A new update arrives to the ultra-popular online game, Realm of Arkon. With Patch 17, the level of immersion experienced by players in their gaming capsules has made virtual reality indistinguishable from the real world. But every gamer’s dream becomes a nightmare for Roman Kozhevnikov after he gets confined to Arkon against his will. And not just to Arkon, but to its deadliest zone – Demon Grounds. Playing – or rather living – as his character Krian, it’s not just about survival for Roman. He longs to exact revenge for his banishment to the virtual world where the sensation of pain has reached 100 percent…
fun fluff LitRPG, well translated Fun fluff in the LitRPG genre. Having read a *lot* more in this genre since reading this, I have to admit that in some ways this is better than most of its peers. I think partly it’s the very solid and polished translation; I honestly didn’t think while reading it about it being (yet another) russian to english port. The editing isn’t perfect, but it is better than most of the better known ones. And it’s fun. It also avoids some conventions that most of the russian LitRPG authors fall into; not…
Great fun for gamers and bookworms alike Full disclosure — I am the book’s translator. Naturally, you can expect me to have a certain bias, wanting to see the book do well, etc. All of that is true, but I’ll try to be objective with my review.Â
Realm of Arkon #1 – Russian LitRPG This one was just okay for me. A bit of translation funkiness here and there (this work was originally written in Russian and translated to English). The author makes some interesting choices with extended flashbacks to set-up some of the quests our main character must undertake. These tend to take you away from the story at hand more than add context and background to the world our main character finds himself in. The main issue I had with this one is that the main character spends way too…