There are a lot of different foes in Svart Alfheim, and after a rather gruelling marathon of hacking and slashing your way out of a pickle, there is nothing better than getting away quickly and soaring through the beautiful blue sky. Once you’re in the air, it can be quite liberating. Instead, you stop, press the up button on the D-pad and take to the sky in a relatively quick fashion.
At first, the controls can be a little frustrating, especially as there is no fluid transition to go from walking to flight. In the fairy-inspired Norse setting of Alfheim Online, you can fly for the first time. At one point, someone said “He tanked everything for us, so we could sit back and focus on DPS,” which if you are familiar with games like Warcraft, Guild Wars or StarCraft, you’ll understand. The effort exerted making this MM faux (you can thank me for that zinger on Twitter) feel authentic is evident even the dialogue used in the cutscenes is ace. Fetch quests are in abundance and text appears on the left of the screen when a character in your party uses an item, attacks a monster or heals you. In the open areas where the majority of the fighting takes place, other NPCs are engaging with bizarre creatures as you fight your own battles. Countless NPCs are running across the towns and chatting to each other. There are many nuances within the body of the story and environment that make it feel like a real mass multiplayer. The MMO element of the game is well-implemented. He’s just a chap playing a game with his mates, girlfriend and little sister – bless him. Kirito isn’t trapped in Alfheim Online so there is no real underlying threat to his cause.
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The idea is smart and full of opportunity, but the story in Lost Song is bland and devoid of any real intrigue or delight. The game does try to help a little – providing some dialogue and information about the in-game MMO world of Sword Art Online and its “die in the game, you die in real life” ethos. As someone completely new to the series, I found the story quite straightforward to follow, even though there were a lot of those moments where it was assumed I was supposed to know who these people were and what had happened to them in the events leading up to it. Sword Art Online: Lost Song takes place in Alfheim Online’s first expansion, Svart Alfheim, and sees Kirito return to beat the MMO before the Shamrocks: a huge guild led by the pop singer and professor, Rainbow Arsharvin. Let’s put it this way: if you like playing Japanese ARPGs, this game is certainly worth checking out. The in-jokes and the countless characters that are introduced without much of an introduction can be a little too sudden, but that isn’t to say the game is bad by any means. For anyone new to the series, you may feel like you’re the nerd trying to befriend the cool kids. Although it isn’t technically canon in the SAO universe, it still features many people, places and plot points that have appeared before in some capacity, even if it the continuity isn’t quite there. Sword Art Online is certainly a game aimed at fans of the anime and its predecessors.
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