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Great news for fans of Sword Art Online Aliciz- Haud oan. Alicization Lyc- Wait a minute.

Great new for fans of Japanese anime-rpg things. The game I mentioned in the heading of this post is coming West, to PS4, Xbox and Steam. Speaking personally, I don’t know anything about “Sword Art Online”, but my journalistic instincts led me to this information on the dark-web website Wikipedia:

Sword Art Online is a Japanese light novel series written by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by abec.

I’ve heard that the previous computer games aren’t much cop, but really - who trusts a games reviewer these days? I’ll tell you what is good - this awkward chat about all the Sword Art Online stuff, full of completely baffling patter about Phantom Bullets and stuff. Absolutely mystifying and charming.