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Artorian's Archives #15
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Mighty Strahlung. Brilliant Behemoths. Satisfying solutions.
Victory seems within Artorian’s grasp when a deep dive becomes deep fried. Armed with beam weaponry against unreasonable rats, he’s making impressive progress on the Eternia Beta Run. Thanks in part to the Dwarves, and their relentless cheers to Push. The. Button! There are a few final challenges that loom large on his path to The frozen continental storm, Fuyu No Arashi; the Matchless Gaston, and the final boss… Pag!
Artorian will overcome these obstacles with style! First, he must strike a pose, transforming into a muscle-Grandpa of epic proportions—a Swole-torian, a Gains-torian, Sir Lift-orian, the Beefcake, Mr. Tough Love! Second, he must don his most wicked grin, his finest armor, and play the part of the villain with gusto.
Welcome to the dawn of the Glorious Overkill, and the advent of Dreadshine, The Nightmare Fuel.
Victory seems within Artorian’s grasp when a deep dive becomes deep fried. Armed with beam weaponry against unreasonable rats, he’s making impressive progress on the Eternia Beta Run. Thanks in part to the Dwarves, and their relentless cheers to Push. The. Button! There are a few final challenges that loom large on his path to The frozen continental storm, Fuyu No Arashi; the Matchless Gaston, and the final boss… Pag!
Artorian will overcome these obstacles with style! First, he must strike a pose, transforming into a muscle-Grandpa of epic proportions—a Swole-torian, a Gains-torian, Sir Lift-orian, the Beefcake, Mr. Tough Love! Second, he must don his most wicked grin, his finest armor, and play the part of the villain with gusto.
Welcome to the dawn of the Glorious Overkill, and the advent of Dreadshine, The Nightmare Fuel.
484 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 12, 2023
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July 25, 2023
I really don't go into these books hoping they are bad... but they are... And when I say they are bad, about halfway through the book I had to increase the listening speed to 1.5x so it would get over sooner. Not because the audio reader was doing a poor job mind you... but because the verbosity of every single action is over-explained to death that it would often take a full minute to justify why a character did something, or how everyone around them felt about it. Other books have been bad in this regard, but this one seemed to take it to an entirely new level of tedium.
Moving forward, why would I rate this so low? Let’s ask some basic questions:
1. Did anything important happen in this book? Did we continue or close any of the lingering tasks for our MC? Nope, didn't progress anything related to Artorian. No real progression in the story, no real impact on anything lasting.
2. Was there a tangible or interesting plot concept to this book? Nope, we fight stuff and act like children.
3. Was it at least funny? Granted, I don't care much for pop culture references or puns, but even with my personal bias aside I don't think many of the jokes landed at all. G-Gundam references in 2023 man? Who is your target audience here?
4. Were the systems or magic systems consistent with the other systems? Nope, everything is new and/ reinvented, yet again! In a situation where you are coming up short? Just wave your hands and magic solutions will fall from the sky!
5. Is there any character development? Not even close. The only character with any character development or progression was a cheese assassin turned detective. This was not that important of a character mind you and I believe it was only included to make a very specific string of cheese puns which I believe have already been made in this series.
Let's face it, I hate this book. and I hate myself for being stubborn and unwilling stop reading them. There are HUUUUGE issues with the direction the books have taken. Pacing, character development, plot cohesion, consistency. The magic systems are unbalanced, uninteresting, and uninspired. Everything is in flux 100% of the time, which makes reading any descriptor (which is about 80% of these books at this point) both tedious and boring.
Moving forward, why would I rate this so low? Let’s ask some basic questions:
1. Did anything important happen in this book? Did we continue or close any of the lingering tasks for our MC? Nope, didn't progress anything related to Artorian. No real progression in the story, no real impact on anything lasting.
2. Was there a tangible or interesting plot concept to this book? Nope, we fight stuff and act like children.
3. Was it at least funny? Granted, I don't care much for pop culture references or puns, but even with my personal bias aside I don't think many of the jokes landed at all. G-Gundam references in 2023 man? Who is your target audience here?
4. Were the systems or magic systems consistent with the other systems? Nope, everything is new and/ reinvented, yet again! In a situation where you are coming up short? Just wave your hands and magic solutions will fall from the sky!
5. Is there any character development? Not even close. The only character with any character development or progression was a cheese assassin turned detective. This was not that important of a character mind you and I believe it was only included to make a very specific string of cheese puns which I believe have already been made in this series.
Let's face it, I hate this book. and I hate myself for being stubborn and unwilling stop reading them. There are HUUUUGE issues with the direction the books have taken. Pacing, character development, plot cohesion, consistency. The magic systems are unbalanced, uninteresting, and uninspired. Everything is in flux 100% of the time, which makes reading any descriptor (which is about 80% of these books at this point) both tedious and boring.
March 9, 2024
Stop reading after the demons get defeated. After this point the books just become filler after filler. I would think that they beat the demons, they'd move on the the re-emergence ark, but nope. Gotta go through more broken systems that aren't even close to letting them leave. I eventually just started skipping large chunks, hours, and guess what. 0 progression at all. books 10-15 are pure filler and add nothing to the story, characters, or plot. Its literally more system fixing. Asgard is the last decent book.
November 3, 2023
Well timed and welcome!
Dennis does not disappoint with this extension of our favorite, un-bearded overdeity. He gives a good response to those getting grumpy with the less OP version of our resident Art historian. But after 15 books of their ridiculousness together, we should really start to enjoy the unexpectedness of Dennis and Artorian.
And a new baby wisp!
Dennis does not disappoint with this extension of our favorite, un-bearded overdeity. He gives a good response to those getting grumpy with the less OP version of our resident Art historian. But after 15 books of their ridiculousness together, we should really start to enjoy the unexpectedness of Dennis and Artorian.
And a new baby wisp!
July 19, 2023
dawn of the end
The end is coming will the adventure end with a content sigh or a grand bang. Fellow readers let’s find out in book 16 and give the author we have fallowed so long a round of applause
The end is coming will the adventure end with a content sigh or a grand bang. Fellow readers let’s find out in book 16 and give the author we have fallowed so long a round of applause
July 30, 2023
The main character continues to get himself into trouble and continues to be overpowered. This many books into the series, he even acknowledges that he should try operating like a “new player” in the development of the game world that will be the Completionist Chronicles world of Eternia.
August 1, 2023
Almost as funny as Xanth
All puns aside, and there are many, there is the constant oblique references to real world events, literature. Anime, etc.... The only really annoying thing is roughly 25% of the book about game dynamics.
All puns aside, and there are many, there is the constant oblique references to real world events, literature. Anime, etc.... The only really annoying thing is roughly 25% of the book about game dynamics.
July 16, 2023
Very good read
I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend this book to anyone who like LitRPG and progression type of books with lots of action and laughs
I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend this book to anyone who like LitRPG and progression type of books with lots of action and laughs
July 17, 2023
Another great book
A truly outstanding addition to a fantastic series. The amount of action is abundant, with a healthy dose of philosophy. It's a good time all the way through.
A truly outstanding addition to a fantastic series. The amount of action is abundant, with a healthy dose of philosophy. It's a good time all the way through.
August 9, 2023
Unfortunately, mostly status screens. Very little actual story.
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