I devoured the first chapters of this manhwa, but I was feeling more and more conflicted the closer I got to the end.
To keep it short: author executed their idea poorly and rushed some things. I loved the plot-twist that black hair was actually a villain and how badass MC was, while discovering and setting traps for both of the guys.
However, author fucked up by spending so much time building up the black haired guy, leaving the actual ML in the background for too long. Probably (in my opinion), author tried to make readers feel betrayed like MC by setting this up as a perfect love story and slowly turning it into a horror. But it all felt too much and unrealistic in terms of character development.
It showed how much the black haired guy loved MC. He thought he wasn’t worthy, so he never pushed to be together with her and just wanted her to be happy. Then he saw she wasn’t happy, tried to manipulate the situation and just made her miserable. My problem is that it felt too sudden. As MC said a few times in the manhwa, people don’t do just stuff out of nowhere. If author showed his problematic behaviour before he just went from 0 to 100, then this wouldn’t be a problem. But this whole thing felt like author kept just throwing one thing after another to make the guy the biggest piece of shit without any redeemable characteristics. There was no build-up.
Then the actual ML didn’t get ANY attention or redemption. He got so overshadowed by the fake ML that it’s no wonder people don’t care much about the ending. If author included him more and showed more moments with MC then he wouldn’t be so bleak.
In other words, author backed themselves into a corner by making black haired guy more likable than the actual ML, so they tried to make him as evil as possible and as quick as possible.
Also, the whole thing with god just felt so cringy and unnecessary? God’s motive for sending both of them back was ‘to have fun’, but like… aren’t they omnipotent and omniscient? They know everything about past, present, future and all the alternative futures. God already knew from the beginning how the ‘game’ will go and end, so why????
Anyways, I still feel more emotions towards the black-haired guy rather than the actual ML. Not awful, but could be better. I wanted to like this manhwa so bad, but I just can’t T_T
I devoured the first chapters of this manhwa, but I was feeling more and more conflicted the closer I got to the end.
To keep it short: author executed their idea poorly and rushed some things. I loved the plot-twist that black hair was actually a villain and how badass MC was, while discovering and setting traps for both of the guys.
However, author fucked up by spending so much time building up the black haired guy, leaving the actual ML in the background for too long. Probably (in my opinion), author tried to make readers feel betrayed like MC by setting this up as a perfect love story and slowly turning it into a horror. But it all felt too much and unrealistic in terms of character development.
It showed how much the black haired guy loved MC. He thought he wasn’t worthy, so he never pushed to be together with her and just wanted her to be happy. Then he saw she wasn’t happy, tried to manipulate the situation and just made her miserable. My problem is that it felt too sudden. As MC said a few times in the manhwa, people don’t do just stuff out of nowhere. If author showed his problematic behaviour before he just went from 0 to 100, then this wouldn’t be a problem. But this whole thing felt like author kept just throwing one thing after another to make the guy the biggest piece of shit without any redeemable characteristics. There was no build-up.
Then the actual ML didn’t get ANY attention or redemption. He got so overshadowed by the fake ML that it’s no wonder people don’t care much about the ending. If author included him more and showed more moments with MC then he wouldn’t be so bleak.
In other words, author backed themselves into a corner by making black haired guy more likable than the actual ML, so they tried to make him as evil as possible and as quick as possible.
Also, the whole thing with god just felt so cringy and unnecessary? God’s motive for sending both of them back was ‘to have fun’, but like… aren’t they omnipotent and omniscient? They know everything about past, present, future and all the alternative futures. God already knew from the beginning how the ‘game’ will go and end, so why????
Anyways, I still feel more emotions towards the black-haired guy rather than the actual ML. Not awful, but could be better. I wanted to like this manhwa so bad, but I just can’t T_T