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Well said dude :3It's fair if that's how you see it. However, the same is even more true for Inoda in this game, but to a much bigger extent. The way the script is written, the whole of Part 2 revolves around delivering Inoda perfect opportunities to score his goals. Every character that interacts with him serves only this purpose, including Kirito. The same is true for every situation he is in. It's so forced and predictable, and therefore boring. Tbh, Kirito doesn't even feel like he is actually involved in the main plot, but more like a useless NPC serving as a simple story device. At least in the original series, there was some dynamic between different characters, struggles, etc., but here, it's just a straight railway.
I'm not a fan of SAO; I only watched the first season, but to me, he didn't really feel any different from any other shounen character.
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Ironically, I get your points because I have the same feeling in Part 2 with Inoda. However, in Part 1, he was the only decent character in my eyes. He actually had some development, and it was interesting to follow his approaches. In Part 2, he is just annoying and flat.
Reminder that Leafa is 'diguised' as 'Flora' when in the underground, so the laws of NTR logic make her impossible the recognized even by Kirito who has actually spent time with her, unless she revealed herself fully to him outside the brothel there shouldn't be any way for Asuna to recognize her even if she was indeed stalking hm with Inoda XDThe drama and misunderstanding with the Brothel is probably going to get further expanded on. The idea was already put there near the beginning of Part 2, since we have seen Inoda spying on Kirito, Klein, and Alice heading into the underground. It's nice to know it was finally brought up, cause I was wondering if that entire plot line was going to be dropped or not. Ideally the stories should connect/merge a little bit so that as you mentioned, they can create more drama and misunderstandings. An obviously easy one is whenever Kirito finally goes back down there, and Suguha/Leafa ends up taking him to her room. Whether Suguha/Leafa successfully has sex with Kirito in FOG or not doesn't matter. What ends up obviously mattering is if Inoda brings Asuna with him to see Kirito go into said brothel with Suguha/Leafa. It would be even better if Leafa meets up with Asuna so she knows who she is, but that one I don't really know if it'll happen or not.
I mean, there were no H-scenes of them, which we already knew, but we actually got a small follow-up on Suguha's plot still, which was indirectly tied up to affecting the main story now, and if you went to the corner where you spied her live stream every day you actually can see 2 NPCs talking about Sinon's livestreams and that apparently she has become more aggressive and even femdom-like in them :OGood update. I loved that the kitchen scene went as far as it did right there by Kirito, Inoda is starting to really use his powers to get away with whatever he wants now. And the massage scene was good. I think the update could have done without the completely random 'blacked bad end Asuna' dream though, and maybe something more to the IRL parts instead. Some creeping by Inoda, some mild harassment, something. It looks like Inoda is doing these things, but we only get the faintest hint based on what the workers in RECT ar saying. And there was no Sugu, no Sinon, not even any mini stories from random civilians.
Was it just me or was there no anxiety gain this update?