Snag 달빛 조각사 1 (The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, #1) Rendered By Heesung Nam Conveyed As Interactive EBook

Volumes
Interesting adventure of a "sculptor" in a fantasy game world, Part of the story takes place outside of the game and both sides come together to drive the main character's motivation,
I am reading the comic of this, but it's not on here for rating,

Read up to chapter,
Other than the typical childish Asian tendency to constantly pat himself on the back because he has no selfesteem, the story progress at a good pace.
There is a serious lack of characters, and I'm assuming the rest of the series will be just like "I'm a Spider, so what" Filled with little action and hundreds of hours of self gratifying monologue contemplations.
But for the most part, there is not only some progression to fuel to dopamine, but also a bit of plot, Which is to say, alreadyx better than most of the Asian Light Novels out there that strictly targetsyear olds and micropenises that desperately needs the boost in ego.
I am giving thisbecause, for some reason, I enjoyed reading it, The plot, characters and writing although, some of that is probably the translation would have put it atstar,

The numbers in this book are ridiculous, Unless the translation was wrong, it said that the VR units costmillion won which roughly equalsk USD, Yeah, right, like enough people are going to shell out,for a video game console to make it viable, Also, the party Weed joins occasionally is made up of college kids, How many college kids could afford to by such an expensive device just for video games!

And who would buy a character from a outdated game and platform formillion USD! Or even tens of thousands of dollars No.
Way.

Basically, Weed is the only characters, everyone else is a cardboard cutout that shows up when needed, then disappears again, And I didn't really like Weed, He's playing the game to make money, so he plays differently and views the game differently, than someone who is playing it for fun, which is probably most of the other players.
But then he looks down on players when they don't play as 'efficiently' as possible or make what he thinks are mistakes,

Also, lots of the small plot points are ridiculous almost anything Weed does is unique and never thought of or done by another player.
And when the author says that learning skills in the game carries over to real life i, e. If you master the cooking skill in the game, you will become a fabulous chef IRL, he lost me, I continued to read I got partway through volumebefore I finally stopped in the hope that it would improve but I couldn't get over that statement.
I read the English translation on sitelinkRoyal Road Weed blog,

Pembuka: The main actor is slyly amazing, Sialan. Novel ini bikin aku bilang sialan sambil senyumsenyum sendiri begitu baca chapter per chapter sampai abis,

Oke. Novel dibuka dengan kehidupan Harn Lee yang seorang orphanage dan miskin, suatu ketika jadi kaya raya dengan menjual avatar dari Continent of Magick, yg bernilai triliunan.
eh pas udah ngedapetin duitnya, tibaada rentenir datang dan nagih utang, And dar! duit triliunan itu lenyap seketika,

Harn kesal, tentu, Di saat yg sama ada game virtual reality Royal Road muncul di pasaran, Trus Harn mikir, kenapa ga nyoba jadi kaya kedua kalinya And then, Harn ngabisin waktu setahun utk riset ttg Royal Road, n juga belajar martial art yg bisa ngebantu dia dlm game.
Dan di Royal Road Harn mendaftarkan dirinya dengan nama "Weed"


Oke, awalawal, Harn ngejual avatarnya dan dapet triliunan, Itu ga bikin aku terkesan, karena well, I thought that he's lucky since he's the main actor, Hidup miskin dan punya utang pun bukan sesuatu yang menggerakkan aku utk menyukai karakter Harn aka Weed ini,

Tapi pas udah nyampe chapter dua dan tiga, . . mulai deh kerasa serunya pas Weed ngejalanin quest ttg job Moonlight Sculptor,

Job sistem Royal Road terbagi dua: combat dan craft, Sculptor termasuk dalam kategori craft, Craft sendiri biasanya dipandang sebelah mata sama player lainnya, begitupun dengan Weed, Tapi pada akhirnya, Weed tanpa sadar mengubah jobnya jadi Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, si hidden job, sesuatu yang ngga dia pengen,

Di dalam cerita Weed digambarkan mendapatkan apa yang dia mau, ngedapetin secret quest, jadi bahan pembicaraan orang yang bagusbagus, admired by NPCs and other players anywhere.
. . yang bikin aku sebal. Kenapa Kesannya terlalu mudah. Weed bisa mendapatkan semuanya dengan gampang, dengan begitu saja, hanya karena di amin actor,

Tapi anehnya, cerita ini bikin aku selalu penasaran apa yang terjadi di chapter berikutnya, lagi dan lagi, . . dan di setiap chapter aku selalu berakhir dengan senyum dan berkata 'sialan, nanggung endingnya' dan akhirnya ke chapter berikutnya,

And then, apa yang bikin aku bisa sampai kayak gitu Dan jawabannya adalah,

karakter Weed sebagai protagonis yang ternyata adalah antihero, alias bad guy in sheep clothing,

Yes, he's an anti hero!

