Reincarnation Of The Murim Clan's Former Ranker
This was fine. It's not amazing, but it isn't anywhere near bad, it's good. The plot gets you interested and compels you to keep reading. In a game world, some necromancer dude swallows some kind of ruby and then gets killed. He reincarnates into a different world/time fusing xianxia with the game like world. He still has his system and is able to level up his skills and slowly recover some of his necromancy, and eventually learns martial arts. He fights bad guys. I'd say the combination of xianxia and game-like world elements is this story's selling point. Doesn't seem to be harem, and no love interest has been introduced as of yet. The MC does have that protective plot armor though, so if you really hate that kind of thing, I'd recommend giving this story a miss. Translation is good, no word salad here, which is a relief.
I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game
I dunno if it's the translation, the writer or both, but this story has problems. The art is pretty good, and lends itself well to the action, but my goodness it get frustrating to read this. There's some mistakes in the translation which are really goddamn obvious from the context of the rest of the dialogue and art alone. And the setting is really badly explained. I appreciate trying to keep the exposition dumps to a minimum, but the solution shouldn't be omitting the information entirely. So the story is, dude plays and streams a retro game that no-one has apparently been able to beat in 10 years. He manages to beat it and is subsequently kidnapped into the game world to once again clear it, but better. SO, our MC has played the shit out of this game and knows a lot about it. And yet sometimes it feels like he knows too much because the story doesn't bother to establish that he's a huge fucking nerd for this game and has extensively and exhaustively researched every aspect and thing, enough to know even the most obscure and weird little design and lore details. Because this isn't properly established or shown, it looks like he's pulling strategies and knowledge about characters and equipment straight out of his ass. Also, despite it being one of the first things I'd go over my mind, he doesn't go over how he beat the tutorial or the stages after that, but seems to approach it all like it's his first time, despite knowing basically everything about all the characters and weapons. It's weird and constantly takes you out of the story 'cause you're confused and wondering what the fuck is going on. There's even confusion as to whether the world MC is in is actually game-like or not. Because no-one else has stat windows or things, except MC, and look, it's just weird on confusing and to me at least feels like the author hasn't decided on which it is and is attempting to write it as both until they've decided. Also I was under the impression that the game had a plot, so there was a story the MC was following, but I guess not? Cause the original plot isn't really referenced at all except for the ending we got to see when MC beat the game before. Like MC hates the tutorial stage cause it's hard as balls, but to the point where you get the feeling it was either a "meant to lose" scenario or he just... somehow never beat it? Cause he never thinks back to how he did it, just thinks about how all the characters he talks to died in his original run and how the tutorial is impossible to beat. But then if he never got passed the tutorial how'd he beat the game???? What?? Was it one of those opt out tutorials you didn't need to complete to start the game? What? I mean I guess he was more desperate cause he wanted to survive, but still. It's weird and confusing and I'm not here for it.
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