Syzler

3 months ago

Recommended

As someone who has read the RAWS till completion, i'm purely rereading this because it's just that peak.

Please be noted that this novel's MC has a harem. Not the wishy washy obvious endgame FL harem, but multiple wives with epic Shura fields harem. Which is the only good kind of harem in my book. Just do it all the way, dont be a pussy. And its actually pretty incredible that the MC and his friends' powerlevels stay consistently close through the whole novel, so they're constantly relevant and not just cannon fodder at the end.

The power system is its own thing and not the usual cultivation system, which is a big plus too. From what I remember, its closer to RI. Anyway, fights are fun to read and imagine.

ShiftyCake

VIP

3 months ago

Recommended

No-one made a review so I had to bite the bullet and read it blind (curse you readers). It had a rocky start but it’s become a pretty interesting story. There’s a chance for something great here but I’ll have to wait and see. The MC is mixed. I both like and dislike his character, he has that annoying perversion attitude that’s out of sorts with the world and his character. But outside of that he’s pretty interesting. It’s definitely going to be a deal breaker for some people. Personally I’ll just pretend I didn’t read those sentences.

His “cheat” is also mixed. It’s more confusing than mystery right now, and there’s no clear understanding of how it works. It could also be something great. It honestly feels like the story has a lot of potential, but whether it soars or crashes and burns is up in the air.

Posui Gart

VIP

3 months ago

Not recommended

This is not your average fantasy novel, for better or worse, and in my case, it's worse.

A world too shitty to care about, a protagonist too shitty to care about, an unpredictable and confusing cheat that does things you can't anticipate. To top it off the author keeps throwing parallels to a similarly shitty real world that, I am fairly certain, nobody appreciates. Top it off with random out-of-place pervert jokes. The result is a novel with only appealing part being uniquely different - and if you are looking for exactly that kind of experience, go ahead, ignore the downvote and try it out.

Minor spoilers ahead(though it's all revealed in first 20-30 chapters anyway):

The world looks like a shitty caricature - everyone is controlled through microchips, executions turned public entertainment, all that nonsense that feels like it's designed to be intentionally disgusting to read about. Maybe it's a story about a protagonist arriving from the other world and fixing what's broken in a satisfying way? Maybe it is, at some point, but so far, the protagonist is a boring and useless one that only does things that his cheat machine explicitly asks him to do. Except being a pervert - that he does unprompted. It wouldn't be too bad if he was an overall positive character with a minor downside - but there's nothing else, positive or negative, so this "minor downside" is the only visible part of his personality, and the author spends way too much text on that(and on gay jokes too).

Other characters are not much better either. Not a single prisoner was shown to be a decent person, and while that's obviously biased because good people usually don't end up sentenced to death, I'd expect at least one actual person that the protagonist could just normally and friendly interact with. On the other side, where the secondary main character is, every woman is either trying to get a high class boyfriend right at the moment, or working hard on skills that would help with it. Is this lazy writing? Or a setup for the fantasy of MC getting more girls in the future, because it's a sign of success here? I'd rather have it be the lazy writing honestly.

I don't want to read another mention of how greedy his previous-life-job is. Whoever thinks it's funny to read yet another reminder of how shitty the real life is when reading a fantasy novel, raise your hand - I certainly am not like that. Yes, it's not just a random reference - it's connected to his cheat in a way - but I don't care. Let me have some fantasy in a fantasy novel, please.

My breaking point was when it was mentioned that spirits(a part of a local power system) require money to sustain. Why? Who in their right mind was asking for a fantasy world where earning money is a requirement? Is this made for the same audience as all those Korean novels where earning enough money for yourself and friends/relatives is an important part of a power fantasy? I don't know if the protagonist will solve this through getting rich, or by cheating the system out, and I am almost certainly never going to find out.

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