I have read through the whole 647 chapters within the past 2 weeks. Despite the fact, that I had to read the story on screen rather than holding a physical book in my hands, I kept on reading until the very last of the currently available chapters and I am eagerly awaiting new ones.

As English is not my native language, I still find the story easy to read. By the time of reading, a hand full of typos and grammatical errors have been pointed out by previous readers and have been fixed. So from my perspective, it is well written and apart from overusing the expression "pout" as default behaviour for female expressions, I don't see any flaws.

In the beginning, I was quite sceptical because of all the cliché elements (cat girl companion, harem containing a loli, someone with pointy ears some beastkin and some muscle girl, average guy becoming a superpower, the abolutely loyal maid nad so on) and feared, that the story would be similar to the rest of that heap. I was proven wrong and the characters developed away rather quick from those stereotypes. The same goes for the story.

There are a lot of reviews around chapter 45/50, rating the story rather lowly for a couple of repeating reasons. The reviewers were criticizing the main character for his lack of "superiority", for being picked on by the girls he created for his harem. The story was being criticized for the lack of romance, its slow pace, so many subplots and so on. So I decided to review this from my point ov view:

Even though a character, who is vastly superior to his environment and knows that (see Overlord) may be entertaining, he is hard to relate to. Some average guy (or even sub average) comes much closer to the reality, most of us live in. I absolutely like SaO and the main characters (saints/super heros), but Dale with all his flaws is much closer to the average reader (me) than Kirito will ever be. So I can put myself in his position.

The whole harem thingy is, again, a failed idea of his after being told "Hey Dale, you are a super power. You can do whatever you want". I like, that already in the first few chapters, things don't turn out the way, he expected this. Over the course of the ~650 chapters, the main character as well as the gods evolve away from the stereotypes and form a band of friends, one can rely on. Some characters like Aurivy, who in the beginning was only there to be cuddled and teased, evolved much more, than I expected.

When it comes to romance, there are quite a few love stories to be discovered, even though, the gods and Dale don't get too many pages in that. Those, who look for erotic love stories or explicit s*x, might be disappointed. I am, not, because I was not looking for that kind of stuff, when I chose to read it.

Concerning the slow pace, the large number of sub- and side-plots, people are complaining about, I consider this the strength of this story. It reminds me of J.R.R. Tolkien, wo also has the tendency of digressing into a lot of side plots. Essentially, the main story is some kind of bracket around all those little short stories. For me, that makes the world around the keeper much more colorful and interesting.

I rate the story 5 stars for a couple of reasons:

• I could not stop reading until reaching the end and now I am waiting for more chapters to appear
• There were chapters which made me smile, and some which made me cry, there were people I liked or disliked, so I got emotionally involved
• The author somehow managed to incorporate a lot of different RPG/fantasy/sci-fi settings into one story arc without breaking it.
• He managed to surprise me a couple of times. I definitely like that
• There are some fun elements in the story, mocking various things in the real world as well as the cliché expectations of the reader (like the beach scene in the fanmail or some of the names of the characters). I don't think the way, Tubrok calls for help from Ryone will become a standard prayer any time soon. But it made me smile.

If I had to find a few things to criticize, it would be the following things:

• Dale spent a lot of effort in designing the centaurs. However, they don't get much screen time and Tryval, the god of centaurs is almost invisible. Yes, he made a demi-goddes daughter, but also doesn't get much attention either. Her being a pink unicorn made me smile though, as some esoteric invented a "church of the invisible pink unicorn" in RL. It looks like the author likes centaurs less than Dale likes dwarves. They deserve better though.
• I would love to see more interaction/collaboration between Dale and his gods and goddesses, see the relationships between them explored a bit more in depth. At the moment, everyone is doing their solo thing on the planet. Terra dropped to almost 0 screen time, Irenas main job is to hand over her pen to someone and Aurivy just teleports people around. They deserve more.
• The larger side stories are kept separately in the "keepers world" story arc, it would be cool to have a hint to the respective sub story at the right point in the main arc.

I am looking forward to the next 647 chapters though

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To be honest, it kinda lackluster. The theme is pretty nice, the world building is also fine. Then, although it kind a take a long time, you finally found sense of dread. I'm talking about the invasion. But then nothing. Writer just skip the whole part and make it like never happened. I don't know if the writer purposefully do that or he just put it in the side novel (yes, this novel has a side novel with reverse name I belive), but both option is a mistake. The writer forgo the whole reasoning the system exist, that is to fight (or negotiate) and only focus solely to world building aspect.

