I’m old. I like games. i like rpgs. I like mmos. when I was a kid I envisioned snes games as virtual games and what virtual reality would look like. it looks kind of like this. at least the it looks like the world i create while listening to this audio book in my mind. worth every penny. now, look, the main character is a junior in high school so, yes, its gonna have some childish themes. as is the way of these types of books. easy to overlook for me because I see this world through the mind of my young kid self, and the kid in me is blown away by this book. it also ties into the themes of the bullied kid and the outcast which many of us book readers were. what we would have given for these powers back then. ? good stuff. on to book 2.