And I thought Genshin Impact was a yap fest

I have not played many SAO games so my review may seem amateur compared to veterans of the series. First, I found this game to be really clunky in gameplay. The mechanics have some really cool ideas like chaining skills together and the team being able to chain off each other as well...but it falls flat when everything else is stifling levels of slow. The cutscenes feel barebones, the quests seem rather arbitrary, and I never would have imagined the story branching off from the show/manga in a way that does not feel all that engaging. Overall, I am not complaining heavily because I got the game at a really cheap price and it was nice to see some of the bonding cutscenes between Kirito and the others. For anyone interested in this game, beware that you might be grueling through lots of boredom before you can even reach the DLC.