
Rules-Based Horror: 4016
规则类怪谈:4016
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I subscribed and saw Chapter 52. The evaluation is that the author has more problems than the article. First of all, it is admitted that the reading experience at the beginning of the novel is very poor. This has nothing to do with the plot, but a poor reading experience due to the rare protagonist. The specific manifestations are the following two points. The protagonist's logical induction ability is very average (being criticized by Duan Ping as being mentally retarded); secondly, the motivation is unreasonable (for 30,000 yuan to cure a disease, he risks his life to explore the truth). Some people or authors have explained these, but they are completely unconvincing to my understanding. First, the motivation of the protagonist. First of all, the foreshadowing is obvious. The identity of the protagonist is not simple, the motivation of the protagonist is not simple, and curing grandma is not necessarily the correct motivation. It is not difficult for these readers to understand. But the question is, do we know this? Does the protagonist at the beginning of the article also agree that he has another purpose for coming here? The author likes to describe the protagonist's psychology in large sections, and it is clearly mentioned that the protagonist was persuaded by Ryoko's words and believed that he was doing medical treatment for his grandma in order to make money. So no matter what the truth is, his behavioral logic at the moment is to live well and leave safely. This is completely contradictory to him jumping around the edge of the rules to explore the truth. At the beginning, he is an "ordinary person" with pure purpose and high inspiration. Secondly, the protagonist's logical problems and behavioral logic are unclear. A common danger of strange rules is that the rules are unclear and there are traps or contradictions in the rules, which makes it dangerous to act according to the rules. This situation is one of the motivations for the protagonists of many ghost novels to explore the truth in order to protect themselves. But this novel is different. At least in the first fifty pictures, all the rules the protagonist encounters are set for the safety of students, and although following the rules may not necessarily solve all dangers, it can not only ensure the safety of students as much as possible, but also resolve crises under certain circumstances. In this weird world, just follow the rules. Not to mention that there is a Ryoko next to the protagonist who has downloaded the dungeon, and several sports students are giving hints, but the protagonist still questions the rules and always ignores them. It is not until he is in crisis that he suddenly realizes "the rules are right!". I don't understand what the protagonist's sense of crisis is when he doesn't follow the rules? The author later made it clear that the protagonist's inspiration can easily lead him into danger. This is clearly reflected in several small plots in the gymnasium in about 40 or 50 photos. This part of the reading experience is relatively better. But! It's impossible to clean up the protagonist's outrageous actions in the early stage! High inspiration will lead to danger, but the danger in many aspects has nothing to do with inspiration, it is simply the protagonist not following the rules. Secondly, why do some readers say that the protagonist is a smart fool. Rules and weird talk, especially this kind of weird talk space with certain unscientific elements. In itself, you need to understand it according to the rules of this world. But the protagonist always tests the red line of the rules using the experience of ordinary people. Let me give you two examples: "The rules say that after the classroom lights flash, don't lower your head, don't look up, and don't look around." The protagonist's response is, "It's okay if the lights are not completely out." So he raised his head and looked around. "The rules say that you must study by yourself in the classroom before 7:40, and you should not look at the people and noises outside the window during self-study." The protagonist heard the noise outside at six o'clock and began to look outside despite the dissuasion of his teammates. The explanation given is "It's already dawn, the lights have changed, I'll see, it should be fine" Which genius came up with this stupid logic? I understand that the author put a lot of effort into the opening and characters, and laid out a lot of foreshadowing. But is it possible that your foreshadowing and your poor reading experience are not things that must occur at the same time? It's normal that you want to gradually explore the rules through the protagonist. But can you leave it to the character Long Tao to do stupid things that no normal person would do? Is there anything wrong with the main character's side-viewing summary? For example, the biggest flaw in the first twenty chapters is that the protagonist himself feels, and is clearly told by others, that thinking outside the rules will lead to danger. He still did this again and again, and finally, in the author's writing, the protagonist very "smartly" concluded "Don't think about things outside the rules." If you throw this series of stupid behaviors to a supporting character, such as the suspense blogger of the game Fanatics and Monsters, and let him commit suicide, and then the protagonist records this rule, wouldn't it be a better reading experience? In the early stage, everyone complained about the protagonist's behavioral logic. If you make the protagonist look like he is being targeted by an abnormal classmate in the classroom, and throw him into a mandatory life danger that cannot be directly solved by superficial rules, then readers will not say anything about how the protagonist explores the rules later.
