When he got Yui. That shouldn't have been possible. I mean, he can't even log out, but he can use a console to copy code and data from the game to his Nervgear?

But eh, whatever. I like Yui, so I won't complain.

Mother's Rosario is hardly LN Standard fare, mind you. Neither was RNR.

Except that's pretty much what he does in GGO, not to mention insist on using swords in game about guns and pretty much makingmost of the the gun veterans star wars stormtrooper level in capabilities so he could handily defeat with that weapon choice.
He is able to dodge multiple bullets from a full automatic firing its whole clip. He also dodges bullet in a "fixed" gambling game where the shooter cheats. Kirito thus shows that his skills are so great that he can even beat a cheater by dodging MULTIPLE bullets fired at him from less than 3 meters distance. (Though the author admits he really don't know much about guns)
And he is doing all these with his own reaction speed and somehow is able to account for the random bullet spray factor while hardly anyone else could that duplicate his feats despite long they've been in the world.

Kirito pretty much is always flocked by girls that likes him for either contrived or half-baked reasons. And conveniently they are all some of best looking girls despite it being in-universe that there aren't many good looking people playing MMO. And despite all this, supposedly only have eye for his 'true love' (who is conveniently rich, the idol of the MMO, near the top in the best guild, and fulfill practically every requirement in the otaku's ideal
'waifu') with a romance that is laughably corny and equally unbelievable. Naturally, Kirito乫s group and harem is practically always the top tier party in all the MMOs that matters.

As for those that hate Kirito, the vast majority of the time they hate him for petty reasons. Such as being too good, to popular, and getting the girls they like. As a result, they are flanderized into all sorts of villains of the worst kind. From hammy overmelodramatic villains, to the mustache-twirling super villains that are often either extreme caricatures or downright irredeemable

Kirito is described as looking like pretty girl and this is supposed to be one of his 'flaws', until you realize being a pretty boy is pretty much the pop culture standard of a young male attractiveness. Even in GGO where is avatar is supposedly randomly generated, he still end up looking practically like his old pretty boy self. Hell, due to his 'trap' appearance, obviously he also attracts the guys as well

Despite be described being very knowledge about the game and know how to train himself to be among the best. He still perform super human feats as a player as described above part in the beginning. And his group is practically always top tier and obtain most of the best equipments that pretty much nobody has or often getting them way earlier than anybody else. Hell, Kirito gets the Excalibur, which is pretty much the #1 sword. If you are not part of his party, you are unlikely to be anything in the game world unless you are the designated 'villain'.
The author's own notes pretty much talked about capturing a lower level player's amazement at the super high level players and all their gears; seeing them as practically gods or superhuman players. He even talked about witnessing them defeating monsters that they fear at their skill level easily and could practically save the player out of nowhere and disappear just as quickly. Basically he specifically created Kirito as a window into the lower level players' impression of the end game characters.

As if that wasn't enough:
And he's practically hinted to eventually create many of the systems found in Accel World.

Kirito's reason for not wanting to join any party and prefer to only fight alone at the beginning? Its because his previous party member insisted on opening a trapped chest despite his warnings. So his party dies and the last person blames him and commits suicidal. All of these in a ridiculously melodramatic fashion. And this is only one of over dramatic 'tragedies'. Basically most of Kirito's 'failure' is the inability to stop other people from acting like retards, not because of his character flaw.

The first time he did not go all out, that I conceit. But it was mentioned that they faced each other a second time in a grand final duel at the end of the story, and Kirito lost against black girl's ultimate technique.

It was mentioned in that section where they were talking about what Yuuki and Co. did after Kazuto built that videocam rig for her.

And then she pretty much dies from AIDS, can't let anybody outshine Kirito for long other wish the self-inserts would get angry.

Except that what you forgot is that GGO contains melee weapons also, and that a fair number of players carry combat knives of some sort as a backup/weapon of last resort. And you seem to not be aware of the American GGO player who does one better than Kirito, and fights unarmed, in a game about guns. He takes his bare hands into the game as his weapons, and uses CQC on players to take them down and steal their guns. (Granted, it was speculated in-universe that he was a special forces soldier, but still. That would hardly work very well in the real world.)

Have you actually read the Phantom Bullet arc? Because you'll note that throughout the arc, as much as he can, Kirito attempts to fight on his own terms, in situations that will be favorable to him and allow him the use of his chosen weapons. That's not making the other players stormtroopers at all.

Firstly, dodging multiple bullets from an automatic weapon in a game isn't as surprising as you make it out to be - or do you not play any shooters online? As long as the weapons are not hitscan weapons, and so long as the game's engine must track and model the individual rounds being fired, there is alwyas the chance, however slim, in dodging incoming fire. Let's also not forget that with an assault rifle or a machine gun firing at full auto, the recoil would succeed in throwing your aim off by a lot, even if you were in a Nanosuit 2.0. I've dodged enemy fire at times, enemies have dodged my fire at times. When playing Modern Warfare, I was never killed by someone using up their entire mag on me, but by careful players using controlled burst. Why? Because full auto is inaccurate by nature, thanks to recoil.

The other thing you're not taking into account is that GGO's engine is using The Seed, which was SAO's engine. The underlying base code of The Seed allows skills from characters in one game to be transferred and used passively in another game that doesn't have those skills - which made Kirito quite dangerous, because he had 2 years worth of leveled skills and reflexes, as well as the enemy detection skill that didn't exist in GGO.

