Your opinion is completely valid. If that’s how things feel to you, then that’s your preference. Myself, I feel differently.
To me, Raul not mentioning his past life, would be like me not mentioning my childhood- when something relevant to my childhood comes up. I’m currently an adult woman, who’s nearly 40, so my childhood is not happening “right now”. It’s something in the past. It’s gone. It’s not coming back. But nonetheless, it’s part of me and it always will be. It’s a major part of who I am, and it’s what shaped my current existence into being what it is.
Since there was no time lapse between Raul’s past life ending, and his current life beginning, I imagine that Raul sees his past life the way I see my childhood. “Right now” is just an extension of “what was earlier,” and BOTH are equally part of “the consciousness that is still ongoing”.
But that’s just me.
I do understand and agree with yours as I felt the same way when it comes to nostalgia. It sucks we can’t returned back on times of happiness, and that moment of memory is forever that shape a person. The frustration of my previous comment was the lack of world building, pacing, and MC thoughts.
Which is why I think this could have been written better as a regression story rather than transmigration. MC didn’t ask to be transmigrated or to be killed. At same time, I find it to be overly dumb to get killed irl over a video game?
Anyhow. I noticed I had chose the wrong wording of separating between MC’s old life and his current life as Raul “all together”. By that, I meant improvement between both life as he has the upper hand. If I were him, I would play safe too, but what’s the fun of not trying something different when it comes to skill, route, or befriending character?
He can still remind himself of his past as you said, it’s part of his identity as much as anyone else, but as a reader, it turns me away that it has to be EVERY or other chapters. I had to drop it in ch 25-30s as much as I love reading these type of genre…
Hmm. I think I see where you’re coming from as a reader. If it bugs you, that’s all that matters. You need to enjoy what you read or why read it?
I would still like to point out that he technically did regress. He didn’t just move over to another world, he regressed, and he also reincarnated into the body of a different person. It’s just that the person he reincarnated into is someone who wasn’t supposed to survive up to the point where he himself got involved as a Korean player. The point at which he enters Raul: is during the story’s prologue. The point where he was involved as a player, was only once players started entering the game, which is a few years after the point where he became Raul. But it’s still regression; just regression + reincarnation.
I’ve never seen a regression story where the regressed character doesn’t mention their previous attempt at that life, at least every chapter.
And is it stupid to die over a game? Heck yeah, if we ignore the part where this game was so popular in his life that companies in the real world were investing billions into it- it took over television, streaming, commercials, pretty much everything in the real world. Players had celebrity status on a global scale. it makes sense to get murdered over anything that involves billions of won, or millions of dollars.
True, it is still a regression story, but in his original body or his player character than transmigrating into Raul that is a character from the game.
After writing that, I finally figured out why it particularly bothers me. It’s the co existence of people who are players in the real world and NPCs in the game. It makes little sense of MC to transmigrated as a character in the game where he has no physical body in the real world since he’s killed.
Unless there is a type of a plot twist where the NPCs are real people too and he will eventually wakes up back in reality. Just a random thought. Yeah, that explains why it isn’t my cup of tea since the complexity of it wasn’t execute smoothly for me to enjoy it…
He said you dropped it, so you likely are aware – this will be a spoiler, but since you’re not reading anymore, I’m not sure it matters…. there is an actual possibility of what you suggested being a part of the story. A recent chapter suggests that his real body from the past existed. And a friend of his (a Player from the real world) may actually have memories of him still. Also, this game world is likely not a game. It is likely a separate dimension that has been connected to the “real world” somehow (probably those weird gates) or demons, who knows. It is being presented as a game, but it probably isn’t one.
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“ in my past/previous/first life”…the readers get it. The dialogue and story telling is lackluster, but it’s not a bad read. It is repetitive and typical. MC can’t get over or stop clinging his old life. Imo the story could have been written a lot better where the author separated MC and his past life all together..
His life as Raul should his reality and not a game. His old life is gone…a reason of isekai/transmigrated/reincarnation for a fresh start..
Or the author could had done it where the MC became a regressor…just my two cents.