The NPCs in this Village Sim Game Must Be Real!

This is my third light novel that I'm reading in a good flow, my first has been Three days of happiness and second is Apothecary Diaries (ongoing) and now I've liked on NPC Town-building Game novel.

I stumbled on this one in r/LightNovels post (don't ask me why), since it was a small series I definitely took a favor to read it next. After writing down I've Consumed Enough I'm leaning more towards reading book or textual content more (hopefully no slop, everything predating 2023-era). Because the greatest minds have always transcribed knowledge in that way, and the only source of truth are by books.

As Divjot (DJ) said in one of Indie Club meeting, we humans are all about moving stone/rocks from one place to another. I'd also like to add, changing one form to another as well (obviously cannot forget the classic law).

I was not looking for self-improvement per-say here, but was more wanting for a Mindful reading than a mindless rot. This novel is only of three volumes, and I completed the first volume within a day and second volume half completed, the writing (translation) was very apt and easy to grasp. This is not an Isekai story or OP stuffs thrown everywhere. The story is about a NEET person who got a game to play and that game is very realistic that every moment feels alive and lively to his own life (uhh, thats one way to interpret), go check info page that gives synopsis and reviews for more clarity, I'm here to only interpret and make notes.

IDK how to even write this post, but I'll just make a list of good things that was nice to read:

• I like how Inspecting/Simulation of others lives helps Yoshio to realize his own life and get inspired and get directed ahead.
• Its a slow, steady and heart warming story, unlike any other novel, this goes in two place; one is virtual sim village game which is middle age scenario and second is Yoshio's IRL japan village with his family.
• I really like how novel showed that things can be fixed even after long time, how yoshio life was getting fixed with his family and himself.
• Novel author - Hirukuma, portrayed more real life struggles and bad habits in digital world clearly showcasing how gacha games and its world run micro-transactions and trap humans.
• TBH even I felt that if NPCs can be simulated that way realistically, why can't we humans also do it. We got so habituated with automation now that we are watching Sim games to have fun? The real fun is in doing stuff and not watching (same goes for GTA VI, but dont blame me for theft)
• I also like how contrasting a simulated (imaginary) world in middle age can be and how modern today's life is in this novel. Yoshio always relates and learn through them all along.
• Portrayal of God was phenomenal in some ways, I like how NPCs also dont depend on God alot and are just grateful for being watched, but still they put in their 100% efforts and take care of themselves.
• This is how a novel must be written and finished. I really like when authors decide how and when it ends, without playing fan service to the end and fillers. Every character had their role as NPCs and even IRL humans shown.
• I'm really happy that I'd imagine some scenario by reading this and not crave for illustration, thinking is really amazing.

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Also apart from reading joy, I felt very much interested to write a light-novel myself, I just felt like even I create a world with my own stories of adventure, as I said in my prev post that I've already consumed enough, so I should start creating stuff on top of it. I know this will be a long process, but thanks to this mindful reading session I'll start to write some form of small stories and publish it on my site as same blog posts itself, typically tag as #webnovel or #story. I know nobody cares nor reads, but I may so write to let my mind and imagination be at peace. I'm a big fan of One Piece (yk it already), and I want to read LOTM soon as well, so you'd imagine what kinda big novel world even I want to build. But although I get peak motivated, I just get cooled off thinking that I need to learn more and read more from greatest work to produce worthy content, but who knows, once i start things can escalate to new level (lets hope).

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For more context or review, you may check Sean Gaffney's blog post