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Premise: The diary of a regressor who's at his 1183th time regressing and still not able to win.Each few chapters are stories condensed from several regressions, mentioning key characters or moments. They are overall well written and manage to keep an interest in the plot and future of said characters.That being said the story falls down into a repetitive pattern by chapter 40+. The formula is: Presents a new character, explain his quirkness, MC follows that character thoughout some loops until this character becomes a permanent inclusion to his 'party' or just falls into the background.So, falling into a repetitive pattern is the first problem of the story, which costs one point. The second is a lack of plot. There should be a main plot/problem that the MC should tackle to 'win' but there's none. There are roadblocks like the Ten Legs, the Buddha tree and the meteor shower, but they are more like events than plot.The novel ends up being loose tales about the characters he met without any insights about any overarching plot. There must be goals in a loops for the MC to achieve, minor or major. As for the MC's powers. He just mentions:"So I gained perfect memory at run 50..." or "I couldn't know what she's thinking because I only got [Mind Reading] after run 500..." How or why he gets these skills is still not known. Why the MC's so powerfull should be one of the first tales, but it's not explained even after so many chaps. He just one-shots everything because he's 'strong' and that's it.So while I agree with 5 star reviews for the first dozen chapters, considering how well written they are, this novel fails to keep interest after, due to storytelling pattern repetition and lack of overaching plot.
