LogFAQs > #942954400

.hack//sign was horribly paced and usually mainly looked upon fondly due to nostalgia. i rewatched it about twice in the past few years, and while it is still entertaining in a mystery sort of way, it's just boring as hell the vast majority of the time. its concept carries it most of the way, but when you try to compare it to more recent VRMMO/MMO isekai type stuff, it's just so much less entertaining

sao panders to generic interests because reki was just writing a story he wanted to read. he never really intended to be super popular from the beginning, things just kind of exploded after accel world got big and people were suddenly introduced to sao. so it feels very disorganized and amateur all around because that's what it ultimately is. compared to .hack, which was a massive franchise from development

at least .hack isn't as offensively terrible as sao drips to occasionally these days; reki can't stop writing sexual abuse into his stories, and the one time he didn't (alicization), they sprinkled some in for the anime anyways. it's actually utterly ridiculous how horrible sao villains are outside of the very first one. I do like a few arcs from sao way more than anything in .hack (mother's rosario is 10/10 fight me), but .hack in general is a lot more consistent (if predictable and boring because of it)

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