VOL 1 LINK: https://geni.us/Vaudevillain1
VOL 2 LINK: https://geni.us/Vaudevillain2
VOL 3 LINK: https://geni.us/Vaudevillain3
Dylan is your average nerd. He works downtown for an architecture firm during the day and enjoys all manner of games and media in his spare time. But while Dylan likes all forms of sci-fi and fantasy, he really likes the genre of superheroes.
So when an indie company releases a virtual reality MMO where players choose to play as heroes or villains, Dylan immediately buys into it. He has a specific type of character he really enjoys watching, something that always makes his inner child laugh in delight. The Saturday morning cartoon villain.
Yes, those inept, bungling, yet highly dangerous villains found in so many of Dylan's cartoons as a child. He loves how they always come up with strange ways to conquer the world and how they get thwarted every weekend. He remembered laughing at every silly antic, every cliched shout of "Curses! Foiled again!" He loves it so much he decides to take this idea into the MMO.
But to grab a playerbase, the company has announced a promotion that players with a high enough reputation can get contacted to become permanent raid bosses in the game. Those chosen will be paid as if employees of the company. Serious players all hoping to live the dream of playing videogames all day rush to purchase copies of World of Supers!
What will happen when Dylan, someone playing the game for fun, clashes with these overly serious players?
Story Discord: https://discord.gg/WcYfUhg
A story with an incredibly interesting concept of the main character playing as a classic cartoon villain, causing various ridiculous escapades.
Cons:
The world feels quite empty of players. The abundant playerbase should have been focused on more.
There is not really any endgoal the story drives towards. The MC is not really working towards anything. Just preparation for his fun escapades and strengthening his forces for even bigger escapades. This makes the story feel a bit lost and purposeless.
The space between escapades is too big. Too much focus on preparation for the escapades, and some of it should have been cut off to make the story less slow place. The escapades are the highlight after all.
The experience system is kinda off. In a pvp game the rewards from winning should be bigger than losses when losing. You lose more "xp" when getting killed in 1v1 battles than if you win.
No description for how Dylan looks.
Insane amount of chapters.
There is probably more but I am not skilled enough as a writer to see it. Yet.
Pros:
Undoubtedly excellent grammar.
Pretty good writing that feels decent to read. Though exactly how good it is, I am unable to discern. Yet.
Great concept.
It is really fun to read, although it wore off for me after a while due to the cons I have stated.
It is obvious that the story is not made by an amateur. It has generally good quality. Though some patience is needed when reading it. Try it out.
And the
Gender bender gun
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Vaudevillain, enter the virtual reality of superheroes and supervillains. Dylan an average comic nerd, seeks for the fun and thrill created a villain character based on comical shady scientiss on children hero shows.
This is great. Undeniably so. Unfortunately, I'm dropping it. The premise and story was getting together, to be honest? I was only here on Vaudevillain for the MC and his antics. I'm not saying it was gone, but horribly so it's overshadowed by the upcoming arcs. Everything was going smoothly for me, until, the author wanted to be a tad more realistic. He made developers problems, game company problems, it was just so.. out of touch. I was here for a comical villain with VR enjoyment, not for some company problems.
The characters? Not that interesting but not bland either, it's a matter of subjective. The friend and MC have this some sort of good potential that is just.... destroyed by company problems. Company problems.
I'm dissapointed since I read this in hopes of villain vs hero. But I got freaking company problems.
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My most sincere congratulations from me and my Fae Court. As for the past two days I have read all the posted chapers obtaining vaudevillainous amounts of amusement, a superb mastery of the English language (compared to a lot of my findings in this site) and charismatic characters.
As always it lacks the chapters to truly be the greatest novel ever! But that's just due to my desire for endless novels.
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