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The Mech Touch
The Age of Mechs has arrived! Unfortunately, Ves Larkinson lacked the genetic aptitude to become a famed mech pilot. Fighting against his fate, he studied mech design in order to express his love for mechs in a different way and make his father proud.
When Ves graduated from college, he returned to a new but empty boutique. His dad had disappeared. Left with a small, newly founded mech workshop that his father painstakingly built with a mountain of debt, Ves somehow needs to make ends meet with the bank breathing down his neck.
Then he found salvation from another legacy his father had left.
"Welcome to the Mech Designer System. Please design your new mech."
When Ves graduated from college, he returned to a new but empty boutique. His dad had disappeared. Left with a small, newly founded mech workshop that his father painstakingly built with a mountain of debt, Ves somehow needs to make ends meet with the bank breathing down his neck.
Then he found salvation from another legacy his father had left.
"Welcome to the Mech Designer System. Please design your new mech."
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June 24, 2023
This was going so good but then it became wayy too repetitive, i think after chapter 400+.
February 4, 2020
The novel as it is is fairly good. Definitely better than most of Chinese propagandistic novels or childlish litRPG's. Good sci-fi, if you are fan of mechs it's good. But only that. The story and characters, whole setup feels undercooked and just borderline boring. There is no comedy, no harem, noone interesting... Only mech fights that doesn't work as literature.
Story: You start as a good-for-nothing, lazy, disillusioned, young graduate from backwater bottom-of-barrel university in third-rate kingdom. Your mother is dead, you father left you (he's gone "missing") with immense debt, backwater half-broken rusty workshop (that's why the debt), and system which doesn't have almost anything to do with story. It's horendously slowpaced, even after 900 chapters there is not much change in stats or main story. Oh, and of course his tremendous MC luck ("plot-armor") helps a lot, but it's often pushed backward by artificialy created obstacles.
Characters: MC feels like empty shell. Doesn't have any quirks, nor something even a little bit interesting about him. He lacks basic common sense, intelligence or even anger. He is truly just trash who is by NO CHANCE a genius or someone remarkable. Everyone walks over him, he is weak, not utilizing everything he has. His family is just here to take profit, if he would fail (as MC, he can't) they would abandon him (atleast thats my feeling towards that family of pilots). The few friends he has are even more emptier than him, only written to offer some kind of moral support. The rest is just generic NPC without names. MC is just nobody, with no backround, with no remarkable thing about him or people around him. Only thing that is propelling him is that System, which is here only to replace hard effort. Plus MC CAN'T ride mechs.
System: The worst system ever made. Every plothole or stupidity is placated by the System. There is almost no progress even after 1000 chapters.
Setup: Author is clearly obsessed with ancient roman culture so it all feels like that. Everything is just superficialy introduced without politics or something like that. Pirates, a few rivaling star systems, some kind of alien civilization. Thats all for enemies
Mechs: Everything is repeated over and over again. Our human race (in real life) just doesn't have enough understanding how mechs could even work. So there is ton of stupid mistakes or misunderstanding how physics even works. Mechs looks good only if they are drawn, animated or live-action (Transformers). Literature just doesn't cut it.
The whole novel just doesn't work. Author is talented, he is trying to make it work, but it's just wrong genre. It feels like he is trying to write something popular, but it doesn't have heart. System, mechs etc... Heavy influence of xianxia chinese novel it being felt too. So two stars for trying. But author needs to write something that he truly wants and truly suits him. There is many thing i could tear this apart but what I wrote are main issues.
Story: You start as a good-for-nothing, lazy, disillusioned, young graduate from backwater bottom-of-barrel university in third-rate kingdom. Your mother is dead, you father left you (he's gone "missing") with immense debt, backwater half-broken rusty workshop (that's why the debt), and system which doesn't have almost anything to do with story. It's horendously slowpaced, even after 900 chapters there is not much change in stats or main story. Oh, and of course his tremendous MC luck ("plot-armor") helps a lot, but it's often pushed backward by artificialy created obstacles.
Characters: MC feels like empty shell. Doesn't have any quirks, nor something even a little bit interesting about him. He lacks basic common sense, intelligence or even anger. He is truly just trash who is by NO CHANCE a genius or someone remarkable. Everyone walks over him, he is weak, not utilizing everything he has. His family is just here to take profit, if he would fail (as MC, he can't) they would abandon him (atleast thats my feeling towards that family of pilots). The few friends he has are even more emptier than him, only written to offer some kind of moral support. The rest is just generic NPC without names. MC is just nobody, with no backround, with no remarkable thing about him or people around him. Only thing that is propelling him is that System, which is here only to replace hard effort. Plus MC CAN'T ride mechs.
