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Reincarnator
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522 Chapters (Ongoing):
-Part 1: 300 Chapters (Completed)
-Part 2: 189 Chapters (Completed)
-Side Stories: 38 Chapters (Ongoing)
-Part 1: 300 Chapters (Completed)
-Part 2: 189 Chapters (Completed)
-Side Stories: 38 Chapters (Ongoing)
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Weekly Rank: #4079Monthly Rank: #4041
All Time Rank: #271
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Humanity has been gradually transported to the Abyss by a bored god to compete against other races and monsters. The problem is… humanity failed. In a last desperate push, the strongest survivors chose a comrade to travel as far as possible back in time.
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One entry per lineHwan Saeng Jwa
환생좌
환생좌
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People of Earth are transported into an apocalyptic game by a bored god. OP MC travels back in time with future knowledge to avert humanity's extinction. Pros:
- Interesting concept, world building. Epic settings (bigger is better right?).
- Plot progression/structure seems to be well planned so far; though the setting's structure helps this by essentially "resetting" every arc. Cons:
- Writing quality gets worse over time. Author skips describing details on items, skills, visual descriptions (of all sorts; eg: people/locations/monsters), entire events.
- Translation quality varies. Oftentimes hard to tell what's happening from the word salads.
- MC has very little personality. Side characters often have the same selfish/schemy template archetype. So the story tends to come off like an emotionless robot on a thankless mission to save a race of a**holes. Characters aren't very interesting; no consistent core cast.
- Power system is half-assed; mostly related to the writing quality (ie: info is just skipped over). There's apparently all sorts of runes (that mostly aren't described), but the MC/story only focuses on the 8 main ones. Loot is generally a forgotten afterthought besides quest-type items. MC is a special snowflake that has 7 skill slots max for story balance whilst everyone else has unlimited (which are rarely described). Skill proficiency is glossed over. So much wasted potential here.
- Power creep is managed by having the previous zone's runes/skills/gear becomes obsolete by the new zone's drops, though this is often told (narrated) and not shown. Ie: Characters are just vaguely described as "stronger." MC gets around this by having cheat skills/items that can level with him. Because the power system is poorly thought out, the story resorts to rank comparison descriptions that change from arc to arc (eg: 2nd world it switched to # years (as in lived there for # years), 4th world it's using levels (ala an RPG)). Recommendation:
An okay time killer if you like the real world turned into death game world genre.
Cons: the translation really needs editors. It's not good, yet not that bad. The potential to improve the translation via editors is very huge. If you're looking for a fun read, where the main protagonist gets rewarded after every trials. This is not the novel you should be reading.
Harem? Nope.
Wishy-washy sidekicks? Nope.
Relationships? Nada.
Xianxia Trope? Not even close.
If you have trouble accepting the brutality of the situation presented, and the choices and the consequences of the decisions made by the protagonist, there's the door over there.....*points at the door*. The story, in and of itself, is about struggle... and survival. Right at the start, the protagonist has to struggle and survive each and every given mission. But this story is more. So much more than surviving. See, the main protagonist has already done that. And even managed to reach the last stage.... only to witness the eradication of the human race at the end. Just before the demise of the human race, the strongest remaining humans decided to send someone back in time. In the hopes of changing the fate of the human race.
To ensure that the humans will survive.
To make sure that they will remain victorious in the end. And that's where our main protagonist, Kang Hansoo, became the reincarnator (?) (or is it the reincarnated?). It is no longer about struggles.
Heck, surviving is not even his priority at this point.
It is much bigger.
Much, much more.
It's to ensure that the human race survives at the end. And this is where the beauty of the story is. You get to see the difficulties and hardships that is driving the main protagonist.
Directly clashing to the naive sentimentality of the humans.
Driven by their basal needs to survive,
By any means possible,
in this hellish Abyss,
created by a bored God.
- No plot armour. Or at least it isn't the intrusive kind of plot armour. The MC actually almost died. By the time he's healed, he finds that things have changed way to0 much. So he has to work harder than before to get things going along the intended trajectory.
- No cliches
- The back-to-the-past trope doesn't feel like a trope at all. It feels more like terminator where there aren't set timelines when something will happen (apart from the abyss), but more of objectives he has to achieve
ConsHansoo felt Krancheska flinch behind him and muttered to himself.
‘He should be useful. I’ll keep him alive for a bit longer.’
There was a reason why Hansoo hadn’t suppressed Krancheska’s body.
If Krancheska had decided to bite his tongue the moment he woke up, Hansoo was ready to just kill him off here and leave.
Since somebody that dedicated would try anything to bring harm to him even if he held him down.
But somebody who still clung onto the sliver of hope even in a situation like this would still be useful.
Though he was powerless, he still had a tremendous amount of information within his head.
- In fairness, I may quit this at any time so my review is only for up to c79 (so far) and will be notably incomplete, and possibly prejudicial.
The GOOD:- MC seems acceptable- almost likable. It's a trick- but you may not notice...
- Storytelling is ok, albeit linear & predictable.
The BAD:- Translation is a bit sub-par. Still mostly understandable, but some occasional, minor issues.
- This a narrative 'about a story' more than an actual story. So much exposition. Exposition nightmare.
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- Forced plotting everywhere. Might as well be a cooking show, the 'ingredients' are so accessible & the different steps executed so easily.
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- Things 'not forced' are exposition-'justified'. Half the story is rambling about barely related things, narrative to convince you of pending or past things, or are speculation/projection of things that won't be- but you have to be told about for some reason.
- Setups for the 'challenges' are mostly math-challenged 'luck vs effort' setups, or unrealistically biased 'carrot & stick' based 'divide & conquer' messes.
