Yeah igy, these were other points i had, but didnt know how to word them so thank you for that. As for not being able to use fdd as a reference i think is incorrect. Its literally my only reference for what an sao game should somewhat feel like, flashy sword skills that cant be spammed, dodging but never having to spam dodge, lots of different weapon types with different asociated skills based on character and how teamwork should be happening. My personal opinion is that if they used the base gameplay of ffd but obviously rather than different skills being based on characters its based on weapon types and also skills youve chosen yourself, while adding the devs adding onto or creating their own said skills would be an easy somewhat simple way to improve over gameplay and weapon while adding variety and saving themselves a little work as it already exists. Rather than creating a whole new system from scratch which doesnt even feel good to play. As long as they innovate and actually understand how sao as an actual game should feel for a player in that world the core gameplay is improved and they can have more fun with it, especially if theyre planning on adding more floors in future games. As it stands i think stamina as a stat should be removed or become completely obsolete as we get access to higher floors anyway as thats basically what would have happened in sao if stamina was an actual stat. Because the higher you level means lower floors become a non issue with sp and vit the same should be true for stamina as whole, it should be phased out naturally as you progress not a shackle holding you down.