Review Detail of DamascusSteel in From Soldier to Officer: A Game Addict's Journey

It’s pretty interesting. While the other reviews are correct in that the story is very slow paced, literally a detailing of what is happening each day, I find the slowness and buildup to be very meaningful. Since this is most likely just realism with a cheat, him manifesting magical improvements would just seem ridiculous and out if place. Especially in the military, where hard work and discipline to achieve recognition is what’s needed rather than directly the results. I really like the character interactions, it’s pretty dynamic and relatable. For the most part, the nationalism isn’t really that bad, as it’s mostly been about uplifting themselves higher. Even if it’s about China, patriotism is still inspiring when the content is uplifting, motivational and not downgrading and belittling of other countries. While you could consider the mention of a great grandfather having been captured by the japanese back then to be a pointed thing, Japan back then was seriously not the good guys. Imperial Japan did some messed up things, which traumatized other countries. Obviously, things have improved, but the oldies that experienced some of it still hold resentment. Anyways, the big black mark against this is the strange translation. Everything’s still comprehensible, just that phrases and terms are not the ones that ate meant to be used in the specific context. Especially ‘Duplication Duvet,’ I don’t really know myself on what it actually means even till now. While this novel is already chosen, I hope everyone takes the chance to read through the chapters and appreciate it with the lense that it’s a slow burn rather than the junk food style ’numbers go brrrr’ power trip novel. Though, I’ll probably make another review and remove this one if the progression of the story turned for the worse and became generic power trip without meaningful effort done by the MC.