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Trope 1: MC picks an ability or skill that's seen as useless but is actually op.
This also happens to be a very popular isekai trope, which isn't a surprise because VRMMO stories tend to just be isekai stories but the author didn't want to commit.
Trope 2: The character just gets handed stuff.
It's one thing for an isekai story, but the fact that it happens so much in VRMMO's is a bit frustrating. It was pretty dumb when I saw it in that shield girl story, and it's still pretty dumb here. Now, fair enough the author tries to excuse this by saying full set armor is just a thing that you get when you beat a hidden boss, but cmon, that's lazy writing. At least when it's done in isekai, you can claim that it's a gift from important in world character.
However having it be a drop from a monster is just peak lazy. Anyone who has ever played a game knows getting the specific item drop you want is extremely rare, but getting a drop that specifically benefits you and /or full set of armor? Yeah whatever.
Trope 3: specific to VRMMO's, the: MC becomes super famous on a forum board.
You see it in pretty much every VRMMO story, so it's not surprising to see. The author uses it to drop foreshadowing or to hype up the MC. Which isn't bad, but it's uncreative. The dialogue is bland, but it's just a plot device so whatever.
Trope 4: Bows are useless. Same as trope one, but I've seen this in a bunch of light novels, not just vrmmo stories. To be frank, it's ret*rded, now my rant isn't specifically about this light novel so feel free to ignore this.
Bow and arrows are one of the oldest weapons to be invented. It goes back to the stone age and was used all around the world. How in the heck are you going to make a story about people thinking it's useless or dumb? A dude literally went into WW2 with one and kicked ass. England had it so you were required to own one and train with it for hundreds of years. Why do light novel writers use this trope? Where is it coming from? It boggles my mind!
Trope 5: this kinda ties in with the "having stuff handed to him" and "bows are useless" tropes. "It's hard to use so people don't bother with it" trope is just... What? OK yeah, being able to hit a moving target takes training, and yeah in real life it would probably take you a couple of weeks to actually get good enough to use it in a real setting, but so would swords. Like, you do know it took knights training from a young age to properly learn swordplay, right?
So saying that, why is it that the MC can use bows just fine? That doesn't really get explained, though to be honest, even if it did, it would probably not be a good excuse anyway.
Trope 6: game takes you real bodies physique into account but this somehow stops being the case at some point when it's convenient. Doesn't seem affect other people either. Did fat neets stop existing in the future? Do only fit people who would normally have a social life play this game? Who knows.
[collapse]Just to name a few tropes that stuck out to me.The translation is fine, besides a few mistakes or wording here and there. Though seeing this is a fairly generic story which isn't too offensive, I can understand choosing it over a possibly more interesting one where people would get mad at you for messing up. At the very least its not machine translated.The inner monologue of the MC has much to be desired. Reading it feels like I'm reading the mind of a child. Stating or narrating every action they think or do. It's not even really like reading a book, more like reading the action log in a video game debugger.character tried to pick up stick.stick was picked up.stick was put into inventory.Mind you it's not THAT bad but it's not much better. It's a chore to read and it takes me out of the story. Not that there's much story to begin with.