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it's not peak......
but it is the pinnacle...

Lost my 80 hour save file to corruption.

Gastei umas 200 horas só moscando pelas fases.

Boring. Another company trying to make money using the anime's name...


While not godawful and a game I have a soft spot for, Hollow Fragment felt a lot more frustrating than fun a lot of the time and ends up just being pretty mediocre... a lot like the anime itself.
Combat feels super unnatural and clunky with how slow sword skills are, and taking hits can stunlock you for a long time.
Enemy hitboxes are terrible and attacks never hit when you'd imagine they should, making dodging or parrying a chore.
Fighting enemies even slightly above your level will lead to nearly all of your attacks completely missing, even after focusing on accuracy on my equipment and buffs, turning what should be a tricky but winnable battle into a frustrating mess.
Partners are dumb as rocks and don't have many commands to control them well, which is a problem considering it's an instant game over if they run out of health, and the Risk system while not that hard to manage forces the use of partners, which isn't always preferable for the reasons mentioned above. It's really confusing to me how they didn't implement a revival system like in future games, I know the whole point of SAO is "you die irl when health hits 0" but come on.
The story is passable but it's way too fanservicey outside the main Hollow Area story in my opinion, compared to future games this one can't go two minutes without Kirito touching some titties or something.
Graphics aren't very good but considering this is a vita remaster I didn't expect too much, the game loads extremely fast and runs great.
If god forbid you end up liking this game there is a lot of content to keep you occupied with scaling Hollow Missions and loads of unlockables.

Has a good soundtrack, but it's not very engaging and has a pretty convoluted combat system.

Muy mediocre en líneas generales y de duración demasiado extensa sin justificación suficiente.

Es apreciable que parte de buenas ideas y tiene detallitos que conservan la fidelidad del anime/novelas, sin embargo...

-Abruma muchísimo al principio cuando no sabes jugar.
-Las habilidades y el árbol de estas no se terminan de entender y es incómodo gestionarlas, por lo que, en consecuencia, los combates pierden su atractivo en cuanto se entienden las mecánicas. Simultáneamente, el ritmo al que se sube de nivel es exageradamente lento, aunque los combates no son muy exigentes.
-En el diseño de niveles, mayoritariamente, se abusa muchísimo del reciclaje y la repetición; sus escenarios son poco inspirados y monótonos.
-La inteligencia artificial brilla más por su ausencia que por su presencia, y en líneas generales es más inútil que de ayuda.
-Durante el desarrollo del argumento, es demasiado repetitivo e incómodo la cantidad de ocasiones en las que se introducen escenas de temática erótica o de malentendidos forzados. Al mismo tiempo, esto fuerza en los personajes unas construcciones de personalidad muy ridículas e incoherentes. Aparte, la propia justificación de la trama no se resuelve hasta sus últimos compases; no sucede gran cosa hasta el desenlace.

Espero mejoría en las siguientes entregas.

Love this game, however, the only issue is that there is too many subsystems to learn. But that adds replayability!

(English): I love the idea of ​​it being a sequel if the characters hadn't left the game, it's very interesting

(Português): adoro a ideia de ser uma continuação se os personagens não tivessem saído do jogo é bem interessante

One of the few games I have over 100 hours in. Just... don't ask.

Reinvigorated my love for SAO. Gameplay can be repetitive but overall I still thought it was very enjoyable.

I played this game for WAY MORE TIME than I should have

Start of a fantastic franchise, need to sit down and finish this and all the other games I haven't.

Очень затягивающая, пусть и далеко не совершенная аниме игра