Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-90.214.113.224-20180210223859/@comment-25936766-20180211005931

Sentry 616 wrote: (What sicko decided to recreate Aincrad!? -

It's still SAO, specifically GGO. I'm pretty skeptical of it.

1) Not Aincrad. Alfheim. Different game.

2) ....Aincrad was just a game. Kayaba turned it into a nightmare, sure, but that was never the intention. In a later arc Aincrad is remade, but this time as a perfectly-normal game, without the "you die in it, you die for real" stuff that Kayaba threw in.

Or maybe I'm confusing it for the Caliber arc where Kirito gathers his friends to get the best sword in ALO.

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3) Sentry, please. While SAO as a whole isn't the best written work ever, many of it's issues are related to Kirito being a perfect Marty Stu with everything revolving around him. It doesn't help at all that everything since ALO amped up his "awesomeness" while downplaying/removing his flaws.

Remove Kirito the Marty Stu from the equation, and many of the problems are gone. You don't get a guy who, say, owns everyone in a gun game with a freaking sword just because.

Hence why SAO Alternative looks to be good. It's SAO - a spinoff, actually - and it might be set in the MMO of one of the most awful arcs. But there's no Kirito in sight, and that paves the way for a more interesting, likeable and believable protagonist, who by virtue of not being Kirito, isn't guaranteed to ruin the story like he does.