Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream

[Dani.]

The Sword Art Online universe has spawned numerous stories and worlds that regularly serve as inspiration for anime and video games. Unless you're a die hard fan and you probably lost track of them a while ago. Fortunately that doesn't matter for Fractured Daydream as the new spin-off sees itself as a straightforward best of the series.

The Galaxia system creates a lot of chaos in Alfheim Online: Different worlds and timelines merge allowing diverse characters from the many story arcs to collide. As a player you restore order in the approximately 12 hour story mode. The confusing story may entertain fans of the original at best but it's merely a means to an end and sending you on numerous missions that always have the same goal: to wipe the floor with enemies. You do this with a simple real time combat system that lets you fight, dodge and access a handful of special skills. As the story progresses your roster of heroes grows from which you can assemble groups to your liking sometimes more openly sometimes less openly. Depending on their class such as tank, fighter or support heroes use different weapons and fighting styles however, the gameplay changes only marginally. You use random loot from missions to equip your favorites for further battles.

After the story you can let off steam in various multiplayer modes such as boss raids which you can take on online with up to 20 players. While this is certainly fun and it doesn't come close to the complexity of comparable MMO raids.

My Opinion​

You can certainly dive into the MMO action role playing game without much prior knowledge but after the story mode it quickly degenerates into a monotonous grind-fest. At least Fractured Daydream is playable looks decent and offers stable performance. In terms of gameplay however it hardly compares to comparable genre representatives like Granblue Fantasy Relink. Fans of the Series will jump on it while the rest will likely look to the competition.

Game:​	Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream​
Publisher:​	Bandai Namco​
Developer:​	Dimps​
Genre:​	Action role-playing game​
Available for:​	PS5, Switch, XSX​
FAITH:​	12​
Published in:​	12 / 2024​

 

[qw90700]

I wish they had released SAO Fatal Bullet 2 instead which is the only SAO game I liked.

 

[Dani.]

I wish they had released SAO Fatal Bullet 2 instead which is the only SAO game I liked.

Wouldn't have been bad but as always the makers only do what they want and not what we want.

 

[Questless Knight]

I want more SAO games where I don´t need to plays shitty Kirito or worthless Asuna. Honesty the world is nice and there some decent charter but fuck the main cast fuck the anime.

 

[nobitakun]

The game is also available for PC.

What infuriates me is that it's not available for PS4, while it is available for Switch. Crappy choice.

 

[qw90700]

I want more SAO games where I don´t need to plays shitty Kirito or worthless Asuna. Honesty the world is nice and there some decent charter but fuck the main cast fuck the anime.

The only way is SAO Fatal Bullet 2!!! It also have an anime says "fuck you" to Kirito and his harem way more than the game which is a "hope" that we can get SAO Fatal Bullet 2 that Kirito BS is totally absent lol.

 

[Questless Knight]

Yeah I liked Fetal bullet sadly Shitiro was till in the game. I liked Alternative: Gun Gale Online no Shitiro as far as my eyes could see. I want more Sword art games like that where I crate and play my own charter and get new party members that are not insufferable.



The anime I love might be hated by allot of people but Sword art don´t even know what it wanna be. Serius anime ? Harem ? Comedy ? all above.

 

[Deleted member 881671]

Nice a new part.

 

[Heinzu]

Ok I didn't think they would still produce games but it's nice what's still to come.