

The only thing they could do was to beat the game and survive – which they did. If they died in game, they died in real life. The original SAO boiled down to a bunch of characters trapped in an MMO. If you’re not a fan of SAO, let me condense it down for you. I genuinely like the characters in what, honestly, amounts to a sci-fi fantasy harem action anime. Me? It’s a guilty pleasure of mine and I don’t care who knows it.

I expect I’ll have had an easier time of it than most will. But damn if it doesn’t make you work to find that out. Given I’m not-so-secretly a massive Sword Art Online fanboy I felt a Hollow Realization Switch Review needed to be done – particularly as the Switch isn’t exactly awash with excellent Action RPGs.Īnd that’s exactly what this Deluxe Edition is, an excellent ARPG.
