If you’ve read Solo Leveling and are looking for something similar, my advice is to turn back. Or if you somehow haven’t read Solo Leveling, then this is your sign to start haha
I’ve actually started reading this before SL, so now I’m surprised at the high rating despite the shit ending. To be fair, it was okay at the beginning: typical poor struggling MC who hates the rich, gets into an electrical accident that changes his life forever, since it somehow changed his biometric code and he’s no longer able to access his account for a wildly popular game. Being forced to start over, this time he’s able to see hidden parts of the game, and eventually becomes the first and only player to beat and win the game.
I took a break when MC was about halfway to building his army to let the story marinate, but that feels like a mistake since the format is better consumed in weekly updates. Binging it all at once makes it obvious that there’s a 1-2-3 step pattern that repeats over and over again. MC gets a quest, villains try to wreak him, he outmaneuvers them, gains a new item/ability/minion to show off, and repeat.
The villains are so annoyingly dumb and pointless.They’re like Jessie and James, but if they were in charge of Team Rocket and less iconic. I understand the motive, but they’re so painfully pathetic that it feels like they’re unnecessary annoying extras who get additional screen time because the author likes them for some dumb reason. Maybe they’re just there to make MC shine, but seeing MC win every time only makes me think that he’s a Gary Stu.
Which he probably is to be honest, except that he doesn’t get a girl or a harem haha. Maybe that’s the cost of his power and success, to be forever alone! Until the very end, no one knew that he was the Archmage Streamer except for that one girl who was FL bait, but she was from a hostile guild so… UNLESS his true love is his boss who he finally gets to meet at the end hahaha (but also why does he go from bleached blonde to sandy blond?)
Anyways, the open ending was pretty lame. After he beat the game, he became the new owner but it just ends there. We don’t get to see what happens after that. The game developer has said that the point of the game was to have fun, which MC technically did have thanks to his cheats, but idk what kind of story he was supposedly trying to tell.
It would’ve been a better ending to see MC finally move his family to a nice home and give them the nice things he’s envisioned ever since he got his hands on expensive items since that was supposed to be his goal from the beginning. I guess we can assume that now he’s the owner of the game, with Rising Star and Azmo’s support he could create new content and earn a better income?
If you’ve read Solo Leveling and are looking for something similar, my advice is to turn back. Or if you somehow haven’t read Solo Leveling, then this is your sign to start haha
I’ve actually started reading this before SL, so now I’m surprised at the high rating despite the shit ending. To be fair, it was okay at the beginning: typical poor struggling MC who hates the rich, gets into an electrical accident that changes his life forever, since it somehow changed his biometric code and he’s no longer able to access his account for a wildly popular game. Being forced to start over, this time he’s able to see hidden parts of the game, and eventually becomes the first and only player to beat and win the game.
I took a break when MC was about halfway to building his army to let the story marinate, but that feels like a mistake since the format is better consumed in weekly updates. Binging it all at once makes it obvious that there’s a 1-2-3 step pattern that repeats over and over again. MC gets a quest, villains try to wreak him, he outmaneuvers them, gains a new item/ability/minion to show off, and repeat.
The villains are so annoyingly dumb and pointless.They’re like Jessie and James, but if they were in charge of Team Rocket and less iconic. I understand the motive, but they’re so painfully pathetic that it feels like they’re unnecessary annoying extras who get additional screen time because the author likes them for some dumb reason. Maybe they’re just there to make MC shine, but seeing MC win every time only makes me think that he’s a Gary Stu.
Which he probably is to be honest, except that he doesn’t get a girl or a harem haha. Maybe that’s the cost of his power and success, to be forever alone! Until the very end, no one knew that he was the Archmage Streamer except for that one girl who was FL bait, but she was from a hostile guild so… UNLESS his true love is his boss who he finally gets to meet at the end hahaha (but also why does he go from bleached blonde to sandy blond?)
Anyways, the open ending was pretty lame. After he beat the game, he became the new owner but it just ends there. We don’t get to see what happens after that. The game developer has said that the point of the game was to have fun, which MC technically did have thanks to his cheats, but idk what kind of story he was supposedly trying to tell.
It would’ve been a better ending to see MC finally move his family to a nice home and give them the nice things he’s envisioned ever since he got his hands on expensive items since that was supposed to be his goal from the beginning. I guess we can assume that now he’s the owner of the game, with Rising Star and Azmo’s support he could create new content and earn a better income?