Reviews of Global Descent: 100×Reward
Global Descent: 100×Reward
The Sky Wishes to Clear Up
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Holy jeebus the amount of sucking this novel gives the ccp probably caused the censor department to be flooded with a white river. starts off proving the mc is dumb as a broken light bulb and as useless as a light switch in an Amish house. literally takes ages to accomplish even the simplest of plot points , and tbh it accomplished many of them by simply forgetting they existed. typical novel ruined both by poor plot managers and ridiculous worshipping of Chinese propaganda .
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Let me start by saying that I read to chapter 140~ before dropping this book. So it has good points, but also bad points. The overall premise is a little generic (I've seen quite a few other books here on Webnovel with this "Earthlings decent to another world and have to build bases" premise) but I feel like this one stands out from the crowd. In many similar novels, the MCs never seem to have any goals, and they go 100+ chapters without focusing on anything except base building. Often, it will be 100 chapters+ before they ever meet another human face to face. This novel is not like that. The MC, Lin Ye, is very driven. He wants to be king of this new world, and it only takes him a few chapters to start using his cheat to move out and conquer nearby territories and fight his fellow "players". Some of which he kills (although only in "self-defense") and most of which he drags back to work for him. So the MC quickly begins interacting with other characters very early in the story, which is nice since it isn't just a non-stop stream of internal monologues like in some books. And as MC expands his territory we, the readers and the MC both, slowly start learning some of the secrets of the world. It's clear that the author has put effort into creating a comprehensive background setting to be slowly unraveled and explored, which is obviously a huge plus for the book. (To put it briefly, the world MC has descended into has a cycle of other-world humans descending and fighting the zombies, but they lose every time. Meanwhile, there are natives who live underground to hide from the zombies that MC and the other players can summon to fight for them, but the loyalty of the natives is questionable. They obviously have their own goals despite fighting for the humans, and they can also betray or defect if their human "Lords" mistreat them badly enough or give them impossible tasks.) So the MC is motivated and actively uses his cheat to summon troops to expand and conquer, the setting is deep and has room to be explored, what's the problem? Why did I only give 3 stars? The answer is simple: The pace at which time passes in this book relative to the number of chapters is absolutely glacial. At chapter 140, it's still only been 3 days in-universe since the book began. It feels absurd and really strains credulity, especially when you factor in the loyalty system of the natives (by day 3, every single native in MCs camp has been won over to 100% loyalty? wat). And when his troops go through multiple upgrades in both equipment and personal power level in a single day, but each time there needs to be a whole chapter talking about how amazed they all are and how much more loyal they are now since MC gave them this "amazing gift"... these scenes are slightly undercut when you remember that this is the third, or fourth, or fifth, "amazing gift" the MC has given them THAT DAY. In short, it really feels like the author had some sort of plot outline written beforehand, and in that outline, it said "MC will accomplish 'X' before the first zombie wave at the 1-week mark" and then just religiously stuck to that - writing tens of chapters about base building, territory expansion, troop recruitment, etc... but not letting time advance at all for fear of breaking the pre-established outline. (Note: this is purely my guess. I just can't think of any other reason why three days would be split into 140 chapters, even when it clearly causes certain parts of the book to not make much sense.) And the final negative point: MCs cheat really pads the word count. Every time he gets a reward, he gets three options to choose from and many times all three options are described in detail despite MC only choosing one of them. Moreover, with the pacing of the book, some super-duper-amazing treasure that MC or his troops are drooling over will be worthless garbage in 30 chapters, which is actually only 2 hours later in-universe time, so again there's the issue where credulity is strained. I mean, how many times could MC and the troops realitically get worked up over a new sword or bow or whatever in a single day before it stopped being shocking or noteworthy? Maybe they can get excited but I, as the reader, really can't. There are entire chapters dedicated solely to MC opening chests and replacing his "Sword of +1" with a "Sword of +2", which will then be replaced with a "Sword of +3" a dozen chapters later... but each time a bunch of words are wasted talking about how amazing and impressive the loot is... and it's boring. I ended up skimming a lot. Still, despite those drawbacks, I think I would recommend this book overall. Of course, only if you like this power fantasy kingdom-builder genre.
To be honest I am astonished how one can lack any planning/thinking ability as the MC here. Making stupid choices as he goes basically makes story too hard to read. Maybe in later chapters it gets better, but for first chapters it's just bad. It could be so much better if MC actually used his brain.
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Surprisingly I really enjoyed this. It is very well written, non Westernized, kingdom building. I normally see (insert number)X novels and skip them but I am glad I gave this one a shot. Seriously I highly suggest giving this a chance. The MC isnt a heartless orphan and is also intelligent. While the bonus he gets is OP, the whole story isnt based around it like most others. Decent world building and character development kept me interested all the way to chapter 40. I look forward to finding out more. I give it 1 game winning field goal.
Short Title : GD100R Alternate Title : 全球降临：百倍奖励 Status : Ongoing ”699" Author : The sky really wants to clear up Genre : Sci-fi Wake up and travel across the world! This is a country of billions of zombies. Killing zombies, cutting trees, mining, building, and bombing haunted houses can all obtain survival resources. Forestry awakens a hundredfold reward talent, and any reward can get a hundredfold reward. Novice gift bag, a hand axe, two pieces of bread, three bottles of water Hundred times reward (optional) 1: One hundred hand axes, two hundred pieces of bread, three hundred bottles of water Two: a desert eagle, two catties of beef, three liters of Red Bull Construction of the bunker is completed, four indigenous workers Hundred times reward (optional) One: 400 junior indigenous workers 2: Four intermediate indigenous workers Complete the construction of the barracks, a ranger Hundred times reward (optional) One: One hundred Miss Rangers Two: One Elemental Ranger Since then, forestry has been invincible. Others are still mining and fighting zombies. When fighting for survival, he has led the Reaper and the Titan army to attack the city. When others began to alliance to resist the corpse tide, he has already penetrated the haunted house headquarters in the Huaguo area and went to hell.......
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