Became an Infinite Game Beauty NPC Chapter 34 Discussion

This is the goofiest piece of media I've ever laid my eyes upon and it's not even intending to be like that most of the time. With each passing sentence, I keep encountering something that gets me cackling like a witch who successfully turned an enemy into a toad with some forbidden spell.

To me, the funniest thing about this novel are the MLs/supposed love interests so far. The author makes sure to mention once in a while that the MLs are smart but I don't believe her. At all. They've got the brain capacity of lukewarm water. They are, at the very core, just criminals who get away with everything because the world works in their favour and they have superhuman abilities/cheats to help them out. They aren't really doing anything special or fancy enough to be impressive.

Let me introduce these goofballs.

• • ML 1 | The landlord who first kept trying to get the MC to pay the rent and now keeps trying to get into his pants. He's chasing him around in almost every chapter, I swear this guy is the human evaluation of a tom and jerry episode. Yall remember Mr. Ditkovich from those spiderman movies who was always like 'GIMME YO RENT'? yeah this ML is basically Mr. Ditkovich if Mr. Ditkovich was a pe*vert. And a twink.

• • ML 2 | The bar owner who's doing too much and also doing nothing at all at the same time. I don't know how he managed it. Anyways, all I know about him is that:He's the type of man you can't trust around your drinks. He's the type of man who would call you his 'discord kitten' and think it's peak flirting. He's the type of man to say 'ell o ell' (lol) out loud in a real life, face-to-face conversation. If he's got 'rizz' he's got that terminally online rizz, and I haven't even seen him being online in the novel.

• • ML 3 | The two-faced doctor who definitely reads wikihow articles on how to act like a white lotus. I can't even call him a good actor when he was suspicious from the get-go. He's also got some satanicass creature in his satanicass hospital so he can control people and shit. He's the kind to give satan a free lapdance if he showed up at his door one day. I bet he poll-danced to summon that aforementioned creature, too.Spoiler

    To be fair, I'm not going to judge him for that (I'm going to judge him for being a creep who takes advantage of his patients tho...) like go hop on that demonic dong and get your bag dawg. Med workers are paid in peanuts compared to what they do for us.

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• • ML 4 | I don't know his job and I'll be surprised if he's even got one, but he's literally Chucky the killer's rapist cousin. Yes, literally, not just metaphorically. All the MLs in this novel attempted to take advantage of the MC at least once or twice but this guy didn't even have a plan on his mind. He straight-up attempted to r*pe him at the knifepoint in the middle of the night, in some dark alleyway. He also thought the MC was a woman who 'owed' him a night just because he 'helped' him once. Even if you skim past this behaviour, he's genuinely so uncreative at everything that he can pass off as a side character. He's boring, I want to hit him with a brick and tell him to do something entertaining for once in his entire freaking life.
  • The mf killer | Yeah, he isn't a love interest but he's somehow the sanest of them all. He's the only one doing his job instead of trying to go ballsdeep into the poor MC equally poor cheeks. Yet.

Aside from that, the MC's cross-dressing (failed) shenanigans turned out to be so utterly useless, the sheer amount of disappointment and sadness visible on my face at the moment would make you think I got food poisoning from my favourite dish.

It neither helped him for more than 2 seconds, nor did it serve anything to the plot. It didn't make sense from the very beginning when he was trying to disguise himself. If he has the "softer features for a man, but sharper features for a woman" type of Androgyny (the one most common among androgynous danmei characters), why did he tie up his hair while pretending to be a woman and then let them lose after he was done pretending? Lose hair would cover up his shaper features and work fairly well for his adam's apple, if not hide them entirely. Tying them up would only expose exactly what he needs to conceal.

And that troomtroom level of beautyhack he tried to make his lips appear pinkish enough to pass off as a lipstick was something else. Like bro, what's next? You're going to use your grandma's ashes as a bootleg eyeshadow pallet? Even that would be more believable and long-lasting than whatever trick you pulled out back then. You're chill but please do better in the future, otherwise you're getting cooked ratatouille-style.

If he was doing this for fun, I honestly wouldn't care but this was supposed to be for a serious reason. And this entire thing lasted so long just to result into... absolutely nothing, it was a filler that added no value to the story and wasn't entertaining enough to me (once again, to me.) It seemed like this was written just so we can read about a side character being appalled at the mere concept of a flat-chested girl and then telling him some raggedy ass home remedies to grow them out because, apparently, every girl needs to have magnum back-breaking bazongas. Seeing a grownass woman tweaking out when the person (who she genuinely believed is a girl despite his goofy attempts at disguising himself) didn't have bouncy castles on his chest was an experience akin to getting hit by a coconut while sitting under a mulberry tree. Random, painful, and just leaves you feeling confused.

I mean I don't exactly hate her, but why is she the way she is? She ate shaving cream as a child? Or was she just born with one braincell and even that cell died out of loneliness later?

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The other players in general are honestly, more often than not, dead weight teammates to the MC. I do like kind side characters and the MC having some friends amidst trying to survive from a bunch of unhinged characters. And I don't believe someone needs to be physically strong to be considered a strong character, so it's not that I hate them for not being physically strong enough (after all the MC himself struggles with his body but knows how to use his brain) but I'm a bit tired of other players being super-glued to him because even the slightest of help they give out, results in the MC having to save them everytime and from everything. He has his own struggles to deal with, yet he has to constantly help them too. It's sometimes funny to read about, but also sometimes exhausting.

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That's it. Now before anyone misunderstands, I'm neither dissing the novel nor am I forming my opinion solely on the first arc without going forward, that's exactly why I haven't even given out a rating. I'm just pointing out the goofs because why not? Life is too short to hesitate when it comes to writing a useless review. Try it once in a while, I don't know about others, but I'll definitely read them babes. Love ya, cool stranger.

Also, I'm still reading the novel so perhaps my thoughts and review would change later. It all depends on whether the goof level would increase or decrease in the rest of the novel.