>>283628121
>being thrust in certain situations and the effects on said person
This applies to every story ever made.
From romantic comedies to psychological horrors.
All stories are about people being thrust into situations they normally aren't.
The genre is called "Other/Parallel World"
The "world" itself should be the main appeal and the "other" should imply "a fish out of water" theming/feeling.
If it's too familiar that it won't feel like "other"
SAO does not make me wonder about how it's world works, it's mechanics are already familiar to me due to being based on MMO mechanics.
There is no history or lore to explore, apply or even speculate about.
So the SAO world is sterile and serves no other purpose than as a giant arena for players to either PVP or PVE. The only exception is the "Retiree Floor" that I forgot the name of. I don't even remember any significant interactions with the NPCs that aren't mobs or floor bosses.
It's effectively a shonen/battle harem series
Log Horizon on the other hand is a much better fit as an isekai.
There is an actual mystery to the start of it.
The world is alive and the NPCs affect the players in they same way the players affect them. The fact the the players understanding of the world they're in both clashes and conforms to the NPCs perception.
The fact that even alt accounts become sapient characters means that there are player created NPCs living in that world as though they were players, and Rundelhaus Kode's entire arc drives it home that the NPCs are just as human as the players
We as the viewer never really know if the world they get isekai'd to is infact the same game that they know or just happens to be a world that behaves extremely close to the game they know. Is the world modeled after the game or was the game modeled after this world?
>>283628670
The difference between the programmer and Tet is that Tet didn't create Disboard he usurped control, so Disboard existed before
