LitRPG

Xarpolis

Xarpolis

Life's a Dream
16,795
19,176
Guurn said:
Ok, done with He who fights with monsters book 9 and I'm done with the series. I liked the first 3 books quite a bit, the second 3 were bad and the last 3 I read were average at best. Minor rant and spoilers/not spoilers ahead.

I really like the way he writes when he cares. His use of character, abilities, and monsters as well as the system is good. Ok, that being said...you don't need the first 450 pages in every book to be the main character going around saying hi to everyone or recovering from the last books fights. You don't need to reexplain every characters abilities every time they appear on the pages. After 5, 6 or 8 books in no one is picking it up as their first book in the series. This is made worse by him completely ignoring the actual progression of the main character. I think we need an update more than once every book and a half. Yes, he talks about abilities, but I'm talking about the character screen. Normally I'd be just fine with it but the progression is very granular in this series. The bad guys don't need to be stereotypes, monsters are fine at least occasionally. He literally doesn't even cover monster fights because they are so inconsequential. The main character used to be interesting, now he relies on his soul power...really? It's boring, like really boring. The amount of Deus Ex becomes so extreme the secondary characters joke about it. That's bad...and lazy. I'm sure it's part of the plot but we aren't in the loop so it is just, dare I say it again, boring. Anyhow, I'm not subjecting my self to more of this boredom...I'm out.
Click to expand...
The newest book will be coming out soon. I think he said the end of next month on his Royal Road post.
 
Vuuxo

Vuuxo

Scaphism
<Gold Donor>
3,579
11,383
Listening to Morningwood; Everybody loves large chests by Neven Iliev on Audible.

Started this this morning. First book is short but good so far. Protagonist is a mimic.
 
  • 1Solidarity
Reactions: 1 user
Void

Void

Doin' Too Much
<Gold Donor>
10,878
13,845
Not a book of course, but if you guys want to see something pretty close to a live-action version of litrpg, check out Omniscient Reader that just came out on Prime. I'm not gonna say it is amazing, but it isn't bad either. At least the first half anyway, I'll finish it this weekend, and it is always possible it shits the bed. So far so good though.
 
  • 2Like
Reactions: 1 users
Ukerric

Ukerric

Bearded Ape
<Silver Donator>
8,628
10,966
Void said:
Not a book of course, but if you guys want to see something pretty close to a live-action version of litrpg, check out Omniscient Reader that just came out on Prime. I'm not gonna say it is amazing, but it isn't bad either. At least the first half anyway, I'll finish it this weekend, and it is always possible it shits the bed. So far so good though.
Click to expand...
Is that an adaptation of the webnovel or an entirely separate thing?

*EDIT* Looks like it's the 2025 movie adaptation, so here's the book series from which it came: Amazon.com
 
  • 1Like
Reactions: 1 user
Vuuxo

Vuuxo

Scaphism
<Gold Donor>
3,579
11,383
On book 3 of Everybody loves large chests and it's a thoroughly fun series. Extremely vulgar, funny and doesn't hold back on detailing violence, or rape. Not your "modern audience" series at all. The protagonist being a dungeon mimic is interesting and I dig the different take on the RPG element.
 
  • 1Like
Reactions: 1 user
Hatorade

Hatorade

A nice asshole.
9,854
9,769
Guurn said:
Ok, done with He who fights with monsters book 9 and I'm done with the series. I liked the first 3 books quite a bit, the second 3 were bad and the last 3 I read were average at best. Minor rant and spoilers/not spoilers ahead.

I really like the way he writes when he cares. His use of character, abilities, and monsters as well as the system is good. Ok, that being said...you don't need the first 450 pages in every book to be the main character going around saying hi to everyone or recovering from the last books fights. You don't need to reexplain every characters abilities every time they appear on the pages. After 5, 6 or 8 books in no one is picking it up as their first book in the series. This is made worse by him completely ignoring the actual progression of the main character. I think we need an update more than once every book and a half. Yes, he talks about abilities, but I'm talking about the character screen. Normally I'd be just fine with it but the progression is very granular in this series. The bad guys don't need to be stereotypes, monsters are fine at least occasionally. He literally doesn't even cover monster fights because they are so inconsequential. The main character used to be interesting, now he relies on his soul power...really? It's boring, like really boring. The amount of Deus Ex becomes so extreme the secondary characters joke about it. That's bad...and lazy. I'm sure it's part of the plot but we aren't in the loop so it is just, dare I say it again, boring. Anyhow, I'm not subjecting my self to more of this boredom...I'm out.
Click to expand...
On book 2 of this and enjoying it, not many books make me actually laugh out loud and this is one of them.
 
  • 1Like
Reactions: 1 user
Void

Void

Doin' Too Much
<Gold Donor>
10,878
13,845

Heavenly Chaos Series by Daniel Schinhofen

Heavenly Chaos, Fighting Past Pain (Heavenly Chaos #2), Heavens Reflected (Heavenly Chaos #3), Graduating With Honor (Heavenly Chaos Book 4), and Delvin...
www.goodreads.com

tl;dr AVOID AVOID AVOID

Longer rambling reason why: I stupidly read two full books and about a quarter of the third, hoping it would get better. It got worse.

Imagine Path of Ascension, but dumb it down a LOT, and then replace the main characters with emotionally broken and shallow people that are completely defined by their past traumas, and have them do almost nothing but talk about it.

I'll quote someone's review (not mine, if I read this in 2025 I would have ranted about it by now) which kind of sums it all up, except for the fact that they gave it a 3 star, which it definitely doesn't deserve.

This book wasn't as good as the last 2. It was mostly just the three of them patting each other on the head and reassuring each other that yes, they still like each other.... for chapter after chapter after chapter... I'm not overstating it. It went on for the ENTIRE book. Over and over. It never stopped. The entire book. Does it seem repetitive in this review? That's what the entire book is like.

Also, forget patting on the head. To do that, they would have to talk to each one individually about their feelings about head patting, then gently pat on the head, then have a breakdown due to the head pat and then go on a multi page reaction of each person to the head pat before everyone runs to their therapist to discuss the head pat, followed by an apology to everyone involved about their reaction to the head pat and reassurances that they all still like each other after the trauma of the head pat...

Really, what small amount of actual plot that existed was still solid, but the amount that plot advanced could be summed up in a very predictable pamphlet.
Click to expand...

On top of all that bullshit, there are endless descriptions of the guy cooking every morning, what the girls wore every morning, going to the gym, having game nights with friends, etc. where NOTHING happens. Like, you only put those in if something to progress the story happens. Nothing, and I mean nothing, ever happens during those events that couldn't have easily happened without all of that wasted time. And when something finally does happen, you're like, oh, this is exactly like Path of Ascension, except dull and lifeless and I don't care.

Imagine working for some super-woke company and having to deal with endless HR meetings validating everyone's feelings and experiences. That is this series. I'm a fucking moron for making it as far as I did, but I kept hoping for the cool litrpg elements we all crave. Nope, fuck this series and this author.
 
  • 1Worf
  • 1Like
Reactions: 1 users
You must log in or register to reply here.