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  • [PSYCHOKINETIC] EYEBALL PULLING #3 & HERETICAL FISHING

    Posted on May 19, 2024 8:48 am by Offkorn Comment

    The most notable thing about the third Psychokinetic novel is the technical errors. There are quite a few editing-related issues such as garbled/missing words, duplicated sentences (in one case an entire duplicated scene), and even a couple completely indecipherable engrish sentences. Relatively speaking there aren’t that many, but they do unfortunately stand out quite a bit when they appear.

    That issue aside I’m not sold on the story’s progression aspects. The strength of various antagonists just comes across as completely arbitrary with each combat encounter feeling more like stage dressing to justify granting the protagonist higher levels. The implementation of which seems fundamentally flawed in general, individual strength being completely discordant from stated level. So, yeah, I don’t think I’ll be following it any further.

    I’d initially dismissed Amazon’s recommendation of Haylock Jobson‘s Heretical Fishing as too goofy. But after seeing Dungeon of Knowledge‘s author recommend it as well I decided to give it a chance… and I’m sure glad I did.

    While it is absolutely just as goofy a comedy as the description would have you believe, there’s also some bite to the underlying events and background setting. Ultimately what it will come down to is whether or not the comedy style works for you, as it’s what everything else revolves upon. Well, that and being able to relate to a ‘master of the universe’ who threw it all away to go fishing and magically ends up even more well off.

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    This entry was posted in Book Related and tagged Fantasy FreeID Haylock Jobson Heretical Fishing Paranormal Romance [Psychokinetic] Eyeball Pulling
  • Electric Angel & [Psychokinetic] Eyeball Pulling

    Posted on February 12, 2024 1:49 am by Offkorn Comment

    The first of Plum Parrot‘s Cyber Dreams novels has such extreme Cyberpunk 2077 energy that it actually went and made me reinstall the game (which was a mistake since despite the skill overhaul it’s still the same now as it was then). That aside the book’s notable for having a protagonist who makes some extraordinarily dumb mistakes at first only to wise up as events progress, and less fortunately for a cast of characters overly fond of making exhaustingly exclamatory statements… exhausting enough that I’m on the fence regarding whether or not to bother with the follow-ups.

    FreeID‘s [Psychokinetic] Eyeball Pulling series is a bit of a bait and switch, though I’m not sure if it was intentional or something that happened more naturally. Starting out like a hard to describe team-based post-apocalyptic survival sort of thing, by the end of the first book it’s basically become a pure fantasy version of Solo Leveling with a touch of Beneath the Dragoneye Moons. While the setting here is not as well formed as in either of those series (and there are some technical issues in the second book like doubled sentences), the event development manages to scratch that ‘complete domination via overpowered protagonist’ itch perfectly well enough.

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