Most MMO-Lite games have a “number” problem, where after some digging you discover the only real difficulty built into the game is your damage and armor compared to the computer’s, but Fatal Bullet is blatantly obvious with it, perhaps a consequence of the video game aesthetic of its source material. The combat system itself is worth praise, but the movement patterns and tactics the enemy AI uses is as mind-numbingly boring as possible. That said, the less you focus on your own efficiency, the more you see just how repetitive the gameplay is. And again, since it’s so easy to turn on and off, it’s a tool to be utilized rather than a clutch to commit to when you need to buckle down and get as many critical hits as you can, turning off Assist Mode and focusing on your target enables skilled play, but when you want to relax in your MMO grind, you can turn it on and casually dish out the pain. You can take a moment to soak in the art style or enemy design since you’re not focused on the aim reticle itself. Some encounters aren’t kind to precise play anyways, whether you’re throwing a barrage of bullets from your gatling gun or forced to fire from the hip with your sniper rifle, and the freedom on gameplay besides aiming lets you indulge in other elements of the game. It’s always better to aim down your sights to nail a headshot when you can, but you can’t always do this in the heat of battle, and killing generic mobs usually doesn’t warrant that sort of attention to detail. While perhaps advertised as “easy mode,” given how easy it is to turn on and off just with the tap of the D-Pad Assist Mode is a very clever tool the developers included for gameplay. I actually want to take the second to praise the Assist Mode built into the core gameplay loop. The game’s true multiplayer modes are clunky to work through, and are designed as material grinds instead of experience grinds, so if you have the motivation to level up you’ll probably avoid them. Enemy AI design is far from impressive, but provide a decent enough challenge to encourage the player to do more than spray and pray with their weapons. Swords are present, because this is Sword Art Online, so the melee option was mandatory. Range, clip size, ammo cost, or overheating capacity, each weapon compliments a different player habit to where you’ll comfortably find what fits you. Weapons are interchangeable all roughly equal in killing power, affording the player personal choice in what gimmicks best align with what they value.
It’s the standard affair of grinding minions, dungeons, and bosses for material and loot to power up your gear and level up to enable you to fight stronger minions, dungeons, and bosses.
Perhaps derivative of the source material, a game that models itself off a fictional MMORPG setting is bound to share some qualities, and the core gameplay loop encourages that. The most obvious thing to expect is that this is an MMO-Lite style game. If your response to your friend is “SAO sucks though,” you missed the point of friendship.
But what if you’re somebody else? What if you’re only remotely aware of the source material? What if you only picked up this game so you could play it with a friend? What should you expect? If you love Sword Art Online and played the rest of the game series, you probably already bought this game, and if you hate Sword Art Online and are a gamer, you probably never will. That conversation is endless and will never die, but while this review isn’t an entry into the millennia-long debate, it’s important to acknowledge it to illustrate where this review is coming from. If you’re into the anime scene, you probably have a strong opinion about it, and if not, nerd culture almost necessitates you know somebody with a strong opinion about it. Sword Art Online, the source material, is a divisive anime that is either adored as one of anime’s greatest hits or hated as one of anime’s most miserable mysteries. Diverging from previous installments, the player creates their own protagonist instead of piloting the anime’s characters, and sets out discovering the fictional MMORPG world of Gun Gale Online while solving the mysteries surrounding their new AI companion and balancing friendships along the way. It takes place in the universe designed by the source material, Sword Art Online, and follows the plot of the game’s predecessor, Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization.
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Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet is a third person shooter role-playing game, or an MMO-Lite for those that want to catch their breath, released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC worldwide on February 28th, 2018.
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