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Dungeon Robotics Series, Book 1

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By: Matthew Peed
Narrated by: Nicole Poole, Gabriel Vaughan
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Regan Earle was a robotics scientist that inadvertently caused the robot takeover of the world. When his last creation completes a decade-long plan to end his own life, he ends up surprised. Creation offers him a second chance to test his wits and cunning in another world. Fate, however, is fickle and Regan ends up as a Dungeon Core...with all his memories. Is the world of Murgin ready to face such a dungeon? Let's find out....

Earth 2150. Nearly 20 years since the robot uprising, where all AIs designed by inventor Dr. Regan Earle went rogue and started to take over the world. Or at least, that's what everyone thought until a year later Earle himself sent out a message. A message that stated his creations would shut down if he were killed. He even went so far as to place a beacon on top of his building that broadcasted his location. The humans fought against the machines for decades in a futile attempt to destroy the tower. Until one day....

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I loved the book, a really nice power curve. Good story, nice world mechanics.

though saying 'salt pepper' instead of 'saltpeter' is kind of annoying

Loved it

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The story was great, very rare to find robot litrpg, it's about what you'd expect of a dungeon core story, the character is a bit strange, the things he started on earth don't really line up with what he's doing now and the author never really mentions anything about him maturing as a person after earth. The narrators were very off putting, they talk like ai voices and mispronounced words a lot, quite distracting but doesn't take away too much from the story.

Excellent story, narrators aren't the best

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If you are ok with a bit of an over-the-top-but-smart powerfantasy, this series is for you.

I enjoyed this entire series so far (halfway in book 8 currently) it starts out pretty decent and improves along the way.

I enjoyed how the Main Character is not exactly the hero in this story and might actually be or flirts with being the villain.

Sure the MC seems overpowered at times, but the story builds attachment and investment with secondary characters and the world over time, which are caught between the MC and other threats, keeping the story somewhat grounded.

The female characters are a bit one dimensional in the first book, maybe the second too, but the author seems to improve on this later on. Nothing overtly sexual happens, but the MC can be perceived overly fatherly or patronizing.
On that same vein, the MC also does not really seem to have any flaws.

Both the author and the MC seem to get distracted with 'projects' and 'side stories' which are also discarded again easily, often without any clear resolution of that storyline, or with any impact on the characters. Quality of the story fluctuates because of this.

Some power creep does occur in the later books, but it is often vague what the end of the power curve really is.

Another slight pet peeve is that each book is not really a contained story, the story in continuous and books seems to start and end arbitrarily.

(Later edit: some spelling/writing errors can be heard here and there)

Sounds pretty negative, but it is fresh and fun enough to keep me wanting more.

Neat take on the dungeon core genre

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The story wasn't bad on itself, but beside the main narrative voice, the other voices sound too much like someone using text-to-speech A.I..

Sounds like A.I. narration

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the performance was somewhst flat, the protagonist never met a challange he could not snap his way out of or that he magicalky made the counter for the day before.

I enjoyed the premise, and it was entertaining enough, but..

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