Review Detail of Maplemoron in Akashic Records of the Bastard Child Engaged to a Goddess

Thanks for the review, ma man. Well to start things off, the MC is actually pretty OP the fact that you say he's not is one reason— "balanced". In a sense, I'd say he's OP done right, but this is simply my opinion at least. "The MC hasn't earned anything," well yes that's the point of having a skill called [Beginner's Luck] while also being engaged to the Goddess of Fortune. Everything is meant to come easy because it ties to a particular plot setting later down the story. Now, when it comes to shoving down your throat about the MCs "good sides" it's not necessarily that I'm doing so, but it's because you're reading those parts that include him being praised. And as for his subordinates, they were plagued with a curse for 50 years, so I'd expect them to constantly praise him whether or not he wanted to be exalted. And as for the positives, I'm glad you gave your thoughts on them. Character growth will start but that's also progressive which I guess is the dumb authors fault (don't know who he is) anyhoo, if you ever do come back, which I hope you do, give it a read, it's good in my opinion but gets better. I'll wait for the author to give your review a reply, ciao my bro.

I was looking at reviews to get an idea of what story to try out and stumbled across this section of this review on this story. I only want to discuss one single aspect of what you've said. It's regarding the Balanced OP part. I must say I disagree with you a great deal. You cannot be OP and have Balance included too much. Let me explain my thought process somewhat briefly. I'll use like... something generic like video game levels as an example. Let's say you're level 1. You are fighting other level one things. Be they monsters or players or whatever you want. Nothing in this level is really a threat to you. You can defeat any and all in this level with ease. Level 2 you can still do so but it's slightly tougher. Then level 3 and then 4 and finally you make it to level 5 enemies while you're still just level 1. You can fight them but it's a tough battle. If you're not careful they can take you down fairly quickly... BUT! you can still take them down! A hard fought and well earned victory! This is not OP this is just strong. We don't need to dive into this too much because I know there are plenty of games that allow even more absurd level 1 players to fight real tough things. I'm just trying to be broad and general. My point is that OP is when you are level 100 and wander into a level 1 community and just wreak havoc. OP and Balance don't go together as OP is all about breaking that Balance. When you Balance something out you are REMOVING the OP from the topic and replacing it with strong or what have you. Now with all that said I do agree some Balance must be placed on a character to some degree otherwise the story quickly becomes incredibly boring. "The Mc looked at this enemy and they died!" "they looked at this enemy and they also died" "they looked at yet another and they too died!" I mean really that becomes so boring so quickly. It just seems like from the context of the many reviews I've read and seeing this one itself that it feels like you missed the mark a bit and took something from OP to Strong( which is ok, Strong characters are fun and enjoyable) and yet are still convinced that the MC is still categorized as OP. All-in-all this is just coming from someone bored looking for something to read and decided to argue semantics. Feel free to ignore.

That's actually a good evaluation. Lol, and I'm equally bored. When I'm talking about Balanced OP then I'm referring to characters Iike Meliodas or Rimuru Tempest, in other words— "OP done right." Madara from Naruto was too OP and Kishimoto didn't have an effective way to kill him and because of that he introduced Kaguya which was offsetting for people. So when I'm referring to balance I just mean that the MC is OP but at the same time not so OP that every fight he's in is predictable and everyone just says he's going to use some OP ability and end the battle. There are strategies or more preferably hax he'd have to use to win a fight.

With what people above said. I has a question, since: I once read a story about a character that was given like one of the most talented start, with system, and goddess backing, and powerful family, like, the best start you can have. That author also emphasis on the part where the mc is working very hard. From this, I got the feeling that the MC should be pretty op. However, very time an obstacle happen, The MC is always on the losing end, when he awaken his talent, it when berserk, almost kill his whole family, but that make me feel that at least his talent is strong, but, later on, when he was fighting, that talent was completely useless, as the author nerf the mc a lot, because they wanted the mc to have a life death crisis. That author continue to nerf the mc a lot, and it feel like reading a story about an underdog mc that use his wit to win, instead of an op mc. Since he barely able to win each time. That author also said that they wanted to balance the mc, that why they nerf him in every fight to make it more entertaining. But as a reader, I feel lied to, as the author introduce a very op mc, just to balance him when it come to fighting. So, Is your balance op something along this kind of line? or way different from it?

hm..btw how do you guys write this much review lol..

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