Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization - Deluxe Edition
2026, Sword Art: Origin, a new VRMMORPG has emerged. Kirito meets a mysterious NPC and receives a cryptic message. This game is definitively not the same as the one he escaped years ago…
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization - Deluxe Edition is an adventure developed by Aquria, released 8 November 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization - Deluxe Edition is
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization - Deluxe Edition is an adventure game developed by Aquria and released in 2016. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
2026, Sword Art: Origin, a new VRMMORPG has emerged. Kirito meets a mysterious NPC and receives a cryptic message. This game is definitively not the same as the one he escaped years ago…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Sword Art Online series
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization - Deluxe Edition is the eighth of 32 entries we hold in the Sword Art Online series. The next entry was Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Collector's Edition in 2016. Its critic score of 65 is almost exactly the series average of 65. The highest-rated entry is Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream at 75.
How it was received
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization - Deluxe Edition holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization - Deluxe Edition launched on 8 November 2016, within three weeks of Dishonored 2, Battlefield 1, Final Fantasy XV and Titanfall 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dishonored 2, Battlefield 1, Final Fantasy XV, Titanfall 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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