System: The worst system ever made. Every plothole or stupidity is placated by the System. There is almost no progress even after 1000 chapters.
Setup: Author is clearly obsessed with ancient roman culture so it all feels like that. Everything is just superficialy introduced without politics or something like that. Pirates, a few rivaling star systems, some kind of alien civilization. Thats all for enemies
Mechs: Everything is repeated over and over again. Our human race (in real life) just doesn't have enough understanding how mechs could even work. So there is ton of stupid mistakes or misunderstanding how physics even works. Mechs looks good only if they are drawn, animated or live-action (Transformers). Literature just doesn't cut it.
The whole novel just doesn't work. Author is talented, he is trying to make it work, but it's just wrong genre. It feels like he is trying to write something popular, but it doesn't have heart. System, mechs etc... Heavy influence of xianxia chinese novel it being felt too. So two stars for trying. But author needs to write something that he truly wants and truly suits him. There is many thing i could tear this apart but what I wrote are main issues.
February 26, 2022
A well-written science-fiction novel that managed to thread the needle and make the existence of mechs plausible, if far-fetched. The first 350 chapters won't make it easy for you to love the book, but as a reader who's reached all the way to the recently-realised chapter 3450 I can say it is definetly worth it!
Worldbuilding: The sheer level of worldbuilding is astounding, and the few plot holes that I've found center around the Young Tiger Arc, and do not affect the story in the slightest.
Character growth: You can feel the growth of the characters, especially the Main Character's, who has experienced immense mental growth throught the chapters.
P.S. The setting of the universe is so well made that sometimes I wish the author would make a series about a CFA or MTA battleship officer during the Age of Conquest. Would definetly read it!
Worldbuilding: The sheer level of worldbuilding is astounding, and the few plot holes that I've found center around the Young Tiger Arc, and do not affect the story in the slightest.
Character growth: You can feel the growth of the characters, especially the Main Character's, who has experienced immense mental growth throught the chapters.
P.S. The setting of the universe is so well made that sometimes I wish the author would make a series about a CFA or MTA battleship officer during the Age of Conquest. Would definetly read it!
March 15, 2020
Good Sci-Fi, but fake LitRPG.
Let's pause and ask ourselves, what makes LitRPG a compelling genre? LitRPG provides the main character and the reader both a look under the hood of the mechanics that run the world. This glance at the inner workings of the System allows the character to optimize their trajectory through the world, while also allowing the reader to flex their creative muscles in imagining what unique strategies they would choose given the information and the system in place. It provides an intuitive way for the reader to engage in matching wits with the character and the author. This provides a compelling base line hook for the genre.
The Author of the Mech Touch introduces a system but goes against the grain by intentionally obfuscating and concealing the functionality of the system, cutting off the Reader's connection to the system almost entirely. The main character furthermore, fails to optimize his system usage to such a degree that practically every achievement in the first hundred+ chapters could be replicated with a modicum of real world effort. At one point, the Main Character saves his system points by just studying for a few weeks... and miraculously this effort succeeds.
after 100+ chapters, the main character is walking around with no discernible advantages that could not have been gained by simply applying himself earlier in life and paying attention in college like his more successful colleagues.
With neither a reader connection to stats and no advantages for the main character - what is even the point of the system here? If you can write the System out of the story by including a few chapters where the main character studied harder, then that aspect of the story just objectively fails.
The author is clearly a talented writer, and he draws up a compelling universe to explore. The problem is that it feels like a system is included only because they are popular.
The positives here, are that there are large swathes of the book which are delightful to read. The exploration and mech design sequences are fantastic, and surprisingly, the occasional cut-away to witness an action packed sequence featuring the latest designed mech model in use are actually fantastic.
The good parts make up about 2/3rds of the narrative, but the overall balance becomes more and more askew, the more logically inconsistent decisions the main character makes regarding his use of the core system the entire series is built on.
Let's pause and ask ourselves, what makes LitRPG a compelling genre? LitRPG provides the main character and the reader both a look under the hood of the mechanics that run the world. This glance at the inner workings of the System allows the character to optimize their trajectory through the world, while also allowing the reader to flex their creative muscles in imagining what unique strategies they would choose given the information and the system in place. It provides an intuitive way for the reader to engage in matching wits with the character and the author. This provides a compelling base line hook for the genre.
The Author of the Mech Touch introduces a system but goes against the grain by intentionally obfuscating and concealing the functionality of the system, cutting off the Reader's connection to the system almost entirely. The main character furthermore, fails to optimize his system usage to such a degree that practically every achievement in the first hundred+ chapters could be replicated with a modicum of real world effort. At one point, the Main Character saves his system points by just studying for a few weeks... and miraculously this effort succeeds.
after 100+ chapters, the main character is walking around with no discernible advantages that could not have been gained by simply applying himself earlier in life and paying attention in college like his more successful colleagues.
