Thank you helscans for adapting this novel (The Last Adventurer)

First off I came to know this novel from manhwa. Redice studio is the one who adapted this novel to make a manhwa. The art and quality of the characters is insane.

The story is about our MC El paume who is one of the adventurer in the maple world. He is one of the strongest in this world but he can't save it till the end. Now he is regressed six years ago prior to this. To saved the world... more>> again. • There's Dibo the polearm hero. • Kiri the Cygnus knight swordwoman. • Ralph the supporter and buffer

• Miner the pirate girl and markswoman.

There are many reasons why I like this novel

1. The MC is likable. He is calm, clever and intelligent.

2. Every supporting or side character is also good. They have very diverse personalities.

3. The world building is good. The novel is neither fast pace nor slow either.

If you like novel in it where there are gates, monsters, magic and adventures then give this a try it is not very bad. <<less

I've enjoyed reading the novel so far, but it really only deserves 3*.

Pros: the translation is good and the pacing is nice, not too fast or slow.

Cons: characters are shallow and the interactions are highly repetitive. World-building is also practically an afterthought, really only used to facilitate a change in scenery.

Past the first introductory arc, you can break down the novel into a simple loop: new location introduced -> party gets a quest -> MC "stuns" everyone for the nth time with his regressor knowledge (including his party members basically... more>> reacting the same way each and every time he says he's going to do something crazy) -> loot broken item -> fleece the quest-giver for money -> repeat. There is very little variation on this formula, so it kind of just makes every new dungeon/location feel the same, basically just a "grind" to get through to advance the main plot.

This is compounded by the fact, as mentioned, the party members seem locked to a few canned responses -- forget character development, these characters are basically made of cardboard. A little bit of backstory to introduce a new character, you quickly learn what "trope" they're supposed to fulfill, and they only serve to interject with almost identical responses to each situation to further the "exceptional" nature of El Pam (the MC).

Spoiler

Divo is a "comic relief" skeptic that over-exaggeratedly reacts with surprise to everything. Ralph is the embodiment of Mr. Krabs and responds to quite literally everything with "how much money will I make?" Kiri is practically a fly on the wall -- it's so bad that I forgot her name and had to search for it, that's how little presence she has. Past her "introductory arc", she's maybe mentioned once every 10 chapters at best. Minerv is just a competent skeptic, not much more to say about her. Somehow she has the most personality despite just being "Divo but less dumb".

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Overall, a fun "brain-off" kind of read. But don't expect anything special. <<less

Great novel, with a nice story which quite uniquely executes the usual dungeon plot tropes and has a different and understandable power scaling. Worldbuilding is nicely done too. The translation is also good. It is a weak to strong novel with an op regressor MC. The pacing is also good as it never drags out. It also has a :-

• • Likable MC who actually acts like a regressor who has seen it all and suffered, much unlike seen in soo many dungeon manhwas nowadays.

• • Likeable side charecters with unique and diverse personalities. They behave like actual people and not brain dead morons who just follow the MC.

Overall, 9.4/10 would recommend. Thanks to helscans for adapting this.

Not sure how people genuinely give 5 stars to this. The writing is very dull, and there is zero emotion everywhere. The worst part of the story though for me, is that many of the names and settings are like something a kid who never grew up would've written. Like what even is the world name Maple World, dungeons Maple Gates, MC El Pam, monster Orange Mushroom. It's almost like some random Nintendo rpg fanfic.

Someone even contacted me through NU forums after posting this review, that this is in fact... more>> essentially a fan fic. This novel is apparently based off a video game called Maple Story who the messager claims that the game (made 2003) was as ground breaking as Runescape was 20 years ago, and a lot of people that grew up with this game have deep memories with it. This directly explains and makes sense on why all these names were so out of place now. So unless you know of Maple Story, I can not recommend this novel to you as even though you don't need to know to read this, as the sense of realism and immersiveness was just cracking and breaking apart everywhere. The writing quality couldn't save it due to dullness and no emotions. (This paragraph was edited in)

I tried reading deeper despite my dislike, but all the writing so far has been so basic. Perhaps it is the translation, but there is just a stark lack of details and depth to everything. It is like it's written by ChatGPT <<less

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Its pretty good, 4 stars you'll need to have a baseline grasp of the maplestory mmorpg storyline to understand the names of the bigshots and what they represent, if you dont youll probably be confused, author tends to kick a dead horse for 3 paragraphs on how great the MC is at using a particular skill etc every few chapters but its nothing we havent seen before

previous: c0

For everyone's reference, this is a fanfic for a pretty famous mmorpg called maplestory. If you've never played it, I would recommend it... more>> just for the storyline, actual gameplay these days is pretty meh since you have to level up an army for 40 lvl 140 characters and 12 lvl 200 characters with at least 1 lvl 250+ character to stand a chance against the actually useful bosses <<less

It's okay, novel.

I haven't finished it, I like the manhwa so stop reading the novel just wait for the manhwa to reach to what I have read.

Any if you can guess it, yes this is also one of the companies that funded this

... more>> Similar to Summoner War, AFK Online, Ragnarok Online, Dungeon Fighter Online and, RF Online.

This novel was funded probably by MapleStory too.

If you are into the lore of Maple Story of most it make sense.

But you don't need a background with maple story to appreciate this.

They tell you in a way to, make it understandable.

Reading the MapleStory Lore, is just Icing in the Cake.

No need to delved into them.

If you seen the premise of MapleStory 3

This is basically it. The axed story of Maple Story 3.

They probably didn't have any funds anymore, thus the novel.

It's a decent read, a guy regressed after the world ended, armed with all the knowledge of the future, try to prevent the end of the world from happening.

If you like revenge, power fantasy and regression.

And this is for you.

Even if you don't, you will still like it, since it's 6/10 to 7/10 to me <<less