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Dungeon Crawler Carl is Sword Art Online narrated by Holden Caulfield.
The story pulls you in at first but the excitement wanes. Halfway through, the story starts recycling its narrative pattern...which is to be expected I suppose, after all "Dungeon Crawler" is in the book's name. It also becomes apparent that the story isn't going to get far in the dungeon, that it's going to end on a cliffhanger—which it does. Dungeon Crawler Carl's cliffhanger ending is not as irritating as Hyperion's, which made me turn that book into a projectile, but boo to cliffhangers generally.
Pacing is good but that's thanks to the repetition of the grind-levels-then-bossfight structure over and over. Matt Dinniman's writing style is simple and functional. The novelty of the achievements and tooltips is nice early on but they are a distraction later. Some parts are funny but it's a lot of flippant humor, e.g., a lot of the achievement descriptions.
Fun for at least one go through. Like a Michael Bay flick.
Dungeon Crawler Carl is Sword Art Online narrated by Holden Caulfield.
The story pulls you in at first but the excitement wanes. Halfway through, the story starts recycling its narrative pattern...which is to be expected I suppose, after all "Dungeon Crawler" is in the book's name. It also becomes apparent that the story isn't going to get far in the dungeon, that it's going to end on a cliffhanger—which it does. Dungeon Crawler Carl's cliffhanger ending is not as irritating as Hyperion's, which made me turn that book into a projectile, but boo to cliffhangers generally.
Pacing is good but that's thanks to the repetition of the grind-levels-then-bossfight structure over and over. Matt Dinniman's writing style is simple and functional. The novelty of the achievements and tooltips is nice early on but they are a distraction later. Some parts are funny but it's a lot of flippant humor, e.g., a lot of the achievement descriptions.
Fun for at least one go through. Like a Michael Bay flick.