![]() It turns out that Asuna will only equip weapons that you “gift” her back in the Town of Beginnings. party members get new weapons as they level up, except Asuna.Īs I quested around with Leafa, Asuna, and Strea, I couldn’t help but notice that Leafa and Strea would frequently equip new weapons as they reached higher levels. Klein remains the highest DPS in the game for me, even above my own Kirito, but I had just as much success taking Silica, a healer, out for a round of questing.Ĥ) All A.I. Since you’re constantly telling them what to do, anyone can essentially fill any roll. Kirito can venture out with three of them at once, or fall back on his original arc’s anti-social “solo player” gimmick if you just want to forget the second arc’s incest bit ever happened.Įach NPC has a specific roll, like tank, buffer, attacker, or healer, but it has yet to matter thirty hours in. You can choose your party by opening up the Friends menu and pressing L1 over their name. being fairly questionable, just party up with three of your favorites and have fun. Hollow Realization features a pretty meaty cast of all your favorite Sword Art Online characters, but with the A.I. is bad, just party with whoever you like the most. L1 + right on the d-pad will order them to attack all at once, while L1 + down asks them to take a step back and replenish their missing health. There are also manual commands that ask your party members to draw aggro away from Kirito, which is handy if you just want to pound away at things, along with the powerful Switch ability.ģ) Since the A.I. The only way I’ve gotten them to do anything productive is to use the game’s manual commands, which you can access by holding down the L1 button in combination with the d-pad and face buttons. They don’t do much on their own, aside from resurrect you when you fall in battle. controlled party members I’ve ever experienced. Hollow Realization has some of the most atrocious A.I. is fucking awful, so get used to manual commands. If your only interest is multi-player, you could probably skip the dialogue and bum rush the objectives significantly faster.Ģ) The A.I. I was at the 12-hour mark by this point, but I have a bad habit of letting the game idle in the background since there’s no pause feature (it’s supposed to resemble an MMO, after all). Instead, you’ll have to complete the entire first area, along with defeating its big bad raid boss at the end, before the multi-player feature unlocks. If you’re interested in picking up Hollow Realization to play with your real-life Asuna or Klein, you should know that it’s not a feature that’s readily available straight out of the box. Over the last few days I’ve managed to sink nearly 30 hours in to the VRMMO-like, so I wanted to share a few tips to help make your starting hours a little less painful.ġ) Multi-player takes about 10 hours to unlock. And while it’s sometimes overly verbose, Ainground does a surprisingly bad job at telling the player how the game actually works. This mock-MMO JRPG is quite expansive, taking players back to a world inspired by the original arc’s Aincrad, though without the real-life perma-death feature. Hollow Realization is the latest video game installment based on the wildly popular anime series Sword Art Online.
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