Avery
I really wanted to like this one.
I've been searching for a VRMMO story that can replace the hole that finishing The Ripple System left in my life.
This one is not it, unfortunately.
It started off strong with the audiobook cast + production (with the possible exception of the way that Xan is read, though I think the way she's written is as much at fault there).
Unfortunately it suffers from several issues. There are frequent time skips, which are immediately followed by heavy handed ("As you know...") exposition, frequently as awkward dialogue, about what happened during the skip. The magic abilities are super same-y.. everyone starts off with the same gun ability and many subsequent spells are just.. better guns? Any deviation from this is either fire/ice blasts or some flavor of game breaking super-magic. There's very little in the way of interesting game mechanics. The fact that the characters are explicitly unable to grow and develop unsurprising results in.. very little character development (not to mention weird interactions between characters of vastly different ages, though thankfully this is largely glossed over).
Open to suggestions for a better VRMMO!
I really wanted to like this one.
I've been searching for a VRMMO story that can replace the hole that finishing The Ripple System left in my life.
This one is not it, unfortunately.
It started off strong with the audiobook cast + production (with the possible exception of the way that Xan is read, though I think the way she's written is as much at fault there).
Unfortunately it suffers from several issues. There are frequent time skips, which are immediately followed by heavy handed ("As you know...") exposition, frequently as awkward dialogue, about what happened during the skip. The magic abilities are super same-y.. everyone starts off with the same gun ability and many subsequent spells are just.. better guns? Any deviation from this is either fire/ice blasts or some flavor of game breaking super-magic. There's very little in the way of interesting game mechanics. The fact that the characters are explicitly unable to grow and develop unsurprising results in.. very little character development (not to mention weird interactions between characters of vastly different ages, though thankfully this is largely glossed over).
Open to suggestions for a better VRMMO!