Why is shadow hack number 3 in power Rankings ?
I am asking due to it‘s Low ranking of 3.8 Stars
I‘m looking for a new novel to read and asking therefore this question
Thanks
Shadow Hack ?
I guess it is one of those type of novels that people either like to the fullest or dislike a lot. Those who like it a lot keep spending their stones on it like fanatics. Rating being 3.8 is simply because even if people like it a lot and post a 5 star review its easier to pull ratings down than up. For every 1 star review you would need multiple 5 star reviews to get it close to 4.0
Anyways, just give it a try and decide for youself. At most you will lose a bit of time reading it.
Many like junk food even though that food make you become Fatty! The same applies for this novel.
Its the reason why it is in top 3 but not premium? Because if it gets premium then it will lose the readers who are unwillingly reading this novel even though its boring......
Miegoreng Megumin-Sama marry ME!!!!!!!>>>>>>>>.............
My own theory is that the main demographic reading it are those who aren't native English speakers which is actually a large percentage on qi
I trust more the ratings on novel updates
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/shadow-hack/
Check the reviews
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February 5, 2018
Status: c90
This review was written due to my sheer anger and grudge against Qidian's dumb as fk ranking system, although I would not be surprised to find that they rigged it considering that there is no possible way something of this quality would be approved by any number of persons. The fact that they delete negative reviews such as mine probably doesn't help, which is why I'm posting it here so people aren't deluded by that meaningless "power ranking" from Qidian.
Let's start of with the first 5 chapters. In those first 5 chapters alone, the author has tried to squish in damn near every single dumb-as-fk wuxia cliche as he humanly could. I understand that no book can be defined by their beginning alone, however the sheer idiocy requires at least a comment so that people know what they're getting in to.
The MC finds himself with a typical middle-ish but declining noble family. Naturally, the father almost immediately finds himself crippled, leaving his family, and the MC, with their reputation and honor stained, something that supposedly drives the MC to change his attitude to be more serious.
The funny part was how in the first 2 chapters, the MC emphasized his laziness, boredom and complete lack of anything resembling a motivation to live on his own capacity. This changes almost immediately after his father is crippled and their future livelihood is threatened. This by itself is not weird, a strong enough shock can and will change someone's personality. However within a span of less than 24 hours? That's not someone maturing, that's someone with a mental problem.
Secondly, in the process of maturing, naturally his cheat, special powers, or hack in this case, plays a massive role. I don't begrugdge a reader's need to feel special by having an MC with a special power, what I DO dislike however, is how this Hack operates. The fact that he finds it by sheer dumb luck is nothing new. The fact that the hack works by giving him what is essentially an immortal clone body that can fight, die and farm experience and whatever else with absolutely no repercussions whatsoever while our dear MC basically kicks back and sips on a mojito is not only new, it's pretty lazy writing.
Due to No. 3, our MC essentially gains power like nobody's business and within 5 chapters, our dude is already blasting aura and power like a goddamn saiyan at the typical, cliche, overused opening ceremony where everyone's power is ranked. This follows long into the story, where it becomes more and more apparent that the MC is abusing the hack like a boss with no risk whatsoever to himself. Simply feeding off the good luck, plot armor and farming his shadow clones give him, way up until he's fighting beasts entire realms above him simply because his shadows are essentially immortals with a resurrection button that's attached with a minor cooldown issue.
Back to the opening ceremony. Naturally everyone around our dear MC will "whisper" very audibly at that, their negative comment, looking down and despising our MC who's noble but not quite noble, powerful but not quite powerful family from a teeny tiny town, in the middle of billion league continent, falling into ruins because his father got crippled. Just as naturally, the moment the MC's unforeshadowed, previously unknown fiancee appears, their comments suddenly turn from how "he suits her so much" to "trash doesn't deserve this jade like, lotus like, peach like, etc etc woman." Now, I know that these despising comments serve to fix the mood, so that everyone can look forward to how satisfying it will feel when the MC eventually slaps them down with TRUE POWAH, however this only really works when its done subtly. When it's done in such a stupidly blatant manner, where the people around him can't seem to hold their opinion for more than 5 sentences, I stop hoping for a face - slapping, and start wondering if everyone around the MC was born with a concussion.
Next, his aforementioned fiancee that appears out of nowhere. The novel doesn't outright say it, but the way she is portrayed when she comes up to him out of nowhere, and starts saying sorry that she will leave him behind due to his lack of talent, makes it pretty clear that she's supposed to be villain. Note however, that while her tone wasn't even condescending in the least. She was being upright, she knows that her talent is better than his, something he himself admitted barely 4 chapters ago. She knows that with his father crippled, his family will not be able to sustain his needs if he opens his meridians or whatever. She knows that she will be going to a higher tier due to her talent and the rigid-as-fk-social-strata where rank apparently matters over everything that the author keeps talking about, but not high enough that she can carry him there. So she's apologizing, without actually saying the word sorry due to her aloof and proud personality. What she doesnt know however, is that the MC has already gone super saiyan, thanks to AFK-Grinding with his new hack. So what does our MC and the "Whispers" around him do? Instantly bad mouth her. The MC even goes one step further and declares mentally that the two of them are now strangers and cuts their childhood bond just like that because "SUPER HACK". You know what's the best part though? That buddy that stuck by him in that chapter that also supposedly had no talent and is promptly forgotten in later chapters until somewhere around 80? The MC does EXACTLY what his childhood sweet heart was trying to do. He even lampshades it by saying, "His talent and mine have a large gap. I will send money to him for his loyalty now that I'm swimming in cash that my clones farmed for me because that's all I can do." fk, that's cold man. As cold as irony.
There are a sh*tton more I could say, but this is all WITHIN THE FIRST 5 CHAPTERS alone. The sheer brainless, stupid as f**k, plot armor level thickness cheat and lazy writing infuriates me, especially when there are genuinely good novels on Qidian but are buried by the macho, DOMINEERING MANLY novels like this one."
Hereon Qidian its censored , and the "top ranking" is boosted with multiple accounts / admin of the website.
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because a lot of people like myself vote regularly with powerstones for it.
I like cliche wuxia novels and plot armor :D
seems im not alone, since it is constantly in the top ranking
If you are new to webnovels, you will enjoy the cliches in Shadow Hack, but if you have read some other webnovels in advanced, you will absolutely disdain it.
Yipikaye that review is all you need to know about this shiitty novel
Yeah, my guess is almost new reader like cliche novel because the first novel i like is Tales of demon and god, ATG, MGA, DE etc. Now after reading more than 200+ novel those novel become bland and we know many sub character mission is for the sake glorify mc. The reason new reader like those novel is because easy to understand, action, mc badass, etc.
I like to think of this type of novel as brain fluff, it's easy to read, translation is done well, the world and characters are not super complicated and it offers some fun with an over powered mc. It's not high level and doesn't claim to be, but it's enjoyable and I have no issues in spending ten minutes a day reading new chapters. It nicely updates frequently and is not premium so why not give love for being what it is.
Yipikaye You can't expect Novelupdates ratings to be correct regarding Qidian International novels because of the hate. A lot of the haters put 1-star rating without even reading the novel. But you can expect good reviews in the review section.