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- 'Mind control' almost always fails to make sense/not be OP in most stories, but it's use here is just vague and cliche.
- MC's motivation/actions are rather bullshit. Actually this author bullshits a lot with his story, asserting things 'are this way' in one section, then saying other crap later. Sometimes only a paragraph apart. It's somewhat irritating.
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- No characters have much personality- they're all 'plot puppets' stiffly following the author's script. (see spoiler above).
- For an 'Apocalyptic Horror/Drama', other than 'complaints', most people surprisingly have very few feelings about the amount of loss and strife throughout the story. You get to glimpse more than a few petty motivations to fuel/justify the forced plot/the MCs actions- but there is practically no actual drama/tragedy/human emotion-- and in a story like this, that should be impossible.
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- On that note: LOTS of stuff is left out/'done in the background'. Major quest objectives are suddenly 'resolved' without details in between sentences. Not sure if this is the writing or the translating- but it's not good storytelling.
The Different:Someone says a thing. Next you expect a response, but no- instead enjoy several paragraphs of exposition. Oh, here's a response- what was said before?...
That's just 1 example.
Some of the more blatant points are where people 'offend' the MC, then are conveniently 'punished' by the 'karma' of the story with a set-up that pretty much yells 'See how you are? That's why this is happening!'
In the context of 'this was just random untrained people, randomly grouped together'- including puzzle dynamics which demand competence and solidarity should be instant fails despite 'magic rune stone power ups'. Don't forget- this is supposedly the 'tutorial', not some 'weeding out' scheme enforced on army offficers
Actually the MC is a two-faced hypocrite. Although I'm name calling- it's 100% accurate, and there's even a passage at the end of c42 (I think) that spells out how he's been intentionally 'grooming his image'. You can add in the convenient normal guy that suddenly, desperately offers to be his 'Punisher' and kill people for him as he pretends to be averse to doing it himself (for publicity reasons).
Actually- speaking of that character, to go from a post-high school work associate (or whatever), to someone who he can give an order to 'go somewhere, get a special thing by independently completing a normally dangerous challenge, wait up to 34 days for people, and kill anyone who shows up and doesn't use his name' (which should include any random innocent person or group)...
Yeah.
To expect he'll execute that competently is one ridiculous thing.
That he does is the other.
In the second phase of the 'tutorial', the MC meets a family where only the father fights, and the rest coattail ride the goodwill of the protectors.
Ok- whatever- that can happen...
Later, the father has to make a hard decision due to limited resources, so he punches his daughter in the face & takes her ticket- the runs off with the wife.
Ok- whatever- again...
The daughter is left behind, and is given a
few sentences of token attention by the writer, and is thereafter 'functionally ignored' by the story- even though the author makes it clear that the MC slightly later kills everyone (though doesn't spell it out that he kills said daughter, nor make the daughter plead for her life, etc/whatever drama/human emotion)
- Nothing- I thought it was a blatant rip-off, but turns out it was (likely) the inspiration for something WAY better (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint).
Overall, it's a passable read if you're bored enough I suppose- but suggest you just read ORV. On it's own merits, it's not BAD, but 'why settle for less'? I suppose if you finished ORV and want MOAR, then it's better than nothing? Well, whatever.This novel is not like others. The story in this novel focuses on, well, the story. The MC is just the driving force of it, we're merely following him along as he works at completing a specific goal, thus unnecessary things are short or nonexistent. Fight scenes for example are often cut as it's not really necessary to explain it all, he explains how he gets abilities and such and how they work and that's about what's necessary. It is also not like other novels in character interactions as MC has a specific goal he is working towards, unneeded people are cut off and disappear quickly. TL;DR
This story is about the story, not the fights, the MC or the character interactions. So heed that as you read it, else you will, like a lot of the other reviews, base your opinion on the wrong grounds. True, the story might not fit everyone, but I feel that it is unique and extremely interesting. It also progresses quite quickly while still explaining the key elements needed.
Theres so many time skips, and things that happen that you literally have no idea whats going on. plus so many things that dont make sure.
Plus a crap load of plotholes or random things that dont make sense.
He remembers a mission for a reward at the start to skin off like 15 people while they are still alive, the author vaguely glosses over that he did do it. And no one really makes a big deal of it or why the MC did that. Then when it was done, there was no reward notification.
In the 2nd phase, he keeps talking about getting a pet snake, but once he gets it, doesnt explain why, or how its used. however will take 4 paragraphs to describe some useless item he sees.
Somehow the author states that they are fighting in a giant fish, surrounded by toxic seawater, however doesnt bother to mention how they got there or why they are fighting.
Plot progression: 5/5
Character development: 2/5
Writing: 2.5/5 Pros:
Reincarnator builds amazing worlds, and that's really one of the biggest things I'm looking for in a fantasy-type novel - being able to go on an adventure in another fantastical realm. Enjoy the creative worlds that the author creates. The MC is likeable!! He makes good decisions. He has a personality!!! He's never a d*ck for no reason. Cons:
Character development is fragmented and weak. Support characters randomly drop in, get an exposition, then disappear off into the realm of nothingness for hundreds of chapters, or worse, forever. Don't give me a name and sad backstory that spans half a chapter if you're going to make the character disappear after 3 chapters *sob*. We have evil, killing machines flip sides at a moment's notice without enough explanation, so it feels jarring. There are a lot of Deus Ex Machina moments where the MC is in a hopeless situation, but then he suddenly pulls out a secret new power unbeknown to the audience. It makes the climax of each arc anti-climatic... because you know he's going to pull out a trump card. Weak details. It's hard to grasp what the environment, characters, and different races look or feel like because of the lack of description. This is pretty common among light novels though. Too much chuckling. Please... Hangsoo chuckles like every other sentence.