Reviews of The Mech Touch

If you think the beginning is slow then it only gets worse as the story progresses the author makes the story slower and slower and adds more and more filler.

I am quite dissapointed. I mean I slogged through 1000+ chapters. I came for mech building/design with system but for past 700 chapters I've instead been watching a glorified technician making foolish decisions then justifying them with some frankly ridiculous logic and the pseudo version of the 'Dao' that is the design philosophy. MC also has standard Chinese MC trait of licking the governments ass at every opportunity even when they do everything they can to manipulate/screw him over (they literally shot him to stage an assassination and MC was pissed off for all of 1 paragraph then he's back to lick lick lick). Honestly without plot armour, MC would not have survived the first. MC also gives me whiplash on how his morality and feelings for others change. First he treats his Vandal colleagues like trusted comrades, then next second they are just *mere* numbers to be thrown into the meat grinder. He also seems to make all these 'deals' that never seem to favour him. Every accomplishment/gain must be follwed by a monumentous **** up, ominous portents or some inherent problem with the gain so its not much of win at all. MC has shown classic traits of psycopathy but is still emotionally attached in the strangest of ways. His family pretty much abandoned him at the start, the government has been more of a hindrance than any help, but he is still strangely patriotic. On the other hand, the skill shown in writing is pretty much top-tier as original novels in this place go. For a heavily re-skinned xianxia, author has put in quite a bit of thought as far as world building goes as well. This is my personal gripe but it would be a lot better if it were't for all the chinese euphemisms and writing style. Borrowing ideas and concepts is one thing, but writing a supposed western space opera as if one were actually translating a chinese fic is another.

At first it was the storyline seems best of best but following later chapters you can see plot is stretched beyond to the point it hurt our poor mind and soul. Author seems confused to which area he had to develop plot (though written greatly). Most of time I feel author forget about main plot when branched to subplot. There is a cliff hanger (share issue on his company and system) and then branches to another storyline (going to military war) about 100-200 chapter and still didn't close the previous cliff hanger.

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A honest review from someone who read this story from the beginning and quit the story about six months ago. At the start, this story was mostly focused on mecha with a sorta gamer system added on and that still seems like the overall best part of the story to me. This story start wasn’t really that complex but it had heart and didn’t take itself to seriously in the beginning, so it was a lot more of a light hearted story about a kid loving mecha which seem like one of the main reasons, most people started reading this story in the first place. After the beginning of this story ended, it got slowly weighed down by random things that rarely became interesting again after the first time being shown or they were never interesting in the first place. Anyway I am now going to start talking about one of the main things I dislike most about this story and one of the main reasons I quit this story in this first place. That is the bad investment habits that the author has. There are times when the author make a random choice which can be good or bad and that is very normal thing to do but if the choice is bad or at the very least uninteresting, the author like to double down or even triple down to make it work in story and leave behind the parts that made this story interesting. The best example of this investment sink, that the author like to do is the main female lead of the story. The main female of this story started as a weird fusion of just some of the worst negative starter traits I have ever seen in a female character and she did end up becoming a decent character after a lot of time but the amount of time needed for that to happen was literally insane an even then she still wasn’t a better character then the student, the spy and the childhood love interest who only pop up twice.

I've been enjoying this story and where I think it's going. Having seen some of the interesting grammar being used in the original novel section, this is a nice breath of fresh air and an clever idea with good implementation. Keep up the good work!!!

A really excellent story. I'm a sucker for mech stories in general, but this is still stand out. Solid writing, consistently good grammar and a protagonist that doesn't seem to be having an OP lucid dream put this story at the top of those on webnovel. That said, please do something about that cover. I almost didn't read the book, assuming anyone who half-assed a cover rather than spend five minutes on it would be half-assing the book. Granted, that wasn't the case, but it's just shoddy. It's easy. Here's how: 1. Go to Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/en/) which has free commercial quality images. 2. Search for mechanics, or robotics, or something else you find interesting. Download an image. 3. Open it in paint. 4. Make a colored border by using the "fill area" bucket-shaped button. Black, or a darker shade of the background color for the image itself will work well. 5. Then click the letter that lets you add text and name it. Put "The Mech Touch" at the top, and "By Exlor" at the bottom. Make sure to use a different color for the font so that it's legible (eg, white on the black border), and to use a font size large enough to be legible. 6. Save and upload as your cover.

