- Plot: A game Kang Jin-Hyeok no lifes becomes reality. Threatening to destroy humanity within a certain time limit unless they progress through the tower of trials, the further you progress the more time humanity has. Right off the bat I do appreciate the more unique start this manhwa has allowing for you to understand why everyone's losing their crap and trying their hardest to clear the dungeon it's not because this has always been here and that they want money or power but it starts off for humanity's own survival, granted nothing too special to the events that start the series.
- Main Character: Even before the actual start of the story Kang Jin-Hyeok regularly works out and physically takes care of himself, he's not a complete loser or lowest of the low weakling like Jin Woo was in SL (prior to the double dungeon) the side characters admittedly start off a little weak but they grow fairly likeable throughout the course of the story (Teresa, Cheon, Melina etc) though I'll touch up more on this later
- Top tier FMC: Alice is quite possibly one of my favorite female characters in Manhwa (top 5 for sure) she is easily superior to every female from SL (I will die on this hill)
- Extremely interesting tower mechanics: The author actually cares to explain from the beginning how important it is to fully explore a floor or how only specific items/skills can be obtained in lower floors (and yes this can IMMENSELY help you in later floors) the series does a great job making each floor feel like it has a purpose aside from just defeating the boss of the floor (something SL completely lacked pretty much until the very end of the series which really made majority of the arcs feel like crap in comparison) though despite this we do still sometimes get the usual beat boss->advance floor chapters. However, they definitely aren't as oversaturated in comparison to other Manhwa of this genre.
- Power System: Tons of explanation and exposition on skills and how they work as well as their "acquisition ranks" the power system and the amount of work put into it makes almost every floor boss feel very satisfying to read as Kang uses sly tactics to usually check off prerequisites he needs to copy skills/trigger certain special events, I'd honestly say the power/tower system is what really sets the series apart.
- Unique approach to the "solo level upper genre" (as I'm calling it at least): The way floors, bosses and certain enemies work and need to be defeated I believe is fairly well written and thought up of. I can't stress enough how action packed and interesting even the earlier chapters are just due to the fact that unlike every other dungeon/level upper manhwa out there (that ik of) in this series your actual level doesn't mean as much as you think it does, the power system is heavily determined by your items/skills acquisition ranks as well as your knowledge on floors and their various mechanics (something that obviously makes our MC op to begin with) for the first 100 chapters or so Kang isn't even lvl 100 he's as powerful as he is due to his knowledge on attaining powerful skills & items.
- Art: The art was made by the same studio who did SL (Redice Studio) naturally you can bet your ass that this manhwa has great art and I really do love it.
With all the pros out of the way I'll move on to the cons (not that I currently think there are that many but I'll toss out things people may dislike with the series)
- (Slight spoilers) Side characters: The cast of side characters are a bit underutilized this is something that's also apparent in SL and a lot of other manhwa's in this particular genre but I'd say it's a bit worse here for the first 60 or so chapters. Though they have been doing a nice job at giving them more attention/screen time as of late, most the side characters are pretty much cannon fodder without Kang it also doesn't help that they have an extreme lack of screen time or just fairly generic personalities. I do seriously hope this starts changing given time, the last 20-30 chapters have done a pretty good job creating the main cast of characters aside from Kang and Alice so it's definitely improving in my opinion. Post chapter 100 Teresa has gotten a ton of development especially with her alter ego in play, I've personally come to like her as my 3rd favorite character in the series due to her darker half and I will also admit Cheon has been growing on me as well.
- MC: Kang can be rather cold and merciless though it's mainly towards his enemies or people he doesn't mind using (which usually turn out to be horrible people anyways) He can be a bit of an ass at times, but I honestly find this more refreshing than him being some nice guy. kinda pushover that only ever becomes badass when his life is on the line cough Jinwoo (Wanted to put this out there, despite how much I have been comparing and shitting on SL somewhat, I did still enjoy it and do genuinely see it as one of the best manhwa's in this genre)
- The progression of floors: It takes a few chapters for Kang to start focusing on climbing floors rather than skill hunting/level grinding which can be somewhat different than what most people are used to reading when it comes to a manhwa like this. Now, I personally think this is a strength of the series as it proves that not only are early floors actually difficult and not just an exp simulator (fitting of the game having hell difficulty prior to it becoming reality) but it shows that simply being a high level person doesn't mean you can just no brain speed blitz and 1 shot floor bosses that have very special mechanics or certain conditions to obtain skills or items.
