I Don't Want An Overpowered System!

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Description

All Ryo ever wanted was a challenge.

The kind of soul-crushing, controller-throwing difficulty that makes victory actually mean something. He was a no-cheats-allowed hardcore gamer to the bone. So when he died in a tragically stupid accident involving a McDonald's cup and was offered a new life in an SSSS-rank fantasy world, he thought he'd finally found his paradise.

He was wrong. So, so wrong.

A vapid goddess, who clearly wasn't listening, mistook his masochistic pride for heroic humility. As a "reward," she cursed him with Heaven's Ultimate Blessing—a suite of game-breaking cheat codes.

His 'reward' is a special kind of hell. One that comes with a chaotic party and a tutorial voice without an off switch.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2024
Author: Ameseiya

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 2.2/ 5.0
Followers: 35
Views: 11,071

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Community Reviews(2)

TheRedDevilRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I like this story very much. I tried to go into this with an open mind after only seeing it with one review and reading the review. But, after reading it myself, I can see the reviewer was completely mistaken about the story.
This story is very much in the same vain as One Punch Man. The protagonist is overpowered, and THAT is his struggle. He is so strong but he hates being strong, he hates having all these powers. His struggle comes from the fact that he wants to be challenged, to find someone or something that can match him, to give him the 'Hardcore Gamer' experience that he desires.
The MC treating things as a game, to me, isn't a coping mechanism or anything. He acknowledges 'real life isn't video games.' What we're shown is that he isn't particularly bothered by his death, likely accepting it. If anything he's more mildly annoyed and moves on quickly. This story is very much meant to be a bit more of a comedy, and I can appreciate that and I do find it very funny, but also compelling.
A very good story, and looking forward to reading more in the future.
Blue2Royal Road
★ 1.0
When I read the synopsis, I was somewhat intrigued: I can absolutely imagine a character falling back on their gaming background as an odd coping mechanism when faced with the reality that they died, have lost literally everything, and are now standing in front of a goddess of explaining how you're about to be reincarnated with gifts in what is basically a RPG/video game-inspired world.
Video games give the MC a framework--albeit a horribly flawed one--to try and cope with the shock of his new situation. Maybe he's half convinced you're just dreaming, so the I always choose the extreme difficulty setting bravado makes a bit of sense. It's a crazy dream, but he can bluster if he wants to because it doesn't matter.
Only in the story, it very obviously does. It's all real. The MC is dead, and they recognize this through their internal monologue. He even explicitly acknowledges that "Real life isn't video games," only to promptly ignore that thought and act as though his second chance at life is just a video game. World difficulty? Duh, I'll take SSSS. Special abilities? No thanks. That's just how I play my games.
Those decidedly terrible decisions aren't treated as bad decisions made from a lack of understanding. His falling back on his gaming experience and interpreting everything through it isn't treated as a bad coping mechanism. It's a conscious choice made by the MC despite explicitly acknowledging that it's incorrect, and that disconnect doesn't seem to matter to the story. At all. He seems to treat people as literal NPCs, life itself as a game he just wants to hurry up and "beat," and even when he's talking to a character as if they genuinely exist, his internal monologue can't help but add something that makes it clear he's treating it all as a game. Despite all that, he never once suffers a setback or even a problem from this attitude. If the MC treats other characters as somehow fake, the reader will as well.
Right now, the MC knows it's all real but is still