- #1
I picked up this novel after reading the first 20 or so manhwa chapters. I didn't start from the beginning, but picked up where the last available chapter of the comic left off, I also read MTL, so take this review with a grain of salt.What drew me in was a very cool concept. Death game is not a fresh genre by any means, but the author gives the reader a fresh POV, and when the majority of Korean novels are, at least to some extent, Solo Leveling clones, not making a new clone already puts the author above the 90% of all Korean writers. Not only that, the setting is mysterious, the world building is excellent, the characters have character growth, the system isn't lazy, and the action is really good. When I look at how the events gradually unfold into something bigger, taking the story in unexpected but exciting directions, I can tell right away that the author has planned the story beforehand, something I rarely see in web novels. The last time I felt that was when I was reading RTW, until it got bad. I'm not saying this novel won't be the same towards the end, but so far so good.I recommend reading both the novel and the comic at the same time, because the artist does great character designs that wonderfully complement the story.