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[Parakeetman]

Second trailer for the upcoming PS4 / PSV game "Accel World VS Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight"

Bandai Namco has released the second trailer and announced an additional first-print bonus for Accel World VS Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight in Japan.

First-print copies of Accel World Online VS Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight will include “Sachi ALfheim Online ver.” as a playable character. This is in addition to the previously announced Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale movie costumes for Kirito and Asuna.

*Credits to Gematsu

For those not familiar with this game seems to be using the same engine as Lost Song, which means Artdink are the ones behind the development. So fans of Lost Song should enjoy this title also whenever it gets localized for the West that is.

Gematsu archives for older news pieces on the game.

Official JP Homepage Link

 

[Jeffrey]

i dont know why, but its always feels kinda tasteless that they keep bringing that girl in SAO who dies from cancer in the anime/ln back in each game...

 

[Mailbox]

i dont know why, but its always feels kinda tasteless that they keep bringing that girl in SAO who dies from cancer in the anime/ln back in each game...

It was AIDS iirc but yeah it can be weird for sure.

 

[aadiboy]

i dont know why, but its always feels kinda tasteless that they keep bringing that girl in SAO who dies from cancer in the anime/ln back in each game...

Lol at SAO ever being tasteful

 

[Shizuka]

Did they add a PS4 version? I thought it was a PSV-exclusive.

 

[Tohsaka]

i dont know why, but its always feels kinda tasteless that they keep bringing that girl in SAO who dies from cancer in the anime/ln back in each game...

They retconned it in the games so she didn't actually die.

 

[Parakeetman]

Went and found a pic of what the first print DLC for the playable Sachi character looks like for those who cant watch the trailer for whatever reason.

 

[Sylverstone14]

It was AIDS iirc but yeah it can be weird for sure.

Huh, I thought it was cancer.

 

[Parakeetman]

Huh, I thought it was cancer.

Taken from a wiki in spoiler tags regardless.

Spoiler

Konno Yuuki was born on May 23, 2010. Due to dystocia, a caesarean section had to be performed, but an accident caused a large amount of bleeding and thus a blood transfusion was given. However, the blood was infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). By the time the virus was detected, the whole family was already infected. Yuuki continued to fight the disease but, during the course of her 4th Grade, a group of students found she was a carrier of the HIV virus and started spreading rumors about Yuuki around the school and she was forced to transfer schools. At that moment, Yuuki's immune system began collapsing and she was hospitalised. Her parents died two years prior to the events of the Mother's Rosario and her sister a year prior.

 

[Dragonslayer_023]

i dont know why, but its always feels kinda tasteless that they keep bringing that girl in SAO who dies from cancer in the anime/ln back in each game...

Games are a different continuity.

 

[Parakeetman]

Games are a different continuity.

Pretty much. Since Hollow Fragment goes in a whole different direction than the Anime. Quick explanation on how it goes in a totally different direction

Spoiler

basically Kirito and the others were not freed from the game after defeating Heathcliff (Kayaba Akihito) and the world continued with a whole new area that opened up after. So basically the deathgame still continued.

They even basically threw the whole Fairy Dance arc out of the window and its for the better. So Lost Song basically covers the whole different game world part of the story with the ALfheim Online content.

Some quotes from an interview in regards to Lost Song

Next, the developers talk about what makes Lost Song fun as a non-death game, whereas in the original Sword Art Online, dying in the virtual MMORPG meant dying in real life.

“Up until now Kirito and the others have played a “death game” where they risked their lives in Aincrad, right?” says Futami. “However, Lost Song will be all about how ‘games are fun’, and I believe its scenario will have plenty of lighthearted content.”

Dengeki asks how they decided to have the game set in the new and reborn ALO, instead of the original one.

“If we had it set in the title’s Fairy Dance arc of ALO, that would mean Asuna would be imprisoned in the World Tree,” says Kawahara. “So, that’d mean Kirito wouldn’t have time to play around; but in order to have him [be able to fool around a game], we figured that having a reborn ALO would be the most suitable.”

He continues, “So, if we go by chronological order, this would make it the reborn ALO. What makes it different from SAO is that this time, Kirito and friends can enjoy a game normally. However, ‘how to bring out a more serious mood to the scenario’ was also an important factor.”

*Credits to Siliconera