3/24
We LitRPG/Isekai/Fantasy readers know that the "against the heavens" plot is nothing particularly new to humankind and much less to fantasy setting where for some reason or other the gods tend to be either tyrants or jerks, wonder what gave authors the idea. Mysteries of life I suppose.
What's also not particularly new is how much of a resounding failure most of these stories are. For once, while at first (few pages) the protagonist tends to be in a precarious situation that improves quickly and drastically, usually by some overpowered skill or some game breaking artifact, like Failure Frame or Arifureta.
While this may seem inconsequential feeling that the character is never in fatal danger takes the edge of the books, but surprisingly in the Gods' Game the protagonist manages to have a procedural and natural skill evolution that gives him enough force to fight his enemies but not nearly to forget that he's fighting an overwhelming force that has rooted itself for the last few eons.
While the good-nature, straight black-or-white moral compass of the MC is not my cup of tea it feels much more natural that other more edgy characters like the ones in the aforementioned books, and I have come to sympathize with Kyran. Though it may have some to do with him always taking the hard path which is funnier to read that a "not get involved '', probably more realistic character.
Another good implementation that Rohan has made is the casting of spells and the sort with italicized letters (Mirien shadow stepped, Aiken stone dived), instead of simply saying "attack" and "strike" over and over again or having the poor characters having to shout the name of their skills like a bunch of tards.
I hold my judgement on world-building since this topic is developed through small dialogues between battles instead of lore-dumps so it's still insufficient knowledge as to volume 5, but so far so good. It's interesting that some races are favored by certain gods and more commonly found in their domains or vice-versa, giving a visual aid to the God's personalities and aesthetic tastes.
I would argue that despite the novel being power almost solely by these Gods after a thousand pages there's little we readers know about them except that they are ruthless and pretty much bad news, but the non-godly characters get enough development and are lifelike and interesting, from the most notorious ones such as Zarr and Mirien to less relevant ones like the dwarf Hamen and the ogre... whose name I don't remember. Myruk? Anyway, great reading, five volumes in less than a week binge for me. I have rarely seen such great display of epic fiction as I did in these series. I hope, though it's a distant hope, that the author will continue the series. Since he's left it at what I reckon would be a third of the full story, I can't give it a full ten, but a solid 9/10
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