(Old Version)Had To End Sometime (Apocalypse LitRPG)

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Description

(This version is over) rewrite is up.

Rewrite is up. Come read it.

Information

Status
Hiatus
Year
2021
Author
Rhinothehamster

Tags

LITRPGACTIONFANTASYADVENTUREMAGICSCI-FISTRONG LEADMALE LEADMULTIPLE LEAD CHARACTERSPOST APOCALYPTICPROGRESSION

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4.5/ 5.0
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Chapters(56 total)

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Community Reviews(8)

  • M3phist0sRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    A really good story that use the double point of view cleverly.
    Firstly,  the fact that human are considered to be monster is original and change from the classic litrpg apocalypse.
    Also, I really like how Stanley's and Lee's point of view complete each other and help to deepen differents aspects of some events. It's the story of twin brothers with their similitudes and differences in how they thrive in this apocalypse, but also the story of their personal devellopment, the friend they make and the monsters they fight.
  • baelrathRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Great story so far. PoV are handled well, especially as its Twin PoV with some side characters.
    Even the Dog ones are done well. Bestest Humans indeed.
    Content: Apocolapse LitRPG system situation, but for once humans are the "bad guys" and gotta defend.
    Power / Systems are nice and unique. A mix of soft/hard magic system.
    Caffeine is a mix of Clifford and a Pug, and its epic! He deserves all the treats!
    Ugh word limits:
    Style - this is done well, great story choices in terms of switiching between perspectives, espeically when MC's are not availabe or to show the same thing from a side char view.
    Grammar - no issue, nothing comes to mind, certainly nothing enough to break story flow if it was there.
    Characters - You can feel these. Each has its own motivation and flaws. Not everyone is likeable which is a reality. Normally not a fan, but the PoV shifts allow these characters to show their own ticks and growth.
    Story - Premise seems simple at the moment, more than enough is happening that i could see it go for a couple hundred chapters or wrap up the story well enough in another 50. All depends if author wants to keep it going.
  • Real_ErebosRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    At first I was a little stumpt because all was judt too much in too little time but after his first 'breakthrough' everything was way better. Charackter are well written and till now nothing too op happened. I'm really hypped about the things after the Interludes.
    Sry for my bad grammer etc. I have more of a passive understanding about english and I enyoed to read this very much.
  • CjselenskiRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    This book is extremely well written. The characters are interesting and I'm looking foreword to their continued growth. The villains are incredible ranging from mustache twirling to cartoons to having brutally realistic motivations. The overall story is just simply awesome. The litrpg system is interesting and makes sense. Once I started this book I couldn't put it down.
  • SrayanRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    This is an excellent story but you may have to be patient with occasional style issues in the early chapters. The genre is System Apocalypse with a couple of twists. The dog is brilliant.
    The characterisation is excellent. As this is a story with three main characters (one is a dog - I kid you not), they are physically separated so you have two separate storylines (which are linked on a metaphysical/ magic level) and a sizeable number of other characters who are fairly well characterised. Caffeine - the dog - is my favourite. Caffeine is currently a non-verbal intelligence, so kudos to the author for trying to write chapters for a non-verbal character. After one or two early hiccoughs these chapters come off very well.
    Grammar: there are no basic grammar errors that disturb reader enjoyment.
    Style: overall good especially as you move beyond earlier chapters. The author confronts two main style issues. One is the challenge of having to write some chapters for a non verbal animal. The author really gets into this but some early efforts could do with a redo. The other main style issue is that the author tries to create a sense of tension and disorder at several points, which is reasonable, but in some early chapters the method used to achieve this results in a disjointed  and chaotic narrative. This results in a cognitive dissonance which is off-putting for a reader. This is not about authorial talent but more about how the human brain works. This aspect occurs mainly in early chapters - again I would suggest thinking about a redo.
    The story itself is a fascinating twist on a System Alocalypse.
    SPOILER:
    The three main characters get caught up in a pre-apocalypse event that links them at the "soul" level, gives them potentially great power but with an unusual form of debuff too. Nevertheless they are each very powerful in very diffferent ways. The main twist is that the Apocalyspe has been engineered by aliens and Earth has been declared a dungeon with humans classed as
  • jessicaroyaleRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    Reviewed at about 20 chapters in,
    Grammar wasn't perfect, but it was as good as most professionally published fiction.  No complaints there.
    Story was the standard system apocalypse trope with enough of an unique spin that it keeps your attention.
    Style was 3rd person, with a couple of pov shifts where the story is told from the perspective of a dog.  Author does a fantastic job of trying to give a non-human POV while remaining intelligible to a human reader.  I've seen other work that tries the same thing, but rarely is it accomplished this well.
    Characters are developing fairly slowly, but it looks like some real depth is coming as the story advances.  Flawed protagonists, picking up some fairly OP abilities, but nicely balanced by the difficulty of the world.
    20 chapter's in and plenty of plot has been foreshadowed, but not a lot of movement towards closure, so this will end up either being a truly massive work or a pretty frustrating cliff when it goes on hiatus.
    Overall, if you like the system apocalypse type stories, this one is better than most that I've seen here on RR, and even better than some commercial fiction.  The blurb at the front doesn't really give it justice.
  • dandyruRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    I cannot really say the story is good, but its not bad, it is worth your time if you want a read.
    I'm glad to see the authors improved the characters quite a bit. Most have a bit more flesh to them, but are still quite one sided. Characters are still a little bit unrealistic, unreasonable, and wierd, but interactions are much much better, and dialogue has improved a lot.
    I cant say anything about the earlier chaps, but I hope the author will/ has corrected them.
    reading the story is definitely still kinda jarring, with how characters switch emotions and seemingly forget about things until they're relevant. Characters will really still just not worry about stuff until it's needed for the story so that's still a bit wierd. Story itself is ok, but there are plot holes, although usually small and not nescesarilly important or relevant to the plot or story line.
    MC and his brother are written ok, I guess? Emotions are still wierd but can be explained (sorta). Author's improving and I don't wanna dunk on them for no reason.
    Grammar really doesn't have any issues, and if there are I didn't really notice them.
    Good/not bad book, if slightly wierd n messy.
    otherwise story is great and nice, if slow or weirdly paced. Also mentionable is wierd level systems and near plot armour jumps in power/solutions.
  • TechnoPallidinRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    I have read up to the current chapter I think 49???   I have really enjoyed the book so far and cannot wait to see how it will develop.  Caffiene I was kind of "eh" at first, but he is just an awesome character.  Keep up the story and good work!