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Sword Art Online's New PS3/Vita Game Unveiled in Video
posted on by Emma Hanashiro
Bandai Namco began streaming the promotional video for Sword Art Online -Lost Song-, the third major game in the franchise. Slated for PlayStation 3 and PS Vita in 2015, this action role-playing game will tell an original story set in the fictional ALfheim Online game. ALfheim Online appears in the second arc of the Sword Art Online light novel series.
Text: Sword Art Online
Kirito: All right.
Text: The new game begins.
Text: The adventure moves to the world of fairies and magic, "ALfheim Online"...
Text: The stage moves to the sky...
Kirito: A new story of Sword Art Online that begins in ALfheim, a world of fairies and magic.
Text: A completely new story
Kirito: The place where we landed was the legendary continent where light and darkness intertwine: Swart ALfheim.
Text: The Lost Continent: Swart ALfheim
Kirito: Let's go! To the sky! A new game is starting!
Kirito: Sword Art Online: Lost Song
Text: In the long-lost legendary continent, a song of light and darkness echoes...
Kirito: This is either the light or the darkness that a virtual MMO left behind.
As in Reki Kawahara's original light novel series, you can fly in the game. More details will be in Vol. 576 of Dengeki PlayStation magazine on October 16.
Bandai Namco first announced the game's development at the 2014 Tokyo Game Show stage event on September 19. Reki Kawahara's Sword Art Online light novel series already inspired the Sword Art Online -Infinity Moment- and Sword Art Online -Hollow Fragment- games for the PlayStation Vita system. The light novels also inspired two television anime series.
