World Seed: Game Start
World Seed Series, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Neil Hellegers
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By:
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Justin Miller
About this listen
The year is 2245, and the world has undergone explosive growth in multiple industries. The age of Virtual Reality came long ago, opening up new fields for people to enjoy and seek employment. There were even those that chose to sacrifice their physical bodies, becoming digital existences that lived within Internet communities.
But with the age of VR, everyone still dreamed of that next step, the next level of adventure. And after 100 years, it has finally arrived. The first consoles, known as Seeds, are mass distributed among the people, with such realism that they no longer qualified as a Virtual Reality, but as an Artificial Reality. But what happens when things become too real?
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- The Keyboard
- 20-05-2023
One big training montage and that's it
Great writing and a well imagined world, ruined by absolutely zero storyline or interesting things that happen.
I feel like this book's biggest weakness is a result of the books biggest strength. Too much time has been put into imagining this world in wonderful, glorious detail and not enough time has been put into creating an exciting, stimulating story to occur within it. The result is an 11 hour training montage where the hero gets a whole bunch of cool powers and then does absolutely nothing with them. There's no princess (or prince!) to rescue, no bad guy to defeat, no town to save, no calamity to prevent.
The whole thing is just a slow and very slice-of-life exploration of the MC's powers as he enters a new world. We get hints at a larger storyline at around the 4-hour mark, but even then he just goes back to training immediately after!
I mean, I love slice of life when it's done right. But this isn't that type of slice of life.
This isn't a poorly written book. The writer actually has great line-by-line technique (with the exception of a big issue with swapping between past and present tense). But be prepared for lots of training montage and 'oh wow I need to learn a spell I'm going to spend several hours doing it' scenes. I mean, there's literally a chapter titled 'training montage.' If only it was the only section of the book where that happens. The book is literally full of multi-day training montages, and... that's about it. Occasionally he'll go out and fight a monster, but then immediately after he'll just go right back to training up his powers.
On the upside, the world feels alive and populated with other players. Well this is primarily a story about a solo MC, he regularly meets up with other players, so the world feels full, vibrant and populated.
Overall, this book wasn't for me. I'd even go as far as saying for most people that want a traditional story where the hero goes on an adventure, this story won't be for them either. However, if you're the sort of person that loves reading world-building handbooks, or can pour for hours over a D&D reference manual, or just love staying in the starting area of a game and exploring every inch of your powers without getting into the actual adventure part of the game, this might be a perfect book for you.
Everyone else though should give this one a miss.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- John
- 24-03-2020
World Seed : Game Start
I bloody love this book and series Justin Miller did a bloody brilliant job on this book.
the characters and world that the author created .Is brilliant you must to listen to and owned.
And with the voice acting talents and skills of Neil Hellegers makes the characters and world come alive with his narration.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- bother beast
- 18-02-2023
Good with one problem
I enjoy this series which i recommend to anyone interested in litrpg.
Nothing ground breaking but solid, reliable, steady development. Protagonist isnt OP, no sudden surge in power gain, and best of all, no harem's or neckbeard fantasies.
Only criticism is the use of the work smirk.
Two problems:
1- overuse
2- i dont think this word means what you think it means. A smirk is a condescending/supercilious smile. A nasty smile.
Smirk is frequently used in situations where people are friendly.
Unless of course the protagonist is meant to be an unpleasant person who walks around mocking everyone around him, in which case, spot on.
Cheers
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