Rant about Stray Cat Strut
Disclaimer : English is my third langage so if there are error deal with it lol
Okay I need to rant. So in the 4 books Cat is protecting the city from a wave of hundred of thousand of alien. She have basically more than 20k point right now and way too much ennemy. What does she choose to do ? A few shitty turret and a few bomb. At max it must cost her like 500 point. WHY ? you have token. You have point. You have everything to kill a lot easily. Why not just go to tier two for the bomb and have bomb that are far from the future ? Why not spawning 1000 bomb next to you instead of only throwing a few ? Why does she use the shitiest weapon when she have so much point and token ? And don't tell me usefull weapon cost too much. Only a few chapter before she bought a bomb that made a crater of 100m of radius for 350 point. She have 20 000 points right now. And she use like 10 shitty turret who cost 20 or 50 I forgot.
Also the system in general. The system is just not explained enough or though about enough by the author. How far can you command a bomb or a weapon since it is teleported near you ? It can be pretty far since she bought a whole flat right ? And you can buy already striped grenade since it has been done before. Why not buy like 10000 grenade and make them spawn in the ennemy face, you ask your ultre intelligent IA to calculate all that and, boom, done. Why not go near space buying just some block and do an orbital strike for just the cost of a few construction block ? Why does some pack cost more than others. The one for healing wa slike 50 and one for laser weapon was like 250. Does every pack can go to tier 2 ? Is it really much better since she bought like 2 different pack tier two and for now we got almost no difference. Okay she heal a little better but come on it was said as thousand of years of developpement between each tiers. And I'm not even gonna talk about tier 3 since the story is at the same time slow as hell and doesn't really expand on how the world work enough.
And the mc too is frustrating. Why does she use her point so badly ? You paid in total like 12k point for a flat. But you have an armor who costed like 500 points ? You still use the weapon who costed 20 points. She's all about helping her kitten but does she buy them something ? No a quick heal and go fuck yourself. What you have shitty aug filled with viruses ? How about you look at how much point I used on that cat wall ! She took three fucking books to buy an aug for her girlfriend that had one so bad it was bad even for an orphan in a shitty orphanage.
Oh and the stealth too. I need to rant about it too. Why did the author add it ? It is useless. Cat used it one time to put some bomb in a hive discretly. And after that more for fun than necessary. Okay there is no problem if the author don't really want stealth in his story but I was waiting for a samurai full silence, tactic to go in ultra dangerous zone in invisibility for info or to destroy important hive. Here ? Nope. She just throw grenade everywhere. And of course only the one she used since book one. After all why change just because you have more point right ? That was sarcasm btw.
And nothing is explained, everyone in the comment is happy about the story, I feel like I'm the crazy one. I like the story, the romance and the world but god damn does it lack any though or explanation behind it. And no, just saying that the MC is too lazy to spend her point well is not enough when she have an IA so advanced she can have a year long discussion in a second. No. Just no.
Oh and also a little point but do a freaking time skip no ? It have been 4 volume for litteraly like 8 days in the world. Like come on I want my character to evolve, think, progress. But here ? No. Your MC doesn't know how to shoot ? Well she never will. She is a newbie ? Well in 4 volume she still is one. I don't ask for years long time skip but just a week between books no ?
And looking back it's normal since the author have like 5 story that he is writing at the same time, of course he can't think about his world or how his system work. And it's just so frustrating since it had potential. I quickly understood that it was a light read but even without thinking too much it frustrated me to no end. It was probably not the story to read after worm since it was passing from a 5 star meal to some pasta without salt. Yes it could be a great meal but nobody put salt or sauce in it.