The whole "speaking monster" thing ruined the show.
The Mermaid is just another example of this.
The show and dungeon should've remained a reverse "SAO Tower"
The whole "speaking monster" thing ruined the show.
The Mermaid is just another example of this.
The show and dungeon should've remained a reverse "SAO Tower"
If it had remained that simple, the story would have been over very soon. The bigger story is obviously more complicated, but sometimes I do feel like the anime, maybe also the original novels, I wouldn't know, can't really handle the deeper things in a very smooth manner. I'm especially annoyed by the frequent Uranus scenes, which try really hard to be all mysterious, grandiose, and foreboding, but in the end it never feels like they achieve anything. Nevertheless, the situation is not static, that much is clear. Maybe the talking and feeling monsters are the dungeon's way of trying to break the stalemate.
Nothing should ever be SAO anything.