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Stagnant Water of Apocalypse
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Rating(3.9 / 5.0, 145 votes)
5 | 55% (80 votes) |
4 | 9% (13 votes) |
3 | 17% (24 votes) |
2 | 5% (7 votes) |
1 | 14% (21 votes) |
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2021
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287 chapters (completed)
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Weekly Rank: #2000Monthly Rank: #3503
All Time Rank: #1788
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.The world has changed into something like a game.
It resembles a survival virtual reality game where people were attacked by zombies and monsters.
And I was the last user of that game.
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One entry per lineSWOA
아포칼립스의 고인물
아포칼립스의 고인물
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Introduction to the Survival Theory (1)Apocalypse Hunter (1)
Carnivorous Hunter (1)
The First Hunter (1)
The World After the Fall (1)
Recommendation Lists
- KR Male Protagonists and Their Fluff Sidekicks
- Game like/ game element / Game
- Good kr novel
- KR novel
- Fantasy creatures | Criaturas fantsticas
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Please don't feel discouraged by this review, give the novel a go, it might be to your tastes.
My main issue is with the protagonist.
He is a selfish, anti-social machine.
I'll cover the above traits in reverse order
Machine:
Why do I call him a machine? Cause outside of playing his favorite game, whether on console or in real life, he has no other interests, no human quirks, vices that make him feel real.
Anti-Social:
Do you ever wonder why sometimes we get endeared to a side character in a story? Its because that side character usually has some level of independence, character development, and competence.
Expect none of that in this story.
Our MC has opened his food shop for at least three years but he doesn't know the name of the woman who's his daily customer. She later introduces herself as Mikyung, and she had to take the initiative to approach and give her name, the protagonist didn't ask for it or took any initiative.
All of the interactions with Mikyung are designed to show her vulnerability and incompetence. Her only redeeming quality is she actively seeks out the most poor, over-weight and anti-social loser who just so luckily happens to be an encyclopedia about the apocalypse that is gonna happen.
I'd normally give Mikyung bonus points if she at least knew he was a treasure trove of information about the apocalypse but she doesn't and our MC doesn't tell her. All of the interactions Mikyung initiates with MC don't have self-serving intentions behind them. And that's what vexes me!
Mikyung actively approaches this anti-social, over-weight, poor loser when she is aware he has nothing to offer.
Keep in mind Mikyung knows an apocalypse is going to happen, so it baffles me she even talks to MC instead of joining a more active group of survivors and ignoring MC altogether. She doesn't know MC is OP!
I'm hoping Mikyung secretly knows our MC is a treasure trove of information about the Apocalypse and all of her interactions are for selfish reasons.
Why? It will add some depth to her character. I would like to call Mikyung shallow but there has to be some water there for it to be shallow.
Mikyung also acts clumsy, insecure and a loner in front of the protagonist.
Why act? Mikyung runs a hair salon. You have to be assertive, competent and social in order to run any type of salon as you have to chat your customers up into a good mood and not be so clumsy that your scissors snip necks instead of hair.
Again, I hope Mikyung is manipulating MC to help her. You know, the male instinct to protect a helpless woman and all that.
Why? Character Development!
But I don't hold any hope for that with how things are going.
Selfish:
If you read till now, chances are you'll have guessed my favorite characters are selfish, self-serving a**holes who don't give a damn.
I can't believe it, but this MC actually made me hate selfish characters for once...
MC gains a unique ability in CH1 or CH2. This ability allows him to open a portal to an alternate world. Like a whole other different world that lets you level up in advance for the coming apocalypse. Not only that, you can stay in this alternate world forever, build houses, make weapons etc.
While other players are gaining mediocre abilities like flying or teleporting or invisibility.
Most of my dislike of the novel is cause of MC's ability, it would've been fine if he gained something like fire-hands, or gravity manipulation.
Instead, he gains an ability that can literally save humanity from the apocalypse. What does he do? Tells no one, hogs it to himself while 99 percent of humanity dies from the apocalypse.
Yes, I like selfish characters, but they have to be rational at the very least.
Some people might argue, but then the men in black from the big bad government are gonna come for him and use him like a tool!
Exactly!
Let me ask the people who made the above argument a couple of questions.
Do you like electricity? Do you like running water? Do you like going to a masseur and paying him to rub your foot for an hour? Do you like scantily clad women running on the beach? Do you like the questionable content saved on your hard drive?
If no, do you perhaps like the option of being able to pay for quality shelter, clothes and food instead of doing a shoddy job yourself like a hobo?
All of the above are only possible with one thing. What is that thing? A lot of living Humans.
If our MC contacted the government from the start, when there is still a one month deadline to the apocalypse, Korea could've evacuated 50, 000 to a 200, 000 people to this other world. Effectively giving humanity a fresh start in another world.
And you know the best part, if MC had done this, the government and people would've treated him like a king; anything he wants, people will literally bend over to get it.
Why? He is the sole human with the ability to travel between worlds and when humanity builds back up in the other world, do you think they'll give up on Earth, No! They'll send expeditions to Earth to start its reclamation process.
The Smart & Selfish thing to do would've been to contact the government.
The s*upid & Selfish & Anti-Social thing to do was to let your obsession with an apocalyptic video game run so deep that you don't even consider the above option. Instead MC says Jolly-Ho and starts prepping for the end that the video game is based off of.
Like he isn't even being selfish at this point. He is just to self-absorbed and detached from reality to truly consider what options will bring him the greatest benefit.
Humans need other humans to survive. If we don't talk with another human for 24 hours like in military solitary confinement, we start to go insane.
Our MC doesn't have that very human problem. He is literally a machine who's only goal is to survive the apocalypse.
Because I did that too to all my MC in a fanfic XD
there might a good chance of MC being OP in later chapters~