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Reviews for Double Directional

By : Inversed
  • From ANON - Martin III on June 09, 2011
    I don't normally visit this site for my regular helping of fan fiction, but a friend mentioned he'd spotted a Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love story that wasn't smut, so I came to check it out.

    Very nice work. You've perfectly captured the tone of the game: the distinctive gestures and mannerisms of the characters, the reflective dialogue, the general optimistic outlook. Subaru's dialogue is a particularly tough element to imitate, but you've done an irreproachable job of it. Even the setting and pacing of the story make it feel like a lost scene from the game. Shinjiro and Subaru's relationship builds on what was established in the game, neither retreading old ground nor taking the characters places that don't fit with what we know of them.

    The one problem is the ending, with Shinjiro's resolution that Subaru's gender doesn't matter. It's uncharacteristically naaive of him, especially since the very fact that Subaru goes to such lengths to hide her gender demonstrates that whatever she says, gender is important to her as well.

    Overall, though, I'm very pleased to have read this. It's a fitting extension of the So Long, My Love story, a rare case of a fanfic which perfectly fits the tone of the source material, and certainly one of the best fics I've read on this site.
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