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

So that's it?

I've only been playing this for three years

and it's already over.

Ugh, yet another weak-ass game of weak sauce,

but weakest of the weak sauce. Hot garbage, gimme a game

that takes at least 10 years to beat.

Oh," a game that never ends," huh?

Let's look at the difficulty settings, easy, normal.

What the-? There's a Hell Mode.

"Regret is the least of your worries,

for you shall be faced with utter despair."

Yeah, as-if. Like, I've never heard that before.

Bring it, hot damn, that's a ton of character classes.

There's Swordsman and Spear User, even Demon Lord.

Why is the difficulty rating for Summoner so high?

Ah, it defaults you to the serf social class.

And I see it's still in alpha testing,

so there's sure to be a lot of bugs.

Well, it still seems like a fun challenge.

Sure, I'll be your little Guinea pig.

Everything feels all warm and cozy all of a sudden,

but you know, this is pretty relaxing.

I can dig it, wait, scratch that.

What the hell? It's getting tight in here.

It's got some lungs.

You did amazing, sweetie, my precious angel.

Well, this is a literal take on the reincarnation trope.

Gee, thanks for making it so obvious.

There, there, Daddy's, got you.

Oh, sweetie, it's a baby boy.

I've already got your name picked out, pal.

Welcome to the world, you are Allen.

Is it yummy?

Nummy-nummy-num!

Eat all you want, dear.

I was a 35-year-old, broke-ass,

romantically inept white collar worker named Kenichi Yamada.

But I've been reincarnated as this little dude Allen.

Right now, I'm one-year-old, I can't talk just yet,

but I have no problems thinking to myself

or understanding words, so at least I don't have

to learn a new language.

Thank God for that.

Takes after me, huh?

I've been born into a poor serf family,

just like how I chose it to start.

This is a frontier village, where pioneers pay tax

to a ruling Lord to cultivate the land,

so it doesn't have a name yet.

Make sure to get your fill, Theresia.

My father's name is Rodin.

He's a real family guy who works hard day after day.

I assume he is around 20 years old.

Oh, somebody made a mess, there we go, nice and clean.

My mother's name is Theresia.

She's very pretty

and as sweet as can be, probably in her late teens,

and right now I'm their only kid.

Goodness me, honey, seems I have two babies to clean.

That's wight, Mommy.

I imagine it's only a matter of time

before I get siblings.

Is it time to go beddy-bye?

Sleepy.

Nighty night, Allen.

Time for the grown-ups to have dinner.

Stat window open.

Well, getting my diapers changed

and sucking on titties is great and all,

but I'm supposed to be a summoner now.

I really wish I could do something with it.

I've lost count of how many times I've tried.

Stat window open.

Allen.

Crap, I can't let them see, go away, book.

Are you okay?

Just talking in his sleep, I guess.

Oh my gosh, that scared me.

Sleep tight little fella.

Phew! Close call, let's try that again.

Appear, my book and open.

Oh Now we're talkin'!

After a whole year of trying,

I can finally get a look at my stats.

Level one, my class is summoner.

This page has details on my summoning skill.

Apparently summon and create have their own skill EXP.

Guess that means they level up the more I use them.

Oh, I have summons available, that sounds promising.

Looks like I'm limited to insects and beasts right now.

H must be their rank, ugh, talk about bottom of the barrel.

Oh, what's this?

God of Creation, it's some kind of letter from the admins.

Let me skim through.

Basically they're apologizing for sending my grimoire late.

Guess they still have some hiccups

to work out for summoner.

Anyways, I wanna summon stuff.

Come forth, insect.

Huh?

What the-?

Ah! Huh?

Summon insect, abracabrabrah!

Okay, lock in, man.

There are no gameFAQs or walkthroughs in this world.

Gotta mess around and figure it out myself, you can do this.

Oh, maybe I have to use the create skill first.

Create insect.

Whoa! Houston, we have a card!

Here goes. I summon you insect.

Oh, good, he's fast asleep.

Better keep it quiet,

I'll save the summoning for tomorrow.

Crud, I'm actually sleepy now, stupid one-year-old body.

Be a good boy and take your nappy nap.

Okay, it's time to get back to it.

Grimoire, I summon you, insect H!

Geez, that's a big-ass grassHopper.

Will it do what I tell it to?

Hey, Buggy, come this way.

Have no fwear, you may appwoach. Oh-

Nope. It's just a dumb bug.

Maybe the grimoire can offer some help.

Okay, here are the Grasshopper's stats.

I get to pick its name, huh? For a grasshopper,

I guess Denka works. What else is there?

Buffs, must be like power ups,

plus one to endurance, plus one to agility.

Wait a sec, whoa, it actually boosts my stats.

Dude, that's...

Towtally wawesome.

- Allen? - Oh, crap.

Is everything okay in here?

Oh my God, that thing is huge!

Denka!

Hey Theresia.

After several days of toying around with my skills,

I eventually moved on to creating Beast H.

Come forth wittle mousy.

Mousey is as dumb as rocks, just like Denka.

Scurwy.

But at least they use their ability whenever I say so.

Oh, as it turns out, Denka's ability is Hop.

It seems this world is crawling with a bunch

of powerful monsters,

but I ain't beating any with these two.

I can stock up to 10 summon cards for each creature.

The most important thing is their buffs.

For example, by stocking ten of Mousey's cards,

my attack stack goes up by 10.

Now I pack enough punch to easily surpass

what any regular baby can do.

The EXP required to level up skills

and characters in Hell Mode is 100 times the normal.

Oh boy, this is gonna be a grind.

I'm home.

Welcome back, oh my gosh, what happened?

Huh, oh, I'm fine.

It's just from the hunt, don't worry, babe.

Thank goodness, you look terrible.

Hey, Allen, you being good for Mom?

Guess what my boy, your daddy took down a boar.

A bwoar.

Oh wow, is that true?

Sure is.

Rodin is a serf, but when fall and winter rolls around,

he goes monster hunting with the other men of the village.

It was a great boar, really huge, wanna see?

Ooh, my first look at a real monster.

I wanna see a gweat bwoar.

All righty, they're carving it up now.

Why don't we go check it out?

Yay!

So here we are, this is where we live.

It's my first good look around.

See those Allen?

Those are Albaherons.

Awbahewon.

Albaheron.

They flock together and head north at this time of the year.

Monsters that signal the coming of fall.

A monster.

Oh, sorry there.

Allen, something you should know,

you're named after the Albaheron.

You see the sky is the limit.

They can use their wings to fly

wherever they want to in the whole world.