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The First Player AlterGame Book #1 LitRPG Series eBook Andrew Novak

Jack, using resources gained from the real life Wasteland, has found and begun an epic quest. He feels driven to succeed in the quest - the RPG world of Alterra has become more real to him than life itself.

At first this book and series may seem to be all about the quest within Alterra, but dialogue and action within RPG and real life proceed simultaneously.
The world has been devastated by the Gendemic - Alpha's ruling from within their citadel like city, and Omega's existing however they can. Jack the tramp wanders the Wasteland, gleaning what he can from what remains, and playing Alterra to enjoy what the real world can no longer supply.

Integration of the game and real life action and plot is a bit rough at times within the book, but eventually support each other well enough that the reader realized that they are completely interconnected. A small number of Alpha players need as many players in Alterra as possible - the reason is as of yet unanswered.The

The game mechanics are greatly simplified - XP is expertise and is similar to leveling. Health is also included, and appears to advance with XP. Every 10 XP, new skills are learned. Quest dialogue is similar to other games, with rewards being good coins, and perhaps an XP and/or a skill of two.
The abbreviated mechanics makes player evaluation and comparison difficult...

A good start but, given the many directions the author could take this series, only a start. For some reason, reading this gave me a somewhat "dull" feeling with potions being a bit flat. That may be due to translation.
Give this book a try - the price is reasonable.


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The First Player AlterGame Book #1 LitRPG Series eBook Andrew Novak Reviews

While I enjoyed the first half of the book I thought that the story druged on to much . I found my self jumping ahead because I was getting bored. I love the characters and the plots but this book couldn't hold my attention.
It is a near New take on the standard apocalypse plot (the Gendemic) mixed with a LITRPG world today keep the peace. An excellent unique contribution to the genre.
I don't have any fault with this book. It was good and well rounded. The main character is a resourceful and motivated individual who pursues his goal after finding a means to an end in his day job as a scavenger.
This is one of those novels where the story takes place as much in the real world as it does in the VR game world. For, me that doesn’t pose a problem in itself. However, the descriptive differences between the two worlds does. Before I get into that here are the things I like about the story.

Like

The real world, post-apocalyptic, setting is wonderfully described and I could picture myself in the desolate wastelands of the world. Everything. From the characters to the mutants that roam the wild parts of the world are interesting and this is one of the few instances where I enjoy the time the story spends in the real world.

The main character, Jack, is hard as nails when he needs to be and is the ultimate survivor in the cruel post-apocalyptic world. Yet, he still has a soft spot for the weak and needy. Great character.

I liked the real world consequences of the main character stumbling upon an abandoned game quest line. It made the things the character did in game have more weight since he’s not only being hunted in game but in real life too.

The meta-theme of the underdog struggle of the lowborn against the well funded powerful upper class.

Dislike

One of the fundamental problems with the story is that it asks me to suspend my sense of reason just a little too much. Perhaps it’s because I’ve watched too many post-apocalyptic movies or read to many of those types of novels but I regularly found myself asking ‘why does everyone seem to have so much time to play this game?’ In a post-apocalyptic future where most people are struggling to find enough food to survive, you’d think they’d have something better to do. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t something that ruins the story or anything. It’s just something that bothered me through my reading.

Found the real world, more fleshed out than the virtual one. There’s a lot of lore in this novel but not a lot of descriptive text that makes the virtual world feel fully fleshed out. I never really felt like the VR world was real, it always felt hollow.

Early on, the story feels a little awkward. This is likely due to some minor translation issues but it’s mainly because of the lack of detail about the game world. The main MC travels to several locations in the game world following an old quest chain for the dark goddess. Yet, each place never feels fleshed out. Even though the MC is being chased in game by a guild. There’s no sense of urgency until there are also real world consequences which don’t happen till about half way through the story.

Overall, I enjoyed reading the story. However, that was mostly because of the real world aspects. The game world never felt engaging and the lack of details about game mechanics was a real turn off. There’s enough there that I’m comfortable calling it LitRPG but not enough to give a strong recommend based on that part of the story alone.

Score 6 out of 10.
I really liked this book. I think it needs a bit more polish and editing time to get it to a 5 stars story but the story was pretty enjoyable as it is and I look forward to the next book in the series.
Solid LitRPG paired with an interesting post-apoc real world. Good story with some clever plot twists. Personally, I liked the revelation of Egghead's identity I didn't see it coming. Overall, a good engaging read. Recommended.
This book is a different type of LitRPG novel. Set in a post apocalyptic earth, our main character is known as a Walker. A person who travels the wastes looking & scavenging for interesting items. This translates over into our character in the game world of Alterra.
The story itself is rather good, let down occasionally by the missing word, incorrect word, or doubled up words, but these are normally well separated, and mostly in the latter half of the book.
Whilst I did enjoy the book, it didn't reach out and grab me, I could quite easily put the book down and find other sources of entertainment or work.
The second book may be a little more interesting - will wait and see what the sampler is like.
Jack, using resources gained from the real life Wasteland, has found and begun an epic quest. He feels driven to succeed in the quest - the RPG world of Alterra has become more real to him than life itself.

At first this book and series may seem to be all about the quest within Alterra, but dialogue and action within RPG and real life proceed simultaneously.
The world has been devastated by the Gendemic - Alpha's ruling from within their citadel like city, and Omega's existing however they can. Jack the tramp wanders the Wasteland, gleaning what he can from what remains, and playing Alterra to enjoy what the real world can no longer supply.

Integration of the game and real life action and plot is a bit rough at times within the book, but eventually support each other well enough that the reader realized that they are completely interconnected. A small number of Alpha players need as many players in Alterra as possible - the reason is as of yet unanswered.The

The game mechanics are greatly simplified - XP is expertise and is similar to leveling. Health is also included, and appears to advance with XP. Every 10 XP, new skills are learned. Quest dialogue is similar to other games, with rewards being good coins, and perhaps an XP and/or a skill of two.
The abbreviated mechanics makes player evaluation and comparison difficult...

A good start but, given the many directions the author could take this series, only a start. For some reason, reading this gave me a somewhat "dull" feeling with potions being a bit flat. That may be due to translation.
Give this book a try - the price is reasonable.