[Manhwa] The Gamer

What if your life is just like playing a game? What if you can upgrade your status and gain more levels? A fantasy world is coming right at you!

source: The Gamer Line Webtoon

About

The Gamer is a webtoon created by Sung Sang-Young and illustrated by Sang Ah. It was made in Septermber 2013 and is currently ongoing. The Gamer is edited by and released for free on Naver Corporation's Line Webtoon every Friday.

Plot

Han Jee-Han, a normal high school student, suddenly develops a special power where his entire world is shifted into a game-like setting. He can see the power levels of people, look at the stats of a seemingly normal item, get abilities and even level up! Follow Han Jee-Han as he discovers how to use this power and the world of Ability users.

source: The Gamer Wiki

Thoughts

The Gamer is one of those manhwa/mangas that seems a little too cliche but you can't just help yourself from reading it. To start off, it's about a story of a game addict, who acquired a strange ability that enabled his life to turn into a video-game setting. While the idea of living your life like in a video game isn't new (Hi Sword Art Online and Log Horizon!), The Gamer still offers a very enjoyable storyline. We are introduced to a world known as the 'Abyss', a world full of magic and people with different and unique abilities blah blah blah you probably already know where this is all going.

What makes The Gamer enjoyable to read is probably its main character, Han Jee Han. His actions are really relatable to someone who likes gaming. At one point, Han Jee Han, because of his 'Gamer Ability' just spend his time grinding inside a dungeon to gain a tremendous and ridiculous level up, which is insanely unfair to other characters who spent years of training because they don't have his so called gamer ability.

Compared to other manhwas with fully covered pages, the artstyle of The Gamer is simplistic. No, It's not bad just plain simple. It focuses more on its characters expressions and their actions making the background and other details suffer. However the humor and the story makes up for all of it so we're all good.

Overall, While the artstyle of the gamer is simplistic, even it's storyline seems a little bit cliche. All of these things are maked up with it's humor and delivery. The Gamer is enjoyable and very fun to read. At present, The Gamer now already has 208 chapters and is still ongiong, updated every Friday on Line Webtoons.