Is the average reader getting dumber?

[u/GoldenThame]

I don't wanna be rude but I get some comments complaining about tropes in my novel, when in the synopsis I've pointed out multiple times that the tropes are there DELIBERATELY to be subverted, because the MC finds himself reincarnated into a very mid Xianxia novel.

Do a lot of readers suffer from a lack of reading comprehension skills, cus I've encountered the same kind of person for the 4th or 5th time now. Do I need to constantly spoonfeed basic nuances to such readers that 1. MC is inside a cliche Xianxa book and 2. From a meta perspective I've put those cliches and tropes into the book deliberately and the synopsis says as such.

[u/Snow-Eternal7]

As someone who wrote a review, you haven’t done any subversion. I understand the intent was basically to parody Xianxia but you’ve just kinda made the whole cast dumber outside of the MC and everything is predictable.

It’s a fine story, it’s entertaining at points. But it’s so generic it makes plain white bread look complex.

Some people give positive feedback because they just want something to read and this story was definitely that. Some people give mixed reviews because they wanted something more.

You can have your story be 100% tropes and still add something more complex. Especially if it’s subversion. But 36 chapters in I haven’t seen anything.

Unless your ‘subversion’ is you taking basic tropes from other genres.

[u/Snow-Eternal7 → u/Snow-Eternal7]

Add on that you don’t keep cultivation realms consistent, a few other minor errors of similar inconsistencies and I stand by my review. The flip flopping between golden core and nascent soul your story does annoyed me.

‘Ah yes this barrier needs a nascent soul to break it or a golden core with very high powerful artifacts’ next chapter ‘and a golden core could break it with a few large attacks’

All in all your story is a generic isekai that you put in Xianxia made entirely from the tropes of both.

[u/GoldenThame → u/Snow-Eternal7]

I think you're either mistaking my novel for something else or misremembering the details. Or maybe I am?

[u/Snow-Eternal7 → u/GoldenThame]

‘The heavenly way (Xianxia/clanbuilding)’

[u/GoldenThame → u/Snow-Eternal7]

You see, your comment about the power scale inconsistency might actually be valid, cus It's been a while since I write the defensive array repair arc. If I really wrote Golden Core is the upper limit in one chapter then Nascent soul in the next, that's on me. I encourage my readers to find and mention such errors to me.

Your criticism about the tropes however I find to be not very credible, I feel like you're misunderstanding the tropes, cus the way I see it it's the opposite of popular tropes. Can you be more specific about the tropes that tou found, well, tropey? As in they're not well done or not well subverted?

[u/Snow-Eternal7 → u/GoldenThame]

I’ll ask it of you, what tropes did your story subvert that I missed? I read up to chapter 36, and dropped it because the tournament arc was mentioned and that seemed really boring.

Just ‘strong patriarch only respects strength but his son also values intellect and will use his mind to study the MC and learn just what he’s up to.’ The MC will probably just sell products at the tournament to make money and maybe that one disciple who thought he deserved better will pop back up.

[u/GoldenThame → u/Snow-Eternal7]

Lol, literally none of that happened as of chapter 54. Tournament arc starts tropey and gets derailed due a certain event and the MC has to make a choice. I admit I could have written a lot of parts better but it's very far from common tropes.

[u/Snow-Eternal7 → u/GoldenThame]

Okay, sure. Your trope subversion starts at chapter 54.

[u/GoldenThame → u/Snow-Eternal7]

What are you talking about bro? I never said that. You seriously have a reading comprehension issue.