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It's your pretty typical protag is utterly broken in VR where nobody can compare to them type story... Its got good writing and translation, and overall the story is pretty much what you would expect from this genre.Some things that I do dislike about the story, which honestly are more nitpicky, but the biggest issue is the protagonist halo. There are two main cases where I see this being ab*sed.The first is probability... Countless times he has gotten things like "reflection with 3% probability" or things to that effect, yet they basically seem to trigger perfectly in his favor, which obviously isn't how probability works. Honestly, its pretty minor but the part that annoys me is how easy of a fix it is. Make the ability's success depend on the quality of the equipment and the strength of the attack, hence with MC cheat blacksmith skills he can almost guarantee the reflect. This isn't the only example of percentages like this being used, and it just always bothers me how with a below 50% probability it seems to always succeed.The second thing is how he is unrivaled. Based on how the story is set up, he should be the strongest blacksmith. Having him beat smith and all of the other blacksmiths is fine, but the key thing here is blacksmiths. It has some innermonolog about how other geniuses in their field who put in hard work are recognized but not blacksmiths, which at least to me is essentially the MC saying "I'm at the same level as them in my field" yet for some reason when it comes to the VR game he is unrivaled.The issue is just how broken he is compared to other geniuses, its fine to give him a legendary class off the bat but give that to the kendo and archery masters in their respective field. Make it clearer that he is unique because he is a blacksmith, the thing that is precious to him, rather than what it currently feels like to me where everyone else is just inferior to him. We haven't gotten much information other than I believe the kendo master failing the fourth goblin, but at least based on context this feeling is ingrained into the story. At least in my opinion it would of been a lot better if he ends up as just above average in fighting, but number one in smithing. Have a few lines about how the archer got a legendary class to start, have him obtain his god class later in the story so it serves as a milestone, a few things like this I think would help the world building round out a lot more and make it feel less like the world resolves around the MC being great.Overall the story has been good so far, while I am complaining about parts of the book and not really praising it at least for me its a lot easier to find the negatives than the positives. The story is entertaining if the genre is your style and the translation/writing at least to me seemed good so give the book a try.