In the early days of WEBTOON and official English translations of manhwa, there was an immensely popular long-running action, dark fantasy title that played with the well-explored concept of overlapping videogame mechanics with reality, long before the overwhelming success of titles like Solo Leveling. While it by no means pioneered this particular trope, nor is it even the very best the trope has to offer in the realms of anime, manhwa and manga, DICE: The Cube That Changes Everything was once upon a time a brilliant and unique exploration of a narrative in which a character gains the ability to alter their own "base stats" much like the Level system now ubiquitous in RPGs, but what was brilliant about it was the way this concept was taken to a very dark place.