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Originally Posted by Urzu 7
So it takes a page from .Hack/, but would you say it is better? Is the real world modern day Japan? Sometime in the future and in Japan? Sometime in the future and part of some nation we don't know/a made up nation?
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Technically SAO and .Hack came out around the same time although SAO may be older, so whether either took a page from the other would be hard to pin down.
It certainly seems like the real world future Japan, although it's set in the confines of the SAO MMO, so we know next to nothing about their version of Japan. But it certainly seems like a slightly futuristic version.
SAO 'feels' like the author spent more time playing MMOs, where-as I never really got that feeling from the original .Hack anime. .Hack felt more single-player JRPG with multiple people, if that makes sense?