To quickly summarize, the MC has entered a world based on a game. I don't recall if the author explained how or not, it didn't make an impression on me. The MC is naturally using his knowledge of the game world to get stronger, but the interesting system is essentially YouTube of the Gods. You subscribe to a god and pay to unlock videos. Watching those videos can grant skills (MC always gets skills but I think he's a special case?).

The balance feels pretty decent. The MC started off super... more>> weak but is strengthening at a quick pace. I don't like the system of earning "likes" through achievements and using those to subscribe and pay for videos in "GodTube". It works from a plot perspective, but it just feels wrong when I read it (likes aren't money lol). The MC is a bit generic, but has the traits I like. Mainly he's good to his friends, harsh to his enemies and he's strong willed without being arrogant.

It's fairly well written in my opinion, but there's something about the writing that I don't quite like. Perhaps it doesn't feel original enough? I can't really identify the reason, but that's why I rated it 4 stars. Reviews are subjective from the start after all. :) <<less

Deus ex machina the novel.

It's a fun novel, don't get me wrong. It's enjoyable and interesting to read. And I do recommend it. But! Be prepared to suspend your disbelief for a while cause it'll be rough ride if you don't. The MC is basically perfect. If there's something wrong with him, he makes it a strength instead. If there's something he needs to be good at, he removes an "o" and becomes a god at it instead. There's nothing wasted here. If bro needs something that he can't pull... more>> out of his backside the universe will do it instead. <<less

TLDR paragraph: This novel was a massive pain to read. It's a novel with enough interesting driving mechanics to make the writer roughly patch together the other parts without a care. The translation quality also drops later on. And these driving mechanics also become essentially cut off as filler content and highly lessened. So I'd say not worth your time, but read below for more info.

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There was a very interesting mechanic, which was the gods essentially having a social media teacher platform, where subscribers learn their powers. They must pay... more>> with likes, and the final goal is for the most subscribed paid god to become the one true God. The novel was then also driven by an interesting enough MC and main plotline.

This novel is also quite similar to tr*sh Of the Counts Family in a way, with an op MC (non laid back), and reliable side servants he got like pokemon. But unsurprisingly, this was worse, and the servants also had problems which I'll get into later.

But god. The amount of times I was debating of dropping this novel were countless. It only made it worse once around halfway through the chapters I read, somewhere in the Academy arc, the translation quality suddenly dropped. It wasn't the kind where there's machine mistranslated things and typos everywhere, but the quality dropped significantly enough to make it starkly noticeable. There were also a few aspects that changed, but it's been so long ago I can't remember anymore, as this novel kept making me barely binge it, making me stop, but deciding to keep going not wanting to try other likely sh1tty novels till I find something else to time sink into.

There were many plot holes inside this novel. And there were many random forced elements patched into the novel to really honestly just fill up the word count Id say. The side plots of the adventures made the least sense. It makes a little sense later on as it's forcibly tied into a new plot armor mechanic that gets tied into his job (game type job system not an actual job), but earlier on especially, it just made no fkn sense. It was even worse that he kept forcibly going by himself instead of his 2 servant guards that were repeatedly stressed how necessary they were until any plot event actually happens.

One of the good points of this novel, again, was his servants. There was even a whole beginner arc of acquiring the greatest future mage (who's of course gonna be a female), and repeated stress on how important having a trustworthy guard was to protect his life, raise his reputation enough to meet the saintess who's the only one who can cure his disease, et cetera. But again, whenever something happens, like his random forcibly written adventures, which are really just written to showcase his new strength (I think, but again it's completely meaning events so idk y it's written in as they were also a drag to read through as filler), his servants are never brought, and usually never told. Lastly, the mage really just becomes a slowly developing yandere character. But it's such a slow development that I can't tell if she was just written solely to serve as MCs shoddy FL plot, or if it's just one of those Korean author things where they must feature how awesome the MC is.

BTW, once the Academy starts, the greatest mechanic and unique point of the novel, is then basically thrown away. The future god videos, interactions, et cetera, is greatly reduced and summarized. There is never a variety of comparisons, author always makes him incline towards Korean legends of the kingdom eras, to showcase how great Korea is, and for some reason, all of these gods are gods or legends on Earth. This platform is spanning across thousands of different worlds, yet none of the other local gods/legends are on this platform, despite many having real actual powers some of the shoddy gods dont have like the Korean medical god he first subscribed to.

The whole novel is just roughly pat he'd together without much of a care in my opinion, the antagonists aren't interesting, the amount of plotholes are ridiculous once you start thinking about them, just like how the current FL would've died according to how the transmigration story went (he transmigrated into a game he played) despite her living in the original (there was zero time/reason for the butterfly effect to cause this), the whole novel becomes a story to bask in the MC's glory. The whole beginning section of the novel was thrown out for the MC to literally become a instructor at an academy to showcase his op prowess. Literally the whole novel changed, and though I did like this more until the translation quality dropped <<less

It's good writing, it contains many elements found in other novels. So far there is no romantic or harem involvement. The female characters are focused on other aspects, so there are no hints of romance for now. The MC is constantly developing in terms of getting stronger.

Despite this, there are some points that are a little bad. The main one is how the gods streaming system became a tool for the story to flow. "MC: am I in trouble? Okay, let me capture a new skill by watching a video... more>> of a god." It inevitably gets a little tiring and repetitive, as there is little development of the MC's own characteristics. It's not 100% bad, as interesting new abilities appear. Despite this, there are other aspects of the novel that are cool.

Regardless, it's worth taking a look and judging for yourself. <<less

I really like this novel so far, it's one that isn't too angsty but the right amount, the only issue, and it isn't even the novel, is the link, it won't let you 'continue reading' so you have to go to the actual website and not use the link. I still like the book though. I really like that the MC isn't someone that all 'holier than thou' type, he's a person that seem to have basic human character and I really like that. Sometimes it's hard to find a... more>> novel where the MC is easy to relate to and doesn't tick you off in some way. <<less

The god aspect feels a little contrived, a sort of added element of deus ex machina to get the protag out of problems, and adding suspense and solutions that might not really exist within the scope of the situation.

Some transitions into scenes are brushed off in a way that feels disjointed, I assume this might be mentioned in gege...'s review its definitely weirdly inconsistent when it happens.

Its not a bad go, but its not breaking my expectations either.

The MC felt really s*upid.

Honestly it's kind of a problem when the MC practically has accessed to every single techniques/skills imaginable from the get go, But decided to learned a new skill once in a blue moon.

The slow progression in this novel just felt so unnatural because the MC could have and should have been able to learn anything that actually powered him up early on (It's not like he severely lacked Likes either) rather than sitting on his Likes and not using it.