Man's just as bad as Orion in that regard: too busy looking for one of the girls of his harem that he's unaware of his own surroundings...
...Oh wait no, he's basically worse. At least Orion has the smarts, the beefcake bod, and a somewhat better control of his powers even before the story has hit its halfway mark. OIAL's MC has to wait until the last 2 updates for him to be even aware that he has any sort of powers. And prior to that he has to rely on Lauren and Judie's smarts and his own pure blind luck and somewhat good-naturedness (and I'm being fucking generous in that regard) to survive through the shit he goes through in the story.
Not to mention they wanted him alive after a while. That's one of the reasons I am extremely leery on the big consequences the story is setting up and how they're handled. It's a good local story and a good first attempt without explaining the magic (which I'll handwave) right along with working to complete MOST of the game and moving to another (Eternum) and tying up loose ends.
But to say it's flawed is an understatement. Credit where due, a caveman could get a fap, but I'm looking at the girls left behind until their turn, how they don't do much for you (and Lauren/Judie do everything) and how the MC has to be guided by fate while the girls just don't have that relationship established as needed.
I do like that most of the girls are starting to have their development and talk even if MC in Eternum is sweating a lot more but we'll see how this goes and how he gets it handled before I say it's better or worse.
