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Something is up with the translators of this novel, seems to be a competition of some sort between Awebstories, Akaza and Fenrir. Either way, the translations are... not great. Pretty obvious MTL with barely any editing, nouns and verbs change regularly, sometimes within the same chapter, so I had a lot of problems trying to follow the story.That said, there's really nothing much to it. The standard best "gamer" of a certain game, got reincarnated into said game, there's nothing he doesn't know, no mechanic he doesn't know. No character he doesn't know. In fact, he even comes with an in-built tome of magic that explicitly memorizes all his spells for him, even those he ever only used in the actual game itself, "somehow". His raw stats are shit, but there's an explanation for it, and since he can't resolve it immediately, he turns to shikigami as the people in this story can't spam shikigami.His personality itself comes across as rather abrasive because while he, and this is a good thing, constantly reminds himself that this the real world now, he can't expect things to follow the game's plot, or for things to automatically happen in between POVs, it doesn't seem to change the way he views them, as in he still heavily relies on his knowledge of them from the game, and is constantly getting shocked whenever something changes.I'm not sure if its because of the translation or not, but the story is written in an extremely flat and brief manner. Action sequences are almost entirely non-existent. They just outline the steps he took to victory and... thats it. Almost like a turn based RPG. Can you imagine that in a novel?"X used Blue Flare, it made a big bang.The enemy dodged, and countered."Not just battle scenes, even conversations, time skips and daily life scenes come across as extremely stilted because of the flat style of writing.