Tell me about a video game
Passing through a portal accidentally opened by his friend Silvi, Derek Hunt finds himself in another world where he must fight like hell to save a certain Allison whom he must take head-on to throw her off. the other side before the portal closes and he himself finds himself fighting in the darkness. After tough clashes with entities, he still managed to save Gérard, an old warrior, ready to succumb to the blows of several invaders. And when he himself tries to re-enter the famous portal, he finds that he is trapped in darkness, with no possible escape. He stays stuck there for what seems like an eternity. However, he keeps his favorite weapon, a black steel halberd. He ends up digging a breach in the walls, which brings him face to face with an entity more than three meters high which is anything but friendly. He quickly leaves him company before finding himself in another dimension, in a huge forest where he meets Thomas, a young twelve-year-old boy who is terrified when he sees him. At that moment, Derek felt a terrible pain in the back of his head. Immediately, he collapses on himself and falls unconscious, much to Thomas’s amazement…
“System Universe” presents itself as a fantasy novel of a genre still unpublished in France, the “LitRPG” (contraction of literature and “Role Playing Game”. According to the publisher, it would be “about combining the codes of the imagination with those of science fiction, fantasy or fantasy. Indeed, when reading this work, we have the impression of seeing a video game being told. all the primary simplicity with its chivalrous hero and omnipotent who progresses from fight to fight going from level to level while each time checking his status, his life points, his statistics of strength, dexterity, endurance, vitality and others, his skills and his trophies. The removed style. , alive is heavily based on dialogue and is not burdened with descriptions of landscapes or psychological or sentimental subtleties. Derek only fights for his survival in a hostile world. His ultimate goal is to become. one of the most powerful warriors on the planet. We are therefore closer to the superhero comics from Marvel than to the texts of Balzac, Dumas, Verne or even those of Lovecraft, Vance or Tolkien. Even if the hero is a sort of fearless and blameless knight 2.0, his adventures remain simple entertainment lacking a little variety, originality and finesse. The avowed intention of getting teenagers addicted to video games to forget about screens for a while and switch to writing gives the impression of a mission impossible. A picture will always be worth more than a hundred words…
