Blacksmith of the Apocalypse

This story checks off a lot of standard RR works that I feel a good chunk of people here enjoy.

*Litrpg system comes to earth

*OP mc with non standard skills and half a brain

*Quick Pacing / Action packed

*Non harem and so far no romance

By all metrics the reviews should more positve. Personally I found the story enjoyable. Its not the best here, but its also not the worst and not deserving such harsh criticism. That the second highest review is 1.5 stars seems incredibly misleading.

I suggest anyone who finds those points interesting to ignore this peculiar hate and give this a read.

I can't keep going. The premise is interesting, but the execution makes me wish my own noose was coming next.

As others have commented, the main character gets a unique and powerful class right from the start, after demonstrating he's one of the tiny, less than 1% of the Earth's population who can one-shot a goblin with a sword magically thrust into their hand and pointed in the right direction by the helpful System.

"Hit that thing!" is an amazing accomplishment according to the System. "Wow! Good job! Have a huge reward! Do you like all these exclamation points!? Good, because you'll be seeing a lot more for no apparent reason!" is the outcome.

The MC bumbles between one success and the next, with strategies on par with "I'll try spinning! That's a good trick!" I might like him a little more if I knew how many times he was dropped on his head as a child. I don't know the count, or really anything else about Seth Smith. He's the Mister Bean of magical blacksmiths, arriving in the story as he is, doing things almost at random, and then coming out the other side through miraculous success. If only we got to experience some slapstick comedy or any sign the writer was in on the joke along the way.

The author either isn't a native English speaker, or has gotten their writing inspiration from poorly reviewed, badly translated Japanese light novels. Maybe both? I don't know which, but it makes the grammar, character conversations and clumsy attempts at exposition painful to read.

Barring a full rewrite, if you're considering this go read some Twilight slash fanfic instead. You'll find more depth of character, better plot and proofreading, and might learn something you never needed to know about werewolves.

I like this story, it focuses on the crafting and adds a little bit of that LitRPG fighting we all know and love into the mix. The pace and update quality are also -retry good from what I've seen. The grammar is towards the higher end with no outstanding errors that make reading it impossible. Overall, a pretty damn good system apocalypse and a worthy read, so give it a try.

The book is fun but doesn't seem to be plotted out of thought through much. The setup of the apocalypse is pretty much ruined by the fact that the main character never meets another human the entire story. He makes a comment about it feeling more like a transmigration novel and that rings true. As a blacksmith able to make weapons better than the starter ones at lv 1, this is ripe setup for having the main character be a hero to the rest of humanity going through this apocalypse with him. It's disconcerting such a set up is never explored. Surely the rest of humanity didn't die off even if most of them did. 

That being said the story being told is not boring. It's a little scattered and purposeless, often going for cheap laughs more frequently than it should, but the core mechanics and leveling and the growth of the character is all fun. The cheap laughs are made worse by the fact that any emotional depth is sucked out of the story through the regular use of a skill, calm reaction, to explain the character's lack of response to new situations. This could work just fine, but we never really examine the inner dialogue of the character either so no external reactions coupled with no internal ones leaves the main character feeling rather like a silent video game protagonist without emotion.

I would probably rate the story a 3/5 but overall 4/5 thanks to what does work.There's a good framework here and with some restructuring, revision, and editing this could be a diamond in the rough.

Bro this story isn't supposed to be some award winning super serious book that you read from your public library! 

This story is like a slice of life but instead of sitting around talking, making friends, and not doing cool shit, the main guy actually does all this aaand the cool shit!!! 

He's making armor, saving friends, using his wits to survive perilous situations, making jokes, banging girls (sadly no details on the banging) and just overall getting stronger. 

It's a pretty nice relaxing read with cool monsters that don't really show up in most Isekai stories I'd give it a try if you want something to read while bored.

Way too many exclamation points! When every third sentence ends in an exclamation point, it gets annoying! So! Many! Exclamation! Points! 

Now that I've made that point, let's move on. The statistics at the beginning are absurd. Only 12 percent of people decide to do the tutorial and only .5 percent of people complete it, which is literally only killing a goblin. I call BS. If you're going to come up with garbage like that, at least give it a reason why so few people managed to do so. I'm so harsh on it because it's the basis of why the MC is special. He's special because he's part of the .5%. It's even called a "special reward". That's the basis of why the MC will soar to greatness. 

Next issue; our MC is mentally challenged. His apartment is located next to a field boss, and instead of staying in his room (which is a safe room that vanishes once you leave) like an intelligent person would, he decides that leaving would be the better course of action. Or at least that's what I assume, I dropped the story there. I couldn't read a story where the MC acknowledges the fact that grinding blacksmith exp in his room is the safe, smart option but decides against that anyways. 

Last issue, and this is more of a personal preference rather than anything I would say really detracts for the story, is the system. It has too much personality aimed towards the MC for something so omnipotent, especially with what a "system" itself means. Oh, and the way the MC talks and thinks to himself is weird. It feels like he's thinking at himself, instead of just having thoughts like a normal person

The world ends and the survivors get gameified/system integrated.  MC gets a spirit blacksmith class.  Interesting premise poor execution.  The crafting is stupidly simplistic and is mostly just written as a training montage or grinding session where the MC spends days smelting down scrap and making shit knives.  Overall it's just a simple story but just disappointing.

Review up until chapter 85

So let me repeat it's a great story  a really great story 

The story is great, no highly complex political structure the names and the maps are relatively simple, the thought process of the characters are also simple,.....everything is simple.

It's not a bad thing simple things are better than bad things again I repeat myself the story is great

but (the obvious BUTT) while reading you can feel it, the great potential in the story it's like having an exp bare filled up to 95% and you know that you just have to wait a little for the mob to respawn and you are golden , and you wait you wait wait wait and wait and  nothing there's a bug no respawn you informe the GM but no response so you wait again 

(Wow that was a long example,... anyway)

Like I said the story is great but there is enormous potential in the background just waiting to be exploited 

Ps: the change in point of view is sometimes confusing. 

(Well yeah this is my review of this story up until chapter 85)

The best way I can think of to describe the main character is an agent of chaos who loves to burn things down.  He is not a nice guy, but he occasionally does something heroic.  If you like a character who likes to burn things down, kick butt and occasional beat up the bad guys this is a good story to read.

I personally enjoy the tales of a crafters rise to glory. The author focus on the craft and skills while leaving the world open for exploring. There is no overall doom that the mc must slay on the quest to craft epic loot. I would recommend this book to any who enjoy litrpgs and those who like crafters. 10/10