Ready Player Two (the book) is Also Terrible

Two years ago, the film Ready Player One entered our hearts and exited somewhere unmentionable. That same year, two things happened: I did a review on the 2011 book it was based on, and Ernest Cline started writing a sequel to allow for a larger franchise. Now, all these years later, Ready Player Two (or Ready Player One 2?) is out to the public and already causing much controversy online. But is the novel as bad as people say? Yes. But let's jump into nuances to the conversation anyway.

Come revisit the franchise which created such icons as the Iron Giant, the DeLorean, and Super Mario! Let's jump back into the OASIS to see what those wacky billionaires are up to now...

[CM-neej]

The idea of sword art online being historical pop culture is maybe the scariest part of this novel

[reflectingh]

Fun fact: Cline and the guy who made sword art online personally know each other and are fans of each others work

[juanjuri]

" "gamers rise up"
- Karl Marx "
- Ernest Cline

[dandanboy]

Can we talk about how Shoto’s wife is pregnant when her brain is copied into the space ship meaning that that version of her is never going to get to meet her child. That’s psychological torture

[theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

I got hit by Karl Marx, The Matrix, and Sword Art Online in really quick succession, and now I think I need to have a lie down.

[smoov_sonic]

“Who is rewatching SAO in 2052”

Everyone hyped that the 246th episode of SAO abridged has come out that’s who

[Blue-rzcv]

The first article that showed up after looking up "ready player two"is titled "ready player two is a warning about artificial intelligence. An ai could write a better book" and im r o l l i n g

[lonelychameleon]

If you’re an aspiring writer, it’s good to know that the ceiling is this low

[waifuwilson]

"What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor...."
-Kirito, Sword Art Online (2012)

[driveasandwich]

I really appreciate how the "I'm making Bee Movie jokes; it really is 2018 again!" showcases your point of Bee Movie being more nostalgic than Ready Player One.

[idna]

"Anorak just went Sonic.exe on us!"
Is a real line, from a real book

[powergannon]

If everyone knows what Sword Art Online and Sonic.exe is in 30 years, we should probably just call it quits as a species right now.

[mayajohnson]

“They would split her coding into seven different pieces” so not only are we taking the plot of sword art online, but we’re also copying Harry Potter? We’re turning Halliday’s dream wifu into Voldemort now?

[eIIedritch]

hear me out: the franchise is called ready player

[lilhonor]

I saw the “non binary sex” paragraph on Twitter and I thought it was a joke at first partly because the title Ready Player Two sounds fake to me.

[tripled]

"PERRY THE PLATYPUS! BEHOLD, MY *SWORD-ART-ONLINE*-INATOR!"

[scootersocks]

Characters in universe be like: I was born in the wrong generation, I wish I could watch Sword Art Online while it was airing.

[lincolnjohn]

Let's be real Quinton. Quoting Karl Marx in one breath and name dropping SAO in the next is pretty much the energy of this entire youtube channel.

[ELMedain]

SAO is already regarded as a sub-par anime, the fact that it can hold any relevance in the future terrifies me of how their media became .

[jellewijckmans]

"Who is rewatching sword art online in 2052?" You are assuming it stopped, it never stopped. Reki Kawahara's soul has been trapped so he can make his work eternal.