chris's Reviews > Accidental Champion: A LitRPG Adventure

Frustrating start into good story

TLDR: I enjoyed the story and will continue to read the series, but I was frustrated by some of the MC early choices.

Overall, I enjoyed the story. The initial premise with the system introduction is cool and helps set the view people have of the system quite quickly. The MC is interesting in that they are not supposed to be an amazing champion from the get-go. But by taking the opportunities when they are presented, he builds a solid power base to continue facing the challenges the system presents with his team. He does fall into the 'I'm a mage, but i like to hit enemies up close' trope, which is sad as I was hoping for a full mage story.

My main frustration with the MC/story occurs within the first 15%-20% of the story. I dont know if this is an author issue or if they wanted to make the MC seem shortsighted, but there are several times where the MC could try and test out how abilites work, at no stated trade off, but just doesn't. For example, early on, the MC gains four abilities and placed in a life and death challenge, and of these four, they ignore one completely and ignore another after using a fraction of its utility and decides they are both useless and should be forgotten asap. If, instead, the author took the time to show the MC testing these abilities before labelling them as not what the MC needs, which the author does later in the story with a different set of choices, then i would have been happier with the MCs thought process in the beginning.