This book was so poorly written. Instead of simply summarizing stats and damage naturally as a part of the book and character, everything is listed out. It is mind-numbing to listen to 10 listed hits during a battle… Instead of “the three ogres beat at my shield dealing more and more damage,” it is written, “ogre hits shield plus 12 damage, you take zero damage. ogre hits shield 13 damage you take zero damage. ogre hits shield 12 damage you take 1 damage. ogre hits shield 15 damage you take 3 damage. fire ball hits shield 30 damage you take 10 damage etc etc etc etc….” Everything is listed out and unnatural. Just say “wow my list of NPCs I can spawn dramatically increased with these characters being added.”
This is supposed to be entertaining…
Oh and the protagonist is completely unlikable. Honestly, I understand why he is in the trouble he is in. I would have done the same thing.
And lastly, the author goes into detail how VR has changed life for humans including they are able to experience eating exquisite meals and will go just to have fancy dinners etc. But the protagonist falls in love with an NPC and will not consummate because of some internal struggle that the NPC isn’t human…. mmmm k…. sure…. like in this new world where players log on just to experience food you are telling me that this isn’t exploited for things like brothels …. it would be perfectly normal for a human player to have sex with an NPC without all this boring and unbelievable and poorly written pearl clutching…
so so so bad… like…. so bad…. so so so bad…