Taebaek: The Tutorial Man

So this is actually really cool. So you have Taebaek, who's an NPC in a game (maybe imagine WoW if it was based in ancient Korea?) and whose lover was kidnapped after a fortune-teller prophesied that she had the fate of an Empress. He leaves his post as a training instructor NPC to search for her. So you have the pov following him in the game, but you also have the pov of the players and the developers of the game IRL as everything in the game starts getting wonky.

The art is great, I'd give it a 8.7/10. The game setting is in ancient Korea, so you have the old time aesthetics, but at the same time it's fantasy and it's a game, so it has magic, players walking around in more modern looking characters, character nameplates, ect. It's really well done, and it gives it kind of a Blade Runner x WoW x Ancient Korea feel. Props to the artist, because I love it.

There's a lot of action as he moves around and comes across enemies, and it's pretty well illustrated and easy to follow. Some of the fights get pretty cool.

The story is interesting. It seems like it's happening on two or three levels, and I actually want to see how it all ties in together. I like Taebaek's character - he's not an asshole but he's on a mission to get his girl back, and he's not gonna let anything get in the way of that or go on random side quests (unless they'll help him find clues, of course).

It's interesting to see what he, as an NPC who lives in the game, accepts as normal, and it's cool to see him navigate the world after having only stayed in one place his whole life.

Right now I'd give this a 9/10. I'm really excited to see where this goes in the future!

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High Hopes

by kurotaito
4 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

The setting is not anything new honestly, but imo its not overused so it always remains interesting. We have a NPC who is self-aware and intelligent within a game. Also of course, the NPC is OP.

Though this self-aware software trope has been used plenty of times before, there are not many stories where the NPC is the main character and has a backstory before the story begins. (This is most refreshing part of the story imo.)

We have other playable characters (ie humans), intelligent NPCs, and non-intelligent NPCs. The character designs are diverse like Fortnite characters.

I have only read 8 chapters at this point, so I just have hopes that the story remains constant. Nothing bad to say.

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