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TL:DR MidI can't help but compare this to a TV show or drama. Some episodes are decent. Some are pretty bad. And a few I truly enjoyed. That's how the arch's are in this story. Truly a mixed bag. It heavily leans on existing tropes and rarely does anything particularly new. Like most face slapping stories I've read the antagonist's motivations and intelligence is quite lacking. I'll give it some credit for trying to establish the MC's knowledge/skills/etc but at the end of the day these things are still developed via summaries or offscreen. In fact a lot of the later arch's just turn into big plot summaries as a whole. From a reader's perspective it does save the time by removing some redundant parts of the story. The author probably got sick of writing it too.. But it would have probably been better if they just ended the story earlier if they couldn't come up with new ideas?One aspect I really didn't care for was -Spoiler
Almost every life he ends up getting married and having kids, but they rarely reveal any details about his own family. Not how many kids. Their names. I just find it kinda ironic that so many of these worlds force the MC to endure tr*sh relatives and then his own 'happy family' barely gets any mention. I assume the author did this because the MC is always 'resetting' his feelings between his different lives, and perhaps they thought the reader's would get attached to his children/family, but it makes the 'romance' feel superficial. A token thing to be crossed off a bucket list every lifetime.
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