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10 out of 10: Near Perfect... |
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36 | 19.78% |
9 out of 10: Excellent... |
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49 | 26.92% |
8 out of 10: Very Good... |
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43 | 23.63% |
7 out of 10: Good... |
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32 | 17.58% |
6 out of 10: Average... |
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16 | 8.79% |
5 out of 10: Below Average... |
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1 | 0.55% |
4 out of 10: Poor... |
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2 | 1.10% |
3 out of 10: Bad... |
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1 | 0.55% |
2 out of 10: Very Bad... |
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0 | 0% |
1 out of 10: Torturous... |
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2 | 1.10% |
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Crazy Devout Fanboy
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: 1st Ra Cailum-class battleship Ra Cailum, port-side officer's bunks
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I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Spoiler for Fact from the novel not mentioned in the anime:
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Dedicated Lurker
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: You Guess
Age: 30
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Spoiler for Comparison to the novels:
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Join Date: Jul 2012
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Diabel was soooo cool; I wish we had more time w/ him. His character looked great and he was truly worthy of being called a knight.
I love the town's BG music added with its ambient lighting at night -- it created a magical yet quiet melancholy atmosphere, which fit the situation perfectly. Makes me really wish to have been there at that time, as odd as it sounds, at least to provide the food and drinks if anything. Glad I did not read this side story beforehand so difference in novel vs anime disappointment does not exist. I'm sure the novel's bread scene had more significance, but the anime version felt special, beautiful yet sombre all the same did it not? When Asuna was explaining to Kirito her reason for fighting, she spoke is such a calm whispered voice that blended in so well with the background music as it faded in and played. I felt the significance and beauty of that moment was portrayed very well. Kind of sad that only a few groups were in the first boss raid. I expected a ton more people raid-ready for early game content, but maybe off-screen situations and scheduling differences affected everyone gathering at the same time. Shouldn't Kirito have Klein's contact info / friendlisted already by now? Just so he can PM Klein whenever. This negatively affected the sigficiance of flashback to Klein during kobold fight. Score 9/10 (-1 for Diabel's poor reason for refusing a potion that would've saved his life. That was unjustifiable.) PS. Very much looking forward to the town BG music in the OST on release. I'm a huge sucker for harp. ![]()
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Garnet
Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 29
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10 minutes?! Whoa; it must've been pretty bad then. I was pretty satisfied with this episode, though.
Diabel never died..? That would've really changed the overall atmosphere of the episode, not to mention that the ending would've been completely different. As for the cute Asuna, there's an avatar of that scene in the avatar and signature request thread in this sub forum (first post). First come, first served ~ |
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Crazy Devout Fanboy
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: 1st Ra Cailum-class battleship Ra Cailum, port-side officer's bunks
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![]() Basically you and kyp275 are taking all the different negative opinions on the episode and trying to mash them into one. (taking all the people who wanted different scenes from the novel animated and saying that everybody wanted everything) That doesn't quite work in this context. ![]()
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Staring into your soul.
Join Date: Oct 2010
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i liked the character development and introduction here, though it feels and from the comments here it actually was a big time leap, i would have liked to know more of how were things in that first mont, the figth with the kobold was good but it lacked some impact, we hardly seen how thay took the first 3 hp bars of illfang, and i can really see why people like asuna, i really like how she was badass, and no the dameesel in distress neither the leroy jenkins that need to be saved over and over.
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Link #75 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Beyond the Horizon
Age: 34
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I didn't read that short story (I will probably do it just after posting that) so I can't say about that.
But this episode wasn't bad , you can't really feel it's rushed, there is no boring exposition while they managed to explain to the viewers: beaters, the guide book (& it's origin), Boss fights, introduced the black guy. They also introduced Asuna as a mmo noob (with some talents to fight) and a bit depressive who seem to only be ok mentally when fighting. This will avoid them some long "exposition" episodes like AW had. |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: East Cupcake
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I forgot to mention this previously, but I really like the idea of a Beater. I don't know if that is a real thing in the gaming world or not, but it is a very interesting concept that I hope is used throughout this series (please, no one tell me if it is or is not used). |
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I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
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To anime only viewers: don't you think the boss looked a bit too easy to beat? Even with Kirito's knowledge of his attack patterns, it was supposed to take the who raiding group. Though I realize it would have been tedious to see. |
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Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 48
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not really. Remember you die for real in this game, no reset. I expect most people if they are sticking it safe in first city to be leveling up and upgrading their equipment cautiously. In my case i tend to grind a lot early on for levels and cash so the early part of a game are easier.
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