SWORD ART ONLINE: FATAL BULLET

You spend hours customizing your own character and picking your guns just for the game to remind you, every five minutes, that Kirito is still handsomer, stronger, has a bigger harem, and is the actual protagonist of your life. Recommend.

This is by far the best SAO game ever made and unfortunately the last of the good ones before they changed the formula into a chapter based hack'n slash and got greedy putting microtransactions.

It would have been so much better if they turned this game into live service and kept releasing new DLCs instead of releasing Alicization because since then SAO games were only going downhill.

This game was actually way better than I thought it'd be. It has its flaws, of course, we'll talk about that, but for now, the good things.
The game is pretty, they used an art-style that just works, and it will even in 10 years. The gameplay was fun, at least it was for me, the movement is smooth and the feel of the gun was neat. You have a lot of weapon categories ranging from laser swords like in the anime, handguns, to miniguns and rocket launchers. You level up your character, gaining character points that you can use to give attributes, that will give more health, defense and whatever.. It also serves as a requirement to equip certain weapons. You also get a large selection of skills and gadgets to make your loadout unique.
As always in SAO games, you get an affection bar for each characters, filling it gives you little interactions with them. It's fun to learn about the characters, but except for this and giving you the true ending, I don't think it does anything more than that, so if you're just into playing the game, you won't have to focus on this.
Now, onto what bugs me with this game, first, the sensitivity is horrible, I played with a controller, but I wanted to go with a mouse and keyboard at first but just couldn't get the sensitivity I wanted, even at the lowest it was still too high. It's less bothersome with a controller, so you might want to play with that (you get some kind of aim assist built in the game that you can turn on and off, it makes sense if you watched the anime, but it's explained in the game if you didn't, it was annoying at first but I started to appreciate it with time).
Another setting you might want to play with, playing with the voices turned off was a great upgrade for me. It's nice to hear them but having my teammates moaning and screaming in my ears at every little action during fights, yeah.. I just turned them off completely.
For the best experience, play this game on easy first, there is a big gap in difficulty with the other ones. You'll be able to change them whenever you want to.
As for the grind, my brother this is a grindy game, not going to lie, at one point, I just gave up and asked someone to help me with XP. I wanted to get the achievements and after getting the true ending, last thing I wanted was 100 hours of farm.
To sum up everything, this game is worth it. You don't need to know anything about the anime to appreciate it, you get the general plot of the anime but with a lot of twists to it. It took me 100 hours to get all the achievements, but it will take you more if you level up solo.

Easily the best Sword Art Online game. Super fun, fast, and faced paced just like GGO is in SAO II. It feels little grindy at times, but I just put on some music and go at it. If you are concerned with the price, simply pick it up off of CDKeys, you can get it for like 8 dollars with all the DLC.
If you are a fan of the show, This is the SAO game you want to play.

Really the only worthy sword art online game based off the GGO season. It’s good, but its definitely a $20 game you’ll get about 30 hours all DLC included. Here’s hoping echoes of aincrad is good and they fixed the items dropping rather than teleporting them to inventory on kill.

At some point i had an SAO period during which i tried all SA games, fatal bullet is the best game out off them all hands down. not a master piece but it has a very relaxing gameplay loop which lets you just hop in and shoot things and chill without thinking too hard. only SAO game i dont mind returning to every so often.

Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet had me the second I realized it was built around Gun Gale Online.

GGO was easily one of my favorite arcs from the anime, so when this game came out, I jumped on it immediately. I wanted the guns, the outfits, the sci-fi chaos, the weird MMO energy, the dramatic anime nonsense, all of it. And honestly, Fatal Bullet scratched that itch.

I love that it lets you make your own character and actually exist in that world instead of just watching the usual cast do everything. Running around with your own avatar, collecting weapons, building your loadout, fighting enemies, and getting pulled into all the Gun Gale Online drama is exactly the kind of fan-servicey RPG nonsense I wanted.

The gameplay is fun once you get into it. Shooting, dodging, using skills, upgrading gear, chasing better weapons, and trying to survive while everything is firing at you from every direction. It is messy sometimes, but it has that addictive “just one more mission” thing going on.

And then there is the bullet line.

Predict the bullet line.

That mechanic lives in my brain rent-free. Seeing the line, dodging at the right moment, trying not to panic, and pretending you have elite anime reflexes when really you are just moving on pure survival instinct? Perfect. Stressful. Beautiful. Horrible. I love it.

Fatal Bullet is not flawless, but it is such a fun time if you already love Sword Art Online, especially the GGO side of it. It gave me the world, the style, the guns, the customization, and enough anime chaos to keep me hooked.

Gun Gale Online fans, this one gets it.