Solo Farming In The Tower Chapter 242 Discussion

Maybe i’d sum it up by saying it’s not great, yet I may still read more ? It’s Lengthy, mostly boring (repetitive slices of life) and rather flawed, but cute, at least initially

(it’s an ok choice to fall asleep ?)

———— my review contains few hints at spoilers ———-

The pace is completely off, it’s so slow with ongoing menial tasks that the bigger ongoing plot is pretty much drawn, missing in (small task) action - first disappointment, the balance of carefree day to day repetitive lifestyle and tower /world events is pretty bad

The character are mostly cute, but, then again there’s strange unbalance, as some of them are like working decoration with minimal interactions, while others will grow to have way too much importance to be fun:

Second disapointement : The dynamic of the animal companions

why does the cat talk from the start, and not the other animals ?

why mostly letting go of the ever growing numerous rabbits ?

(Btw, cats are nearly as big breeders as rabbits, and shecats would feel like better mother models than rabbits mom who seldom care for their pups)

Also, why would rabbits need a to have a kingdom, a king, or an army ?? (What’s that sick obsession with monarchy these days ? Many animals don’t have pyramidal hierarchy at all !)

the group dynamic is badly damaged when you lose the black rabbit : you’re left with an overpowered glutton and a more and more tiresome more than arrogant, more than lucky lucky devious cat (and a bat) <- the parenthesis is intended

And that’s the third disappointment appearing : it maybe du to the attempt at being fun, but, there’s a huge and growing gap in the characters influence which make some of the cute interactions grow bothersome : there’s way to much cat crazy face slapping, and the bear repetitive excess and food stealing are not too far behind. Both becomes highly predictable and exhausting as their misconducts not fun anymore

some reviews mention the character is not growing enough compared the last floor monsters power. I beg to differ, and it obviously does change quite a bit at a crazy rate too, when Aileen buy him some admin privileges or when the actual tower farmer plot advance.

But it’s not less frustrating. It takes an awful time to actually grow a plot and a story. Some big « end of the world « thing is truly ongoing... yet you have no sense of emergency. On one side: the communication between the MC and the hunters + outside world is less than minimal, entirely dependent on a s*upid cat, and on the over side, the dragons are a bunch of drunkards with little integrity and an enormous pride.

the fourth disappointment is probably the total incongruity between a potentially good story and the absolute lack of depth of anything going on. The fifth would be the caricature that is made of the characters, they are being devoured by the archetype that defines them, and not much is left out of this 1.5D characters outside of a once cute envelope

if I had to add a last upset, and that might actually be my biggest : it would be that despite an obviously righteous mind, the MC also lives by some very strong merchants dishonest rules, that are not so fun when he ab*ses the s*upid cat into exploiting it for next to nothing, , and even less fun when the cat itself becomes a master of deception (not by smart, but by luck). It feels so far from the cooperative « let’s help each other « that grows spontaneously with the rabbits. That kind cooperation feels lost as the rabbits end up being so far away side characters, leaving more and more of monetized or bargained exchanges between the MC and most of his surroundings

This feels like a waste, the cozy farm with the animals meets a greater evil that you could possibly fight while growing food

Still despite my complaints I do appreciate the mostly non violent nature of this story. While I am disappointed by the transaction nature of the interaction (in opposition to cooperation), this is still a story where the non combatant weak MC managed his way with gardening and cooking, and defeats his enemies with plants

i wish the writer had some permaculture insight, I would probably forgive all the rest

du to its very poor pace, I feel this is not too bad to read and fall asleep