Reading this novel requires the understanding that the male protagonist's behavioral logic is weaker than that of ordinary people. 🙂. Why, after reading chapter 18, the male protagonist needs to review and think over and over again to draw a conclusion. The readers can probably draw the conclusion on the spot, and not only one person can draw the conclusion, but almost all readers can see it. This leads to the fact that when a large amount of ink is used to describe the conclusion that the male protagonist has experienced after a lot of thinking, there are often comments like "that's it", because readers really feel that this is it!! If the male protagonist's logical ability cannot be reduced below the level of ordinary people, the reading experience will be very poor. And there is no positive feedback for the male protagonist's actions. Oh, that's right, by chapter 18, there is no positive feedback. On the contrary, the behavior of the male supporting actor, including his logic, is all positive feedback, and he keeps saving the male protagonist. If it weren't for the dual-protagonist route, why would the male supporting actor be stealing the show? There is no problem with the setting of this book, and there is no problem with the plot. The problem lies entirely with the male protagonist. What kind of male protagonist did the author want to write about? I really can't stand the stupid male protagonist. After all, this novel is different from the cool novel that stores the brain. This is a rule-based fantasy novel. Readers can make logical deductions while reading. Some serious ones (like me) can take notes. This leads to the fact that as long as the logic of the male protagonist's behavior is weaker than that of the reader, the anger of "I can fuck me" is really unreadable. What a waste of plot settings. I originally said that I would stick with it until chapter 20 to see if the male protagonist has made any progress, but this is a stupid thing to do and I can't hold on. After all, in less than an hour in the plot, the male protagonist made contradictory decisions such as "think again when we get to a safe zone" and "think about it immediately", which is a profound portrayal of the instability of the mind, not to mention using hundreds of words to let the male protagonist come to the conclusion that the reader came to a chapter or two ago... Even if you let the male protagonist complain that the conclusion he came to is exactly what the male partner is doing, it will not change the result that he looks like a fool.
After reading 300 chapters, I commented that it is a horror novel with a very personal style and the most Cthulhu Mythos style.
Key points: My evaluation of this book is "the longest and most rushed novel I have ever seen, but it is also the most Cthulhu-style novel that performs extremely well in the middle period (no one). Avoidance points: Avoidance points I said earlier, this is very important. I think the author has a particularly good sense of writing but It is a poor writing ability, which is manifested in writing according to his own ideas without considering the feelings of more readers. (More importantly, I think the author does not have the writing power to make compromises. The author knows that writing according to his own ideas will definitely drive away customers in the early stage, but he does not have the ability to hint readers or give readers a temporary sense of satisfaction to get through the early stage. A series of persuasive actions by the character). Features: The foreplay is too long, but even with Cthulhu, the mid-term (reading more than 300 chapters) is much better than most unfinished horror masterpieces (so far, there is no obvious balance collapse, and in many well-known horror novels, the collapse has already occurred to the sky). , Failure is also a foreplay. The author is very good at constructing a complete immersive logical chain of Cthulhu horror stories, but he lacks strong conception and poor writing skills. Summary: 1. If you are not a fan of horror novels, there is no need to waste time, please leave it directly. 2. Fans of suspense novels are advised to give up. This group of readers usually focuses on the thriller atmosphere and focuses on the plot and story, especially those with strong stupidity. I don't think you can endure a hundred chapters of foreplay. 3. Horror novel lovers (who like to immerse themselves in a thriller atmosphere), it is recommended to read several other favorite novels at hand (or even go to Archaeological Air Conditioner, Fire, Yixiao, Aunt Shui, etc.), And then you can read this book after there are no more books to read. Personal Thoughts: I endured the stupidity and kept reading because I didn't think there was anything to read (I resisted, but I still commented and scolded it once or twice). It's exactly the same as what many people said. It started to change a little at chapter 60-70 (but I still hate stupidity), and then it got more and more interesting (almost 100 chapters?). At more than 300 chapters, I already feel that this novel has a grander setting (especially the world view), a more complete and self-consistent logic, and a very accurate description of the horror atmosphere. The contrast between the protagonist's mental retardation in the early stage and the gradual completion of the logical chain in the later period is particularly obvious. I think the shortcomings of this novel are that the world view is too grand, and the setting and foreshadowing are too late. As a result, the early stage is very crowded (it is true that the early stage of the novel is extremely crowded), but due to the slow entry, this novel is the most Cthulhu horror-style novel I have read so far. Because if you have a fast pace in the early stage, your early preparation will be very insufficient, and the later settings will be very abrupt and destroy the balance (and destroy the horror atmosphere).
