@Jesotku Just because you only play shitty RPGs doesn't mean the good ones use that trope. Yes, I know how many popular RPGs I just called out for this horseshit and I stand by my comment. An argument I always have with one of my friends is how popularity doesn't make something good or correct. He gets especially mad when I march out the fact that flat earthers used to be the vast majority and such.
The tropes the author makes fun of here don't apply to any actually good RPG. In the days when games had an actual challenge to them, big bads only lost because of the fact that players can start over an unlimited number of times. Usually, those mid-boss underlings were powerful enough that very, very few players could claim to have won on their first try. In fact, I know of at least a few where there's a grand total of 0 players who beat the game on their first run. Very few big bads didn't get their hands dirty and most of the ones who didn't were Japanese big bads. Even then, they were usually too busy running their evil empire or hatching their end of the world plan to bother with a weak hero themselves.
I agree with
@Keansor. I haven't read it yet but the synopsis absolutely reeks of an author who thinks he's much more clever than he really is.
@fellern tries to defend the manga but his defense falls flat when he calls it average. Clearly, the author thought himself more clever than average and the fact he's not is exactly what Keansor was talking about. The author thinks he's writing next level shit and this is just more of the same old, same old with a twist that ultimately just turns it into a pathetic comedy. The fact
@TheTenk calls it a less edgy Dungeon Defense just feels like confirmation of that.
Having read most of the first chapter, I can confirm the author thinks he's more clever than he is and this really does read like a less edge lord version of Dungeon Defense. "I will counter it with [Realism]" Such revelation, such clever. The maid's stupefied expression as he lays on the "realism" is almost funny. I almost feel like the author was trying to make a satire but forgot and took things too seriously, ruining the joke. I kind of feel like this might actually be good to read in a so bad, it's funny kind of way, but that's yet to be seen.