Review Detail of Gyges in Tyranny of Steel
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Honestly, this story starts strong. There's some stuff here and there, like the beyond rabid technological progress and such, but the negatives are more than drowned out by the positives. However, things start to go off the rails after chapter 150 or so. After that the main character becomes ever more unlikable, and his budding nation more or less uses his ridiculous technological improvements to enter god mode. Things are still readable, but I find myself far more invested in chapters revolving around the various harem members than anything actually involving the main character. Especially since as things go on dude's dropping more and more favorable references to 1930s German leaders. Honestly, why is the main character even an American to start with? The author jumps through so very many hoops to make him a 2nd generation grandson of German immigrants obsessed with German history and culture, when he could have just made him a German dude instead of an American. Also, authors, please stop introducing photographic memory into your protagonist's backstory like that totally explains how they can do everything from mechanized farming, to weapon design, to boat building, to musical instrument crafting, to food production. Even if that was how photographic memory "worked", nobody has such disparate interests that they know 700 years of technological advancements in every field of study.
Tyranny of Steel
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Youre right, my experience of the novel was bad and cringy when ive read a very similar chinese novel,about someone reincarnating to a poor german noble son, and almost the same story but the chinese one was more realistic, with no overnight tech and the people magicallt capable of building all those up Heck it is around 2500 chapters and he is not even a match against berengar army by chapter 300 The tension is also higj as everyone except the poor japsburg emperor is against him, lot of side plots like the english king,italian wars, new pope and not so dumb enemies Im mentioning all this since the novel failed in comparison by by being so bland, too fast and unrealistic, no tension If there was a negative the chinese mc was super racist i started jarboring anti chinese sentiment
The reason he’s American and not German is to almost justify Berengar’s autocratic regime. By referring to what he perceived as failings in the US democracy, he provided the solution in a dictatorship. Modern day Germany in itself is quite a well run country, and from what I can tell the author believes it isn’t “infected” with the so called liberalism that the US is. So he constructed Beremgar’s character from a first world country, thus meaning he had access to and the apprentice of all sorts of technology, but also from a country who’s social environment could pave the way for Berengar’s extremist views, hence America. To be honest though that’s just my opinion and I could be completely wrong.