Review: #761
Title: Accel World 8: The Binary Stars of Destiny
Series: Accel World - 8th volume
Author: Reki Kawahara
Read Before: no
Comments: Following on from the epic cliffhanger of the previous volume, the faceoff between Takumu and Haru is resolved in an average way here. Naturally, equipping the Destiny armament, Haru manages to subdue Takumu and convince him to not sacrifice himself. A huge part of this volume focuses on the Incarnate system, and you’ll hear the words “image” again and again and again. It gets a bit cringeworthy in the end, especially when Haru starts learning more Incarnate attacks and naming them with the most embarrassing of names. The lines start to blur significantly between the original rules of Brain Burst, and the Incarnate system which is seemingly overpowered and can literally rewrite all the rules of the program, making them pointless in the first place and leaving an uneven playing ground. As the quest to escape from the Imperial Palace continues, once again, it shows how unbalanced the game can be with overpowered enemies for any normal player, taking several overpowered characters in order to defeat one of the enemies. You start to feel that the author is seriously making things up to try and be more impressive as he goes along without giving much thought on the consequences (even more so than before). The writing feels weaker but the plot is still interesting enough to hook you, there is still plenty of potential left. It’s slight annoying but expected, that it ends on yet another cliffhanger.
Rating: 6.5/10