When Fantasy Glitches

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Description

What happens when reality starts to bug out and your life as you know it is flipped upside down? Anomalies that couldn't possibly exist start to pop out of nowhere. This was the exact situation Magnus found himself in after a bizarre glitch yanked him from his own universe and tossed him into another.

In this new, fantastical world brimming with magic and supernatural phenomena, Magnus's unexpected arrival landed him in possession of the Command Console, a tool that seems to be able to edit almost anything.

With it, Magnus creates a variety of supernatural abilities that defy all common sense, even in a world of fantasy. Whether it was one that granted him truly endless strength or the ability to create detailed simulations of reality within his own mind, anything was possible.

But Magnus isn't the only instance of such logic-defying abilities.

All over the world, glitches are starting to manifest in weird ways: a brick that could knock anything unconscious with a single touch, a child whose perception of the world could affect reality, or even a woman who was, inexplicably, everyone's mother—there seemed to be no rhyme or reason behind any of them.

When faced with all of these chaotic elements, Magnus comes to a decision.

"Alright, if these are all glitches, then I'll simply have to be the one to fix them."

Release Schedule: Monday, Wednesday & Friday. (Around 7:11 PM Eastern Standard Time)

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2024
Author: BrokenWorld

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 211
Views: 243,232

What readers say about When Fantasy Glitches

“Style: Understandable and nothing took me out of the text. Each author has their own style, so that's enough for me. Story: Bullied guy gets sucked into a videogame/Other reality? It's still mysterious right now what exactly happened. I really liked the sce…”
Regolith42Royal Road5.0 / 5
“Really good start!, its like a case of spirited away person. I was just going to read a bit (Till 10k) but have to read what's going to happen next 'haha' And Arlcliff City name is good!!!! The command console idea is good. His probably going to have a god…”
Boy BayawakRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(7)

Regolith42Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Style: Understandable and nothing took me out of the text. Each author has their own style, so that's enough for me.
Story: Bullied guy gets sucked into a videogame/Other reality? It's still mysterious right now what exactly happened. I really liked the scene where he transitioned. Nice use of horror elements. Small thing, but I also really liked the look and formatting of the command prompt windows he sees. Good exciting start with him getting rescued by some natives. Not much exploration of the world yet so its hard to say how good or not it is.
Grammar: Good, no major mistakes.
Character: I understand there is some things going on with his family, but I think the reason why he is being bullied should have more justification.. It is portrayed as jealousy of his handsomeness and belittlement for his more feminine features. But I think the justification was pretty weak there. Doesn't seem like he's being overly arrogant about it.
Also even the most neglectful parents can't let their kids skip school that much. It's about ten unexcused absences require intervention to meet with parents in some schools. Or four absences in a month. And they mentioned it is their habit to skip school to play games often. Maybe its some weird elite private school where those laws don't apply or the school is just negligent? Not really sure, but just something I noticed. Also I'm assuming they're in high school, not sure if that was ever explicitly stated.
The best way to fix the bullying thing I think is to create some real point of conflict with the bully and have the bully's popularity/fear affect everyone else's attitude of him. Maybe have the MC have something with his girlfriend. Or maybe this is already planned in a flashback, who knows?
Wendy character was fine, but MC's in another place now so it's unclear how much I should still care about her. Mostly a very small cast at the moment.
Boy BayawakRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Really good start!, its like a case of spirited away person. I was just going to read a bit (Till 10k) but have to read what's going to happen next 'haha'
And Arlcliff City name is good!!!!
The command console idea is good. His probably going to have a god like power with this. I don't have any idea about the command prompt though.
The flow of the story is very good and its really easy to read though my first language is not english. The concept of the Command Prompt is so big, I mean from the title and the command prompt (Eye Flick).
Story wise its still on the school arc so it would be like Magnus is in 'Still in learning process' mode. Its okay though.
I can tell that the character building is good and the main character thinks properly, well he has to since he needs to use a command prompt.
Your style is like a standard Lit RPG and it really works well in how the story is represented, this actually made me swipe more and more down.
Over all this is a good one Congrats on a good start!!!
My favorite part!!!: The error at the command console!!!!
Oh and Sir Chapter 22 was written twice.
JudahLionRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Story is great and characters feel alive and interesting. I'm impressed how the interactions between characters are believable(and even if not believable they're not boring). Especially between Magnus and Wendy. Their relationship is a good example of showing and not telling, that thet are friends.
I'm interested to see how this story further developes. I'm also surprised that this story isn't as known as I initially thought it would be.
Worst-answerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A novel with an interesting mc and world,i also wonder how the hell it passed beyond everybody notice, it's pretty well written . Despite lacking the classic litrpg componet which in this site is really used, there still a sense of progression and improvement while mc learn to use his power.
It's really highly suggested.
READ IT DAMN IT.
TheDeadPacifistRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It is amazing bro. How have you not gained more readers with this ?
Now below is the detailed review for first three chapters :
Grammar : I did not notice any mistakes and my flow was not broken due to some error.
Engaging : Not a single time I felt that something was amiss and not engaging.
Power : Fairly unique for now. As it is not used in the story yet, so I can't comment further but in my five year's experience of reading web novels , I have not read a single book with this type of system or power.
Characters : Pretty good for now. Characters were presented beautifully . It is only 3 chapters so , I can't go deep in them for now.
Tropes : You used the trope of loner, bullied, handsome male lead . Maybe I am wrong but this has become cliche for me at least. I am not rating it now because maybe in future you will use these tropes to achieve something in story. And if not I will be personally disappointed as I hate the cliche that serve no purpose.
World Building : Not enough chapters read to comment.
Antagonists : Not enough chapters read to comment .
This is my personal opinion and everybody is welcome to disapprove.
UserIsNameRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I highly recommend this story and am surprised by its low follower count. The MC gains power quickly—but not too quickly—making him pretty OP without being too extreme. All his "powerups" are logical and never seem to be without reason.
Style: Good. The flow is good, but I'm occasionally confused about who's speaking. However, the fights and everything else are engaging and never interrupt my reading.
Story: MC gets strong, but not too quickly. Everything is thought out and I haven't seen any inconsistencies. The MC has a unique power I've never seen in another story, and I love it. Everything seems to have a reason, and larger storylines are hinted at. The pacing is amazing; there is a mix of fast- and slow-paced chapters, but the story never feels rushed or boring.
Grammar: I've found significantly fewer errors here than in other stories on RR.
Character: Well-thought-out characters with plenty of variation. All the interactions seem realistic. One example is that some characters reappear about 100 chapters later, and MC shows development and corrects his assumptions of them as he gets to know them more.
In summary, this is an amazing story where everything is well thought out. Read it!
Antyl3214Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I simply didn't like it. At the beginning of the story, I don't like to be left in mystery because I'm usually still evaluating the story to see if there's any aspect that catches my attention. It might be considered unfair to not be patient with the author's story at the beginning and try to read it, but I've read a lot of stories online and I've lost that patience. If you don't like it at the beginning, you probably won't like it later in the story.
In this case, the good writing kept me going, but there's a lot of lack of information about the isekai protagonist that makes it difficult to evaluate the quality of the plot produced by the author. It's impossible to know if the story is a generic nonsense of tropes and clichés that no one can stand to read anymore or if the author is making the most original and least popular story.
I can at least say that the first chapter is quite original and interesting to a certain extent, but the part where the protagonist uses the cliché of declaring "I've lost my memory" was a red flag and he decides not to read it anymore.
I'm going to give it a high rating because I don't have enough depth in the story to give it a fair rating.