Sword Art Online series

You’d think having a game based on an anime centred around a fictional MMORPG in VR would at least try to create something similar in its own tie-in game. Well, not quite. Whilst we didn’t get a fully fledged Sword Art Online MMORPG game ourselves, we got something which did what the .hack series did, in trying to portray itself like an MMO, without being an MMO.

To be fair, it does a good job at pretending to be one, and the inclusion of multiplayer means that it doesn’t completely deviate from the source material. Whilst you can’t play out your fantasy of playing an MMO similar to that in the game, you can at least play a Monster Hunter style clone, wrapped in the design of one of the most popular anime in the last few years.