Die, Replay, Repeat Chapter 110 Discussion

First of all.

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Yug review is nonsensical. Shen Lingxue since beforehand has been recognized as a superior female character to the group during the village arc, she helped stall for time against the ghost, was useful against controlled enemies, followed the MC instructions and silently choose to let him take the leadership away from her in recognition of his greater capabilities, despite being arrogant and moody due to the way spiritual powers works in this series. But yeah sure, that's not a positive depiction dude, the author is such an incel amiright?

It's very, very funny. You'll see the MC literally torturing one of his enemies (who is a male character btw) teared to pieces and throw into a meat grinder to be feed to the dogs and no issue is raised with it. But when a female turns into the enemy and gets the same treatment he's now a incel? stfu.

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Regarding RedPlays review. I'm not being nonsensical at all. Though I have to agree with you that the writing decision you're talking about is questionable.

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Insofar there were 2 female psychics who were show as villains, first it was one who lacked retrospective and was lonely, and thus wanted a friend to stay with her forever and accidentally drove her to death, causing her to be possessed by an specter and causing a genocide to those who she believed to be responsible. The second one was literally mind-broken by ab*sers which justified her bad personality. All female villainous characters had a small and quick reason to be as bad as they were and imo they weren't even that bad, compare this to Lin ziyang who was a psychotic serial killer that tortures people and feeds them to dogs... Because? You didn't even provide examples of how bad they're depicted compared to the male villains of the franchise, heck, if we compare the good guys side. Shen is better depicted than the other male psychics, the fatass was a useless pe*vert whose only utility was letting blood flow to activate an item because he was useless, and the MC friend is an annoying pe*vert 99% of the time that can't stop being h**ny because that's his character.

Also you're very, very clearly having a fundamental misunderstanding of MC character, the novel didn't do a good work of showing who he truly is early on because his madness was limited to his enemies, which made his actions give the impression that he's rational, but no, he isn't; he is very much crazy, insane, petty and trigger happy (remember, he was willing to kill that young master before he did anything to him because he was talking mad sh*t and was implying MC doesn't know about specters or how frightening they are at all, he 100% meant it) this aspect of the MC will be very apparent and clear the more you read the novel. You're only saying his actions don't make sense for him because you've finished chapter 96 fresh, read more.

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Now, regarding chapter 94-96 which will be controversial and will certainly make some people drop the novel.

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People are unhappy because Shen Lingxue situation at chapter 94-96 kinda came out of nowhere due to the author poor planning, lack of foreshadowing and because she truly, didn't deserve anything that happened to her. She was made into a scapegoat to showcase the MC madness.

Can someone who just vented at a relative death deserve to be reminded of her hypothetical failures and lose them again, again, and again and be tortured with the guilt? They clearly don't.

The problem? She vented to the wrong person, yeah underachiever, go and say to the person that got tortured, maimed and disemboweled multiple times by specters that it's his fault innocent people died and that he should have tried better as if he's not putting any effort at all on his job even after he just had to die multiple times, just after he completed a major mission. Surely this very sane person with common sense won't retaliate right?

MC action was completely in-character, what is at fault is the author amateur writing, he lacked exposition for this part of MC's personality which made his actions during 94-96 seem like it came out of nowhere, it was a very poor way to do an exposition of this side of the MC's character..

That's all.

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Now, about the novel itself.

The good; regarding the world itself, there's a pretty interesting foundation with it but what's truly interesting is the main-character, he's insane due to the loops and won't stop at anything to deal with his enemies, as well as being highly efficient about it.

It's like Subaru, if he was a bit more realistic after dying for the thousandth time and wasn't annoying or dumb, the MC's psychopathy allows for very interesting solutions for the troubles the scenario provides and I quite like it

The bad; if you want story where the MC bounds or develops a character with emotional bonds or blablabla, you won't get it, the MC's character has been formed from the start of the novel, you won't see development from him in this regard, I prefer the novel as it is actually is but I can understand if this is a deal breaker to some.

The worst thing about this work is how it handles powerscaling. It makes sense when the MC can loop between time and choose the optimal outcome to his troubles, but the main character does get strong too fast, which takes away from the thriller setting. It's why I've reduced one star as of now.