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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.In the online game Glory, Ye Xiu is regarded as a textbook and a top-tier pro-player. However, due to a myriad reasons, he is kicked from the team. After leaving the professional scene, he finds work in an Internet Cafe as a manager. When Glory launches its tenth server, he who possesses ten years of gaming experience once again throws himself into the game. Bringing with him the memories of his past and an incomplete, self-made weapon, his return along the road to the summit begins!
After fighting and scheming, who snatched away my glory? Under the tossing of the wind and rain, my dreams shall still appear as though they had never been shattered. In all its splendor, the path shall never be lost. Before the gazes of millions, this is where I return!
*Under the Gaming category, The King’s Avatar received the title for Best Work in 2013 and is the first and only 1000 Pledged Work (千盟作品). It has 23 million hits on Qidian and has the 2nd most recommendations in its category with 4.6 million recommendations.
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One entry per lineQuanzhi Gaoshou
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TKA
Toàn chức cao thủ
マスターオブスキル [Masutāobusukiru] [master of skill]
全职高手
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- BL with the potential to be stellar reads
- ALLCN+
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- Compared to other gaming novels, TKA includes so much about the scene outside of the MC. Commentators, team owners, reporters, the in world competitive league: all of these are represented and discussed. It feels like the author is a big fan of eSports and discussed parts that are generally glossed over or underrepresented in other similar novels. Also, no romance, so gaming is essentially the focus.
- For better or worse, this novel is about a game that doesn't exist. Obviously, the author has grand dreams about gaming and the amount of agency a player can have over a character that aren't exactly realistic to what exists in real life. It may require a suspension of disbelief if you compare to current real life MMOs or competitive games. Still, this isn't something that bothers me that much as the author makes an effort to create a set of rules and mechanics that are relatively internally consistent.
- The matches are well written and exciting with strategy as a main focus. Of course since the author made up the game, he has a much easier time of coming up with these things, but he also committed to fleshing it out with map advantages, class differences, and play style differences between teams. Even the characters that are known to be the top players are all very different and distinctive.
Things to think about:- OP protagonist. While this is not false, for me, it's actually a plus point rather than a minus. As a fan of eSports, it hits such a satisfying story line of a legendary player who established a dynasty and represented an era returning to the peak. I feel like it actually parallels real life eSports in a lot of ways
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and as a fan, it hits me just right. Still, it is true, and it will be very obvious from the beginning. It's not that there isn't growth either, but if that's something that puts you off, the novel doesn't try to hide it from you that MC is the best there is, in fact, that's the point.
- This book is long, and it does not ignore the game at all. There is grinding and dungeon clearing and all of the nuts and bolts of an MMO. There is an argument that a significant amount of these chapters can be skipped without significant detriment to the understanding of the plot. For me, these are very nostalgic, and just bring back memories from my own experiences in MMOs, so I didn't mind reading them.
Overall, this is a book about gaming and eSports, and it doesn't hide it. Probably the most important is whether you like these topics enough to read in depth about them, and if you can suspend your disbelief enough to read about a game that doesn't exist. I feel like this book is written by a gaming/eSports fan and for similar fans.(Faker/SKT? Or is it just me..)
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- the first few fights before it gets repetitive
cons (some) : The MC is the best player in the game, don't expect any setbacks. You will pretty much follow the life of a no lifer. Besides that the author forces him into playing the strongest class of the game the "undecided" (able to use the basic skills of all classes). Why? Because he created a op weapon with a friend at the age of ~15-17? Seems legit, I also created crazy op stuff at that age for a game I didn't play too much and other people have entire teams to research those. Another ridiculous thing is, even though he has this play style he only uses a small pool of skills. Only once in a life time, at some random events he pulls the deus ex machina card, Look at this skill I use for the first time to get out of this specific situation! The mechanics and depth of the novel are even worse. It seems like the author had the glorious idea, while beeing drunk, to mix moba with mmorpg but declined to use VR. The result? A game (first-person) in which the described mechanics and controls are impossible to achieve through mouse and keyboard (still used it). But at least every few chapters you will get the APM of the players thrown at you, which doesn't make any sense nor legitimize it. The skillsystem had potential but the author ignored it. The majority seems like to use cookie cutter builds (never stated) and the only "undecided" never mentions how much he upgraded his learned skills. It's also a grindfest. fun fact: The author describes the facial expression of some ingame characters (none vr novel.....)Just finished reading the MTL, this story (while a bit too long imho) is a read well worth your while. (This review is gonna be biased towards the pro-arc b/c its my most recent read, so if you're reading this I mainly talk about the latter chapters, the chapters before challenge tournament is a simple, pro player has to start over, but he does it in a hilarious and entertaining way and eventually returns to the scene). Don't go into it like you would in any MMO based novel. Read like it you're going through a person's actual life. If you guys have ever watched the Rocky movies or any kind of sports story (building up from almost nothing, getting to the peak) those things are what this is the closest to. In addition to that, you also get the backstories of many other characters that make you feel for them, but at the same time you get the understanding that in the end, there can be only one winner. The story is also fairly well-written, but I have played the game it is based on, so imagining how fights go isn't too difficult (think vindictus + dungeon fighter online). Anyways, some aspects are certainly outlandish but it is a just story and it doesn't affect the story too much. My only gripe is that it is a tad bit long, but thats just the chinese style for you. The fact that they have an ordinary peanut gallery for us to have a grounded perspective of the story is also common in chinese novels, but this one is actually written properly for once, it gives the subtle feeling of "Pros are REALLY good" in a sports novels. Anyways, it deserves being one of the most popular webnovels in china.
P.S. To that guy who is talking about OT, you do realize that it is a chinese novel, not an english one, OT is likely a shortening of Off-the-tank and as with any other country who borrow words from other languages, their uses may be different than the ones we are commonly used to because the language they use is not the same as ours.
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Worldbuilding ️ A fun MMORPG story that has almost everything you could ask for and more, great rivals, support cast, story and everything connects very easily, you can't really tell when an arc ends as it flows on to next effortlessly. Almost every character, rival & support cast debut or appear for a period of time then leave but they still have a role in some form or in the near future. 4/5
Only con imo is the side character Chen Guo. She literally overreacts to everything when its not really a big deal, she constantly asks s*upid/obvious questions and gets mad at every answer the MC gives then she storms of angry. She does this a lot. -_- Luckily her role isn't important, sure she becomes the team owner but her importance is in name only, she will appear a lot but in all honesty you can ignore her as she doesn't do much except overreact, ask s*upid questions and get angry. Maybe she was meant to be comic relief but it kind of failed.
While because the novel is too long I found myself skipping parts, there are some description that speaks of holograms. This part I skimmed through but because of some of the inconsistencies in lifelike nature of the game characters, leads me to believe its afar more realistic game with a more advanced game system that is similar to bdo. Where if you say something in chat it will cause your character to react in a certain way, IE: lol makes your character laugh. This is from skimming and might be completely different than how I read it so take with a grain of salt, let alone this is further into the novel therefore the game inconsistencies start before this.