoever to Kirito’s group and ended up with a far more consistent and immersive product. Pretty much all of the remaining issues can be tied back to Kirito’s involvement with the story; spontaneous power-ups, random cameo appearances, last minute saves, questionable character motivation, harem elements, and bizarre plot twists all. Really, the only flaw that can truly be called its own is the re-occurring theme of using psychosexual megalomaniacs as main villains. Vaguely related to all of that in a ‘you can probably watch this if you’re a fan of the genre’ sense are the series Runway de Warrette and Princess Connect! ReDive. The first of which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[407,455,420,478,16],"tags":[172,205,173,193,176,28,184,400,181,64,391,62,412,411,182],"class_list":["post-8522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-autumn","category-2019-autumn","category-2019-winter","category-2020-summer","category-anime-related","tag-action","tag-battle-shounen","tag-comic-relief","tag-crunchyroll","tag-drama","tag-fantasy","tag-finished","tag-hulu","tag-ln-adaptation","tag-romance","tag-sao","tag-science-fiction","tag-series","tag-televised","tag-virtual-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}