With neither a reader connection to stats and no advantages for the main character - what is even the point of the system here? If you can write the System out of the story by including a few chapters where the main character studied harder, then that aspect of the story just objectively fails.
The author is clearly a talented writer, and he draws up a compelling universe to explore. The problem is that it feels like a system is included only because they are popular.
The positives here, are that there are large swathes of the book which are delightful to read. The exploration and mech design sequences are fantastic, and surprisingly, the occasional cut-away to witness an action packed sequence featuring the latest designed mech model in use are actually fantastic.
The good parts make up about 2/3rds of the narrative, but the overall balance becomes more and more askew, the more logically inconsistent decisions the main character makes regarding his use of the core system the entire series is built on.
December 16, 2021
Personally, I loved the concept of the book and the fact that the MC had to be smart, not a brainless brute. What really started to ruin the book for me was it started to get into spirituality heavily and the pacing was extremely slow. However, it is extremely good so I highly recommend reading it.
August 5, 2021
Incredibly good book with a great premise. I've lost myself for many hours reading this book I will admit there are some chapters that get very slow at times but there are also some really great action sequences.
March 31, 2024
It has its ups and downs, but the longer you stick with it the more it will grow on you. Definitely a lot different than what one might expect, so keep an open-mind as the author loves to provoke the readers.
October 24, 2022
The longest book I have read and is still reading it is definitely worth it the best science fiction you will ever read it also encompasses other genres
November 28, 2020
This webnovel starts out really well. It is a about a character who had always dreamed of being a mech pilot but was unable to because he didn't have the right genetics to be able to merge with the machine. He finds this out on his tenth birthday and he spends the next part of his life in a depression not caring about anything. Then he gets the idea to be a mech designer. He receives a gift of a system that helps shape him into a good designer. Even though there is a system, I wouldn't really characterize this story as LitRPG.
The first 200-300 chapters or so are good and about his development. However, around chapter 300 the webnovel takes a wide left turn and gets away from the premise of the novel. Some of the things that happen are interesting but you can't help feeling that you are being let down. You keep waiting for this part of the novel to end and get back to what made you interested in the novel in the first place with the development of the mechs but it persists for a very long time. I only got to chapter 700 or so and it was still off in left field. I plan to revisit it soon as there are about 2000 chapters out now. I am hoping that at some point the novel settled down with the wild stuff and returned what should be the central theme of the story.
The first 200-300 chapters or so are good and about his development. However, around chapter 300 the webnovel takes a wide left turn and gets away from the premise of the novel. Some of the things that happen are interesting but you can't help feeling that you are being let down. You keep waiting for this part of the novel to end and get back to what made you interested in the novel in the first place with the development of the mechs but it persists for a very long time. I only got to chapter 700 or so and it was still off in left field. I plan to revisit it soon as there are about 2000 chapters out now. I am hoping that at some point the novel settled down with the wild stuff and returned what should be the central theme of the story.
March 1, 2020
Instead of the system being a temporary crutch with limitations or a thing that increases potential, it’s forced to drag an unintelligent mc though it’s self made planning process. Basically, system controls stupid mc and mc gets huge unrealistic rewards.
- Dropped Ch 5
- Dropped Ch 5
March 7, 2025
Hey! Such a great novel with amazing world building with over 6000 chapters.
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March 13, 2025
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June 1, 2024
I'm ~180 chapters in and it's a really good story. However it's not consistent. I'd confidently rate most sections of this web series as a solid 5, while others would fluctuate from 1 to 4. I plan to update this review as I read more chapters.
500 chapters in.
This is one of the best series I've ever read. It's not perfect, but I just can't put it down. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in progression fantasy or sci-fi novels.
I would say that the author's strongest suits are imagination and pacing. And I suspect that the latter is the main reason I keep craving for more.
500 chapters in.
This is one of the best series I've ever read. It's not perfect, but I just can't put it down. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in progression fantasy or sci-fi novels.
I would say that the author's strongest suits are imagination and pacing. And I suspect that the latter is the main reason I keep craving for more.
September 14, 2025
I dont know why I read over 7000 chapters of this webnovel series.
This book have become addiction for all programmer, scifi, game adventure for people out there.
This is more like a game of thrones in space with game elements.
The scope of story expand a lot.
What I dont like about this book is too much story filler and waste of time reading 70% of book content to get to the good part.
This book have become addiction for all programmer, scifi, game adventure for people out there.
This is more like a game of thrones in space with game elements.
The scope of story expand a lot.
What I dont like about this book is too much story filler and waste of time reading 70% of book content to get to the good part.
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