It's not so much I didn't care for it as much as it was I was starting to get tired of reading for entertainment. I think there's still one in my collection I hadn't read yet: Outbound Flight. Anyways, from what I'd been spoiled on, it just seemed like it was starting to get ridiculous how the galaxy would never know peace, and at some point, they would start killing legacy characters for shock value, senseless political drama (for the sake of drama, not propaganda), and make certain twists that seem out of nowhere.
I've honestly heard nothing good about any of the swordplay SAO games, and I've only played Hollow Fragment as far as those go. Fatal Bullet (the GGO game) on the other hand, I've played and genuinely liked, and I'm pretty sure was agreeably the most enjoyable SAO-related game.
Are you not familiar with basically everything that used FF7 characters after 7 itself? Kingdom Hearts? Dissidia? Their personalities were BUTCHERED in all of that, and now they're actually back to something that actually feels like what they were originally. Except maybe Sephiroth, but I never finished 7R.
It has every form of "time filler" I've come to hate in modern gaming, combat is NOT good, the environment is really goddamn small, and the twist makes no sense.
Modding Tifa is the only major positive. (Actually portraying the characters with their accurate original personalities shouldn't have to be a positive, but here we are)
Oh man, I can't remember much about the Wraiths other than loving those books. They were great. They weren't just pilots, they were specialists. They weren't superhuman.
Definitely better written than the Rogue Squadron books, though those were nothing to scoff at either. Too bad that author went straight into Gary Stu territory later on with Corran Horn in "I, Jedi." I'd considered Corran one of my favorites, but the more I think about that novel, the more frustrated I get.