Power Up
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Description
Game On!
They saved the world when it became a game, now can Marcus and co. save the game when it becomes their world?
DAS is the largest game publisher in the world, and they are hiding a secret in their basement R&D lab that could change the face of gaming forever. The only problem is, it isn't ready, and the deadline is rapidly approaching. There's only one way to prove that it works, and that is throwing in a group of 'volunteers' to test it. Marcus and his friends find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now they are stuck in a fantasy world with no means of escape.
The only way out is the play the game, and that means collecting the Daggers of Power, but there is more to the game than meets the eye.
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- Status
- Hiatus
- Author
- craig anderson
Royal Road Stats
- Rating
- 3.6/ 5.0
- Followers
- 24
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Community Reviews(2)
- Waffle(est)Royal Road★★★★ 3.5The story so far (review as of chapter 7) seems to just be a really long and elaborate prologue to explain how the MCs got trapped in the game world. This could be ok if a lot of the core plot in the future would take place outside of the game but otherwise its just an extra hurdle before getting to the meat of it. Furthermore I have rarely seen a trapped-in-game but then there is still plot outside of the game done well, so even if there will be core plot outside of the game I'm still wary.
0 as a baseline for stats seems strange as it has all sorts of interesting implications. Given how much time is spent explaining basic RPG concepts (with the proliferation of litRPG and actual RPG this is getting kind of tedious by the way) this nonstandard setups is somewhat surprising but not bad in itself.
The tree house scene seems like it would make sense if we had some more idea of their previous adventure (only very briefly mentioned in the synopsis and mentioned a few times in passing as the answer that should magically solve any questions the reader might have), but right now its just really strange to read. I'm not quite sure how to feel about that.
I might need to revise this as more chapters come out... - whoeverRoyal Road★★★ 3.0A piece for warning first: If you decide to read this story, you might want to protect your sanity by jumping over the first four chapters (or even the first five). (Except if you like to laugh at absurd back-stories how some party ended up within a computer and if you have much sanity to spare (and I mean much)).
If ignoring the first 5 chapters, what I miss most in this story are believable characters. The characters feel so one dimensional as if someone created them by looking at the description of the role within a cRPG-party and created characters from them. Forcing the beserker to force playing the healer and the scientist the beserker and filling the role of rouge with a squirrel has some potential but this growth potential only increases the feeling of how little of a character there is.
There is little story so far. The first four chapters have some story, but as I think it would be better without, they count with a negative value in my eyes.
Unlike with the content and the characters, I didn't realize any problems with the grammar. I might have only been to distracted, though.
YMMV, and if there was a possibility to write a review without giving a score I might have done so with this one in the hope there are others that can enjoy the story. But this is what I think is a fair score for it.