Time-Limited Genius Dark Knight

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8.2/10


I’ve come to realize over the years that I love the trope of people being imported/reincarnated into a game character. Despite that bias, I am even more nitpicky with these stories due to how ridiculous they can become with pacing and items.

This story incorporates the attributes of a “kids” arc (irrationality, cuteness, wholesomeness, etc.) while balancing it out with parts of mystery stemming from most system manwhas. Of course, interactions of certain side characters may be considered annoying at first, but it’s justifiable with character age, which most people aren’t understanding (kids are annoying asf).

I only expect this type of story to get better; it ... may seem cliché, but it’s been done well enough that it doesn’t matter much.

PS: Definitely going to have romance in the future. But I watch rom-com movies, so it’s a blessing for me.


Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)
10 - God’s penmanship
9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 - Instant bookmark
7 - Entertaining
6 - Good to pass time
5 - Why are you reading this?
4 - Bad.
3 - Typical garbage.
2 - My head hurts.
1 - Retirement is a thought.
0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”

There is depth into the story but the protagonist is an annoying tsundere. He is suppose to be this smart know it all except he is very much a normie. It seems that plot is his saving grace in all his situations. The art is good, no complaints there. The characters are dare say generic. I mean, look at the two red heads, they look like reskins of each other 😂… You have a “righteous” / “villain” type mc that switches between the two but in my opinion is more “righteous”. He is still pushed around by his companions and instead of it suppose to ... be light hearted or funny, it becomes aggravating instead. Anyways, the protagonist is making this quite hard as I’m just talking about him this entire review, so if you like a semi serious smartish know it all protagonist, this might be for you. Hard to explain the annoyance, but give it a try…

Its above average for shounen manhwa, theres some mystery and stuff to stick around for (I'm waiting for demon possession/summon) but I PERSONALLY dont think the plot is that tightly written. 5,

Kinda generic and everything is based on plot convenience, very quick to contradict previously established facts like status traits

the status negative traits dont matter much. One of the two debuffs to counter MC's 2 broken genius traits get instantly removed with just some random items at the start (effectively doubling his growth rate with just some store bought items), his horse's time-limited debuff gets removed by reviving it (WHICH SHOULD ALSO APPLY TO ... HIS OWN SIMILAR DEBUFF [terminally-ill]), and his maid's [spy], [proficient liar], and [machine-like] traits dont mean shit WHEN SHE FOLDS AT THE FIRST QUESTION AND INSTANTLY BECOMES EMOTIONAL FOR THE REST OF THE ARC (I am on ch18 and only met her for 2 chs).

MC should be a lot weaker than he is but we don't see alot of his suffering, by the time he gets [genius hour] he's effectively OP seeing as the third time he uses it, he can off-screen a miniboss

MC is a pretty typical shounen manwha MC, selfish and rude, I know he wants to stick to the OG plot for some reason but his actions have already changed the plot a ton (with the heroine's confidence and the maid, who should be dead)
I call him selfish because he keeps repeating how horrible death felt when he isekai'd but then leaves his horse to die so he can resurrect him, while traumatizing his maid, and using necromancy which should only be used by a different dark family. He doesn't consider resurrecting himself with the help of that certain family? Its a possibility that doesnt get considered, which i dislike.

Also the game system has generous progress rewards and a gacha for some reason
edits:
ch 20: i just realized the older brothers garen and graen are two different people, i thought that was a typo. Who ran out of names?
ch27: wow does the author only know how to write cowards and nonchalant badasses? Why does the brother care about the soldiers liking Nox, and why is he so weak? He graduated from the UBER prestigious academy and if a fresh grad is such a small fry then the highly anticipated academy MUST be filled with even smaller weaklings, but Nox said he'd have a hard time surviving there. this is so frustrating. maybe 4/10