The Max Level Hero Strikes Back

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A well-executed power fantasy manhwa with something to differentiate itself from tons of others.

Story: 8/10
The story develops as we see our MC progress with his goals. The interesting aspects of the story are the politics and town building. This makes the manhwa stand out from the others. The lore is surprisingly not bad at all.

Art: 8/10
The art is good enough, especially some background art. The character designs are ok. The best designs and concepts are of the weapons and other items.

Character: 7/10
Most of our characters are written satisfactorily. Score might increase/decrease with some development in the future.
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Enjoyment: 9/10
Since I'm a sucker for town-building power fantasy animanga, I really enjoyed reading this one. Recommended to anyone who likes Solo Leveling, Tower of God, Tensura, Tsukimichi.

MC trains for 1000 years in a dream and is OP when he wakes up but he needs his real body to catch up, although this doesn't seem to ever matter in the plot. He also seems to have been isekai'd but it's never relevant in the plot and only vaguely mentioned. Feels weird that he's 1016 years old but still acts pretty immature, yet all the characters comment on him being mature. This kind of stuff always puts a bad taste in my mouth because it kind of reeks of the author's projection.

Fairly unique setting for this genre, takes place in a medieval fantasy ... setting that has some modern amenities, only the MC gets an RPG status window to view peoples' and objects' statuses as a power. Main conflict is a conspiracy involving the MC as the prince with other parties trying to take power in the kingdom. Power rankings are vaguely mentioned but not a huge focus in this story unlike others because it's not meant to be an RPG IRL setting.

Story is very solo MC oriented but it's more about him developing his land and political goals. Side characters feel shallow, not really feeling any emotion from dialogue, it's very uninteresting because a lot of the dialogue is just very matter-of-fact statements. Characters are also very 1 dimensional, not much depth to them and they stick to their character archetypes There's too much exposition, a lot of the story is just the MC monologuing to himself with backstory, memories, or explaining concepts. Way too many unnecessary details leads to the story progressing at an extremely slow pace.

Writing isn't that bad, it's interesting to see what direction he takes his following that he rules over, but it's not that good either and there's just too much of it, feels like the author can make a decent story but they need to filter their ideas better with a long-term script so they can decide what's actually important for the reader, not just adding jargon to make it sound more impressive then including minute, unimportant details to match all that jargon.

Obnoxious overpowered MC shows off his incredible powers. Typical power fantasy with zero stakes. MC literally has every power in the universe which is fun for about 10 seconds and then gets old. MC can destroy the entire planet and yet we are supposed to care about petty kingdom politics? Typical generic MC is smiling and laughing in every scene which ruins any type of suspense. The world-building is nonexistent since 100% of the story is focused on a single character. The manhwa is generic enough you could swap out entire chapters and not even notice. Definitely stay away from this one.