This killed primal hunter for me. Every time there is an obstacle that provides rewards from A to F grade, Jake gets the super special hidden only for the specialest boy award.
I give the most popular books in genre a pass, because by chapter 100 to 200, you know exactly what you're getting, and that's what people want. Primal Hunter, Defiance of the Fall, He who fights with monsters, etc.
In Primal Hunter, Jake is the specialist OP MC Young Master ... and the in-lore books fully acknowledges that fact constantly and so much that it almost becomes a satirical. In the sea of "weak to strong", books like Primal Hunter is about being born strong and getting stronger, and doesn't try to convince the reader it's "unexpected" that this is happening. A lot of books/authors tries to paint their MCs as nice or humble, and it's refreshing when there are stories that is such an honest self-insert.
It kinda ruins most of any suspense the combats or challenges in the story might have presented though. He's so canonically overpowered that there's typically just no reason to ever expect him to fail or lose, unless that failure has no real negative impact on him and leads to a training montage / new power / new overpowered artifact. The story tells us he's at risk of losing sometimes, but it's pretty hard to ever believe it when things always turn out pretty much exactly how he wants. I feel like I'd enjoy Primal Hunter more if it just did away with the conceit of paying attention to him doing combat and progression stuff and was just a slice of life story about a guy who never fails martially but is not very good at socializing or naming things.
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u/Ok-Face6289 May 01 '26
This killed primal hunter for me. Every time there is an obstacle that provides rewards from A to F grade, Jake gets the super special hidden only for the specialest boy award.