What's the use of so many compliments in book reviews? Talk about getting through it, but in chapter 80, the protagonist still hasn't grown at all and is still bluffing. This is why readers are losing so much. A very simple problem is that buildings in different areas are on different layers, and he has a way to solve this problem. Logically speaking, 01 has been aware of this phenomenon for a long time, so he should be mentally prepared when he sees a new building or a building on other layers, instead of still being "shocked" and thinking, "The sense of space is wrong, is it really a place?" I found that skipping after chapter 40 does not affect reading at all. Why, because the author is emphasizing the same issue. The only difference is that the scene is changed from the dormitory to the cafeteria to the teaching building. It is a pure scene change.
Read Chapter 20 and it will make me angry. The setting is very good. The protagonist is too smart. The student rules and the supporting characters' warnings on how to avoid risks are clearly stated. However, the protagonist turns a deaf ear and has to be beaten to find out. Oh, it turns out that being beaten will hurt! The protagonist must summarize things that others have summarized once, and then come to the same conclusion as others, and then continue to commit suicide. It can only be said that without the halo of the protagonist, this kind of character generally cannot survive one chapter. I finally understand why I was so angry about watching The Nest, because in other supernatural novels, this kind of character is a little loser who always explores the way around the protagonist. When the protagonist is clearly in danger, this kind of character always does not believe in evil, and then uses his own life to help the protagonist explore information. The little fat man and the aunt at the beginning of Infinite Horror, Zhe Tian also had such people when he entered Mars. Various novels have such a pathfinder, but this novel actually uses such characters as the protagonists. I can't understand it.
It's not that the first few dozen chapters are too addictive. After reading almost 20 chapters, I can't stand it anymore. I really don't know how high your anti-drug physique is for those of you who can see the exciting parts.
After reading the beginning, let me tell you my opinion.
There is something really wrong with the way this opening is written, and this is evident from the many negative reviews of this chapter. Dissatisfaction with the portrayal of the protagonist is the feeling of most normal readers. No matter what great ideas and logic the author has, the portrayal of the protagonist in the early chapters is outrageous. Even if you are setting up the plot for the later chapters, you should not portray the protagonist in such a negative way. The second male lead reminds you throughout the whole process and the sportsman comes to the rescue at critical moments. The protagonist just gets rescued here and there and then makes a fool of himself. Maybe the author can come back after dozens or hundreds of chapters, but to be honest, the number of words in an opening is enough for a novella, and the protagonist still makes a lot of mistakes. This does not mean that the protagonist cannot trigger something to advance the plot, but it is not appropriate to depict a protagonist who has no reason to explore and keeps making mistakes. He still refuses to listen to advice and has no ability to think (I studied five or six chapters with my life and came to the conclusion that the rules should be followed. It is impossible to find the source of motivation for the protagonist to keep doing things. This aspect is purely a problem of the author's writing skills. You can say at the beginning that the bonus is 3 million, and the protagonist must use this money to save his grandma, or because several good brothers were arrested at the beginning Life or death is uncertain, and the protagonist must save them. Even many authors who are not good at writing, the whole task of deus ex machina, must find the answer. The core is: let the readers recognize that the protagonist should explore and find the truth. There may be many secrets hidden in the author's heart, and there are reasons why the protagonist has to explore that the readers do not know. I really don't know. You should at least reveal it more specifically, instead of writing 200,000 words, the main character is still the image of a pig teammate. After all, I really like the design of this novel, but it is a pity that these problems in the beginning are not regrettable. I feel that the deletion of comments in book reviews is quite serious, so I will let it go and help the author improve it in the next novel.
This novel is written... Everyone who can read it is ruthless
What the hell? The original "gram" and "weird rules"? Are Cthulhu and rules ghost stories conflicting with each other? The essence of the Ke system is that fear comes from the unknown, from being unknowable and unable to be understood by others, while the rule ghost talk is a clear rule, and fear comes from the punishment caused by breaking the rules. The combination of the two is like saying that an object moves at a constant speed with an acceleration of a positive real number.
The character of the protagonist in the first few dozen chapters is really discouraging. Unlike the protagonist, he is more like a supporting character who is holding back. He is a mentally retarded person who loves to commit suicide and thinks he is very clever. However, the settings in the later chapters are very exciting. The meaning of the rules behind the code is explained. The protagonist also changes from passive to active through the early stage and later on, which is very exciting. It is very interesting to abide by the rules, understand the rules, and use the rules.