However, this will be quite challenging and we’d like to take things step by step.
“VR is a popular topic right now and we are thinking that this is something we definitely have to do something with for Sword Art Online.
In an excerpt from a recent interview with Siliconera, the producer of the Sword Art Online game series, Yosuke Futami, had very specific thoughts about the possibility of a VR adaption of the license: However, plans may be in motion for that to start changing. It’s a bit jarring to play a game that is based on a fictional game from an anime using characters that know they’re in a game…it gets confusing, to say the least. And beyond that fact, they aren’t in any way VR games – simply third-person action games that use characters from the show. They’re more akin to traditional action role playing games with multiplayer features, a la Monster Hunter or Phantasy Star Online, than they are actual MMOs. It’s a setting just asking to be adapted into an actual VR MMO.įunnily enough, Bandai Namco, the publisher that’s been handling video game adaptations of the Sword Art Online property, already have an entire line of games based on the popular anime. The characters in the show actually wear HMDs similar to the ones we have in our real world, but the major difference is that they don’t just have lenses for your eyes, but rather tap into your brain to mentally transport your entire consciousness instead. In the case of Sword Art Online though, it’s taken quite literally. hack//Sign, have hypothesized what it would be like to more truly inhabit a virtual space. Even before Sword Art Online other properties like The Matrix, or even more similarly. The fantasy of playing a true approximation of the fictional games shown in the Sword Art Online anime series has been a pop culture dream for years.
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