The New World

My God! Why haven't I read this yet? I'm so into this! I rarely write reviews, but I couldn't help but note how this novel suits my taste. Have only read up to 6th chapter and there's just one man show, but you know what? All this bullshit actually feels believable. The MC actually feels like a person.

There's nothing unique done here, just some generic monster hunting (6 chaps as far as I've read) HOWEVER! It's done so well you don't get bored, but, you thirst for more and bro, damn calculations in stats and everything, they are superb.

I'm definitely into this and this novel's officially in my to read list!

The author does do not hide fact that Randidy Ghosthound inspired this stories, but he makes another approach to the challenges and mc character and skill development. That is why the story despite the similarities, I read with pleasure. Therefore, I believe that the harm is to ignore this story because it uses a similar idea, and according to this line of thinking most fantasy after Tolkien is useless because of similarity.  Just the fact itself, that mc here is more specialised build than randidly because in this world hard to have universal skills and stats. And I really like the aspect that protagonist by his skill and determination is more and more like a monster from human point od view. I have great hopes that author can balance possibly loss of typical humanity with sensible grey morality, but time will show. 

Just the fact itself, that mc here is more specialised build than Randidly because in this world hard to have universal skills and stats. And I really like the aspect that protagonist by his skill and determination is more and more like a monster. I have great hopes that author can balance the possibly loss of typical humanity with sensible grey morality, but this time will show. 

I write a more review as will be more chapters, but now I can say that I can't wait, this beginning I read with pleasure. The main protagonist so far does not disappoint. And 8 chapter caused adding the last two fragment of this review because ending half shows that this story has so much more potential with mc and another humans interactions.

Chapter 11 and  12 give us answers why and how mc survive,  very good plot twist.  If every time new chapter become that good or even better I never end writing this review. I really want to wait for more chapters before I add more my opinion, but is hard to resist when this story turns out better than I expected.

Great stuff, some similarity to Randidly Ghosthound, but its mostly just the system "perks", and character is spawed into a dungeon instead of tutorial zone.

The MC is well fleshed out,pretty badass, keeps it real, swears like an drunk sailor when situation goes though, but mainly, unlike most of RR stories, the MC feels desparation, fear, and sometimes doesnt know what to do in certain situation. This is what I really enjoy about the story, MC feels like he could be a real person who was just transported from Earth to some random world, I am absolutely sick of  when in some stories MC's imeadiately addapt, talk and act in the normative way of a society on another world in which they have been for few days only.

Story is good, follows the right path at the right pace, enviroments and conditions change often enough to keep you interested, plus some plot twists (not all that difficult to predict, but at least you may predict it few paragraphs before, not like some stories where you can tell whats gonna happen 3 chapters ahead).

Writing is colourful and describtive, while not overly so, preventing the story from being pain to read, because author wants to describe every crack in the wall, so big plus points for that. Some minor gramatical mistakes, but nothing that would ruin your reading experience, I am just a bit of Grammar Nazi. Can be easily fixed if author gets an editor or PR.

Over all, really good story, definetely on the pincale of LitRPG and i am sure after few more chapters, the story will be somewhere on the first page of top ranking stories of RR.

First off, I absolutely loved the premise - apocalypse occurs, and dungeons are born, with characters struggling to survive. Sure, it's been done before, but what matters is not the premise, but the execution. However, what stops me from giving this a full 10/10 is the fact the MC seems to be about the only character that matters and there's a lack of world building. Let's take the world for one. Sure, cataclysm occurs. Dungeons spawn, people get superpowers. And what happens next to the World? Nobody cares. As a matter of fact, the MC casually parties with a coupla folks, gets out and says "Heyy, I'm from yo town too, let's hang out and chill, mmkay?". Just imagine. There are monsters and tentacled horrors going about and our MC suddenly loses his humanity, sense of empathy and literally goes "Must get stronk!". 

