Bandai Namco's Mystery RPG Is Echoes Of Aincrad, A New Sword Art Online Game That Has Shades Of Xenoverse

Bandai Namco's Mystery RPG Is Echoes Of Aincrad, A New Sword Art Online Game That Has Shades Of Xenoverse

From TheGamer (Written by George Foster) on | OpenCritic

The mystery RPG that Bandai Namco has been teasing for the past week is Echoes of Aincrad, a new Sword Art Online game that lets you create your own hero for the first time in the series.

Earlier this week, Bandai Namco took to Twitter to tease a mysterious new RPG with a brief gameplay clip and some shots of the environment. Everyone has spent the last few days trying to figure out which project or franchise is getting a new game, but some eagle-eyed fans pointed out that a pillar shown in the trailer made it look like the game could be related to Sword Art Online.

As revealed in the official livestream, that's exactly the case, as the mystery game is Echoes of Aincrad, a new action RPG that basically seems like Sword Art Online's own version of Dragon Ball Xenoverse, complete with a customisable original protagonist for the first time in series history.

Echoes of Aincrad is a current-gen exclusive action RPG that's aiming to take Sword Art Online in a new direction, namely one that lets you create and customise your own protagonist. As the name implies, Echoes of Aincrad takes place in the first...

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