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When I read a novel where the main premise is the MC got isekai'd into their favorite video game, I would expect the author to expand on the world with a new perspective merely playing the game would never give. In Surviving as a Barbarian, the world it takes place in is so incredibly devoid of description, half the time the characters might as well be walking around in a void. The people the MC interacts with are paper thin on detail, often including only race, class, and gender w/ so little personality I think calling them 1D is an overstatement. Descriptions are so sparse the author doesn't even mention the weapons they carry with them until they actually get used in combat.The main "focus" of the author's writings here is the stream of consciousness of the MC. It mostly consists of dealing with immediate problems & if there are none it usually time skips to when there is a problem. However for all the time spent on the MC, he never once thinks about what his goals are in this universe. The title of the novel says survive, but it seems the MC is just focused on treating his new life as a game and beating it, again he never considers this problem, I'm just inferring from 90 chapters. For some very light spoilers, the MC becomes Spoiler
power and very rich
[collapse] in the first 20 chapters, which completely deflates the tension of surviving. The rest of the story is mostly him exploiting his OP OP gamer knowledge and getting getting very lucky with drops (yes this is a critical part of the MC character power development, getting very lucky with drops as he never shuts up about it when it happens).This novel makes shield hero look good, so it baffles me it has as high a rating as it does.