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… AND thus the
Aincrad-arc ends with me getting pissed off at how the heck Kirito cleared the
game.
When I said last
time that I was looking forward at how they are going defeat the boss last
episode, I was really wrong for getting my hopes up. The battle for this 75th
floor boss is the worst battle scene done in SAO
yet. They defeated him with normal and continuous attacks with only 14 deaths?
Seriously? And I thought background characters kept on flying everywhere.
Anyway, that boss
battle ended up being Kirito's confirmation of Heathcliff's character. I like
how Kirito revealed Heathcliff as Kayaba Akihiko to the surviving players of
the boss fight. His first reference being his one-on-one with him and he
confirmed it by directly attacking Heathcliff. That was one risky move but it
was one of the most interesting parts of this episode. I guess Kayaba Akihiko
being Heathcliff is an interesting part of the twist. Besides, watching over
the players for 2years (and probably more) is a very boring task. Joining the
fun is definitely the best thing to do :3
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Honestly speaking,
I've done my homework on spoiler and background check on Kayaba Akihiko. I was
just waiting for the moment that Kirito will reveal it all to us and they'll
fight each other to death. Every time I try to think how it'll happen, Kirito actually
killing Heathcliff never came to my imagination clearly, it seemed impossible.
And how he did it here really did just proved that it is impossible. Although the moment that Kirito will fight him
[Heathcliff] is something that he's
looking forward to since he even gave Kirito the Dual Wielding sword skill which was unique to only him.
Now going to all the
drama before the battle, I'd say that it worked out pretty bad. HAHA. Kirito
was giving off his death messages to his friends namely Klein and Egil. And for
Asuna, he has nothing. He just told Heathcliff to prevent Asuna from killing
herself during the first few days. How is that a nice thing? No, it's nothing
nice. It's being unfair. He wants Asuna to suffer longer until she kills
herself.
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Their battle wasn't
the least surprising. They're like the complete opposites of each other being
an offensive player, the other being defensive. What really pissed me off here
was first, how Asuna was able to move and prevent Kirito from dying. How did that
happen? I have no idea. I doubt Heathcliff will just remove the paralysis from
Asuna. I don't think he's that kind of guy. He won't do something unnecessary
when it was so clear that he's winning.
The second thing
that pissed me off was how the heck Kirito just killed him. Let's go back to
that scene, Kirito was sulking because Asuna just died. He doesn't have a will
to fight then suddenly Heathcliff stabs him and he watches his life points goes
zero. To be honest, I was looking forward to Kirito actually fighting back
quickly before his life points are completely gone. But no, that didn't happen.
He suddenly remembers Asuna's words, I believe
in you Kirito. And his life points finally drops down to zero. "You
are dead" message shows up then what? He dramatically dies and bits of his
characters scatter out and suddenly his scattered parts comes back together.
And Kirito kills Heathcliff?~ HAHA. That was a real joke. And I though SAO is a
fair game. How the heck did Kirito came back after having his life points down
to zero just to kill Heathcliff?
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Enough complaining.
When Kirito finally reaches the 'final phase', he meets Asuna there and they
went on drama mode with Kayaba Akihiko. The music there is definitely the best
out of all the BGM in SAO yet. Although
it's not something that moved me. Anyway, let me go to their discussing with
Kayaba Akihiko. I honestly didn't understand much of Kayaba's point here. He
said he made SAO because it was his dream of creating "a world that
surpasses all our laws and all our restrictions". Personally, I think that
he just wants to play God in his very own world as seen from how he actually
seem to enjoy making the storyline of SAO himself: his creation of the Knights
of Blood Oath, training players, granting Kirito the unique skill and even
having the final boss as himself at the 100th floor.
Other than Kirito's
revelation of Heathcliff's identity, I think that Asuna and Kirito's farewell
is one of the best parts in this episode, at least for me. It was plain
romantic and I like it when Asuna asked for Kirito's real name and even called
him Kazuto :3
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Okay, this turned
out longer that I expected~ Anyway, I don't really know how I'd wrap my view up
on this episode. The end of the arc seems pretty good but also pretty
disappointing. If you've read through this post, you know why. Fantasy is
fantasy. I will never understand how the heck Kirito got back to the game and
killed Kayaba Akihiko. I don't want to annoy myself by thinking about it. Next
arc should be up soon(: Not so excited but I do hope that we'll see some real
world parts even just the next episode :3
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