What's With That Cat?

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The life and times of Mittens, a village cat in the revolutionary fantasy VR MMORPG "Shattered Realms." With the advent of rudimentary AI, VR games enjoy tremendous popularity, but computing power isn't cheap enough for true intelligence on a large scale. The CEO and lead developer of Nyaosoft, creator of Shattered Realms, is a cat fanatic and, after a tremendously succesful release, devoted himself to building the most robust cat AI possible. After all, cats are level zero non-combat critters. What could possibly go wrong? (Spoilers: Nothing goes wrong. Everything goes right!

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: L'odeur de Wumpus

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
Followers: 33
Views: 5,326

Chapters(7 total)

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Community Reviews(3)

DraconisViridisRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This guy writes better than a lot of people do sober while he is flat out drunk. I appreciate that, and also that the protagonist is a cat in all fluffiness, catliness and chivalrousness. Apparently we need to organise a hunt to pounce on the author, with intention to return him to a drunken state for more writing.
Waffle(est)Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's a fairly realistic, or at least superficially reasonable, depiction of a game world from a sentient NPC's point of view.
The players behave as you would imagine from people who consider the game world a sandbox without actual consequences. The NPCs treat this with appropriate gravitas and consider players strange. There is a fairly standard rpg system (though with some subtle and thematic twists that add nicely to the atmosphere, read if you want to know what!). In short the RPG game world is well done and immersive.
There is some character development already evident in the few chapters that are out now. The characters themselves have distinct personalities (often memorable) and the Cat POV is done in a way that that is quite immersive and feels like it might be quite close to what a cat in that situation would actually think.
Blue boxes are there and they take their rightful place flavor the story in stead of surplanting it and standing in for actual plot progression. It's been only a short while since the MC actually started reading them, but I have some hope they will not gain too much importance as time goes on. There is no plot void here that is so often filled in by blue boxes in other stories.
The grammar is good enough that I didn not notice any issues. There are no strange sentance structures or awkwardness either.
librarysmilesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Hawmvililyn chose a perfectly good name meaning 'the internal conflict between the melancholy and joy of leaves falling in autumn'.
Unfortunately, Hawmvililyn lives inside a VRMMO and was designated the name 'Mittens', probably because it rhymes with "kittens".
Cats are illustrious beings that are full of grace, except for our Hawmvililyn who doesn't have the decency to land properly.
At least Hawmvililyn knows how to snap the spines of his enemies. The question is: are you his enemy?