Reincarnated Swordmaster Chapter Completed Discussion

This is a slightly weird Gary Stu MC story that recycles common tropes, also done with passably good plotting and developments than are somewhat interesting.

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I say 'slightly weird' because the genre appears to be your basic VR world 'weak to strong' type story (where the popularity is so high that game currency is valuable to real world corporations), but the author says 'Not enough!', and throws in reincarnation to do time travel so the MC can second chance it, THEN the author says 'Not enough!', and throws in wuxia elements in real life making the real world a high-tech murim story that's mostly ignored except where it's convenient to expand the in-game plot. Is that enough for the author? No- but I'm not going to get into all that because it's pretty ad-hoc after that.

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Regardless, it's pretty readable/enjoyable.

The GOOD:

• The plotting is actually 'planned' to a good degree. There are some issues at times with execution/forcing- but mostly it's better than most.
• Dual plotline 'real world/VR world' story development. Barely.
• Many story events are interesting.
• The world cannon is basically 'armchair game design', and is pretty detailed and somewhat interesting- though it would be unbalanced nonsense if actually implemented.

The Bad:

• Characters are all shallow plot-puppets, and mostly are just to validate/revere/fear the MC.
• So many girls to second-fiddle/revere/crush on him it's laughable. I guess it's good they're all skilled/competent & we'll focus on it that way, yes?
• The MC is an idiot
  • MC does dumb things
  • MC ignores 'friends'/takes advantage of 'allies'
  • MC thinks to develop own guild often AFTER other guilds have taken the lead in some area. Not sure why this is for a 'time travel' story, but whatever.
  • MC is so focused on grinding, bad sh*t happens to his guild while he is out ALL THE TIME, and seemingly no one can do anything except wait/repeatedly die till he gets back to save the day.
• The timeline accelerates for some reason, which doesn't help the story in any way. This is also contrary to the normal idea of 'MMO game development takes time'- but the author thinks all 'expansions' were 'in there' from the beginning, just waiting to be 'triggered' by some random player (so they can be immediately applied to the whole world 'ready or not').
• This is one of those 'Author forgets some of the items/powers the MC has in order to keep the challenge up' stories- so expect 'he can use (such and such item/summon/NPC) to not happen quite frequently.
• As a LitRPG you should expect stats and such similar boilerplate nonsense, but this one somehow makes it tedious to read them, probably because of the above point.
• Very verbose. Lots of exposition.
• The passage of time in this story seems off in lots of ways, and the MC gets 'this must be immediately handled'-type developments all the time, which he 'I'll get to that' and 'my own pace' does other crap, just to finish everything perfectly (due to some random bonus) anyway. It's one way how not to do drama,

The Different:

• Nothing really. Mixing future VR & a murim (hidden martial arts masters) world I guess?

Overall, it's got issues- but it's still good.