King Game

There’s some good and bad. I’d personally have this sit somewhere at a 4.0 rating, by mangaread standards.

Good: The characters are cool, all of them, in their own ways. The important action scenes are cool. The unique interactions are interesting, some that would normally not make sense made by other manhwas are addressed here. (Eg. Openly talking about something that should be kept a secret.) Although the setting is generic, with the whole bully-organizations thing, the premise itself is new, which I find refreshing. (Even if the execution was pretty bad.)

Bad: The entire story feels forced in a way. The entire plot, and the “mind battles.” Most of it feels very bland. While I said the important action scenes were cool, those only come around every so often, the rest are very boring. There’s only so much tension you can create after the tenth time of creating (basically) the same scenario, multiple times. Some character’s actions make no sense, just to extend the current scenario going on.

The MC’s character growth, it feels as if there’s none. He feels the same as he did from chapter 10 till’ chapter 77. His brother was a way more compelling character. I know some people really want the MC to start training as he has the same genes as his brother but, I couldn’t care less about that; he’s just very boring compared to his brother.

The story seems to have gone nowhere since it’s begun. I mean, it has but, the end goal seems as far away as it was in the beginning. Unless we get a time skip or something, the story seems as if it’s going to stretch itself out.