Review Detail of SauceMaster64 in I Don’t Want To Be Popular
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I've read the whole 40 chapters of this thing, and hoo boy is it bad. And boring. (TLDR at the end) First of all, if you're expecting some excitement, action, romance, anything of the sort, it's NOT HERE. This is strictly a slice-of-life. I have no idea how this author manages to dodge every other genre except for, Idk, wish fullfilment?? Which is also interesting since the wish fulfillment part is not really all that satisfying. Story goes like this: MC gets money. Buys something. Steals from other guy. Buys something, etc, etc. Also, there's the occasional hook thrown here and there, only to be beaten up and abandoned in an alleyway somewhere. Why set up all these plot lines if you're just gonna throw them away? Every single character is one-dimensional. All the girls are caricatures. Beautiful caricatures, mind you. Plus, I don't get why the author feels the need to add all these beautiful figurines, then proceed to shy away from making the novel a harem. How, you ask? Simply by forgetting about the characters you spend 4-5 chapters reading about. I mean, aside from MC and his family, everyone's in danger of being abandoned. The system in this novel (yes, there's a system) is probably the most arbitrary, convenient piece of shit system I have ever read since Ultimate Scheming System (at least this novel fully embraces its trashiness and proceeds to be entertaining). If I had only one thing to say about the novel, it would be "waste". Everything feels like a waste. Waste of words, of characters, of a premise. Of time. And that's the largest crime a webnovel can commit. Making the reader feel like it's a giant waste of time. TLDR: Cluster**** of ideas author doesn't follow through with. Leave and don't look back.
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No, dude. I've read the raws and beyond 120ch is a restart. Yes. All the build-up, all the character development (or lack of it), etc will be reset because apparently, he was only in a simulation created by the system, and he is the true owner of the system that Du Hao (?) owns. Also, the author didn't even do a good job at wrapping things up, he just rushed it and proceeded to go on to the real world. In addition, the monotony of it will become more apparent over time. Because instead of making the MC do productive things, he often makes him reminisce about his time in the simulation and how great it was. Needless to say, it's a boring novel with only wish-fulfillment in mind.
SauceMaster64:Additional thoughts: Author spends his time droning about money and prices and how, ooh! he gets double back if he buys them! 10000 dollar cake? Welp, heres 20000 dollars back. 10000000000000000 tesla car? don't worry, I gotchu 20000000000000000 back. There's also none of the satisfaction that comes with these types of novels like, who tf cares about the MC that is able to buy anything he wanted? And he doesn't reveal it to anyone?? There's also weird tangents like how his ex is a streamer, like what now? What is the relevance? She never gets mentioned beyond around chapter 10... His ex has a friend and she's pretty? They help out a teacher and play guess the song? What now? She never gets mentioned again aside from a single call... He has a class rep, pretty class rep? He gets a designated driver, she's pretty? Wait, his class rep's (pretty) newlywed cousin is coming over? At this point you start to feel fatigued by all these new characters when you haven't even been given enough time to give a shit about the old ones before they disappeared. He gets a piano skill... What now? He doesn't do shit with it. Cultivator ring? More like Convenience ExMachina Ring. Hell, the items inside have NOTHING to do with cultivating. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt, maybe only beyond 40 chapters does the author do anything with the set-up, but until then, this is a doodoo novel.
Additional thoughts: Author spends his time droning about money and prices and how, ooh! he gets double back if he buys them! 10000 dollar cake? Welp, heres 20000 dollars back. 10000000000000000 tesla car? don't worry, I gotchu 20000000000000000 back. There's also none of the satisfaction that comes with these types of novels like, who tf cares about the MC that is able to buy anything he wanted? And he doesn't reveal it to anyone?? There's also weird tangents like how his ex is a streamer, like what now? What is the relevance? She never gets mentioned beyond around chapter 10... His ex has a friend and she's pretty? They help out a teacher and play guess the song? What now? She never gets mentioned again aside from a single call... He has a class rep, pretty class rep? He gets a designated driver, she's pretty? Wait, his class rep's (pretty) newlywed cousin is coming over? At this point you start to feel fatigued by all these new characters when you haven't even been given enough time to give a shit about the old ones before they disappeared. He gets a piano skill... What now? He doesn't do shit with it. Cultivator ring? More like Convenience ExMachina Ring. Hell, the items inside have NOTHING to do with cultivating. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt, maybe only beyond 40 chapters does the author do anything with the set-up, but until then, this is a doodoo novel.