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Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo
To say SAO explores the VRMMO more deeply than .hack is a long way from saying it's unique. There are plenty of other examples that do so, just not necessarily in anime.
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But that's the thing. It's not about it being unique-- the point was that exploring the issue in a very simplistic way makes it less ambitious than it could have been. SAO has a tendency of opening a lot of interesting topics and exploring new territory but then going over them in a most shallow manner. It really pains me to say it since I absolutely hated every .hack anime I've come across, but it is not necessarily less deep than SAO atm, though it isn't fair to compare a complete one to an incomplete one.
And I guess this is a topic for another day.
To draw it back at the series, we can look at Sawa's arc. Sawa's arc had more interesting issues than Wakana's arc and also had ones that were more critical due to her starving herself and getting injured, but I felt the way it was went over was more simplified and ended up less compelling as a result-- it was just more clean cut and less to talk about. While the solution would take a bit to solve after the arc itself, Wakana's problems were "solved" at the end of her own arc but the path was more unclear and required more introspection and memory.