/lit/ - Literature

>>20420248
Good characters can save a bad setting, but bad characters can't be saved by a good setting. I've only dropped one series for absolutely garbage characterisation in my LitRPG binge (pic-related), but DotF is stretching my tolerance too, just because of how bland Zac is. I can tolerate bland secondary characters if the protagonist is interesting but vice-versa is harder to stomach.

So I'm trying to read some LitRPGs after trying and generally enjoying He Who Fights With Monsters and I am frankly baffled that this one got anywhere near as high ratings as it did. Maybe it gets better, but the first 100 pages have been two guys who don't really act like people being Cool Military Dudes in some vaguely Chinese-esque isekai world and it doesn't really... Play it up at all. Characterisation is minimal, pacing is fucking atrocious, I'm not even sure what our two protagonists look like, everybody talks in a way that feels like they're either delivering plot OR being 'characters' and ne'er the twain shall meet... How the fuck are there 11 of these and how the fuck are they all so well-reviewed.