Seriously don't even bother reading this book. it started out with a bang with great story and progression and then after 600+ chapters it all comes to a halt. why does a system novel doesn't use a system!! A pathetic mc who's afraid of using the system (which by the way is the only thing that helps him not be a nobody) and tries to make it on his own, which ends up in a useless MC who can't even make it to a journeyman after 4k chapters. The most disappointing book on We novel.

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Although sometimes the writing quality is a little workmanlike, this is a standout among original novels, with excellent pacing and excellent mech creation/mech fighting scenes, as well as a well-thought out galactic setting. First off, it should be stated that this novel explicitly is a very genre novel, that focuses heavily on, well, mech design and combat, and as such your personal feelings towards the trappings of galactic sci-fi, hulking multi-ton humanoid robots, and incessant tinkering of mech design and loadouts is going to strongly influence your views of the story. Also, it's a System novel, that is to say, a mysterious AI cheat where he gains xp and levels up skills through a system, and it's also, less obviously, a cultivation novel where he progresses through tiers of mech design in a world where there his cheat bootstraps him out of the bottom of the bottom of the bottom into the concentric rings of power where even as he outpaces all his competition, there's always more competition of his age of equal or greater power to him, and there are 500-year-old masters out there. Being a genre novel, it demands that the mech design and combats are done well, and in that, it can only be said that the author has succeeded. The thoughts of the MC are easy to follow in his design, and there's a good spread of his efforts and his results. While most of his designs are at least competent and clearly show his growth as a designer, some are merely competent, and others are great successes which show his future paths. The vagaries of the "real world" and various competitions do a good job of stretching him out of his competence zones and his plans for the future while remaining plausible. Overall, it's a reflection of the author's abilities, a reasonably intelligent MC with plans for the future whose plans and expenditures are often dictated by short-term need. At the same time, the authorities or other movels in the background behind such plot devices explain them reasonably so that they don't feel like contrivances, but actual tests or simply unpredictable events. Sometimes the MC makes bad decisions, but he often reflects on them at some point later, and sometimes he wins just by plain luck, but that's okay too - the nature of the world is clear - the MC has very little control of anything but his own actions and by and large, he's a small fish in a big pond. The system, while inordinately powerful, doesn't overwhelm the story because of its fairly obtuse nature and the dependence on difficult-to-gain experience points (or design points, whatever). While the MC doesn't fully take advantage of the system (he would clearly progress faster if he focused solely on virtual gaming sales), it's understandable because he's truly in a sunk cost scenario, and besides, from a story perspective all the action is taking place in the real world. The story has a lot of long-term mysteries where the game isn't given away right away, and there's plentiful foreshadowing, whether it's the upcoming galactical upheaval of a new generation of mechs, the murky history of starship warfare, the system itself, potentially hostile alien empires on the fringes of human space, and of course, whereever in the heck the MC's father has disappeared to. Minor characters are well-fleshed out, and all have their own motivations outside of the MC, which is contributed to by the strong world-building. Enemies don't obsess over the MC, and "bad guys" aren't unreasonably suicidal. Overall, it feels like a plausible, reasonable society. People for the most part do their jobs, have human desires, and although understandably many of the people the MC meets are ambitious or immature, everything is generally within the bounds of people who have grown up in societies that are largely controlled by rule of law, even the pirates and the young masters of the world. The MC himself is a classic loner, but not pathologically like so many MCs are. He has friends and rivals and no bizzare attitudes against working with others. He is a bit of an everyman, in that he doesn't really have any obvious strengths, nor any obvious weaknesses, or any particularly unusual moralities, but there's nothing really wrong with that. There's quite a bit of leaning in the MC being a country bumpkin who is a frog-in-a-well, but compared to standard cultivation novels, I find this trope a lot more acceptable when you're working with galactic scales. "Cultivation advantages" of the rich and powerful that the MC has to face in a constant power curve is explained away with genetic modification. The nascent game world feels pretty weak and imbalanced to me, but as it's largely fallen by the wayside as the novel has progressed, this isn't a big deteriment to the story. More troubling is the bizarre economics/technology of the world, where the hinterlands are inexplicably generations behind the tech centers of the human race, especially as the novel takes the conceit that fabricators can cheaply pump out the most complex circuits and engines in a matter of minutes with virtually no labor involved - the novel goes into great detail multiple times how armor cladding is far and away the most expensive part of a mech because material cost dominates over production costs. Still, it's a fairly minor problem compared to many system/cultivation settings, just don't look too closely at the man behind the curtain.

