The King of Passive Skills is a straightforward VR MMORPG novel where the main character is slightly overpowered and dominates the game. I personally enjoyed the novel, but it’s one of those novels where you shouldn’t expect more than the basics.
The author builds a great game environment that is your typical fantasy environment with a few exceptions. Their only humans and demons races which is a bummer because I like having the other races involved like elves and dwarfs. The environment is a VRMMORPG with some classic MMORPG restrictions, for example in order to jump he needs a skill jump and the main character is a hunter class which uses a gun to fight, but he doesn’t have to worry about actually aiming he just points in shoots. I personally would rather be a full VRMMORPG where it’s more like a real world vs an awkward combination of Virtual with traditional game mechanics.
The main character difference that makes him so strong is a talent where he can get the passive skills of demons that he beats. However the odds are one in a million. So the talent is overpowered but not too overpowered, I personally like this, where it will take a long time for him to get much stronger than everyone else. However the author decided that wasn’t strong enough and gave him a divine artifact gun which makes him OP for the whole beginning of the game until his passive skills kick in more. I honestly would rather him not get a divine artifact so early and keep his character just a little bit stronger and not super overpowered.
So I am going to give this novel 3 stars. I enjoyed it, but at the same time it’s one of those novels where you just need to turn your brain off and not expect too much.
