Max's coworkers treat him like hot garbage and his manager is a superficial dolt. It might be worth it if he made any money but he doesn't. Unfortunately for him, his fate was sealed before he was even born and it's way worse than working part-time in a coffee shop.
Confronted out of the blue by a cackling demonic entity from another world, like a lot of things in his life, Max doesn't take it seriously. So when he's yanked by his bones into that world, he's given every disadvantage the demon can dish out.
Finding that he's fallen feet first into an old RPG game his dad played on the NES back in the 90s, Max is immediately given two quests: Find the imprisoned girl with the green eyes, and survive. He's not sure which one's worse.
My Opinion: 210 pages, $0.99, Available On Kindle Unlimited
There were some technical issues with reading on the phone but they've been straightened out. So if you had missing pages and gave up, you might try it again.
The main character is sent to a retro video game world as a Monster Main Character (MC) with a series goal of saving the world before time runs out. So the MC starts as a level 1, 1 HP, skeleton but he has access to all the jobs available in the game. He just has to stop getting killed by low level monsters to level up enough to take advantage of this boon.
I really liked the setup. Access to all the classes, even with a weak starting body. I expected the MC to utilize that to switch classes and complete quests to unlock more classes to switch to, like in FF Tactics. Instead, the story is mostly slice of life adventuring and leveling with video game joke nods. The MC is a skeleton, but it isn't used as well as I hoped it would be. I'd expected some monster evolutions or special monster abilities. But beyond him not being poisoned, it didn’t amount to much. The fact that the MC can access all the classes wasn’t developed at all except as a novel goal. Instead, the MC picks a Bruiser class and trudges along with it even though it only increases his vitality stat a point a level and leaves the rest of his stats at 0, which to me should mean he does no damage. Also that the MC can be killed but doesn’t really die, he revives after a short time, lessened the tension and consequence of him being weak early on.
There’s a pretty decent sense of humor in the story and the characters weren’t uninteresting. But there’s way too much talking and not enough doing and not nearly enough action for most of the story. Especially if there is a story goal of level grinding and advancing classes.
Overall, the promising story setup didn’t pay off and while the adventuring wasn’t bad, it wasn’t particularly good either. It just didn’t end up working for me. Though if you are looking for something with more dialogue the story might work for you.
Score: 6 out of 10