Sword Art Online - Smile of the Black Cat + Project ''Ceramic Heart'' (2013) PC

Sword Art Online - The Smile of the Black Cat is a visual novel based on the novels of Reki Kawahara, a fairly well–known modern Japanese writer. The works were successful not only in the author's homeland, but also all over the world, so it is not surprising that the author of the game took the story of ranobe for his project.

Background

In the novels of Reki Kawahara, we are talking about technologies that allegedly arose in 2022, capable of completely immersing a person in virtual reality. This feature was first tested on gamers in the game Sword Art Online (SAO). As many as ten thousand people became the first testers of the virtual gaming environment and ... were trapped. The developer of SAO deliberately deprived them of the opportunity to exit their games and take off their virtual reality helmet until one of the gamers completely passes one hundred levels of the Aincrad fortress, fighting various monsters with only cold weapons.

The main character – a guy named Kirito – is trying to become a master of the sword in order to reach the final and free the prisoners of Aincrad, who begin to die for real after being killed in the virtual world.

The plot of the game

To better understand the plot of the visual novel, anime fans should familiarize themselves with the works of Kawahara, because the plot of the game does not repeat the plot of the original. Events take place in parallel in the real world. The author of the novel shows his version of what is happening: what Aincrad was created for, what happened in reality while gamers were stuck in SAO, and also what is the fate of some of the heroes of ranobe.

How to play

Despite the fact that the plot is about a computer role-playing game, there is no need to control the heroes wielding weapons and pump their skills. The genre of the visual novel assumes that the gameplay consists of contemplating the change of scenery, and the player only makes a choice in the dialogues of the characters, affecting the further development of events.

Features:

• original storylines that do not repeat the plot of Sword Art Online novels;
• decent graphic performance in anime style;
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