Thursday, January 10, 2013

Sword Art Onlne Review

This post have nothing to do with the Guild Wars 2 guide, since this is homework. This is going to be  a short review of the light novel Sword Art Online. Well, the first fifty or so pages anyways. The novel is set in the year 2022, where a machine that can create a virtual reality that is completely secluded from reality, called the Nerve Gear, is made. A few months later, at the end of the year 2022, a gamed called Sword Art Online, which was the first MMORPG that utilizes complete vitual reality, was released. Only 100,000 copies were released, and the protagonist Kazuto Kirigaya, was able to get one of the copies of the game.
Kazuto was still 14 years old middle school student when he first started playing Sword Art Online. His in-game alias, Kirito, was created by taking his name and combining them (Kirigaya Kazuto).
His avatar was a young, tall boy with a handsome face and long hair. He was going out of the Starting City(great name by the way) of the game, when another player, called Klein, and begged for help. After a few hours, when Klein was going to log out, they noticed that there was no "Log Out" option in the menu. They thought it was a bug or something of the sort, but little did they know thatsomething terrible was going to happen.
After waiting for a while, all the players in the game were teleported to the Central Plaza of Starting City. The GM appeared as a giant robe with no body and announced that there was no way to log out of the game,dying in the game means dying in real life, taking off the Nerve Gear would kill them by destroying their brains with microwaves that was inside the Nerve Gear, and the only way of leaving the game was clearing all 100 floors of the game. He gave each of the players an itmem called Hand Mirror, which upon using it, the players' avatars will be transformed into their real life body. The whole plaza was filled with confusion, terror, and chaos...

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