Item: Mutagen
Rating: 1.8
Author: NotAHostage

NotAHostageLv125yr

2020-01-19 06:25

DISCLAIMER: I only made it to around chapter 20, the review is based on those chapters. Oh boy. This novel is absolutely horrendous. To start of, writing quality is a dumpster fire, there are tons of plot holes and inconsistencies which you cover up by saying, ‘Mc who has no real life experience and only stayed home watching anime until the story started made a backup plan to the ****ty plan he made in the first place’ for example, him letting the other gangsters run away and *past* the zombies the Mc attracted w/ his gunshot instead of back into the theater. What was the backup plan anyway? Something along the lines of ‘he had a backup plan for that anyway’ just doesn’t cut it. And don’t even get me started on him not destroying his wrist with his shotgun. He shot it ONE HANDED. a SHOTGUN. instead this kid who happened to be the Mc has pinpoint Accuracy and insane logical thinking. Now, the side characters. Ignoring that for some reason they’re all female except the poor shop workout without a name, it feels like even the ‘fleshed out’ ones are just cardboard cutouts. And why did you think TWO chapters of FILLER BACKSTORY would be a good idea? Nobody cares about this character and wasting time isn’t gonna help. And please nobody even say something like ‘hmph, you are simply low iq without patience, the novel gets better you absolute cabbage..’ I don’t care if it gets better, the beginning is what hooks your reader. I’m not wasting more time reading more of this poor excuse for a novel.

Mutagen

Exallion

4.5

1184 Chs

Liked by 38 people

Replies12

Mr_EthicalLv5

You can't even write anything LMAO HAHAHAHAA .. being a critique is different from being mean.

4yr

streek135Lv15

Impossible to shoot a shotgun with one hand? what a joke.. https://***.youtube.com/watch?v=jEaI9EKGbv4 https://***.youtube.com/watch?v=lR3DSLvt_IQ https://***.youtube.com/watch?v=hGtYnDXPJmE

4yr

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4yr

StingyGuyLv4

He didnt say it is impossible. if you ever used a gun before you know there's a thing called recoil.

streek135:Impossible to shoot a shotgun with one hand? what a joke.. https://***.youtube.com/watch?v=jEaI9EKGbv4 https://***.youtube.com/watch?v=lR3DSLvt_IQ https://***.youtube.com/watch?v=hGtYnDXPJmE

3yr

streek135Lv15

Whats your point? Of course I know there is recoil when shooting any gun let alone a shotgun. but this guy is trying to imply that the recoil is so strong that it would “Destroy” your wrist thus making it impossible to shoot one handed. I provided video proof that counters his assertion. so whats your issue?

StingyGuy:He didnt say it is impossible. if you ever used a gun before you know there's a thing called recoil.

3yr

StingyGuyLv4

My point is a person doesn't just shoot a shotgun one handed and is perfectly fine afterwards.

streek135:Whats your point? Of course I know there is recoil when shooting any gun let alone a shotgun. but this guy is trying to imply that the recoil is so strong that it would “Destroy” your wrist thus making it impossible to shoot one handed. I provided video proof that counters his assertion. so whats your issue?

3yr

streek135Lv15

Dude how dence are you? I gave links to three videos showing people doing just that in my original reply to the other guy. you absolutely can shoot a shotgun one handed.

StingyGuy:My point is a person doesn't just shoot a shotgun one handed and is perfectly fine afterwards.

3yr

JustMortalLv11

the video showed experience person doing 1hand but, the MC is a otaku and we don't know his physic at that time (he could be, Fat , Average, skinny,) and I'm sure that he didn't exercise all those time. so it's kinda hard to shot 1 hand. I tried to shot a handgun for the first time and the recoil heavy (for me).

streek135:Dude how dence are you? I gave links to three videos showing people doing just that in my original reply to the other guy. you absolutely can shoot a shotgun one handed.

3yr

AlzarianLv1

Yo. We workout too. That's just mean. not every otaku is a basement otaku.

JustMortal:the video showed experience person doing 1hand but, the MC is a otaku and we don't know his physic at that time (he could be, Fat , Average, skinny,) and I'm sure that he didn't exercise all those time. so it's kinda hard to shot 1 hand. I tried to shot a handgun for the first time and the recoil heavy (for me).

3yr

DeaboroLv12

Same people vouching for the novel o like every 2 - 1 star reviews seems kinda weird and the books seems kinda bad was going to read it but I found out that the author deletes comments and it seems like boosts his rating.

3yr

Aeron_BrusenLv2

Hey, Buddy. How about take a look at my work? Your review seems brutally honest.

2yr

Daoist710uUSLv1

Chapter 500. And the Mc seems to have a way out for everything, no set backs, plays with deities on his first encounters, can harvest abilities and absorb any abilities with difficulty but still absorbs them. Mehn I see nothing this MC can't do. Am bored so I'll continue reading

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