I made a somewhat similar post a few pages back but I need to rant again. Yeah bro things really need to pick up in terms of the story.
If it's just gonna be more 'Oh look, Asuna and Inoda are fucking behind Kirito's back and Asuna is allowing more and more things', then what was the point of the story thus far? From part one the entire premise was that Asuna isn't a slut (quite the opposite) and that she doesn't want to cheat on Kirito, yet things happened, she got manipulated, raped and taken advantage of and now she's in this predicament, struggling with her values, guilt and her own inner and outer conflicts. That used to be the plot and it made the game interesting cause it had some unexpected moments and developments.
Now... she's just a mindless sex drone not saying no to anything, barely any hesitation, no guilt, barely thinking about Kirito (if at all). When Oberon and Shadow Fox were discussing the technology, they said that the memories could be changed, but the values of the person and who they are could not be changed... it's the same tech that affected Asuna, and even though memory wise she now believes that she had been fucking Inoda throughout all of SAO, that he was her first and that he's secretly been Yui's father all along, I still feel like the things she's doing goes absolutely against who she is. I have 43 hours played in part two alone, not one line of dialogue skipped, and that's because I genuinely loved the story and all the moving parts in it, but honestly it's been very bland and boring for a while now. Honestly since the hotel quarantine started, maybe even a little before that. Asuna had rules. No kissing for example, but then Inoda would just kiss her anyway and she wouldn't even lose Affection points and wouldn't stop him. Why? No IRL stuff, only in-game relief, and then we see them watching the show together and he's groping her and she just... lets him? Doesn't even say no? Why? How did that happen? And then, she agrees to IRL anal, which was completely out of the blue, has irl sex with him and then, pre-memory rewrite, becomes Inoda's whore for the quarantine time... HUH!? And there was still a drop of intrigue because of the whole 'this is the last time, when quarantine is done, we part ways forever' thing, and that just vanished. And post-memory wipe there has just been absolutely nothing here outside of just fapping. No more conflict, no more nothing. Just sex scenes, every day, nothing off the table now.
It can still be saved... there are still a lot of moving parts that can make things interesting again. Kyoka (Who just dissapeared btw) can find out about Inoda and Asuna and intervene, cause she has been serious about Asuna throughout everything. Liz, still pissed about the rape can fuck shit up. Sugu and Sinon can expose everything. Administrator said that Yui would be the one to turn everything upside down... Maybe in tweaking her, Kirito restores her original memories from his own mind, and she just blows everything wide open... exposes all the truths, restores Asuna's memories, shows Asuna all Inoda's interventions, lies and manipulations, just turning Asuna back into, well... Asuna. That would be cool, seeing all the perks pop up on the screen like they have all game long as they have upgraded, and having them revert back to lvl one or zero one by one. Point is, I think we are definitely nearing the end, and I think some drastic story stuff need to start happening. I think it's about time Kirito learns the truth, Asuna reflects on herself and all that happened, and all the other characters play their parts as well. Also, this is my fanfic wish, I hope there is an ending where Inoda fucking dies or gets locked up for life. I know Administrator said there wouldn't be a happy ending 'but you never know', and I hope Fuji is just fucking with us and gets us that happy ending. That would be dope.
