I Can See the Correct Rules of Ghost Talks Chapter Completed Discussion

First off, to start with a brief intro to what [Ghost talk/Strange Talk] is, it's is a very niche genre that focuses on surviving in horror scenarios while abiding by an extensive list of rules that could be found in the scenario itself. It is a sungenre under Infinite flow, which is a further subgenre under horror ---even as an avid infinite horror fan, I'd rarely come across this specific subdivision.

Now, for the story, it's nothing overly amazing, but nevertheless, it's a good read.

The MC is logical in her actions and while arrogant by way of her identity sometimes, the MC would still make mistakes or realize that there were ways by which she could've made her task so much easier in retrospect, which is something surprisingly hard to find in novels sometimes.

The ML, however, Idk if it's because I didn't really pay attention to him or smth, was more of a backdrop than anything else. That's not inherently bad, in my opinion, since I don't really like romance to be overtly present through stories, but I could also understand how people might get irritated by how little there was of it. Personally, I thought the dynamic between the MC and ML was a bit stringent and stiff, but again, not the main plot of the story so I really didn't care too much for it.

The setting is what I think made the story work the most for me. Infinite flow fan aside, I really liked how Spoiler

Even though the government knows that some of the major rules were fake, they didn't do anything to change it, because at least this way, they're certain about which ones have been changed

[collapse] It's a level of consideration that helps flesh out the world a lot and made it so that the world wasn't solely dependent on the MC and that the aborigines were smart in their own way.

As for the unsavory aspects, like the other reviewer said, there's some racism in the story, but I don't think its as bad as they said either. Yes, the non-chinese people are depicted as being weaker, but I don't think there was any part that was obtusely racist and stereotypical like some other Chinese novels (there's one that I distinctly remember having a character being called beautiful by a "Korean" audience, but they keep saying that the character must've gotten plastic surgery in Korea, or "Japanese" people saying that the character will be prettier if they were shorter.) Additionally, the American characters, although blunt and unlikable at first, did mellow out and wasn't just like, "I'm the worse because I'm a dumb American" or smth like that. They had their own motivation, which, while not being pure, made them more than comedic side villains made to be ridiculed. Of course, there's implicit racism in there with how the Chinese MC dominated everything and won them over and all that, but it's not like that's literally not the same for any other main character.

Overall, the story had potential and delivered on most of it. Though the ending was a bit weak in my opinion, it comes with the genre. I would recommend it as a read to anyone who has time to waste and can suffer though some MTL