This novel is reminiscent of 'omniscient readers viewpoint', containing a similar don't trust the gods, the gods are sponsors gimmick.
The distinction is the gods in ORV, used lower-species as entertainment and pawns to prove who's strongest, the gods in this novel seem a lot more malevolent, and this entire summoning 1m humans from earth, seems like they are taking part in a trade, where if the humans can't beat the 100th tower, the gods can claim their world. Because of this, from the very beginning players continuously get tricked into weakening themselves by the 'system' and the gods, once you start reading it'll make sense, as the novel does contain some pretty great analogies to help understand the process, especially their 'sports drafting' one. The 'system' does make players aware the tower is trying to trick them, but honestly the level of deceit done by the towers seems completely unfair...though the tower also says it will 100% be trying to give the players unfair contracts.
This novel is written with a first-person perspective, which is different from the majority of novels on this site, personally I don't like it since I find reading the letter 'I' every 5 words irritating, but it is something different I guess.
Another complain I have is that, despite the system clearly stating its goal is to be unfair, without the 'regressor's knowledge' from the mc's friend, he would have been cooked from the start, and I find this irritating as all 1million other people have signed a slave contract from the very beginning without even being aware of what they did. This get's revealed in chapter 2, so I'm not going to bother hiding it, if someone says 'status window', they've essentially enslaved themselves to the tower.
I will update this review after finishing the available chapters.
Updated review:
While I enjoyed the friend regressing as opposed to the MC at the beginning and was fascinated by her potential interactions, she becomes stale, very fast.
As other reviews have pointed out, she essentially becomes a crystal ball to warn the mc about dangers/opportunities, removing a lot of the initial tension posed by the unfair tower, which isn't helped by the fact the mc has a sixth sense for danger, and is already overpowered to shit before the additional help, let alone this time. Past the first few chapters, the fights have little to no tension, I'm not interested in the main characters development either as he's extremely overpowered, and the side characters make sure you know this, with constant glaze and other comments such as only he can conquer the tower, which doesn't seem skill based, its much more seems luck based, only the mc gets to miraculously avoid the unfairness of the tower that everyone else has to undergo.
Also, after the MC decides to go solo, the novel loses the little bit of humour it had in the earlier chapters with the interactions with friends/party members.
It entirely loses the charm of novels with a similar premise like ORV, where people have to band together through thick and thin against a common enemy despite contrasting personal challenges and beliefs, while the mc is strong, they have to use their brain more often than not as it's very clear no one can challenge the gods by themselves in that novel (until the very end of that novel where the mc goes on a self-sacrifice spree or smthn).
This novel is reminiscent of 'omniscient readers viewpoint', containing a similar don't trust the gods, the gods are sponsors gimmick.
The distinction is the gods in ORV, used lower-species as entertainment and pawns to prove who's strongest, the gods in this novel seem a lot more malevolent, and this entire summoning 1m humans from earth, seems like they are taking part in a trade, where if the humans can't beat the 100th tower, the gods can claim their world. Because of this, from the very beginning players continuously get tricked into weakening themselves by the 'system' and the gods, once you start reading it'll make sense, as the novel does contain some pretty great analogies to help understand the process, especially their 'sports drafting' one. The 'system' does make players aware the tower is trying to trick them, but honestly the level of deceit done by the towers seems completely unfair...though the tower also says it will 100% be trying to give the players unfair contracts.
This novel is written with a first-person perspective, which is different from the majority of novels on this site, personally I don't like it since I find reading the letter 'I' every 5 words irritating, but it is something different I guess.
Another complain I have is that, despite the system clearly stating its goal is to be unfair, without the 'regressor's knowledge' from the mc's friend, he would have been cooked from the start, and I find this irritating as all 1million other people have signed a slave contract from the very beginning without even being aware of what they did. This get's revealed in chapter 2, so I'm not going to bother hiding it, if someone says 'status window', they've essentially enslaved themselves to the tower.
I will update this review after finishing the available chapters.
Updated review:
While I enjoyed the friend regressing as opposed to the MC at the beginning and was fascinated by her potential interactions, she becomes stale, very fast.
As other reviews have pointed out, she essentially becomes a crystal ball to warn the mc about dangers/opportunities, removing a lot of the initial tension posed by the unfair tower, which isn't helped by the fact the mc has a sixth sense for danger, and is already overpowered to shit before the additional help, let alone this time. Past the first few chapters, the fights have little to no tension, I'm not interested in the main characters development either as he's extremely overpowered, and the side characters make sure you know this, with constant glaze and other comments such as only he can conquer the tower, which doesn't seem skill based, its much more seems luck based, only the mc gets to miraculously avoid the unfairness of the tower that everyone else has to undergo.
Also, after the MC decides to go solo, the novel loses the little bit of humour it had in the earlier chapters with the interactions with friends/party members.
It entirely loses the charm of novels with a similar premise like ORV, where people have to band together through thick and thin against a common enemy despite contrasting personal challenges and beliefs, while the mc is strong, they have to use their brain more often than not as it's very clear no one can challenge the gods by themselves in that novel (until the very end of that novel where the mc goes on a self-sacrifice spree or smthn).
