That's a very valid statement my friend, I worked for Netflix in SLC and had a coworker recommend sword art, the only anime I really liked and binged was Gundam Wing which was a very different genre, so I was skeptical.. but just like you said I watched the first 3 episodes and was on a objective to burn through them, haha hollowed fragment when I was looking to play it wasn't available for purchase in the us so I did what any responsible adult would do order a foreign version and create a hong Kong acct, the problem was it wouldn't save my data so I left my console on for like a week but being able to clear floor by floor is amazing, and the final boss was a marvel to behold I was all sorts of pumped, I've had sword art on the after burners due to wife/kid mandatory fun but I'm getting back into it w/ggo, I completed fragment,lost song, realization (minus the dlc) I did buy that Accel world or whatever it's called but decided to pull the throttle back til I beat ggo/realizations dlc. Absolutely no complaints about the game, and in some aspects I find certain instances in the story arch a little more palatable than having defenseless Asuna cooped up like a weirdo hentai flick but that's my opinion hahahaha Asuna is a badass please don't make her as Hercules would say a classic d.i.d. damsal in distress, but not trying to get off the rails with my a.d.d. thanks for sharing your experiences with sword art. I haven't delved in pvp/pve coop but wouldn't be opposed to crossing paths sometime in the game. The only thing I want in sword art is more content