So yeah, 3 star.

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A good premise which could be wonderful if used properly, sadly. It isn’t. There are some interesting parts here and there but during chapters 100-200, a majority of the chapters are bloat with nothing to advance whatever plot this has. It could be a good read if you have a lot of extra time but I find myself skipping through entire chapters in order to find something to keep myself interested. 

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Loving the story so far, great writing and a captivating world.

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When I saw the description of the story, I immediately felt that this was right up my alley. Nation building, world building, guiding the planet to survive in a multiverse designed for conflict, all interesting things. However, 72 chapters in and it's devolved into a slice-of-life where the protagonist with power over the world just messes around, before slowly taking care of things that should have been resolved ages ago. For him to actually take action, it always has to become a problem for him to take care of it.

The other issue that I have, is that his life is literally on the line since once the planet hits a certain point of development, other planets will begin to invade with the express intention of killing him. Given that bit of information, you would think that at least some of his time is spent attempting to figure out ways to strengthen people without raising their levels so that they punch above their weight class, but none of that happens. The last bit that I read through, he decided not to buy an additional planet because he didn't want to be overwhelmed, despite the fact that he barely does anything, and that he can completely halt the progression of time whenever he feels like it. Given that most of his time is spent staring at them and then skipping hundreds of years into the future, it doesn't make sense why he wouldn't want another planet to toss at the inevitable threat.

Overall, the story starts with an interesting premise and the writing is solid with little in the way of errors, but it starts to fall flat the longer it goes on. The characters don't grow (half the gods don't get personalities until 70 chapters in) and little happens to break up the endless chats between the MC and the goddesses, and most frustrating for me, he doesn't actually do anything to build the world, outside of purchasing the occasional system addition. All that said, these are problems that are solvable, but I had hoped for more from that #1 all time most popular.

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This is an interesting story. You should not expect an action based plot line or a comedy. Instead the story has new encounters and interesting ideas. The story is interesting. 

I enjoy stories with progressive plot lines. This seems to take that progressiveness to a new state. I like it.

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I'm only at the beginning chapters and I tell for sure the MC will be a big simp. I see no point wasting my time to read 1000 chapters of this cr@p whatsoever if I already knew from the beginning I would grew to hate this

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This series has got the kind of kingdom building genre athe scale of univeral-building that I thirst to read with PASSION, I mean you literally give your MC the power to create anything and everything he wants in a world and can become in the said world, the implications of this simple idea are so absurdly limitless that exploring everyhting is just not possible, yet the author does a fabulous job of opening the reader's eye to the sheer possibilities that can aries from such a fun concept BUT that is only if the reader has high tolerance threshold for an MC who is given such mind-numbing powers but is written in such a realistic way that it is annoying to say the least. On top of that, the supposed 'godly-mc' getting told of by his sub-ordinates all the time over his follies on a world-scale doesn't help his image of being a supposed god-king. Although, I have read little compared to the sheer amount of chapters posted, I can say that this is a story of but a humble man thrust into the power game at a godly-scale &granted godly powers out of nowhere  which unsurprisingly leads to mistakes with him learning from them and overcoming his shortcomings ; i.e. Quite a long journey of him improving as both a character and a god if I am seeing the trend right. 

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before 539

Great novel idea just the execution is terrible 

it is a very interesting novel with a very interesting ideas, but sadly most times they dont pay off.

The main gripe I have about this story is that the focus is on individual people and not the races of the world. The development is on on a few uninteresting characters and most of them are just randomly generated or made by the MC. To me they are really shallow and the people that are not generated are just boring and uninteresting to read about. They dont make mistakes that have consequences they just successes almost every time. They are basically the same as the generated ones. 

The storys huge a problem with build up and then just blue bulling us. The pay-off is always a disappointment. 

But over all It is good I like the MC.  how the races develop, other keepers, how politics work, but sadly the focus most of the times isint on that.

after 539

so I picked it up again and it was fun for a little while, but just got too repetitive. Old stuff thats already been done is being done again just with more details like the game being more realistic. New side characters are just perfect not in a good way. Fight feel repetitive. 

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Above all other things this is a world builder story. Slow start but it is a story which starts from scratch.

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