It's just an average novel at best. The author fails in so many ways, he doesn't know how to write an interesting story. The decisions he makes are horrible and it just gets worse and worse the further you read.
The start was pretty promising and nice, but as the mc meets more characters and the romance starts to develop and the author starts to introduce unnecessary drama that just shouldn't be there considering how OP the mc is, the enjoyment I get is reduced more and more and the times I thought "f*ck, I wanna drop this, why am I even forcing myself to read such garbage?" increased as well.
Let's start with the world, it's still way too gamelike. Menus, unexplainable parts, "no network" errors and spells that just can't be explained, not even by magic. Blacksmithing and everything else is never explained properly, all he does is place an ore down and hits it randomly without even knowing how anything works. I don't like how it feels like it's just a fake reality.
Then we come to the mc. First of all, he's ridiculously OP, but somehow this is never shown unless it's convenient. The author limits his powers greatly with a skill with bad excuses as to why he would do so when the mc can destroy everyone if he wants to and is literally invulnerable to anything and everything. Somehow, even when he goes full power he tends to be way too weak considering his stats and skills. When things should end instantly, he fights as if it's a bit challenging. His personality is also kind of annoying, the author pretends he's cool and that he's smart, but he's really not.
Then we get to other characters, I don't really like any of them except for one or two, they feel hollow. Even his new girlfriend pisses me off. His old girlfriend from the death game pisses me off even more though.
I never feel like "I want to read more" or "I can't stop, what'll happen next!?", I always felt kinda bored but not bored enough to drop it until the annoyances stacked up. The attempts at comedy sometimes only makes it worse, no one would laugh at that crap.
The author decided to make it so that the mc had a weird sob story and that he had a girlfriend back in the deathgame that he lost which made him go crazy. I absolutely hate her, everything from appearance to personality. She also seems to play an important role later on and it's so cliché I couldn't believe it at first. I always feel disgusted when mcs have a previous girlfriend who they love deeply when they're supposed to build a harem, scoring different girls and falling in love with them. It gets in the way, how could readers like some subhuman pig girlfriend that isn't even presented properly, we can't see how they got together and what happened, so she's just in the way.
This brings us to romance, god, I haven't cringed that much in a while. This was one big part of why it was getting worse and worse several volumes in. The mc haven't officially become a couple with anyone, yet everyone have started to act as if it's a romcom and not the good types, the bad types that are super cliché and extremely boring, not to mention repetitive. We're talking about the girls, especially one of them, glaring at the mc and punishing him or at least scolding him whenever he does ANYTHING to other girls. Be it giving them items that they need to protect themselves, looking at them(not in a perverted way), being close to them(for any reason) or accidents such as seeing someone naked because their armor broke. They will act as if they're his wives and the mc will demonstrate the perfect japanese male ultimate technique of being a f*cking doormat that lets them trample on him however they want, as if he truly did something wrong. It doesn't matter that he did absolutely nothing wrong, he will act as if he did when they confront him, shrinking back and having no balls or spine whatsoever. So, possessive, extreme girls and a male that can't say no even when he gets unjustifiably accused. That's a recipe for a garbage novel.
So, seeing how it just got worse and worse, how nothing interesting ever happened, how the world was extremely boring and couldn't immerse me at all seeing how bad the author is at writing a good story, I felt like it was time to drop this. The things I've mentioned is just a few of many more huge flaws. I pray that I'll never have to waste my time on anything this author writes every again. The score it has received her is absolutely not something it's worthy of. Perhaps people who scored had just read the first few volumes, because at that time I could reluctantly give this a 7/10 or 8/10 because it had a lot of interesting ideas at the start.
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