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THIS.... WAS.... LONG....
It's really hard to rate this web novel accurately because of how much chapters there is. It's actually even harder to write a review on it, because of it.

Quanzhi Gaoshou story mostly follows what is going on inside the game and mind people who plays it. Author really put a lot of thoughts into how the game works, classes, interactions between skills and other in-game mechanics. Of course it's not 100% perfect and some mechanics are not 100% possible from (our world) design point of view, but it makes every fighting more lively and exciting and it's established early how it ... works, so it's not the problem. But it's not why I (the I is really important) enjoyed reading it.

The setup for the story is actually godly. "The king stripped from his title, try to get it back from ground zero", but not for revenge, because it makes him happy. It's not entirely unique setup, but it still has some uniqueness.

The interactions between characters, mind games and trash talk is second reason why this WN is interesting. In this times where you don't really can criticize anyone or trash talk, because you are going to be banned from the game, it's nostalgic to see it. Of course there are games that still allow that, but not all of them, but I feel like people's mentality change and it's rare to see it happen.

Now the last huge reason is the way author writes. It's actually duble edged sword. There's a lot of information passed on to us, what is going on through people heads, what is going on around them etc. It's not like we get perfect information every time. It depends on the situation how much we get, but it allows us to predict what is going to happen, which give me a lot of enjoyment.

Like I said it's also a flaw. Because of the way it's written sometimes it kills dynamic of action. There a few instances of it. Especially at the end of the story, it feels stretched a little bit too (I'm talking about last 400 chapters, if I'm not mistaken).

Overall I really enjoyed reading it. My personal skewed rating is 9, if you spend that much reading something there's no way you aren't going to be objective. If I had to be objective I think 7.7-8.2 should be a reasonable rating. That's why my review rating is 8.

It's a review-rant, because I'm not well spoken enough to make long ass review. This anime is dog-shit, the only saving grace is good animation and music.
SAO every single time has really good setup how to start the story. AND EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY FUKC IT UP.
Why? There's two major things in my opinion that make this season even worse then the others. One is conversations between characters. Every time someone speaks up I want to throw up. Every single conversation sound like the speach principals do at the start of the school year. It's pompous, cringe and tooo looooong. Nobody talks like ... that.. I'm not asking them to curse, I mean it's PG-13 show with a lot of blood, cursing would be over the top.. but at least make them speak like human beings..
You actually can see this happening in the previous seasons too, but I feel like this one has it even more..Like literally every single spoken word.

Let's go to the second problem. Which actually again happens to be in previous seasons. It's skipping through important stuff. It's annoying me maybe even more then the problem above, because there's a lot of unused potential that is killed.
[If we compere it to first season first half then it's not that bad. Here they only cut about 5-7 episodes worth of content and there I feel like they could make 4 season maybe even 5 OMEGALUL. I didn't read LN so I don't know if they followed it or not.. but I feel like there were sooooo much potential there and it wouldn't be stretched out.]
I don't like when the things are dragged out, but I like to know that character is improving because it's showed the whole route of improvement. We don't need to see whole shebang for 20 episodes.. In anime Hunter x Hunter they showed in 6 minutes trening of Isaac Netero and it was perfect.
[if you seen anime you know what I'm talkin' about, if not.. WTF ARE YOU DOING? You are reading review of this dogshit anime.. go watch HxH it's sooooooo much better then this.. (I wish they would continue it).]
I don't feel like I've seen anything in SAO that actually looked like trening. They did showed us some instances (I think) but they never looked like actual trening, "a repetitive task that allows you to achieve greater things" or whatever definition is. They just cut to the fight and you don't know what will happen at all, because they will show you anything that look cool, because they never established strength of characters. "Ohh main character is loosing, let's give him new ability that he learned, but we never shown it. Ohh and let's make his enemy block it without problem to add tension and give him another skill." [Sir, two new abilities?? Viewers would never believe that] "Just add 'Kakakaka I've learned not just one ability but two during my trening'" [Ahh you are so smart Sir].. Like FUKC YOOOOU.
The end..

If you happen to look at my anime/manga list then know one thing. I SUCK AT SCORING.. So most of my scores are higher then they should be or lower then they should be. That's my opinion on my scoring system so I might be wrong here too..