does it take you out of the story when an MC who is supposed to be some sort of super genius (mainly due to plot) suddenly starts running into even more super duper extra special geniuses who surpass his one of a kind amazeballs level cultivation for being so young. *I'm looking at you War Sovereign Soaring Through the Heavens* It just always feels like a massive back pedal by the author who wrote themselves into a corner.
They are all frogs in endless wells inside a well. Some even have people near god level around MCs age just because. Overall, your expectations from Xianxia is a bit too much.
if its just because of plot, then there's no reason why others can't have the same amount of genius-ness if theres a good reason why the MC is the only one that should be at that level, then it would bother me.
Very much so, and its one of the reasons I drop most reincarnated stories. They promote them as so unique, but then bring in other reincarnaters. "He's unique... except for those other 8 guys" Yeah. That kills my interest. Its the same kind of reason I hate the "super genius meets another super genius" thing I'm much better with it if they aren't written out to be so one of a kind in the first place
It takes me out of the story when people go to isekai and lack total situational awareness of the genre despite being self-proclaimed otaku. Tragedy just makes it better because anything that happens is deserved.
... didnt read SSTH, but there is a great difference between someone who got resources and backing (like a sect, kingdom, a powerful cultivator) and someone who doesnt. As is said in some novels (beginning of TDG, ISSTH and some others), genius, are only the ppl more suited to that cultivation technique.
I wouldn't say that. I think a lot of people underestimate what a real isekai would be like. Far more tragic then we are led to believe. Of course there is zero excuse for falling for tropes.
LOL you're just looking at the writings of web novelist, try some better books like Sun Tzu's Art of War
Can imagine it this way. At the start MC and everyone is in a small well but only MC knows they are in the well. So as story progresses MC just keeps moving into a slightly bigger well that has people are were formerly outside the well of the people he was with previously.
This... Just think about it, it's the same in real life. You might be the "big cheese"™ in grade school but then you get to high school and are just one out of 5 cheeses. So you buckle down and excell and you are the big cheese again. Then you get to college. Guess what, now there are a couple of hundred cheeses and you truly have to buckle down. Then you might get to graduate level work and you start competing in you field. Guess what? Each year has a big cheese-level guy per college and all compete with you. Chances are, at each level the lower cheeses and some observers flatter you in order to make themselves feel better. (Teacher taking pride in holding a genius like you, no matter how little they matter) Just because you are a big fish in your pond does not mean that you are a big fish.
Chinese Xianxias are written like that: - MC is a frog in a well - MC becomes the top frog in his well - MC jumps out of his well "soaring through the sky" - SIKE! The well was just a crack inside the "real" well - MC is the new frog in a well - ... - PROFIT!!!