Became an Evolving Space Monster Chapter 250 Discussion

5/5 story, 3.5/5 translation

Quite good, definitely worth a read. Explores a relatively untouched genre as most monster novels are not often set in sci-fi fantasy settings (sorry sci-fi fans but this novel, like most WNs/LNs, isn't true sci-fi).

Very well-written for a KR web novel regardless of what a lot of detractors claim. Some nuance is lost in translation due to inadequate translation at times which seem to be machine-translated. Spoiler

e.g. the hilarious mistranslation from psychic reflection armor to psychic reflection gloves.

[collapse] The translation is also uncoordinated among the various translators and terminology/nomenclature is changed sporadically oftentimes just transliterating some of the terms. Also lost is some of the style, as it is stylistically better written than a lot of other KR novels which isn't really conveyed in the translation.

Some detractors in the reviews lack reading comprehension as readers must be mindful of the actual setting of the story: it's just like SAO, the premise being that the protagonist is a human living in a future relatively near to us in which games are played using immersive VR tech and that he was thrown into a game world. A lot of the non-sensical aspects of the world can be attributed to the idea of game-balance and mechanics that wouldn't be present in reality i.e. an advanced spaceship lacking cameras or other electronic monitoring in key areas. It may feel contrived but it literally IS a game world. The only gripe about this fact is that the author writes about the differences in game world and game reality, but these differences are VERY selective. Spoiler

Like how there are variations in monsters which are also able to grow beyond a specified standard, but bruh cameras are cheap so why wouldn't they just put them in every corner of the ship...

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Overall, the novel is a good distillation of action, suspense, and horror with a rather reasonable power/growth curve of the protagonist that makes this genre of weak-t0-strong so addictive. A lot of the plot is quite predictable but still made enjoyable by the different evolutionary paths and the coalescing of the scattered plot lines.

We will have to see whether the author will run into the common pitfall that these KR novels seem to fall into where they lose steam & direction and turn into a slopfest.