The Villain Only Wants To Live a Buddhist Life Chapter 1466 Discussion

I enjoyed the first novel quite a bit and the experiments to figure creative uses for his power. The versatile growth through creation along with the dungeon arcs and secret area arcs left a good impression on me. I like drama and there is honestly quite a bit of it to enjoy. Him always winning when some of his early deck builds were so tr*sh is definitely worthy of criticism. I thought he should have bricked himself into unwinnable situations quite a few times. When his deck always winning starts to become reasonable his start up time is still way to slow in general/his defense against magic not being diverse enough never really gets addressed.

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The rules change a lot in second novel and it becomes a Wuxia battle kind of thing for the most part, the protagonist basically rests on his laurels. His deck is actually subpar outside of the context of evolution which he knows can be countered and brute force, but he decides to pursue alchemy, city building, and how to purify areas. He has a treasure detecting device and a massive dungeon with monsters to talk to which can contain godly items which he doesn't explore or use at all outside getting to floor 20 which some of the best convenient evolution materials he found and never uses them again.

He is technically forced to go into it for the academy cup where he goes up to floor fifty to hunt designated monsters, but he doesn't' explore the hidden spaces. And I think the slime was too OP so he basically never uses it anymore but there has been updated information on it more recently. A lot events have just become the plot demands a solution so he conveniently has one one rather than him actually investing in a wide variety of skills.

There was an extremely tedious tournament arc which basically gave up life points and dealt with direct combat, however the focus on the unknown without exploring the unknown and intriguing outcomes is stale at best. I found the tournament arc which went on for a bunch of chapters to be pretty boring and unsubstantial there's a reason the tv shows always had side explanations going on the side for names and stats.

We are at the point where he basically got a kick and the back telling him that he's been wasting his time not improving himself but it's near the end of the second novel. I think the third novel can definitely improve on the this one and bring it back the drama and thrilling action back. A lot of my complaints are basically addressed by the author as it seems they noticed the same things as they were writing.

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