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TL:DR -- Game is fine. if you like solo levelling you should spend 2 hours playing it and then return money so you will appreciate the original more.

This will be separated in two sections, Gameplay, and... whatever the ♥♥♥♥ second part is. Second part is the main one, feel free to skip the gameplay section.

Gameplay
Combat feels okay. It's your run-of-the-mill gacha situation. Swapping mechanic, skills, support characters, everything like that, and... That's fine i guess? If you like those types of systems -- more power to you, but it could be so much better if reworked to more be of souls-style, with more telegraphed attacks, parry system, normal lock-on, etc.
Skill system feels, well, ♥♥♥♥. i don't know what to say. Yes, it's cool that you have 4 different classes, each having 2 sub classes, but, wouldn't it be better to just do a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ skill tree at this point? You know, so you can ACTUALLY customise YOUR OWN Sung Jin Woo? But, for the sake of an argument -- it's fine. It's not THAT incredibly bad. It could be better.
At this point you can see a pattern. The game is okay. BUT it could've been SO. MUCH. BETTER.
And... it's not the worst part.

The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Storytelling pmo so much.
No, i'm not a delusional person who thinks solo leveling has good story. It's not made for the story, it's made for power fantasy, I fully understand that but just- The original wasn't complete ♥♥♥♥ in story. It had just a little pacing. It built up the "cool moments" TM. If Sung Jin Woo just slashed all the monsters in the first seconds of the story -- it wouldn't be so coo, would it?
The first, and main gripe is... the fact that they did ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ manhwa panels instead of cutscenes. And, i mean, genious way to save costs right here, certainly. But it's simply -- ♥♥♥♥. Ass. Like i can't think of the words to describe it. If i wanted to read the manhwa -- i would read the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ manhwa. If i wanted to hear it being voiced over, i would go and watch a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ voice over on youtube. I want to play A GAME. I want to EXPERIENCE what's happening as a GAME CHARACTER. It gives so much dissonance and immersion breaking when one second you're cutting up monsters and the other you're a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ png on a screen, like, cool, could you do it as an in game event?????
And, okay, maybe they're poor, maybe they're cutting costs, NOT THAT NETMARBLE HAS 3 BILLION (look it up) DOLLARS TO THEIR NAME???? Not that the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gacha made 100 mil in three ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ months. Mind you, baldurs gate cost 100 mil to make. Hello? You could make a good ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game if you just spent some money and PEOPLE WOULD IT THAT ♥♥♥♥ UPPPPP.
But alas, we got this... Thing.
And, yeah, storytelling and immersion, let me elaborate. Immersion is important. Games, Manhwa, Novels, Anime- Those are completely different mediums. You can't make a good anime by just... Copying every panel from the Manhwa. You follow them. But you use your medium to it's fullest. If you don't, you get blue lock season 2. Iykyk. And this is just... Manhwa, but you interactively cut up monsters. Otherwise, it's much easier, AND ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ FREE, to read the manhwa. Which, btw, uses it's medium to it's fullest, by being designed for web. The feeling of how those huge, epic panels roll out as you scroll on your phone- You cannot replicate it in other mediums. As is with games, With proper games -- the immersion you get from them far surpasses any other medium, you feel like you're there, you feel like it's YOU who are fighting. Here, i feel like i'm playing a gacha game. Which is not bad, mind you, some gachas, like arknights, limbus, pgr, they have good ass story.
BUT SOLO LEVELING DOES NOT????
Solo leveling is ABOUT the main character DOING COOL ♥♥♥♥ like a EDGY COOL ASSASSIN XOXO HE IS! The proper solo leveling game would make THE PLAYER feel like this!
The worst part? It could have. But, it doesn't. And the pacing proves it.
The event's in the game pass.. so. so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fast. Remember when Sung Jin Woo became this hot muscular sexy man after being signed off from the hospital? Yeah, in the Manhwa -- it was paced properly. You believed that yes, time had passed. He developed physically. It didn't give you a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ whiplash because he suddenly started talking a different voice and his ingame model had changed after just 1 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ manhwa panel. Like, hwat?
And the training punishment. Ooooh. Oh yes, the mc just ran around in circles, i certainly remember that!
Why not make a normal chase scene with obstacles and ♥♥♥♥? Oh, yeah, that would force you to make a normal movement system. Why not make a cutscene after the minigame finishes, where sung jin woo just hops into a portal? AH YES, BECAUSE YOU CAN JUST USE A MANHWA PANEL INSTEAD! Genius!

Let me remind you. The game isn't bad. It just suffers frome acute lack of GAME. It may full well be because it's a gacha reskin, yada-yada, but i have not experienced the gacha, although i feel it seeping from every game corner.
And, yeah, the game suffers from lack of QTEs. I can't believe i'm saying this, but just adding a quick time event instead of the cutscene will solve SO MUCH problems.
You don't feel like it's YOU doing the cool ♥♥♥♥. It's MC doing the cool ♥♥♥♥, and YOU, the player, get put in a cuck chair. SEE??? SUNG JIN WOO RAN UP THAT COOL ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SNAKE AND SPLIT IT IN HALF!!!!!!!!! ISN'T IT COOL??????????? yes it ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is, in the manhwa. In the game, i feel like a cuckold. I feel like a spectator. Just add an easy quick time event, with time slow and ♥♥♥♥, so i can FEEL the mc cutting the snake up.
And, the game would benefit so much from just... Not using the Manhwa panels. Adapting them in good 3d would be so much better. AND IT DOES!... for a few super-important cutscenes. For the rest it just doesn't bother. As for character interaction- It would be much, much nicer to not make talks with characters into cutscenes. It, again, breaks everything. It's a game that should be centered on immersion. ZZZ, aka zenless zone zero, does the same thing, but why it isn't bad there? Because it's a character centered game. It should not be immersive. You want to look at funny Jane Doe woman and go awooga. I do not want to stare at Dongsoo ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ face, he weill die soon anyway.
The game doesn't have blood anyway. While, yes, i can understand it, for the gacha game audience it's too much, but this is a game that costs like... 40 dollars??? I paid money for this. I wanna see blood. i wanna see limbs falling off, that made Sung Jin Woo even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cooler. The worst part? THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MANHWA PANELS WITH BLOOD AND CUT OFF LIMBS ARE IN THE GAME.
WHY?

And, the thing that broke everything for me- Minor spoilers for Lizards arc.
There's this moment in the manhwa, when Sung Jin Woo takes his first life. It positioned as a breaking moment, when Sung finally understands that he MUST kill to survive, and he MUST become stronger. He gets thrown into the wall. All bloody he stands up. One of the Lizards comes up to him, starts toying with him, laughing, while sung just stares into nothingness. A dagger materializes in his hand- as he decapitates the man with deadly precision.
In the game it just spawns 3 human enemies instead.
And that was the worst part for me. I remembered that panel. I was praying, i was BEGGING for there to be an intense moment, where I, THE PLAYER, press the BUTTON to DO the THING. i saw sung stand up, i was imagining it, even me just being forced to press the lmb would suffice but... nah. why? Engage in this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ combat instead :3

Game is... ♥♥♥♥. I will not return my money though. I will continue playing it in hopes of it getting better, which, it wont. But maybe, juuuust maybe. As for now... Cannot reccomend it even if i tried. Just read the manhwa.

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