Hell Mode: Yarikomizuki no Gamer wa Hai Settei no Isekai de Musou suru
Hell Mode: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing

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Plot: OG World of Warcraft(i'm guessing) gamer gets bored of modern mobile style gacha games and looks online for a new game to play, finds weird website, picks the hardest difficulty. The benefits of this difficulty are that it provides an infinite potential for growth. He then picks summoner as a class, one that is still in development. After finishing his character creation he is reincarnated into this world. Since he picked the hardest starting conditions, he is born as a serf, and that is where the story begins.

I really enjoyed this story. The main character's thoughts and ideas make sense, and he really does ... start from nothing: His first summon is a grasshopper. Not even a large one or anything: literally an insect that is immediately killed by his mother when she sees it. His progression through the story takes longer and longer time-wise, yet it speeds the reader through years at a time keeping a decent pace where you can see the efforts he puts in every day pay off.

I'm really looking forward to the next novels in the series, as his potential for growth is very high.

Based off all 3 currently released LN's

God Gamer who finds modern games too easy gets isekai'd to a typical fantasy world in which people have "Talents" which are basically just classes (swordsman, mage, etc.) that determine the growth ceiling of that person. BUT unlike everyone else, the MC has a completely unique class and is stuck in Hell Mode, which means it takes him 100x more experience to level up than everyone else.

The concepts present in the novel are fairly cliché but are executed well and the majority of the enjoyment comes from the MC slowly learning about the world he's in and how ... his class works through experimentation. The MC isn't immediately "OP" and the slow yet steady growth of the MC is by far the most outstanding part of the novel.

HOWEVER, this novel suffers from the same issue a lot of similar novels face in that outside of the protagonist few characters have time in the spotlight and while effort is clearly put into the setting, the worldbuilding definitely suffers from lack of focus on it.

The storytelling rarely shifts from the MC's point of view and many of the other characters feel very empty but the inner commentary of the MC is sufficiently entertaining enough to keep the bland characters from dragging the story down.

Story: 8, an enjoyable adaptation on a formula that has been shown to work
Art: 5, a few inserts which are mediocre
Character: 8 (MC) 5 (Everyone else)
Enjoyment: 8

CONCLUSION: A good read for people who enjoyed the beginning of Mushoku Tensei where Rudy was learning about magic and slowly growing his skills.

DISCLAIMER: Novel largely falls off after Volume 2 because the growth faze is over and the aforementioned weaknesses come back to haunt the LN.

Ive read till Vol 6 and here is my take on Hell Mode LN.

I personally enjoyed the first two novels a lot more than i expected, the build up felt good and it took time to give a nice climax in the second volume.
The power system of the world felt a little basic to me, but the MC's class is very interesting and was fun to see how it turned out after every skill up.

Maybe since the story is focused on the MC's perspective, I didn't feel too connected with a lot of characters starting from vol 3 onwards and didn't notice any much character ... growth or stuff with many characters including the MC.

I personally felt the volumes from 4 didn't have much kick in them, and I felt bored during several chapters and even skipped some bonus and side stories which I generally like very much.

Coming to the art, it was simply.... Very bad. Except for a few volume covers like 1, 5 and 6, rest were bad and all the insert illustrations were plain or downright bad imo.

Overall it was a nice read but I feel it's getting dragged on a bit, since even at Vol 6 it didn't go much into the enemies perspective and I feel like the plot will just repeat itself regarding its fights with future enemies.