The Devil's Cage恶魔囚笼

Demon’s Cage

The first half of the novel is good. Among the “game” based novels the premise of this novel was simple and it works. The dungeons were interesting. Being able to return to dungeons on new quests makes it so that the world of different dungeons are fully explored. Some dungeon plots are very interesting and novel. All in all it’s entertaining for the most part and I would recommend people to give it a try.

That said there are a lot of things which drags down the rating of this novel for me. The first is the main character. In the beginning he is like a cold but kind character. He might not actively help others but he is not cruel. But the character traits change abruptly as the novel proceeds. He has a undead companion who can’t die but can feel pain. He keeps ordering it keep dying in very painful ways so that he can be safe.

There is also a food angle which is introduced mid way very abruptly . Our mc suddenly becomes a foodie. We get a food eating scene in almost every chapter. The author keeps telling how the MC can eat a lot and the reactions of surrounding characters to it. It becomes boring and annoying very quick. But this continues almost till the end.I would say this is one of my biggest gripes with this novel.

The second half becomes boring real quick. One due to the above food paragraphs and the other due to vague translations. I don’t know if the translations are vague or the original itself is vague but a lot of times we don’t understand how the mc has made some scheme or how he got out of the scheme of his enemies. Its always the enemies thinking that they won, the mc commenting “interesting” in the background and then in the end the mc coming put and saying everything is according to his plan. It becomes too silly.

No Romance Sad

If I were to give the rate based on my feelings while reading, it would be 4 star and close to 5 but if I were to give it by thinking bout it then it would be 2 star and close to 1.
It felt like the author wanted to finish it soon but still wanted to come up with sth fairly good.
And here are the problems:
The very first thing is the reason that led him to play the game in the first place; illness or what we didn’t get any particular info on that part and what made me even more confused was the parts where someone would go off. what does it mean? is it possible to go back to the real world? In chapter 34, it was stated that mc logged out of the game to take care of his business and I’m pretty sure that it also happened later on so why didn’t we get anything bout his real life??

Second is the variety of dungeons; the author tried his best to make the first chapters and mid chapters in different themes and all but it was only representing the same thing with another way, why didn’t we see Kieran getting into a dungeon similar to star-wars (timeline and technology)? there could have been sth bout world wars too and some similar cases and even him experiencing several jobs (sth like the detective one)

Third is the similarities between dungeons ; while mystical abilities are so useful and all but I doubt that every player has it and in almost every single world of Kieran the main factor is this ability and he actually has it , surprised ? the second point here is the name of devil , I mean this is unacceptable that there was someone with devil bloodline in Every dungeon or that in every world they happen to call that devil , it would have been more acceptable if it were to at least have different names in different worlds.

Fourth is the title system; it was never stated what should players do to get a title. he got some in the first few runs but we didn’t get to see him getting any other things later down the game despite his feats getting grander and more awesome as time goes by. what I mean is that why should he get a title for defeating a colossal crocodile while he didn’t get any by defeating the so called gods.

Fifth is the reputation reward from clearing dungeons; as before, we got to see this stat having some effect in the first few runs but we never got to see it in the later ones despite him amassing this stat by gaining really high scores from clearings.

Sixth is the plot; the plot couldn’t bloom! we didn’t get any in-depth descriptions and information bout The way the plot developed, the author didn’t even bother to give more info even bout the events that made huge impacts in the novel like how these dungeon worlds affect each other and how could someone go from this dungeon to another dungeon???? (I didn’t read the last few chapters)

Seventh is the pets; we didn’t get to see snow wolf and fire raven in the last 400 chapters or so; while I myself was looking forward to the changes brought upon snow wolf by it evolving.

Eighth is the excessive use of particular actions; after a certain point, every single being that killed someone would shake their sword or whatever and make a line of blood; also the good habits of mc’s eating was in the highlight way too many times (I’m not saying that I didn’t like it, just stating that even excessive usage of a good thing would not necessarily remain as one)

Ninth is the dungeons and specially team dungeon; why didn’t he choose to do some team dungeons? While he got one of his best rewards from one. Its arguable but I’m pretty sure that he could have made quite the reward from clearing them so I don’t see the reason why didn’t our stingy mc try clearing some more team dungeons? He had the capabilities so just why?

Btw do ya guys remember that the deadlines of not going into dungeons was stated? I don’t remember when it was but I’m sure that there was such a thing.
(for those who are wondering how long clearing a dungeon



Sorry mates this review is not complete and I will try to update it later.
Thank you ^^

Diamond in the dust

amazing must read one of my favorites

One of my top 15 novels. I totally would recommend it to others! The Mission story is actually entertaining (Most of them, but it remains consistent), and it actually feels like a game. The NPCs genuinely feel alive and leaves an impression. No Romance, sadly, but his friends do. MC slowly builds his personality as he meets friends and hangs with them.

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