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Originally Posted by Enternal
Anyways I don't know what you mean about the investment in time because it's clear that he spends a lot or most of his free time in the game. He spend so much time in the game that his friends were a bit worried about him at times (even though he still continued to do his real life chores well). Not only that, in game, he holed himself up in the shop too doing experiments. Although he started late than everyone else so there is that. Finally in battle, it was never shown that he can keep up to Taku. Taku specialized in battle but Yun himself specialized in crafting. For the most part though, Yun can hold himself up in battle but barely. That's completely different compared to "keep up with the likes of Taku".
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As has already been pointed out that even though it's claimed that Yun isn't a gamer he clearly has a substantial gaming history.
In this story you'd have to suspend your Intelligence to accept that such a person could rise to the crafting heights. Between the cooking, cleaning, laundry and household shopping Syun does at home he gets at the most 5 hours of gaming per day since he's also the diligent student and gets plenty of sleep. How would that compare with a neet or pro gamer who spends 12 - 15 hours a day in the Game?.
The Compounded Difference in competency would be enormous!
You could claim that Yun has higher intelligence but that would be false since the MMO gaming community is primary composed of the smarter people in society; the geeks, the nerds and so on.
More importantly we're talking about what by all appearances is a normal high-schooler and not someone who possesses an acute intellect.
That's why his prominence as a Grafter is incredulous; the sort of thing that can only happen if everybody is standing still.
People notice that Enchants are useful but make no attempts to copy, they notice that Hawkeyes is useful when leveled but make no attempt to use it? And the examples go on and on.
We're talking about perhaps one of the Few VRMMO available and yet there's none of the Skills investigations all of us are familiar with in normal MMO's.
Wouldn't the Gaming Websites, Magazines and TV Channels have been all over this?
It's like suddenly your in the age of VRMMO but societal information level has regressed to the 1990's or something.
Completely Incredulous!
It would be one thing if the Author had made Yun a quirky character on the sidelines while the others are reaching the heights of the game but the Author has put Yun at the centre and able to relate and able to be a companion of the top Gamers and it make the whole thing dubious.
I can't call OSO we well though-out VRMMO series because it simply isn't.
Anyone who's been on a Raid in an MMO would tell you that what's been described in OSO isn't even almost believable.
Log Horizon does a far better job at this.
OSO is light hearted Incredulity.