I Became an Illegal Cheat User Chapter 11 Discussion

Currently, I’m only on chapter 11, but I’d like to give my two cents on some parts of this series and talk about some portions of Sareza’s review as well, though I do largely agree with it and actually find it to be a rare well made review.

For starters, this novel definitely is cliche, using several tropes you’d see out of other academy novels 1 to 1, just as Sareza mentioned in their review. Still, this isn’t inherently bad, especially if you’re looking exactly for a new academy novel to read, and I have found it entertaining. Especially the cheats segment; they aren’t just all unlocked immediately. If I had to compare this series to another, I’d probably put it close to Academy’s Time Stop Player, which is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine.

Now, as for the inconsistencies/plot holes Sareza mentioned. While true a lot of things could’ve been explained better, almost all of the things they pointed out actually were explained or at least alluded to. That, or they’re actually a byproduct of being raised in Korea. For example:

1) The MC being good at combat. This is something quite a few novels with Korean MC’s touch on, to the point where most authors take it as a given at this point, but Korean Men specifically actually have mandatory military enlistment for 2 years, combat training included. This is in case of war time conscriptions happening, as well as general self defense. The MC mentions at one point he’s a 30-something Ajussi, meaning he’s long since gone through his enlistment.

2) MC describes himself waking up inside of an abandoned shack-like house with only a mattress in it. In chapter 11 he even talks about only owning the mattress, so he doesn’t have to take anything to school with him.

3) This one Saerza is completely right on. The items the MC gets in the beginning are barely elaborated on at all, if you could even call it that. Where he got the money to buy them, what they are, etc. all very poorly explained in a couple sentence long sequence. I too wish it was more elaborate on.

Now about the women falling for him... yeah this novel has no defense. The first girl got “curious” about him because he felt pity for her, and her intuition, not even a special power, sensed it? When she’s supposed to be a cold hearted women with affinity incredibly hard to raise? And then he just writes it off as her being different from the game. This part sucks. Luckily, I’m not here for the romance but for the power development, but if I was, I’m not sure I’d be able to sit through that kind of horrible development.

Also FFS. Thanks for the warning about Spoiler

Arthur, Sareza. Might as well slap the name Artoria on him instead at this point since they’ve decided to go the Fate route. You’d think with 30, 000 hours in the game with max affinity for each character, supposed R19+ scenes included according to MC, that he’d at least mention Arthur’s actually a women.

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Overall, Sareza’s 5/10 rating is definitely fair. I’d say my own personal one so far is around 7/10ish, but I’m quite lax with my novel standards at this point. I’d say the only things I can’t stand are horrific MTL and a certain type of “victim to lover” novels, and even that first one is starting to change slowly as I read more MTL, so take my own rating with a small grain of poorly tasting salt.