Carl’s Doomsday Scenario continues the saga of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Let’s get the important stuff out of the way: if you liked the first book, you’ll like the second. There’s more of the same stuff featuring Carl and the adorable Princess Donut as they make their way through the complex world of the dungeon. The emotions continue to build, the story matures, and the characters get deeper and continue to move away from the tropes that tend to plague an Isekai-esque thing like this.
In the second book, Carl and Donut are beset by evil clowns. The circus is an excellently realized thing, with stuff like attack lemurs and battle giraffes. We also get an even deeper look at the dungeon’s mechanics, with new features like named unique NPCs that have branching storylines. The dungeon’s map also changes, with a wide, expansive place to explore instead of the cramped corridors of the earlier dungeon. We get our first sign of a larger expanse that spans multiple floors and gets deeper as it goes. In short, this is a worth expansion where everything feels fresh and the story slaps.
I really don’t know what else to say because it will either be spoilers or rambling. This is a wonderfully imaginative and entertaining story. 11/10.