The Great Tower

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2016

Author

puddles4263

• Day 3
  Jun 16, 2016
• Day 2
  Jun 16, 2016
• Prologue and Day 1
  Jun 16, 2016

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• AndeLRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I will say this much ... This is the level that I dream to achieve by the end of this summer ... Good story , good plot ... Keep writing so that , one day (in a few hundred years or so ) , I will surpass you !
• HammarstenRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  this is great, surprising chars and bad a** fights, story is great, one of my favs that's for sure
• cen5Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  (Day 22)
  If i had to describe the story i would say tower of druaga meets dungeonbuilder meets gam3. Its more of a fantasy story, though given the existence of robotic races i am sure sci-fi should exist too.
  The author took all the good parts from stories you have read so far and combined them, with his pretty good style into something fresh and interesting.
  style: The author finds the right style to adress the audience most of the time. only his second self sometimes falls out of the reading flow, but given the circumstances this might actually be intentional and still kinda fits.
  There are a couple of POV changes that seemed redundant to me, at certain points, that being said however, it does not detract from the story.
  Story: The author understands to keep the plot due to his frequent changes fresh and engaging. Over are the times where you read chapter after chapter after chapter about someone sitting in a room training. Yes the MC levels up, but as soon as the reader thinks, 'ok now i got it, he will just climb the tower' the whole story morphs into something different again.
  The author also rasies a lot of interesting flaggs, however by the time of this writing its impossible to say how well they will turn out.
  one negative thing in this section deserve mention though. The 'i give up my memory'-thing actually did lead to some points in the story that broke my immersion, when the mc kinda remembers but nor really and still knows stuff about his homeworld, for example what a computer is and how it works.
  Gramar: In my opinion gramar is good, but then again i am hardly an expert on it.
  characters: Characters are good, until now i did feel the motivations of all characters that were introduced (with the exception of the MC). most of those characters also grow on you. and the best part the author already killed a resonably important sidecharacter, so good on you author for not fearing to get rid of some characters. (be it by not mentioning them again or killing th
• fanobodyRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  If you like op MC, action and (great, unique, WOW) power/other characters read this.
• kurokumaRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Great story line. Funny, gruesome, cannibalism and suicidal undead.
  Occasional spelling mistakes, but not too bad.
  Engaging protagonist and memorable side characters.
  Read it you won't be disappointed.
• TheWhiteRavenRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
• ColdWyndRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  I think it would be interesting if Predator just ditched his companions (minions?) and just went solo awhile.
  P.s just make Tim the Mc alrdy xD
• fanvaronRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  As of chapter 36.4:
  I really liked the story, while there is not much of a real goal, except climbing the tower, at least yet. It is a nice story, I like the mix in with the sort of "dungeon" vibe that comes from defending a path.
  The grammar and style are both great, nothing bad to say here.
  The only thing that I disliked is the lack of information, not only that the MC (and thus the reader) seems to be the only one, even of the other humans, that does not know what is going on with the tower and the administrators etc..
  In Day 35 and 36 it really starts, there is so much info out of context that the reader just does not understand and thus does not need, and to make it even worse the different situations get mixed, for one the error and on the other hand what is going on with the other admins.
  I understand that you want to get the plot rolling, or something like that, but it was just too disorienting and annoying getting all this useless information and it even put a huge dent in my desire to read on since I did not gain anything from what happened it was just a forced "aha, interesting, well not really. Hopefully, I will understand sometime soon what this was all about"
  
  And to make it even worse, they talk about how he can get back to his body, the different ways and all that, and then he just suddenly wakes up. Why even tell us all about the different ways how to do it when we don't even get to see the execution??
  
• TheEarlofBronzeRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  This is one of the situations I sometimes find myself in when reading a story that makes me sad, not because it's bad, but because it was showing all the signs of being great but then starts to lose itself somewhere along the line.
  The Good Stuff : MC starts off actually quite enjoyable. An amnesiac, confused and hungry dude stuck in a marsh, his growth is both quick, believable and even manages to be amusing. It's also one of the few situations where a "parallel thinking" or "2nd personality" styled perk works REALLY well. The man's got strong internal banter.
  Setting is good, if borrowing heavily from Tower of God, and the standard general System setting (at least as far as seems to have been revealed). Interesting twist of "job role" for the MC as well fairly early on, showing different aspects of the Tower and keeping the story from being a repetitive upwards dungeon crawl.
  Extra cast : Simple, straight forward, amusing and loveable. Everything you'd really want. From skellybro's to nihilistic fishmen to a really horny slimegirl. Nailed it... well not yet anyway...
  The Bad : MC seems to suffer a serious deterioration in character starting somewhere between days 20 and 25. Many of the authors notes seem to suggest that the work was little more than a nightly way of amusing himself and enjoying his story... not a crazy heavy plot or world or anything like that but as the novels popularity has grown he's been putting more effort into producing a stronger plot etc etc... and honestly I think the novel, and particularly the MC is suffering for it, which is such a shame. The story up until leaving the first floor was kept neat, simple, silly and really REALLY damn fun to read. After that things start getting... "mysterious" and "interesting" as things "develop".
  The problem being that the MC suffers. His original stated goal is to 'grow/survive/struggle/thrive' basically just a chilled ass caveman who happens to be hyper intelligent in all the abnormal areas of life.
• MorrarenRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  Style: The story is written from a first person perspective. This is mainly through the main characters eyes but at times, we are also see the world from how the side characters see it. This gives more color to the world but i find that it can be a bit too much at times. I am far more interested in Predator after all and while occasional glimpses in the life of others is well, it can get too much.
  The style of writing seems casual and one can especially see this in later chapters, not to mention when the author is describing something. I find this to be a turn of, contributing to the story in a more comedy related well then the grim situation that they are in.
  Story: The story is very much similar to webtoon,"The tower of god" but has a lighter, more comedic feel to it then The tower of god. I personally find this to be disappointing, especially as the earlier chapters were far grimmer then the later ones. The story feel repetitive in that it usually revolves around Predator facing yet another monster far stronger then him and defeats it through the power of luck and strategy. I am not complaining about that, however, as it is great to read something with actual strategy. The story is quite original around this site and it succeeds in holding me as a reader interested in it. The main problem I have, as i mentioned before, is that it is less serious and more lax than it was at the start.
  The game system in, "The Great Tower" is well thought out and rather detailed. I quite like this especially as the author goes out of his way to write how the stats worked outside of the story. I did skip that part though, I felt it would ruin the immersion (That is just me though).
  The story otherwise has a good flow otherwise and progresses at a fitting phase.
  Grammar: The vocabulary is varied and grammar has never been my focus. What annoys me is the use of caps. This especially in single words in the middle of otherwise fine sentences. One could have describes afterwards that she