Talk:Fluder Paradyne/@comment-30982353-20180409181800/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180730045903

It depends on what someone thinks is "important".

I find Suzuki-kun's character to be pretty much the most important thing in Overlord, and it's completely different in the Web Novel almost from the beginning. In the Web Novel he's a far more calculating and ruthless person.

Compared to that, I think all the detailed mechanics of Yggdrasil are basically trivia. We already know Ainz Uber Alles, so why would I care that some mechanics in the LN differ from what they were in the Web Novel? Yes, I noticed, but I didn't care.

But I do feel a little cheated when mechanics introduced in the LN are blatantly contradicted later, because it shows a lack of craft and attention to narrative integrity. Part of what makes a character develop is the need to adapt to circumstances, while the author ultimately does invent all those circumstances, when a situation is contrived contrary to the established rules of the setting, it feels like an ass-pull.