Dengan katakata yang manis dia membujuk supaya NPC instructor di Training Hall ngasih dia makan siang gratis, saat melakukan party dengan NPC dalam satu quest, dia sengaja menggunakan weapon busur dan panah dan sengaja menyerang monster yang sudah sekarat dan hampir mati, yang padahal 'kesekaratan' monster itu adalah hasil jerih payah orang lain, dan Weed hanya mengambil untungnya dan hanya berusaha sedikit.


Yes, he's a selfish,

Dia ga mau ngasih diskonan ke seorang gadis yang ingin membeli patung yang ia pahat dengan alasan 'Aku ga setengahsetengah dalam membuat patung ini, tapi anda ingin membayar setengah" yang akhirnya si gadis mau membayar sesuai harga asli.


Yes, he's money chaser,

Semua sifat tadi patut membuat Weed dibenci, Tapi, ada satu hal yang aku suka di sini dari Heesung Nam si author:

Heesung tidak membuat protagonis menjadi sesuatu yang disukai, Justru dia membuat protagonis menjadi bad guy yang cerdas dan licik, Tapi kelicikannya itu adalah hasil dari kerja keras Harn/Weed di dunia nyata melawan kejamnya dunia jadi miskin dan terlibat hutang,

Ini nih yang aku suka, The main actor bukan seseorang yang sok baik, sok hipokrit, sok naif, Ada kan tuh tokoh utama dimana meskipun dia dapat kemalangan sanasini, tapi tetap berusaha untuk jadi orang baik Weed bukan karakter yang seperti itu, Justru sikapnya yang bad n sly guy adalah satu perwujudan yang logis dari karakter seseorang yang terbangun dari menghadapi kejamnya dunia, Psikologikal sangat main disini.

Dan ada satu hal yang bikin aku respek sama Harn/Weed meskipun dia itu bad guy: dia adalah orang yang rajin, dan selalu menyusun rencana dengan matang.


Coba dipikir: ada satu game virtual reality baru yang muncul di pasaran, Pastinya orang berbondongbondong langsung daftar jadi pemain baru,

Tapi Weed menyusun rencana, Dia melakukan riset, menghapalkan katalog item Royal Road, belajar martial art

di doujang dojo, selama setahun, sebelum dia terjun ke Royal Road itu sendiri,

Di dalam game pun dia tetap rajin, Ada aturan kalau Newbie ga boleh keluar dari kota selama sebulan pertama, Weed menghabiskan waktuweeksnya itu dengan berlatih di Training Hall, terus dan terus, Training Hall adalah tempat yang biasanya dilewatkan oleh user lain, Tapi Weed percaya, meskipun dia ga dapet level apapun di tempat itu, tapi dia terus berlatih sampai kekuatannya melebihi orang yang udah dapet job,

Dia rela masak tiga x sehari utk teman timnya, mengobati luka, dan memperbaiki weapon yg rusak, Apa karena Weed itu orang baik BUKAN, Itu karena Weed dengan liciknya berpikir, kalo dengan melakukan semua itu, skillnya akan naik level, dengan tambahan bonus friendship dengan semua yang dia bantu bisa meningkat, dan akhirnya di masa depan ia bisa menggunakan orangorang itu utk kepentingan dirinya sendiri.


Bad, sly guy, Dengan setting dunia dan gaya penceritaan yang benarbenar bikin pembaca masuk, as if benarbenar ada didalam game itu sendiri, Tapi aku ga merekomendasikan ini pada ornagyang belum pernah bermain game, apalagi online, Ada istilahdalam game yang dipakai di novel ini dan ga dijelaskan oleh si pengarang,

This is simply amazing, Harn/Weed is slyly amazing, And I love him. Ok, I just read translations, but it doesn't seem the author writes VEEERY well, . . in fact, the translations make the story seem very poorlywritten!!!,

So whyWell, because, even with all the problems in these "books", it still gets my attention and makes me lose whole nights of sleep just reading shady translations.
. . Oo Very slow world building, It is very detailed and will pull you in very quickly,
If you like litrpg genre, you will love this book, Notes:

This will be mynd, Korean translated LitRPG light novel series that I've read,

The writing/translation is a bit rough, That said, I really like the main character Lee Hyun and the trials of becoming the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor in the game, Lee Hyun's game handle is Weed, While he is not the nicest guy, I like the way he will make a plan and work his butt off to attain his goals.
Due to circumstances, Hyun is socially stunted as a person, Between Korean cultural aspects and the dystopian spin for the story setting, he's rather clueless when it comes to interacting with people as friends, worked numerous jobs to take care of his family grandmother amp little sister, never dated and only played games for fun.
Even in the game, he was a lone ranger, So, hearing his inner thoughts and the stuff he ends up doing in a vast virtual reality MMORPG is terrible amp hilarious!terrible humor mixed with regular hijinx that are funny within context.


I don't have much hope for the translation being awesome sauce, but I do hope the story potential blooms into a mass of ridiculous fun.
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