And you're forgetting that GGO has a bullet path indicator, which was something Crysis 2 had. Also, the only way Kirito is dodging is because his SAO-honed reflexes give him an instant of warning just before the bullet path indicator kicks in. Frankly, it's no different from the Pointman or Beckett being able to bullet time and dodge bullets. Or are you going to say that those two are also Sues?

Contrived? Well, Lizbeth went through a life-or-death situation with him, which formed the basis of her crush. Scilica's meeting with him is a rescue romance of sorts, given that he saved her from getting killed and helped resurrect Pina. Shino is a mix of Fire Forged Friends and Defeat Means Friendship. And Asuna... of all of them, she's been friends with him for the longest. Their relationship happened even before he knew anything about her.

Also, just a note - Asuna would not be likely to inherit much of RECTO, given that she's the younger child and her older brother is being groomed to take over the company.

As for top tier party? Not even in SAO - Scilica and Lizbeth are mid-level players, who wouldn't survive random encounters on the floors that Asuna and Kirito travel. In ALO, they're all mid-level players, and while they're known to some of the top players in ALO, they're also still unknowns - notice that in Mother's Rosario, the guild that Kirito and Klein held off had no idea who they were.

I'm getting tired of asking for specific examples, instead of general statements. I would note that I have met people who are just as bad as Oberon in real life.

Besides, pettiness is an inescapable part of life. Aren't you being quite petty right now?

Yes and no. Kirito doesn't like that effeminate appearance because it causes people to not take him seriously, and doesn't really suit his loner feelings. At first. That said, I salute him for not being unwilling to take advantage of his trap face in GGO. :p That said, this doesn't appear to be portrayed as a flaw, but rather as something he's not happy about. Every teenager has had something they were unhappy about their looks.

Firstly, he's hardly different from the other beta testers in that regard, and his early game exploits were hardly superhuman. At the same time, he gets where he is because of training and putting in the time to level grind; Asuna is very close to his level, despite not being a beta tester, and Klein and Agil likewise are members of the clearing group.

As for his group - of sorts - being top tier, in SAO that's by default, as he's part of the clearing group, a loose organisation of guilds and solo players dedicated to clearing Aincrad. By the very nature of their daily "job", going out into the unknown and fighting bosses, these are the top players in the game, because if you are not at that level you will die. Comparing normal players to them is like comparing a normal infantryman to a Delta Force operator. (I should note, however, that 10 years of near-constant COIN have caused the average American soldier to take up much of what used to be a special forces role - the skill level in Stryker battalions, for example, has been described as SF light. This also means that J-SCO assets have stepped up their game.)

As for best gear, part of that is due to luck and the Random Number God, and the other is that Lizbeth is a damn good blacksmith. Dark Repulser and Lambent Light were made by her, afterall.

And you don't seem to have truly understood Caliber, because if you did, you would know that Kirito, Asuna and Suguha made one attempt at the Excaliber quest and had to run away because they were too weak to clear it; they needed their full team to get through the quest in the book. And none of them had the best gear. In fact, if Shinon wasn't there, Kirito wouldn't have gotten Excaliber at all, something which he reinforces to himself at the end: he can't do things alone, and needs the help of his friends.

So your argument is that Kirito is a representation of a high level character encountering a low level character, who's able to defeat mobs easily due to a combination of leveled gear and skills, which he has spend 2 years working on.

So, that would then mean that high level characters in MMOs are then sues. Hell, that would mean that I'm a Sue, given my N7 ranking and the fact that I'm one of those players.

I have actually addressed this above. Nevertheless, as you appear to have willfully overlooked my statement, I shall reproduce it here:

"Yes, hooking up a couple of webcams to a laptop, and using servos to controll their movement is truly cutting edge stuff. Why, it's not as if the technology for yui's laptop rig hasn't existed for DECADES. And he IS studying mechatronics, y'know.

"And there hasn't been any example of copying consciousness to data that he's done, that was Kayaba. And it didn't quite work. As for yui, she's an AI program. He was able to save her program to his NervGear's storage - he didn't copy anyone's ghost.

"As for fighting in the real world, you apparently overlooked the bit about him having taken up kendo before, IRL. And i wonder how far you've read, because he's been in two irl fights, managed to survive the first from luck, and got his ass kicked in the second."

With further regard to the shoulder rig that Yuuki used to go to school, note that he did not do it alone, but created it with the help of two of his mechatronics classmates. It's quite clear that they helped him with making that rig, which is essentially a gyroscope-stabilised webcam and speakers hooked up to a laptop. All of which, I repeat, is existing technology.

Nope, I don't see anything like that. He's just a high school student who took mechatronics as one of his electives and works part time as an MMO beta tester over the weekend.

Also, Word of God - ie, the Author - is that Accel World and Sword Art Online are not connected at all. There is some influence and overlap in concept - the UW in Alicization inspired Kawahara to develop further into the Accelerated World, and Kuroyukihime was obviously inspired from Kirito and Asuna - but both verses are not connected.

I take it you've never had people you know die, or had to comfort grieving people.

His friends are dead because he lied to them. The last member of Black Cats of the Full Moon commits suicide out of grief. This melodrama, as you call it, has actual real world precedent. Put yourself in his shoes. Your friends are dead because you withheld information, and your guild leader calls you out for being dishonest. Your last friend rejects you and kills himself. You promised to protect someone, and you failed, and they are dead.

You know what was a favorite pastime in Telupid, for people who felt they had no hope or reason to live anymore? Drinking pesticide. Quite common, in my old village. Keita is behaving exactly as how they would have.