I Am the Villain on Infinite Studios Chapter 25 Discussion

Could have been 4 stars if there weren't so many inconsistencies and problems with the characterisation, 3 is already generous and mostly for the creative aspects.

The movies are interesting enough, what makes it disappointing is how often the writer seems to forget what happened one or two chapters ago.

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Like MC heroically mutilating himself to break a formation... that had already been broken only one or so chapters prior.

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These things happen A LOT.

Most of all, there are way too many plot holes even in the first arc. It's sad, really.

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MC thinks he's a ghost, wears clothes from decades ago, has a wheelchair from decades ago.

He finds out that these things belonged to him when he was alive. Makes sense.

Except he isn't a ghost, just reincarnated to the present times.

So where do these things come from that are decades old and have been damaged/destroyed when he died in his past life?

I would understand if this is connected to the bigger mystery, but the oh so clever MC never even questioned it. No one did.

Neither how on earth MC's movie-character knew when these kids would go camping, he doesn't even live in that town anymore, but it was treated like all of this had been planned from the start.

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And these two points are just an example, it's riddled with plot holes.

Characterisation is equally inconsistent, especially the MC who seems to suffer from some kind of mental instability or personality disorder because he changes character in the blink of an eye.

It's obvious that the writer tried to backpaddle after setting him up as a psychopath, but it ends up just being inconsistent with how fast and extreme he switches between mu*derous lunatic and "reasonably ruthless".

This might be the censorship at work, but then she should have made a proper sheet before she started to paint him in a light that wouldn't go over well with uncle censorship instead of trying to lessen the blow in the middle of a chapter.

The writer put a lot of effort into researching some of the topics, or has a personal interest in it, which leads to several passages that come off as unnecessarily pretentious for the sake of sounding sophisticated while still being full of errors.

I think she took a lot of inspiration from (American) horror movies and novels and copied the errors/logical problems as well.

It's probably much more enjoyable if you can overlook inconsistencies and plot holes, if you can't, then you might want to look for a different one.

There's simply no way around how unplanned and sloppy the writer was with keeping track of their own plot and characters, but if you just want a fun horror story with a big mystery, then this novel is a good choice.