Calabast and Ves would be one hell of a power duo. Would be really good if they would team up until the hearland of the galaxy. She's what ves needs to achieve it considering the author made a ves a really bad and dumb character even after all those long ass "developments" *cough* stupid war arc *cough*. Anyway Calabast is one of my fave characters of this novel, extremely smart and all. I hope mc grows up and starts trusting people too, he hardly ever communicate with poeple about his intentions, its like the author doesnt want it to look like a one man show by getting other people but in the end it just turns into a one man show. It would be a bummer if mc is still a boring dumb and impulsive loser a couple of hundred chapters later. I've also read comments here saying author throws good characters away from the mc and I agree Ketis would have been one hell of a companion if the author just develops her properly.

Nice novel, good mech, average to decent grammar and plain bad personality main character... Still at chapter 226 and the main character's personality really turns me off. No matter how i like the novels mech. Everytime the mc speaks lower the liking. Mc is too proud, semi arrogant and feeling expert. He only like things if its about himself but couldn't careless and even disapprove of what other people experience i remember a chapter hjm being annoyed at some madame who is full if gossip and chatty despite him not knowing himself being obviously more annoying being someone who is equally as chatty being full of basic questions and special privy of people's secrets. He doesn't know when to shut up and keeps asking private question as if he was close to the person asked. I also remember him disapproving a elder generation designer of being timid and stagnant and wasting his life not advancing not realizing that he also waste half of his life being a **** and IF NOT FOR HIS GOLDEN FINGER THE DESIGNER SYSTEM. he wouldn't have been qualified to even touch a mech. I dont like how he already forgot his past experience and already embrace the skills that he only manage to acquire cause of his plot armor. He doesn't know how to be humble. Why don't he think that maybe that elder generation would have been a thousand times better than the current him if he was the one who gain the system instead of him.

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Wow! Impressed by the quality of this one, this is pro Author material stuff there! Just dig in, i though the 3 star review was something to be warry because of the 65 like, and WTH, did those guys really haved readed the same novel as i have? I guess not, this is a pure gem, just dig in, fell into it, this is the story you all searched, binge readed this from morning to midnight.

the story is filled with fillers it's not even funny anymore. 4k+ chapters in and the mc is still a loser, he can't even control the very organization he build for himself. lol

The Story started very strong in my opinion. Nice MC. I really liked how the character and story developed for the first vew hundred chapters. And then it starts to get really bad. The MC does't seem to care, that he goes further and further from his principels until his character is more fitting for an antagonist than the main good guy. I don't mind reading about an antagonist, but it needs to be consistent. If you don't have principles, what do you have? For this MC there was not enough left after the changes for me to continue reading. He throws away what defined him and he basically got not much quality back, for what he gave up. Only thing left was a cruel egoist.

Definitely one of the better world creations in my opinion. Story is definitely too slow (at current pace I'm pretty sure it'll go 6-8k chaps). author updates consistently. I hate the MC, but seriously I have never hated an MC as much as this one. I've almost dropped this book quite a few times because of how much I hate this MC. I think he's actually progressing in a way that actually makes me just hate him more which I didn't think was possible. Currently at ch 1810

A novel about Mech Designing, unique, and tickles my fondness of sci-fi fantasy theme. I liked Mech Touch, and I did say 'liked' as in not anymore. The story was good prior 1k chapters. Ves developed his skills quite good, and the story exciting enough to merit reading past 500 chapters. But, sadly, the MC's character doesn't develop towards better direction, but instead deteriorates as he becomes greedier, egoistic, and opportunistic further along the story, and that's something that kills my interest reading further. Well, I did read a bit more, giving a chance of it making a comeback, but it just doesn't.

Exlor, man, I would really like to tell that I loved the story but I can't bring myself to it. I know you wanna update regularly and that is cool But, If you are reading the review, I would like to suggest that Just don't drag a event beyond what is palatable. Add more events for God's sake, but but don't stretch it. Also, don't forget the system! You can maybe leverage it to shorten the rank promotion time... coz MC is clearly not going to become senior anytime soon with how the story is going on. You can also get the MC some cool gadgets.. he is clearly underarmed and does not seem to have any advantage over others. MC with a system need to be OP, atleast a little bit. Umm, yeah, that's all I have to say. I will add another review after some more chapters.