YMMV / Mogworld

• Complete Monster: Simon Townshend is the incompetent new developer at Loincloth Entertainment. Initially dismissed by his peers as an incompetent boob, Simon discovers that the NPCs of Mogworld have attained sapience, after using the Deleters to destroy Lord Dreadgrave's fortress and almost everyone inside. Simon allows the Syndrome to continue despite knowing they're sapient; empowers Barry, a priest with severe anger issues, to be his Herald; and allows him to subjugate and torture those under his command, aiming to take over Mogworld where, as Lord Si-Mon, he implements mandatory worship of himself. Simon uses his hacking abilities to take away fellow developer Dub's access to the building, trying to ruin his life out of spite, and then tries to use Barry to steal money from Loincloth's payroll after torturing one of the protagonists by deleting her limbs one by one.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Everything and anything Mr. Wonderful, the homicidal, psychopathic, cannibalistic, sadistic, masochistic elf does.
• Fridge Brilliance: The Epilogue. Jim is deleted, and the devs are trying to create tributes to his memory by making him the basis of important characters. However, it keeps breaking down because each "Jim" gets confused and complains that things don't feel right. Deleted data isn't actually destroyed forever; if you know what you're doing, you can get it back.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The superhuman celestial warriors that are the player characters in the release build of the game are nearly dead ringers for Stormcast Eternals, who were introduced years after the book came out. Bonus points for the reviewer in the end complaining that the humans you played as in earlier versions were more relatable, a common criticism of same.
• Spiritual Adaptation: In a rather broad sense, it's a pretty good novelization of Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, as the main character is an NPC in an in-universe video game, and the Big Bad is a developer with a god complex, the main difference being that this story is open about the in-universe MMO aspect.
• Squick:
  • Any scene involving Jim getting repaired by Meryl. Not even the fact that he only interprets the pain rather than feeling it helps much.
    Mr. Wonderful froze, smiling thinly. Then in two sudden movements he slapped his hand on the desktop and cleanly severed it at the wrist.
  • Later in the same scene, he dies, respawns at the next chapel and comes back to eat his old body.
• The Woobie: Jim. All he really wants is to die in peace, but once it's granted to him, it's too late to give him any peace at all.