Life Reset

this story has one major problem. it's not logical, everything from the mastery system to the monster change and level drop scroll would never be part of a regular mmorpg much less a VRMMORPG. even how the company reacts to the whole stuck in virtual reality situation doesn't make sense, nevermind the situation itself. also why didn't the rest of his guild members just leave and create their own guild. i mean they had the members and the MC's skills they didn't really need to go through all that trouble. 

other than that it's good, its just the shame that the story is built on one big illogical mess.

This is a fun vr story with a hilariously underpowered mc in a city building environment on the wrong side of an easy win.  I enjoyed the story a lot.

Very entertaining book :) 

Starting as a grunt and climbing ladder of power as a goblin was amusing .

And a plot twist with his ally - marvelous 

Ending left me speechless for a moment and was totally unconventional but still - heroic one

I enjoyed every part of it.

This is a really good read. I didn't even know it was a royal roads novel until I researched up about it after I was done. Good grammar and an intresting storyline. Not like alot of the horrible grammar and plotless novels on rr.

I have been waiting for enough chapters to come out to write a good review, but it keeps getting better and better that i can't help myself.

Story: A refreshing take on non-human protag, where usually the MC is reincarnated in another world.

A very nice novel.

It starts quite slow, but by the 6th chapter it gets really interesting and brings an original perspective, which I look forward to reading.

I'm very conflicted writing this review. The story could have great potential if the author didn't mess it up. There are some serious problems, let me get it one by one:

*** WARNING, IT FOLLOWING REVIEW  CONTAINS MANY SPOILERS, I WILL TRY TO LIMIT IT BUT IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS PLEASE DON'T READ IT ***


1. The main character, the only character that we learn is a jerk. Basically his whole guild which he is master hates him and gets rid of him. The only friend that he could ask help is a GM that he infrequently meet. In the story he shows us with his relations with others why he is a jerk (if the prologue is not convicing enough for you)

2. The main character is grown up man in real life but even after losing his job (the game character) he doesn't ask an attorney for his rights, contacts the company or anything else. He rushes in the game even knowing the risks (including health issues) even when not playing the game (and maybe some planning) would give him same advantages

3. It was never explained what the restrictions are clearly, why can't he make a new character leaving his old one as it is (which is pretty common in all MMOs as players tend to try new characters)

[Why that Vatras guy even think that he would delete his character, why should he start over? What is the point of deleting it and having a level 1 character, in worst case scenario he can just quit and leave it be.]

4. The game company would in such cases would always help the player as it would ruin their reputation if a known player just got destroyed (even if he himself quits the game it would be bad for the game as it would mean it is not more popular) And they just can't ban him, imagine they ban him, a famous player and the video of him transforming to goblin goes viral, it would destroy the company. 

5. I quote here "Six months after the game was released, it monthly net revenue averaged at around 20 Million USD." -> the game has one of the 8 quantum computers as server, can read your thoughts and make only so much money?

Is it a secret military project to spy on people? And why the hell doesn't it employ many servers, don't you care about lag?

6. Last one is worst one if you ask me: The author keeps saying it would be explained later, so I read chapter 3 because he said so, than chapter 7 and so on and it keep getting worse and worse, if you ask me the author could just let the MC sue the game company and be done with it, it would not change the story that much but he forced this fake drama and dumb MC on us, promising explanations. It's a no go for me.

TL;DR: If you care about loopholes, logical stories or anything logical in stories don't read it. If you like weak to strong stories with vengance and little sense, it's your story.

I had left this story alone as a rainy day measure, you know, to read when I felt there was a lack of update to some of the good works on the site. 

I am glad I did so.

Story and Style -

The story approaches the whole stuck in VRG in a unique way. Heck, even the excuse/reason sounds more believable than others.

The author provides lots of metadata on why things happen, which is a good thing but sometimes the info dumps happen too often which destroys the flow of the story.

The pacing is something that I personally think helps really draw you in (strange?).

I mean, there are some really fast paced stories( too many here on this site) and then there are the slow ones like 'child of ebon' (an absolute crawl) and 'Arcane Emperor'(great story but I think it uses too many words to drag the scenes, though it's done beautifully).

This one is more in between, if you are playing a monster race(Every review needs a bad joke).

Early on it has already been revealed that the escape would take years (again monster time), which mixed by the fact that weeks have already passed in-game, the chapter release rate is consistent(mostly) and the author hasn't raised any 'RL needs me' flags is another positive to me.

The avg word count per chapter is one of the highest on this site, and very much appreciated. Thanks for sticking to this dying format.

Then comes the main selling point for the story. The world building. Unique, in a good way. More under character. Read on. :P

Character -

How can you ever hate a goblin?

Why would you not read a story that follows multiple of these ingenious creatures?

If you think otherwise, something is wrong with you. It seems you have yet to accept the darkness within you.

The background details for most of the important characters seems well furnished to me. What's interesting is the background details are not something that are fixed (as seen with a certain hob-gob). 

Then again, except for the MC, the rest of the clan never had much as a background. Goblins. What else would you expect? You thought some of them had experience that could stand alone as a book in itself? Well, go read a wiki about them. Eat, shit, brawl, mate, sleep. That's a goblin for you. So what if some learn to use magic or make same mistakes as humans and learn chemistry.  Shit happens. So take it in stride and turn in into a skill.

What is truly interesting is how the clan faces issues tied up with starting a new settlement.  The struggle is real. The screw ups are very much possible. The MC has potential to be an OP character (so sad he is a giant dog's personal Bitch, so sad... muhuhu). The threat of eternal death is as far as the cave in your own ruled area. You have the X points to be required thing. Be it Faith, research, energy and what not. Everything has a cost. Priorities need to be set. Relatives to be killed. Good God! Why isn't this in top 5 already!?

The only thing that bothers me is lack of more 'sentient' NPCs. Sure he can make more but it seems better if he rather found more. 

Grammar- 

Expect some errors. Don't be a douche. Even first editions, heck, even revised editions of published books got some errors in them.

What matters is that they are bare minimum. The story reads out well and will be a joy to read unless you go grammar nazi on it. The words are of common usage and the structuring is simple. A casual reader will have no troubles. I am one of them so I would know.

Overall -

If you aren't sold by now... You got issues, mate.

This is a really good one! Starts a bit slow but the plot and action build quickly. Occasional grammar and spelling mistakes, but overall easy to understand and follow the author's meaning and intent. I consider it good to very good technically. Style of writing started out decent  and has improved to what I consider good, developing into their own characteristic style.

The story is a perfect combination of character leveling and settlement building. The characters and their growth are unique, fast enough to be interesting but not easy or predictable. Decent character development for the MC, who has advantages and uses them well, but is not OP.  

One of my new favorites. Look forward to reading this and hope it is the beginning of many books from this author.

this story follows a man struggling in the background of a game that shows an interesting way that a vrmmo could maintain an organic spawn system and allow players to have respawn. it shows a tribal society being developed and has fun with the concept of AI characters. i like Vic.