My Alter Ego Is Becoming a Giant

amogustimestwo says:

is this harem?

Kirik says:

A serviceable 5/10

Similar to an arcade game it’s entertaining in the moment, but not something you’d come back to after putting it down. One of the glaring problems with this novel is that the power fantasy is getting in the way of an entertaining story.
The MC as of chapter 50 has pretty much stomped one of the executives of Earth’s legion of doom and is basically manipulating fantasy geopolitics in the other world to game the karma system. There’s nothing remotely touched upon in the story that could challenge the MC. This is odd considering people throughout the entire world are getting the same karma systems with a random ability that they can upgrade from my understanding.

You’d think that with the way the MC upgrades his unique ability a random idiot with a slash skill after maybe 5 upgrades would be able to wuxia cut through dimensions. In which honestly, would make for a more entertaining setting if we’re coming across people like that regularly on Earth. But pretty much nobody on Earth gets their unique ability even mentioned and one of the only ones that do is “space manipulation” (Single use teleport) with a laughably long cooldown and could instantly be tracked & mimicked by the MC.

Note the people with powers on Earth are the top 20% that make it back alive and have gathered 1,000,000 karma points for the return trip home. Which if I’m not mistaken, discounting the initial 1.9 mil he’s given for free at the beginning, is a little bit more than the MC has gathered after having successfully taken out a major vampire clan, destroyed an elite necromancer cove, and absorbing 2/3 of the demon king’s fragments. That’s the bear minimum a returnee needs to get back to Earth. If you compare that to the actual returnees in the novel it’s just silly.

Besides action, characters don’t really exist in this novel. Anyone besides the MC are cardboard cutouts at best and really even the MC isn’t that far ahead. You’d think that with the MC’s ability to create personas in his clones, hyper focusing on different emotions, that there might be some discourse or actual conflict between one another. That ability may as well not even exist since the clones don’t actually have different personalities at all. All of them still think, feel, and act as one person. The only difference is that the skeleton clone speaks like an edge lord sometimes.

A small gripe I’ve also had is that the MC has a weird fixation on punishing “villains” while doing some wildly dubious stuff himself. He unironically acknowledges that he’s doing the same thing that killed his family and crippled him when he was younger in the other world, but just says he’ll do it right without killing innocents lol. I don’t know if this is a MTL problem, but just the way he talks about it is unintentionally funny.

There are some good points, but nothing in the novel has gone beyond “huh, neat”. I’ve also found myself increasingly annoyed the more I’ve thought about everything.

Moonlight walker says:

Can anybody tell me which chapter where he gets in another world of martial arts as an elf?