Now that the official DualShockers GOTY 2020 results have been published, we Weebs/Otaku/Nerds/Whatever appellation floats your Nice Boat, still have one more battlefield we must face, a Saimoe to decide the Best Girl and Best Boy of 2020 in Japanese games. However this is a high-level, special Saimoe vote, geared towards those built different, where
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Bandai Namco launched the 1.07 update for Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris on September 4. The patch notes are detailed in English on the game’s Steam page. The main brunt is correcting bugs that happened during specific quests, sub episodes, and story chapters. The loading times and the time it takes to save the game
You already know Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris launched on PS4, Xbox One and Steam on July 10, with a lot of problems. Several patches have been released since then, but the game is still unsatisfying in multiple technical aspects. Producer Yousuke Futami held a short stream on August 7 where he talked about future
Bandai Namco together with Dengeki Online, held a final stream for the release of Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris in Japan, July 9. The stream featured Producer Yousuke Futami, ReoNa, and cosplayer Sayuki, who was cosplaying as Medina Orthinanos. Game Director from Acquire Satoshi Hirayae wasn’t physically present but participated via voice-chat. The stream most
Dengeki Online published an interview focusing on the upcoming PS4, Xbox One, and PC JRPG Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris. The interview is with SAO author Reki Kawahara, SAO Editor Kazuma Miki, and SAO console games Producer Yousuke Futami. In particular, multiple parts through the interview and comments from Producer Futami hint that future SAO
The Sword Art Online βeater’s cafe held a new live stream focusing on Alicization Lycoris today, July 3. Producer Yousuke Futami played Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris live for around an hour, and as the stream ended, revealed the game’s opening animation. The opening theme song of Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris is titled Scar/let,
Dengeki Online published an interview focusing on the upcoming PS4, Xbox One, and PC JRPG Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris. The interview features SAO Author Reki Kawahara, SAO Producer Kazuma Miki, and SAO console games Producer Yousuke Futami. Divided in multiple parts, the interview covers various aspects of Alicization Lycoris. Including Medina Orthinanos, the newest
As you already know, a new Sword Art Online stream was held on June 13, where we most notably learned Lisbeth, Silica, Leafa and Sinon will all be playable in Alicization Lycoris. Now, we have up and running for you a full summary of the stream, with more gameplay, and new comments from Producer Yousuke
Bandai Namco held a new live stream for Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris, revealing Lisbeth, Silica, Leafa and Sinon are included in the game. This isn’t surprising as they’ve been in all the previous SAO games so far. Moreover, as DualShockers reported back in March, Producer Yousuke Futami teased Silica and the girls would be
Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris Producer Yousuke Futami held a new Periscope stream on May 29, answering live questions from fans. SAO games Producers are regularly holding Periscope streams to deliver news on their respective games amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Yousuke Futami previously revealed Alicization Lycoris’ length and answered questions regarding a Switch port on a
Dengeki Online held a new Sword Art Online stream on May 9, with most notably an Alicization Lycoris corner. The stream featured SAO author Reki Kawahara, SAO Editor Kazuma Miki, SAO console games Producer Yousuke Futami, and Aniplex + SAO Anime Producer Masaki Niwa. The Alicization Lycoris part started with the other producers teasing FutamiP
In an interview with Dengeki Online, Sword Art Online games Producer Yousuke Futami announced total sales for all SAO games have now surpassed 5,6 million units worldwide. When speaking about SAO Fatal Bullet and the popularity of the game and its DLC content, Futami mentioned: “Thanks to everyone’s support, total sales of the series are
Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris Producer Yousuke Futami held a short Periscope stream on May 1. Seeing the current state of emergency in Japan, this stream was in lieu of the usual SAO streams focusing on the games of the franchise, and focused on Alicization Lycoris. Other SAO game producers will similarly do streams, around
Bandai Namco announced Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris has been delayed due to the Coronavirus state of emergency in Japan. Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris was supposed to launch on May 21 in Japan and May 22 worldwide, but was now delayed to July 9 in Japan and July 10 worldwide. A message from Producer
Dengeki Online and Bandai Namco revealed Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris’ DLC and Premium Pass contents in the latest stream dedicated to the game. In a nutshell, the game will get free monthly content including Raid Bosses, and a Premium Pass with exclusive content as big as half of the base game. We also learned
On March 22, Bandai Namco and Dengeki held a stream for Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris revealing the game’s second story trailer, new characters, around 20 minutes of new gameplay, and many new story details. Singer ReoNa and Game Producer Yousuke Futami were on stream and both played the game. The gameplay featured a party
Bandai Namco and Dengeki Online held a new live stream for Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris on March 22, revealing the game’s second story trailer. The trailer features SAOAL’s opening theme song, Scar/let, which is sung by ReoNa, and focuses on the game’s new original character, Medina Orthinanos. Note that only a Japanese version of
Sword Art Online characters who aren’t supposed to appear in the first part of the Alicization arc were strongly teased in SAO Alicization Lycoris. Bandai Namco and Dengeki Online held the SAO Game Fan Kanshasai 2020 event on March 7. The event was streamed and was mixed up a bit, as no live audience was
Bandai Namco, via the latest Gekaku TV stream, revealed new live gameplay of Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris. Producer Yousuke Futami was on stream too, sharing some new comments on the game. The gameplay features a party with Kirito, the new original character Medina, along with Ronie and Tiese. This is the first time we’re
Bandai Namco, alongside Dengeki Online, held a stream for Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris and the anime SAO Alicization War of Underworld on February 12. We learned a whole lot more on both the game and the anime, and new trailers were published as well. The stream featured: Yousuke Futami, Bandai Namco Producer ReoNa, singer
Bandai Namco published a battle system trailer for Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris. The trailer is narrated by Kirito, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka. Only a Japanese version of the trailer is available, so here’s a summary of what Kirito says. The battle system of Alicization Lycoris lets players switch to controlling any character at any time, but
Bandai Namco and Dengeki Online held a stream for Sword Art Online games on January 13. The stream most notably featured new gameplay sequences for Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris, showing parts of bed scenes events with Asuna and Alice. These scenes unlock as you raise a character’s trust and are a staple of SAO games,
Bandai Namco, in collaboration with our comrades at Dengeki, held a special christmas stream for Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris, showing some new gameplay. The stream featured SAO: Alicization Lycoris Producer Yousuke Futami, who you can follow on Twitter for antics which will definitely make you empathic about his job and feel his love, his