After the Closed Beta Testing ended, the Beta Testers were given the opportunity to pre-order the game. Hardcore gamers, having waited three days in line to receive the much-anticipated first issue of Sword Art Online.
Only 10, copies were printed in the first batch of the game, and online sales sold out within seconds. Hard-core gamers waited in line for days to purchase the first few hard copies from many stores. During the two-year period the game remained active, «Sword Art Online» evolved into an innovative yet complex society of individuals with mixed feelings about the possibility of clearing the game. Psychologically, many players experienced extreme despair, grief, insanity and sadness during the course of the death game.
Of the total 3, deaths, over half occurred in the first month of SAO. Combined with lethal dungeon traps and bosses , Player Killing PKing , crime, suicides, a slowly dwindling population, and increasing difficulty on the higher floors, the prospects generally looked very bleak. The game was prematurely ended on the 75th Floor, instead of the intended th Floor, when the final boss, Heathcliff , revealed to be Kayaba Akihiko himself, was defeated in a duel against Kirito.
The game operates similar to most MMORPGs with a level system and eventual skill mastery with some limits placed on it. The entire game is monitored and maintained by the « Cardinal System », which self-corrects any problems. While the Sword Art Online mainframe is capable of incredible graphical and rendering capacities, it does not actually render the entire environment in full detail unless a certain region is specifically observed by a player.
SAO uses a «Digital Focusing System», which brings out the finer details of an object only when a player shows interest and focuses their visual field on it. This reduces the strain on the SAO mainframe processor, which, despite its high performance power, is incapable of rendering all marginal details of the environment simultaneously. This effectually produces the illusion that the SAO graphical and VR experience is incredibly detailed. However, the SAO mainframe has a difficult time rendering the sensation of water in baths or showers.
By stimulating nerves in the brain, it is possible to taste food, feel the wind and weather, move one's body, and live in SAO as if it were an alternate reality.
However, there are several major differences that set the Sword Art Online environment apart from the real-world experience.
First, no pain is actually felt in any situation. As a result, players can undergo severe injuries and still only feel an uncomfortable tingling sensation. Second, there is no blood; in its place are red virtual gashes that are seen in the place of injuries.
Third, Sword Skills allow attacks to be performed with normally impossible speed, dexterity, and power, based on the player's stats. Fourth, there are some everyday actions that simply are not done in the SAO world, such as changing clothes by hand or attempting to wield two items at the same time.
While playing Sword Art Online, players still feel fatigue and hunger, regardless of the state of their actual bodies. As a result it is an absolute necessity for all players to eat and sleep within the game; however there is never a need to go to the bathroom.
Death or deletion in the game is visualized by fragmentation into thousands of polygon shards. All monsters, items, and players that have their HP or durability reduced to zero, disappear and fragment into polygons in such a fashion. The SAO system generally censors mature content, such as sexual intercourse, but it is possible for players to disable the censor if «Moral Code Removal» is selected in the options menu.
Selecting this option also temporarily increases the quantity of tactile data, but this effect only manifests itself when all the equipment of a player is removed. Sword Art Online is set in Aincrad, a floating castle of floors.
At its base, it is approximately ten kilometers in diameter, and it is completely rendered in all dimensions. Because of the nature of Aincrad as a floating castle, there are no invisible barriers or no-access regions at the edges of the map.
Aincrad's perimeter is merely surrounded by guard rails that can be jumped off of, but any player doing so will be deemed as dead after two minutes of falling. Each individual floor has its unique climate, geography, fauna, and environment.
However, each floor shares the principle of having a Labyrinth Tower that connects to the next floor, as well as the principle that the top of each tower is guarded by a Floor Boss , which has to be defeated before players can advance to the next floor. Some floors are known for being fairly cold, while others are known for flowers and forests. Most floors on Aincrad have a theme. Known calendar months include:. Globally, Sword Art Online has seasons and weather settings that are effective throughout the floors.
Aincrad's season correlate with the seasons of the real world, but they are generally much milder. As a result, it is not always snowy in the winter, or scorching hot in the summer. Weather settings are generally random and quite realistic. In Sword Art Online, physical surroundings such as walls, buildings, monuments, and major features are considered " Immortal Objects ".
An error beep and a notification will sound if immortal physical objects are struck, even if by accident. All non-immortal objects have a « durability » value.
Durability is an important feature of Sword Art Online, and is a measure of how much an item or object has been used similar to HP , and how much it will last before it expires and shatters into polygon fragments. Nobunaga Shimazaki Eugeo as Eugeo. Hiroaki Hirata Klein as Klein ….
Rina Hidaka Silica as Silica …. Stephanie Sheh Yui as Yui. Michelle Ruff Sinon as Sinon …. Cassandra Lee Morris Leafa as Leafa …. Shinya Takahashi Player as Player …. Sarah Anne Williams Lisbeth as Lisbeth. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The year is , and gamers have lined up on launch day for Sword Art Online, a hotly-anticipated MMORPG that lets players connect to an immersive virtual reality world with special helmets called Nerve Gear.
Kirito is one such gamer who's eager to jump back into action, having spent a great deal of time as a beta tester, and quickly becomes friends with newbie warrior Klein. But soon, Sword Art Online's 10, players discover that not only are they unable to log out, the only way they can return to their physical bodies is by beating the level tower's final boss - death in the game means death in the real world.
Now, with no one else to turn to, Kirito and the other participants must survive the game as best they can. Did you know Edit. Trivia The storyline is based on the light novel series "Sword Art Online" originally intended as an entry into a short story competition.
The original novel was twice as long as allowed for the contest but Reki couldn't bear taking anything out of the story leading to it being self published. Quotes Akihiko Kayaba : In every world, once you die, you're gone. User reviews Review. Top review. Instantly Hooked. Article stubs Articles requiring cleanup Articles requiring expansion Discussions Feed. Explore Wikis Community Central.
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