Sword Art Online: Lost Song Reviews

Sword Art Online: Lost Song is ranked in the 23rd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
6 / 10.0
Jan 6, 2016

Sword Art Online: Lost Song has plenty of great ideas, but it definitely doesn't do enough to make them work in a 20-hour game.

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Nick H.
Top Critic
Nov 20, 2015

Sword Art Online: Lost Song is an interesting title, because its intuitive combat is an easy way for newcomers to experience the game. At the same time, it has a story and history that really is geared towards those who are already familiar with the series and the prior video game entry. Those two items are somewhat at odds with one another, but if you can get past that and the middling story, I found the actual characters and humour engaging.

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6 / 10.0
Nov 23, 2015

Sword Art Online: Lost Song is easy to get into and offers plenty of entertaining combat, along with an appealing multiplayer mode. The controls work just fine, as do the online servers, and the thrill you get in wasting huge foes is worth noting. But the campaign falls well shy of modern-day standards, with lackluster technical elements, and we have to suffer through a blasé storyline with characters only hardcore fans will recognize, and an overarching repetitiveness in both game design and combat.

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GameSkinny
Top Critic
Nov 18, 2015

If you dig Sword Art Online you'll enjoy this game, but repetitive combat and a lacking story drag it down.

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3 / 5.0
Dec 7, 2015

Though the game is fast, fun, and enjoyable for the first half, it becomes repetitive and less interesting as it goes on.

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Drew Leachman
Top Critic
5.5 / 10.0
Dec 4, 2015

While I feel like I would get more out of the game if I knew who any of the characters are, they do try to explain in a small introduction who everyone is, but I still missed a lot of things, and I can't help but feel like this is just a standard game. The combat is a bit boring and repetitive, the characters all share almost the same personality, and the areas and encounters are somewhat lackluster. I was never having a bad time with the game, but I wasn't having anything I could really write home about. It has some redeeming qualities, but in the grand scheme of things, it stumbles more than it flies. Fans of the anime should really be the only ones that pick this up, and even then, I would say at a discounted price.

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Drew Hurley
Top Critic
5 / 10
Nov 23, 2015

While it's great to see Bandai Namco continue to support Otaku fans in the West, Sword Art Online: Lost Song is a lost cause for anyone who isn't a die-hard SAO fan. With a weak story, recycled areas, and a short length on the whole, even long-term fans won't find much here to keep them entertained. There is one title left to come in the series, Hollow Realisation, returning to the fan favourite setting of Aincrad next year. Hopefully, it can learn from the many mistakes of its predecessors.

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4 / 10
Jan 14, 2016

Embarrassing, quite frankly

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Unscored
Dec 12, 2015

Looking back at Hollow Fragment, and then playing Lost Song is somewhat jarring. While the gameplay elements of Lost Song lend themselves well to an action game, and the flight mechanics are fun, I can't help but feel this game lacks the finesse of Hollow Fragment.

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