Draconic, is petty and childish that you simply wrote this review because you didn\'tagree with the other one and have decided that nobody should read that one. It shows that you cannot agree with a negative opinion on something you like.
I forgot to say that I left you another message in the other review.
...I mean, I don\'t mind him writing his own review with his own opinion. It\'s healthier than dread necromancy and tantrums. That said, I\'d leave off paragraphs directly trashing other reviews; that\'s just bad form.
The last paragraph has been zapped. Childish, people. Very childish.
"Draconic, is petty and childish." Well… I mean… Okay, yeah, that's absolutely true, but now there's a certain irony here that I think you're missing. Moving on from that however, it's true that I disagree with the other review. I did not however mean to disrespect the writer. I thought that *he* had broken rules. Nevertheless, I reacted improperly. @nombretomado I still believe that a reader should be warned about the array of spoilers, but I do apologize. I understand why the last paragraph was removed. Sorry about the miscommunication.
\"but now there\'s a certain irony here that I think you\'re missing.\"
Yup, you hit it on the nail, I don\'t get it. Care to explain?.
\"I thought that *he* had broken rules.\"
Yeah, but you literally have no right to say who broke a rule and who didn\'t, that\'s the mod\'s job. I have already seen some users getting banned for deciding to police the site.
Am just warning you so you don\'t get banned.
The irony was that what you\'re doing here is a lot like what I did, with the difference being that I did it incorrectly. Your warning and criticism was mostly just condescension. And you\'re still doing it, criticizing me for something, and then doing the exact same thing.
I don\'t actually know how to tell if someone\'s a mod here, so maybe I\'m completely wrong, but if I \"literally have no right to say who broke a rule and who didn\'t,\" then I don\'t understand why you do. Because that\'s exactly what you\'re doing here.
What I did was a mistake due to lack of understanding, but you\'re minimodding just as much as I did, and you didn\'t even do it professionally, freely using insults and condescension, whereas I was just flat out critical (though I guess it was in bad taste?). Maybe it seemed like I deserved it? I don\'t know. I just wasn\'t aware that spoilers were allowed in the review section.
That said, if you actually are a mod, then I just made a complete ass of myself, and I sincerely apologize for my lack of awareness.
Anyway, if you\'re gonna tell me off for being rude, you could stand to be less blunt about it before you\'re sure the person you\'re going after was intentionally being a jerk. Speaking of which, whether you\'re a mod or not, I apologize if I\'ve been too blunt here, myself.
\"And you\'re still doing it, criticizing me for something, and then doing the exact same thing.\"
Umm, am gonna correct you there, that\'s called \"hypocrisy\". Yeah, ironic, as you said, because I usually try to avoid doing just that but, hey, from time to time I do need to eat humble pie, right?.
\"Your warning and criticism was mostly just condescension.\"
Actually, that was mostly sarcasm. Yeah, I use sarcasm so much that I don\'t notice when it descends into condescension (apologies). I just love sarcasm.
\"then I don\'t understand why you do.\"
Uh, mostly because I would like to help others avoid a ban, even if that gets me banned.
\"Maybe it seemed like I deserved it?\"
Yeah, your initial comment sounded to me like you were implying bad things about OP simply because they had a different opinion to yours.
\"you could stand to be less blunt about it before you\'re sure the person you\'re going after was intentionally being a jerk.\"
True, I suppose.
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One of the Best Metroid Fics on the Internet — Though Not Remotely Canon Compliant
This fic is written exceptionally well — professional quality, even. Magus 523's novelizations tend to play fast and loose with their series' respective canons, so it's best to consider this story and its prequel, Metroid III: Return to Zebes as though they were their own entirely separate continuity.
Among certain trigger warnings would be that Space Pirates have a lot more individualism than they do in canon, certain bosses and even mob enemies are given sentience upgrades, and Samus is relatively talkative.
Magus 523 writes Samus as gritty and jaded with no love for the Federation, or even society in general. She's not a silent hero in this fic by any stretch. Quite honestly though, one of the best parts about these two fics is the characterization. There are OCs, but the ones that aren't good are still entertaining to read, and the portrayal of Ridley as sneering, sarcastic and manipulative is a little over the top at times, but they also make him likeable. A sympathetic Ridley is probably not for everyone, but I'd recommend giving it a chance. It's very amusing seeing him cackling as he watches Draygon being killed (there's a kind of rivalry between a 'Ridley and Kraid' faction and a 'Draygon and Phantoon' faction. Return to Zebes was written well before Other M came out and the extent to which Phantoon is actually an eldritch horror was revealed, so it ('he' in the fic) has gotten a bit of a downgrade here.
Samus' relationship with Ridley is akin to two rivals who love to hate each other, and it makes for fairly good on-screen chemistry between them, though not in a romantic way by any stretch of the imagination, thank god. More in the sense of them having fought each other enough to have a rapport. This Ridley's less a murderer so much as he is a fighting-addict.
Quite honestly, these stories don't have an atmosphere of complete isolation so much as they do one of loneliness, often of Samus' own making, but it works for them.
The verdict for these fics is that you should give them a chance. If you're among those of us who forgave Nintendo for Other M, or at least weren't one of the people who turned on the character they claimed to love at the first opportunity for the crime of not being tailored to their interpretation of her, you'll like this fanfic. If you're still aggravated by Other M, or actively avoid looking at anything it did right, I'd advise you to avoid this fic.