One thousand five hunded? It's natural that I, or anyone really, would get bored of the characters after such a crazy span of text. While knowing the genre is important I belive that the main thing that made me have a bad impression of the later-stages of the book is that I was already burn-out
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| This clunky mech was #1 popular webnovel few years back |
The strong suit of the novel is the very first arc, before Han Xiao (the MC) sets foot on the galaxy, around chap. 350. Before that the plot advances consistently and manages to honor the name of "legendary mechanic" as the MC has to use more or less recognizable machinery to aid him in defeating a very powerful organization named "germinal" that for quite some time remains mysterious, and most important of all, Han Xiao cannot face the dangers head-on and makes logic alliances and strategies that don't revolt around "farming leeks" as in the later stages of the novel.
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| Aimes, one of the worse, most annoying, more recurrent characters in the novel. Imagine hot dom mommy |
The scenery is familiar and unique (within the novel's context) and is well-described, which later on becomes more high-tech samy, desertic, or a generic forest and the description is vague and superficial.
The Atlanta Nights' moments are kept within reason and although IMO the "players" ruin the story and their "pro league" bored me to death, before going to the galaxy their influence is negligible in comparison with what is to come.
Also, the characters that have the better-developed personality are those that survived these chapters, namely; Han Xiao, Bennett, Hila, and Aurora. The germinal leader was the better adversary and the ones that followed never got to his height.
After ch.400 the author tries to encompass so much that the story becomes an excuse to see the level-up system: the powerful organizations have no strong standing and are pretty much indistinct from one another and the nemesis follows the same logic as in shonen mangas, being one allegedly more powerful than the one before but all of them with some evil agenda and eventually Han Xiao "farms" the players experience points enough as to catch up with them, defeating them.
(Edit 11/24 . That moment when Germinal leader is looking down on a map of his "secret" bases being destroyed one by one by Han Xiao and doens't even has the strenght to yell "ZERO!" like before, man that's a classic.)
EDIT 4/24
One, It's true that the nature of the book does changes a lot between the first few arcs and the laters when Han Xiao leaves planet aquamarine. At first the character was very engineer-focused and the author put an amount of emphasis on each individual creation, its intrincacies and stats, whereas later on when the robots and creation start numbering the thousands the descriptions get more and more vague, up to the point when Han Xiao just mentions that certain troops have been "enhanced" or that they look like "knights riding horses", things of the sort.
I'd said that at first the novel was a lot more realistic and detailed in its enviroments and applicable mechanics when the later stages are very sci-fi and event-focused. The first arcs are more of my personal liking but that doesn't mean that the others are bad.
The pro-league as I later found out through experience is a resource used to show the reader how much of a difference does the protagonist has compared to the mundane, or at least to what he's supposed to be. TBH, it's not the best example I've seen of this other authors manage to be a whole lot more subtle and I do think that bun-hit-dog and frenzied sword and those characters are wildly irrelevant, undeserving of the attention they got.
(Editing the edit, 11/24 Though! That moment when FZ pulls the "Black Phanthom's Mechanical Sense" turns table and beats the crap out of demon dude it's a classic. Peak writing, haha)
The "santuary revival" being a thing removes all risk of death from not just the protagonist but for all (relevant) characters. Feidin it's too flat a character and his virtuousness is assumed and not properly explained. That other kid character, Aura, should by all means be a terror, a paragon of evilness or at least selfish and slighly paranoical considering that a shadow goverment has abducted her and used her literal flesh and blood as some sort of healing compound to fuel super soldiers.
Some parts of the plot are left behind or replaced by a poorer counter parts such as Nero the son of Benett a much more cool character, being a complete idiot. Naive to a comical extent. Or the black spirit race left in the dust, same as the mechanical race or even worse. The ending is confusing at the least and very underwhelming, with Han Xiao teleporting unto our universe. I think that idea bounded the whole later part of the book to rules it shouldn't have been and something much more interesting could've happen. Overall? The book is decent, nothing too outstanding. 5/10
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