The story is cheesy and generic that any amateur author can make a similar story o the same level-better than this. Bam is already joke of a character in this first episode alone. That first episode was bad, the set-up and worldbuilding is generic and poorly defined, at one point they're just throwing out jargon terminology that Bam just repeats because he's an empty husk of a character.
Just being dropped in this empty hallway seemingly made only for Bam to do this thing, and then these two people come out of literally nowhere and just inject poorly disguised exposition making vague allusions to Bam's behaviour like it means anything to us. They really try their best to make Bam just standing there like an idiot seem like some dramatic brilliant gesture and they needed the guy to just say "there is something special about this boy" even though all he does is trip over himself and show no ability to think on his own.
There's like an element where this one guy is like trying to give Bam some tips but the show also wants to manifacture tension so they cut him off, but then once he's in the middle of the challenge he can give us the full rundown, the entire reasoning for the scenario is thin. Which includes him just being given a sword by Yuri who isn't even supposed to be there?? It's such a contrived "trial" that depends on what-ifs and weakly justified character decisions. Even the reason he can use the legendary sword when "even Yuri couldn't do it" is stupid.
It's like, what am I supposed to get out of this? Oh "the tower" yes I will automatically care about this story because they say "the tower" a million times, even though the main character is a bumbling squeaky idiot with no personality or basic human cognition. It's soooo repetitive, over and over again they reiterate "You are the princess of Jahad", "I am the caretaker of this tower", "will you climb the tower", "I want to see Rachel again" and every action and scene is based on *one* simplistic trait or idea like this.
They also had a guy *tell them* the actual limit is 5 minutes so if anything it'll push them to think that's the actual limit so it's not even really testing their decisiveness at all. The answer was so predictable as a viewer I was begging they wouldn't be so stupid. What's the point of making such a simple thoughtless attempt at subversion when there wasn't even any proper set-up of the test for them to work around? This was literally the only way it could go because he thought through this premise halfway.
Tower of God is just another series that's over-hyped by fans that think one guy looking for a girl is cute and dramatic. No. It's. Not. She didn't want to meet him when they fought later on, silly enough, He was about to die for her. Yet she didn't even considered what he did.