Alright. moving onto the characters. For most of the story (at least around chapter 35 or so), the MC seems to have the emotive range of a doorknob and whatever determination he possesses in one internal monologue seems to all but vanish in the next. We're given a narrative deus ex machina in an initial chapter on why he found power in his hands, but the fact that he casually meets with walking armageddons who somehow end up looking at him favorably is just jarring. Let's face it, say you're a world-ending horror that literally enslaves and makes other creatures go insane by your very existence, then if an ant were to cross your road you'd be all like "step, step step, squish ant casually". Instead all such entities seem to support the MC for some reason that's not explained very clearly. And despite the utter zeal with which the MC is trying to become strong, all that the readers can see is the MC being subtly manipulated by all the teacher like characters around him. We see a chapter where the MC is pretty angry at this fact, but it seems to vanish the next moment and only to have all the elder like figures make a show of authority to the MC. 

The author had earlier mentioned about how a certain other character kept shitting on the MC of another novel, but honestly, I see the MC's character traits regressing slowly here as well. What's unexplained is how the protagonist suddenly rediscovers his humanity and sense of empathy the moment he loses his childhood friends. It felt forced and arbitrary. I feel it might have been better to simply say he was devoid of his human emotions and evolved etc, as it flows better with the plot. 

Of course, all this isn't to just shit on this novel. I like this novel and want the author to at least retroactively address some of the plot holes. I liked the leveling system, but characters acting much younger than their ages is off putting and the MC having no real motive of his own and instead of following his Master like an obedient slave is not the most inviting of settings. I mean, it doesn't matter if the MC is powerful or not, but whether he can truly carve a path of his own. The reason he's called the "Main Character" is for a reason. However, the overall ambience of a war against eldritch entities with a perk based leveling system is done very well and I can't praise the author enough for that. There is also an attempt at humanizing the antagonist and painting the World in shades of grey instead of a black and white and this is spectacular for a novel. Thanks for the work, author!

Just do yourself a favor and read this 

10/10 would recommend

Pretty good story. The mechanics and progression are interesting and the character is fun to follow and adequately selfish enough to not be your typical heroic protagonist, albeit a tad too crass if you ask me. Most of the other characters in the story seem to exist as stepping stones or tools for the mc, which doesn't really bother me, but the mc does start developing meaningful relations later down the road. I occasionally get Sauron vibes from the mc, which I like, if Sauron cursed like a sailor and was less god-like and more human.

Haven't read Randidly Ghosthound yet beyond a couple chapters, so the only comaparison I can personally confirm is the similar game system being run by a mysterious and computer-like intelligence. Anyway, give The New World a try.

Spoiler-Free Review  (as of ch. 22): 

The story takes alot of inspiration from Legend of Randidly Ghosthound (almsot identical initally), but diverges with its own unique elements soon enough. The system itself (backstory and mechanics), are all interesting and more fleshed out than most other apocalypse LitRPG stories on this site.

On the writing itself, the style is both enjoyable and easy to read. The fight scenes are emotive, and character interactions flow well. There is no real story as of yet, but the worldbuilding is good enough so far to lay a solid foundation. No issues with the grammar.

Overall score rated on how much I personally enjoy the story.

Some issues:

At the moment, levels seem to matter less in this story due to how strong the protagonist is. On the other hand, levels are seen to go very, very high.

The protagonist's character is fleshed out, but actually seems to regress (slightly) as more chapters come out. This may end up being a plot point, but minus stars for becoming kind of one dimensional. This is compounded by the fact that the protagonist's motivations are lacking and he does not seem to have any goal in mind beyond getting stronger for the sake of getting stronger. Hopefully this will solve itself when the plot moves along.

I'm not going to lie, I thought it would be bad and I was only reading it because I was bored,(Avoiding work) yet suprisingly it's pretty damn entertaining and god do I want more.

Long story short, give me more- I mean it's a really good read and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone as despite what the author says, it's a typical apocalypse litRPG which has actually been fleshed out and has amazing potential.

It'l likely be one of those stories I read keep on reading even if I don't enjoy it just because the already so developed I will not want to forget them - cutting myself off before I write an essay, read it.

i love this story to the point where I check for new chaps daily!

although I will probably forget I even wrote this review...

so if the story turns for the worse or something it's not my fault... maybe....

As of chapter 9 though I recommend you read it...

Reminded me of randidily ghost hound except the naming is normal. I like it I'd recommend it. 

Update: like it more than ghosthound the systems are similar but the characters have more depth here in my opinion. Both good stories but point to new world