AkumaOuja
Versed in the lewd.
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I came across an isekai that I was actually immensely pleasantly surprised by with "The Exiled Reincarnated Heavy Knight Is Unrivaled in Game Knowledge" which might actually be the only time I've seen someone both explain why someone who played a game might have better system knowledge than a society that lived it [that being that making a lot of mistakes for your build can be crippling or fatal if you're going out to be an adventurer or a soldier or something, and those are the people who are gonna rack up the most levels and thus be able to actually try shit out, so experimenting rather than going with proven things is risky when you don't have the ability to just role a new character or click a button to skill reset or whatever and you can't consult an online guide made by data miners] that made a fair degree of sense, and also actually was honest about the whole thing of "This class is actually bad" because his own efforts to minmax it just resulted in him being about as strong as a 90s/2000s anime adventure protagonist so he still struggles a fair bit.
Bro literally just said "Look I think armor tanking is really cool so I'm gonna see if I can jank up a way to make the build serviceable, not great, maybe not even really good, just serviceable, because now instead of being really good at the worst kind of tanking, it can also do pretty respectable damage" and it's actually depicted that way pretty consistently rather than "Woe is me, weak class, lemme just use this super obvious immediately available exploit to become super strong." and it works out pretty well. Fights often end up coming down to nicely drawn out brawls and clever tricks with positioning or taking risks or the environment as much as anything else, and he relies a reasonable bit on his team mates who are all pretty great too without making the mistake of going too far in the opposite direct and just being kind of a loser or a gimmick.
It's not exactly high class fair, but overall once it gets rolling and gets a few of the mandatory genre things out of the way [getting kicked out for having a shitty class and having a weird yandere cousin who wanted his familial position didn't super bring much to the table...but it's also kinda irrelevant fairly quickly, just felt like the author was obligated to have it and got it out of the way], it's actually pretty great to follow this brick shithouse and a cute clown rogue and their friends just going on adventures.
Also for some inexplicable reason Dollar-Store Shikamaru is here and he's somehow better at being Shikamaru than actual Shikamaru despite being a flaky guy with a bow.
Bro literally just said "Look I think armor tanking is really cool so I'm gonna see if I can jank up a way to make the build serviceable, not great, maybe not even really good, just serviceable, because now instead of being really good at the worst kind of tanking, it can also do pretty respectable damage" and it's actually depicted that way pretty consistently rather than "Woe is me, weak class, lemme just use this super obvious immediately available exploit to become super strong." and it works out pretty well. Fights often end up coming down to nicely drawn out brawls and clever tricks with positioning or taking risks or the environment as much as anything else, and he relies a reasonable bit on his team mates who are all pretty great too without making the mistake of going too far in the opposite direct and just being kind of a loser or a gimmick.
It's not exactly high class fair, but overall once it gets rolling and gets a few of the mandatory genre things out of the way [getting kicked out for having a shitty class and having a weird yandere cousin who wanted his familial position didn't super bring much to the table...but it's also kinda irrelevant fairly quickly, just felt like the author was obligated to have it and got it out of the way], it's actually pretty great to follow this brick shithouse and a cute clown rogue and their friends just going on adventures.
Also for some inexplicable reason Dollar-Store Shikamaru is here and he's somehow better at being Shikamaru than actual Shikamaru despite being a flaky guy with a bow.
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