So, despite heavy misgivings, I went and picked up the first two novels in Kaoru Shinozaki’s Hazure Waku series (which has an overly-descriptive subtitle I don’t care enough to transcribe). Sadly, those initial suspicions ended up well-founded.
Something of a cross between Arifureta and Tsukimichi (minus the harem elements) it unfortunately suffers from three keys flaws:
1) The author has zero experience regarding game systems; you cannot have zombie dragons and mud golems getting paralyzed for example, let alone dying to poison. It’s completely unbelievable.
2) Most characters, and not just the students, are all terrible for no other reason than to be terrible. Their interactions with one another are also horrifically cringey.
3) There’s quite a bit of gratuitous ecchi in here, which is often coupled with the terrible personalities mentioned above.
Reading this series is a constant ordeal to suspend your disbelief while wading through random bursts of meaningless cruelty and misogyny, one which does not appear to have even a single worthwhile trait to offset it.