Sunday, February 6, 2011

Review Response: Shadow of the Kyuubi

Shadow of the Kyuubi: Nice job; I like how you develop Guilmon's character btw.
I just found this story today, and so far I like it just as much as the first one. I like the way you've managed to make room for the new characters by getting rid of the old ones, but my one criticism is that you might have taken it too far by having megas being killed by rookies.

Hathis: I figured the Dark Beacon would provide an effective plot device for disposing of the older generation: was it too convenient? (Deus Ex Machina to the rescue?) It seemed like it would also provide a reason to fear the evil digidestined even more this time: if the Royal Knights were brutally slaughtered by the evil digidestined in their lowest stage then who has the ability to stop them?

Shadow of the Kyuubi: It just seems that, when you think about it, a Royal Knight should still be able to run away from a rookie or something (I'm mainly thinking of chapter 1.)
To be clear, I'm not criticizing you for using the Dark Beacon again; actually, I think you wrote that in very well. It's just that the first scene where you showed Omnimon getting killed by a rookie slightly bothers me; shouldn't he have been able to de-digivolve or something?
Aside from that, I think that you've written the rest of the story very well so far, and I look forward to reading future chapters.

Hathis: I was working under the premise that the armor of the Royal Knights is quite heavy, and that they must have been weighted down by their armor. That's why I had Crusadermon throw her shield down the hall: partially to possibly throw Gaomon off track and to relieve some of the strain. But you're right, I never even considered that the knights would degenerate to spare themselves. I'll come up with some half baked explanation later on to fix that.

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