Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-112.198.212.67-20130812030552/@comment-3250527-20130812032741

The anime could not have escalated into a project of 75 episodes (considering it would follow the plot). The anime was based of Kawahara Reki's Light Novel series, which was barely pointed out in the earlier floors. Besides, if there were an episode for every floor, the only views would be for "intense" action scenes when you're actually just watching Kirito beat up monsters. There would be no forward plot or minor plot elements aside from "I can't die here" and "I have to get to the next floor".

But all in all, there is too little information about the floors aside from the floors that were shown in the anime. If the anime were shown floor by floor, we'd rather be watching a Play-by-Play rather than a thought-out and plotful anime.

The Light Novel is better.