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Overall, this is a somewhat new take on the familiar (and very popular) full dive mmorpg genre. It adds some things, but nothing terribly significant. The biggest difference is the main character: a military sniper forced to retire after turning paraplegic after a training accident. We'll ignore the very strange plot point that the government refuses to pay for his surgery to walk again... Because accidentally shooting yourself still gets you a purple heart in America, I don't really understand the logic that accidentally paralyzing yourself gets you a kick in the nuts. They could have denied him because the surgery was experimental and it would have led to the same thing without something entirely illogical. He could even still be an angsty Korean hell-bent on money, angry at the system and their selfish logic. Anyway, that plot point is dumb.And that sort of moves on to my only overall gripe so far (granted, only 33 out of 1300 chapters have been translated so far, so gripes can grow) :Just like in every one of these types of novels, the protagonist magically discovers something that no one else knows, but everyone should f-ing know. It's not even a spoiler to tell you that auto combat is NOT the best way to fight. But somehow no one knows. 100 million players and 4 months since release, played all over the world, with news programs dedicated to the game, and no one knows that accuracy percentage only applies while using auto combat. That is so unbelievable that it makes me actually angry. Gamers analyze the sh*t out of every aspect of their favorite games, yet no one knows this... It even states that people thought that might be the case but didn't bother to practice enough to get to that level of skill. I just went to a damn ren-fair with an archery tournament and you are telling me no one would have turned off auto-combat just so they could roleplay more accurately? No one else in the world? Don't even get me started on no one choosing the musket as a starting weapon... There are always people who choose underappreciated classes to prove themselves. And especially in a game touted for it's perfect AI and balancing, seeing a weapon that shoots once a minute and hits half the time is a huge red flag that something here is special. Ugh. Just make him better than all of the others, not the only one.