The 'familiar' that MC receives is abhorrently unhelpful. We get little to no information on it basically ever, and I can only assume it's because author had no fucking clue about it yet either. The running gag of the book that's explained towards the end was so sorely stupid and overplayed that I was over it before the punchline hit. Sometimes crude humor is funny, but it's done so frequently and so mindlessly that it's actually unfunny.

And then immediately went BACK INTO the abilities he's acquired and further detailed why it would be beneficial to level, how he'd use it, and other honestly worthless drivel. There is one particular scene where MC does a stat check and describes EVERY skill that he's gotten and what it's good for(and there's a skill for everything in this world, such as hiking and walking). I know that they're a big part of this genre, but there's better ways to do it and it's certainly not mandatory to do it as frequently and in such depth as this author did it. There was an insane amount of stat checks. Stats didn't add up, the effects of stats did not have a clear 'conversion factor', time seemed wonky, and things he could and couldn't do seemed arbitrarily decided and had no sense to it. The book is so forgettable that I won't bother going into too much detail about how much it sucked. Under another person's rating scale it might be a 1 since it was very bad. meaning it is entirely forgettable and genuinely a waste of time. Under my personal rating scale, this book is a two.

A book should still mostly be about 'what happened next', not how many rolls of a 20 it took. But when game mechanics and stats-rambling ARE the freaking story, and the plot is naught but filler, I freaking draw the line.

Ok, I know it's called LitRPG, and as such, game mechanics are a big part of the story. Tried random fast-forwards, and 4 times out of 5, I'd be knee-deep in stat sheet. Please, please, make it stop! Enough! We get it, you're witty! Enough! PLEEEAAAASSEEE!!!įor the past 2 years, I've been reading LitRPG almost exclusively, so I've compiled an internal meter for what is stats-light or stats-heavy. The clueless newbie guy who tricks professionals. When you can't make me believe who you were, you sure as hell are starting off on the wrong foot.Ģ. It sounded like someone who had a vague idea of what family life should be like, at least on the responsibility front, and decided one morning that they could fake it. You cannot brood about them for an hour, then shrug it off because you had a badass life insurance. See, a wife and kids are not abstract concepts they are people with personalities, and a profound impact on your life. I got off the train before it started in earnest, if it ever does.Ī few things didn't work for me right from the start: I went in because I saw 'Mayor' and I love settlement-building gamelit/litrpg.

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