The Statsguy's Mag

Website: qidian china

Views: 11.74million

Rating: 9.0(1585)

Chapters: 722

Status: completed

Word count: 2.33million

Author: skyscraper

author level: platinum

No of works: 9

Disscussion: 58

Year started: 2010

Translated works :

Genres: Action, Comedy, Harem, Martial Arts, School Life, Tragedy, Xuanhuan

Tags:Alchemy, Battle, Academy, Beautiful Female Lead, Blacksmith, Bloodlines, Body Tempering, Cheats, Cultivation, Elves, Game Elements, Grinding, Hard-Working Protagonist, Male Protagonist, Polygamy, Sword And Magic, Time Skip, Weak to Strong, World Travel

Popularity: kinda popular in China.

Last edited: 29/nov/2018

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Website: qidian international

Views: 14million

Rating: 4.2(452)

Chapters: 587

Status: ongoing

Schedule: 7ch/week but translating at 1ch/week

Translator:

Editor:

Popularity: popular here

Last edited : 29/nov/2018

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Synopsis :This was the era that belonged to various powerful bloodline warriors, the fervorous era where magic powers and warrior energies were the deciding factor of dominance! With endless ardour and unstoppable courage, a grassroot nobody could also shine and live like a boss!

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POSITIVE REVIEW :

Highly recommend this novel as it is a very fun read. Plus so far it has elements of gaming (without the level system so its not annoying) and focused on warriors, mages, and blacksmithing. And the best part is, apart form the slight choppiness in the first chapter, the rest of the chapter flow smoothly, and the world building is done slowly but at a good pace too so it reads like a western novel at times. Also helps that the editing and translating is spot on, making for a very enjoyable read. Good release frequency feels good too lol :). Thanks for the great work translator, keep it up as it is a very fun story to read!

- By Gregor1422(NU)

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NEGATIVE REVIEW :

EDIT: After getting to chapter 550, I'm downgrading my rating from a 3 to a 2. Will also be dropping the series. Unfortunately, this is another novel that has a good premise in the beginning, but becomes increasingly mediocre after the first 200 chapters or so.

Spoiler

By around the middle of the series, the game element is reduced to 0. What we have instead is incredibly annoying repetition. Chapters are comprised mainly of either other people recounting the MC's feats, betting the MC is so young so he's impossible to do X, or thinking what a bright future the MC has ahead given youth and attainments. We have trade union presidents left and right shedding tears because of how skilled the MC is, and giving him their president status. There is almost no story anymore, and the transitions -- everything -- is handled as subtly as a brick smashed to your face.

OLD REVIEW:

I'm giving this novel a 3 rating - not really good, but not bad either.

What's keeping me from giving this a 4 at the very least?

* shallow story - there isn't much in the way of world building. Avoiding info dumps is great, but at nearly half of the novel (c334) you still don't have a solid impression of the world aside from what's in the immediate surrounding of the MC.

* Annoying tradeskill disparity - for some reason, there are hardly any skilled blacksmiths, pharmacist, alchemists in the MC's world. The author also insists in making them more stupid, in that people aside from the MC needs to be specialized in just one department (swords or spears or armor, etc for blacksmiths, skin wounds, bone, internal organs etc for pharmacists). It's annoying when the author keeps on bringing up the fact (ad nauseam) that MC is at the master class for all departments for all three tradeskills (with more skills to come from the hat world) at less than 20 years of age.

What's ok: for all of the benefits that the MC gets from the hat world, he can only bring back the skills / knowledge he's earned, so at least he's not THAT op.

What's interesting: the game like elements in the hat world (skill level ups! :D), fighting mechanics.

-By stark3(NU)

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