HELL MODE: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing

Kenichi Yamada is thirty-five and has spent twenty years grinding through MMOs that the genre keeps dumbing down for casuals. The new VR title comes with a buried difficulty mode the development team did not advertise — Hell Mode, ten times the experience curve and no mercy. Kenichi picks the worst class on the list (Summoner) and discovers, on selection, that he is no longer in his apartment. He has been reborn as Allen, the infant son of a serf family in the game's continent, with the Summoner spec he just picked and the same instinct to abuse it as broken as it is generous.