The Legendary Mechanic is a story about Han Xiao, upon waking up, he realized he was a test subject of a evil organization in a game he played before. Later, he realizes that instead of being a player in the gamed, he is actually a NPC.I have to admit, the whole arc where the main character fights against the Germinal Organization is well and truly interesting, however after this the story becomes rather directionless. Translation quality is pretty good. There isn't any obvious mistakes and the writing quality in general is above average for this site. (4/5 stars)The story development is where I'm rather mixed. On one hand, the start of the novel was amazing, but the further down the line you go the more boring it gets. 90% of the story is the main character fighting against a evil organization, and the players reacting to this. While interesting at the start, the players become irrelevant. There isn't much point for them being there aside for comedy. Furthermore, there is way too much filler. Almost of all of the filler content is regarding the players, and I can't help but skip through 10+ chapters in order to get back to the story itself. Speaking of filler, for some reason the author describes very minute details about the main characters gear/mechs. Every single part is given a brief description, such as power output, damage, durability, etc. It's annoying. (3/5 stars)Character design is bad, straight up. There is almost zero interaction with other people aside from business relationships. The main character treats every single person as a business partner. There is zero romance, and side characters only seem to exist in order to advance the plot. They are incredibly one dimensional. (1/5 stars)World background is great. This novel does a wonderful job of introducing various locations and gives good descriptions for all of them, even when the novel focuses on the universe itself. There are quite a few plot dumps when introducing these, though. (4/5 stars)Overall, a novel with a very good start, but seemingly lost direction later on. It was vaguely stated that the main character had a plan, but it doesn't really seem like it. The main character doesn't really have a end-goal either. I give this novel 3.4 stars out of 5.
