Twenty-Two Knife Flow
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Had high hopes but sadly the translation quality had dropped dramatically and is still going down. Chapter 19 is so bad I am unsure if one of the characters has died or not. There was supposed to be 16 chapters per week but the updates are not keeping to that standard which might explain the lack of editing. Think I will leave this alone until the story becomes readable.
The summary? Too repetitive! How many times can meltdown system be repeated in a paragraph? The name of the system is strange, really really strange, the surrounding sentences and information give no context as to why it would be called "Meltdown" leaving me worried the TL has gotten the name wrong. Or more importantly that this is an TL synapsis of the first chapter gone wrong. The info we are given as that the MC steals a G55 to save him and his fam ok I like that, but then it goes on to say in passing he meets some sniper dude? Is this person going to be his long time BF?? Why mention him if nah? Gaining this "Meltdown System" by running over Zeds. The way the summary is outlined makes me believe that even though this MC is a returnee, he has no practical experience with this system... or that he didn't know he could gain the system by running zombies over instead of melee killing them.... If this story is about some dude going around in his car killing zombies then I'm out. The amount of damage a human body does to a vehicle isn't little so the car shouldn't last long unless the system works on the MC's vehicles as well as himself. I like Game elements and post-apoc and dystopia stories but I can't feel to optimistic about this one regardless of if its the TL's mistake or the author's logic.
it’s taking way too long for the updates. what is going on? two weeks and still nothing. this is really disappointing because this one of of my go to novels but qidian got rid of the translator as well as the steady updates. i would rather have steady updates with a “poorer” translation quality than this kind of unstable updates that mass release 4-5 chapters every few unknown week. and the translation quality wasn’t even that bad. i dont know why quidian got rid of the translator and this is making a lot of us readers very unhappy
My second review, as I don't know where my first has gone to. Alright, I have to admit, after writing my first review on this novel, I have soldiered on and read up to chapter 51, hoping to see any changes in the translation quality. There are improvements, alright. The wordings has gotten much better comparing to its darker past, and yay! The translator has found his space button! However, the price for it was a massive plunge for my IQ. I swear, I could feel I'm getting more and more stupid as I read this novel. The wordings is ridiculous and the story is even more. For an example, there is absolutely zero moral lesson in this story, which there maybe are two reasons for it: The story is made just to satisfy our primal pleasures, which are violence, domination, and *beep*. Or the lessons in it are unfathomably deep and are hidden behind layers upon layers of sophisticated and complex details, events, and the people in the story. Which, I highly doubt it. The plot, events and unexpected encounters are just there to polish the mc's ass, which has become extraordinarily shiny in the recent chapters. (Man, so shiny, more than Mr. Crab in Moana). As for the other characters, they all have one thing in common: their character. (Lol) Apparently, the author is fond of the thing called 'mob psychology', because there is no such thing as 'individualism' in this novel, even for the named ones. (Hah!) Their 'characteristics' are very repetitive, even more so for the mc's companions, as if they are long lost brothers and sisters with different sizes and shapes. If the author wants to give them some stage time, then they will get professional and act like how the author had described them as. But if he doesn't want to, hide away the name and I dare you say who is who. Really, guy, there are tons of novels like this out there that have the same ruthless protagonists with their own ass-kissing squads, harems, systems and power ranger's enemy-tier antagonists. Search them up in novel updates and you will find dozens in an instant, at least they have a moral lessons, unlike this, and their mcs don't have the fetish of swallowing flesh, blood and ****** stupid judgement like sleeping before the end of the world without the door key. But the world is good, thou. I have to give them that.
Qidian have a lot of good content, but this is clearly not one of them. Awful translation quality after chapter 10, going downhill from there. Nothing wrong with the novel, but the translation of it makes it uncomfortable to read beyond a certain point. I recommend like many people that the chapters need to go through an editor before release. And I personally recommend re-releasing chapters beyond chapter 10.