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Bushido Online: The Battle Begins
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Publisher's Summary
How Often Do You Get a Second Chance in Life?
Seth Kinnaman's dream has always been to become the best fighter the world has ever seen. After spending his entire life training, he's finally ready to test his skills in the biggest tournament on Earth, where hundreds of the fiercest competitors vie for the supreme title.
In the semifinals, Seth is getting the upper hand when his opponent uses an illegal blow to take him out. Upon waking up from a coma, Seth finds out he's lost his sight. He's become blind, and he's completely devastated. All his dreams are now shattered, and he soon falls into depression. What is he going to do with his life?
That's when he's introduced to Bushido Online, a game that promises to keep his skills sharp while he figures out what his next move is going to be. Set in feudal Japan, this VRMMORPG is the land of ninjas and samurai. A world where the most honorable warriors meet the vilest bandits and where mythical creatures roam free. When he'll enter that new reality, Seth will discover that while it's easy to make friends there, one doesn't have to try very hard to get his fair share of powerful enemies.
Soon he's going to have entire clans hunting him down as he struggles to learn the ropes and regain a sense of normalcy. Thankfully, Seth has a few things going for him: his extensive knowledge of combat and a never-say-die attitude.
Bushido Online: The Battle Begins is the first book in the Bushido Online series, a work of litRPG fiction.
Credit: Cover art by Pindurski
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- Xravia
- 25-03-2018
Great premise with lots of potential!
A start is what this book ultimately boils down to with A lot of introductions into interesting concepts and elements within the online universe, alluding to many things that could happen without really commiting to anything yet in regards to customising his personal skills. Hopefully now that the character has reached a personal/emotional milestone he can focus a bit more on the samurai/ ronin premise and elements like capturing territory or developing some side skills/ professions.
coincidence plays quite a big factor in the book, hopefully in the next book the main character can make their own deductions and decisions.
I do have a gripe with the blindness thing, which is if technology had progressed enough to have full immersion VR then why can't they simulate a camera attached to a go-pro or something. solving the root of the problem rather than the aftereffects.
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- Bradley
- 14-05-2018
Awaiting book two, but missing a couple of things.
I've listened to other titles read by Christian Rummel, I like Samurai, and Ready Player One is an annual read for me. So I'm probably the target audience for this novel. Whilst I certainly did enjoy the story there were a couple of things that I struggled with:
The Narration.
As I said, I've listened to other books narrated by Christian Rummel and enjoyed them. He does a fantastic job with all of the character voices, but when it comes to the plain text (non dialogue) and his (or the producers) choice to be completely monotonous/repetitive in tone I really struggled and almost quit the book several times in the first couple of hours.
Get past that and you'll get some great characterisation with the different "players" in Bushido Online.
Two Worlds.
I thoroughly enjoyed Ready Player One and the back and forwards between the Real and Virtual worlds. The real life struggles the character faced when not in the virtual world greatly enhanced the story. That, sadly, is lacking in this story. The fact that the main character becomes blind is a means to an end (getting him into Bushido Online) and nothing more. The story really becomes completely about the virtual world and the physical world plays little to impact on the story aside from a couple of throw away remarks about sleepless nights.
I often found myself asking, ok so what's happening in the real world? How is he providing for his existence, how does he overcome the struggle of the mundane?
Overall.
Putting those aside, this is a really cool story and I'm eagerly awaiting the rest of the series. I can't wait to delve back into Bushido Online. I even went looking for Samurai-esque MMO-RPGs to pass the time whilst waiting for the next books. (Sadly I didn't find any)
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- Lee Redwood. Gorin
- 03-06-2018
one of the good ones
yeah, an good story, could do with more description of the fighting, the guy is an ex world champ and it feels glossed over in parts. also it feels odd that we never had a moment back in the real world dealing with his blindness.
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