Another case of a novel floating on the reviews it got in its infancy. Look at the reviews that rate this novel highly, the flat majority of them are in the first 400 chapters. After that, the novel is just mediocre and bad in some aspects. There is even a review telling you to skip about 200 chapters of the war arch. The other 400 after that is just barely tolerable.Stability of Updates: 5/5. The author drops down a lot of chapters on a consistent basis.Writing Quality: 5/5Story Development: I can't go lower than 1. He writes a lot but a lot of it is just info dumps. The quality suffers heavily when you get to the premium chapters. Each chapter is expensive and 2/3rd of most of his chapters involve info dump of some kind. As a result the story slogs. His grammar is excellent but a beautiful gun is useless if two out of every three bullets gets jammed.However, that's the smallest issue with this novel. This novel is a system novel. But, the author takes the main character to a war zone and leaves the system behind. How can you have a system novel when the system plays no part. He drops the system at around the 250 chapter mark and it doesn't make a significant play until the late 900s. Imagine paying that much for each chapter to get info dumps, slow story development, and no system for 3/4ths of the story. It's a rip off.Word Background: 5/5. The only good thing out of the info dumps is it tells you about the world. It's a tell don't show approach so it's annoying to read but whatever, the world is fleshed out.Character Design: Another 0/5. The main character has no agency in the story. He flies whichever way the wind blows him. You're not living his story. You're watching a guy on a roller coaster of ****. At the end he comes out with very little character growth. The author seems to think war medals gives his MC more character but it's just a medal on the same dude you had at the end of the first 300 chapters. The system is his growth and without it he's not a mech designer. He's just some soldier that happens to know how to fix and make mechs. The story is about designing mechs but the MC stops growing in that aspect just to become a soldier.Lazy Tension: The author does this thing where he describes everything in a grandiose manner. When the MC designs a mech, it sounds and comes across like the most badass thing of its category. However, the author always seems to introduce opponents with mechs that just seem to inch out or flat our destroy our MC. Why describe it in such a grand manner and then make it come out as a dud in competitions? It's such a lazy way to introduce *******. Of course, the MC wins but it comes across as Deus Ex Machinas and plot armor.The amount of money you spend for the value you receive is not worth it.
