Well, at least Peppita went out with a grand finale. Poor girl...

That, I feel, is one thing that I really like about Star Ocean: that the developers try to create a plausible world with all the technology and what-not. Really, how many games have dictionaries and encyclopedias and go into detail over places' histories and stuff?

And I love the way you do that within this fic. It's an awesome story you have here.

I have to say the cliched "wow", because this is, in my honest opinion, an amazing collection of one-shots. You've crafted perfect snippets of Nel's character and her thoughts. (And I do rather like the omake. ;)

Well, this is a rather quality-polished fic. I've seen too much AlNel fics floating around, but at least this makes absolute sense to the point, I thought this was a full readaption of the in-game dialogue.

I definetly like the style of perspective and structure of events you arranged, though it is intended a dialogue-oriented fic, you pulled it off really. I have no gripes with that.

However, my only issue is where you left this off. More would've been nice, I mean, somehow this seems unfinished. (It seems to skip the whole Luther-gonna-delete-you thing, although her presence at this point is insignificant in the first place.) But to say the least, a believer of Apris, being forced to witness the true reality of existence itself? The conclusion was left highly interpretive much like the game's general ending.

Otherwise, excellent work with this!

Wow this is a long one- and really well written- you chose a great character to write up- it's interesting to be able to see what Nel is thinking throughout the game- and I LOVE character interaction- especially when it's so detailed and correct- word for word with all their thoughts and feelings. You would have thought that reading how Nel reacts to everything would be boring after a awhile but this kept me reading all the way through! I especially like how she loses her temper a lot- her sarcastic tone with Cliff, and her introduction to computers- and the omake's are hilarious- "does that mean we have to have Albel in our party after all?" "There's always Roger"- the two characters who hate Albel the most- CLASSIC!

Since this is marked 'complete', I suppose an in-depth review wouldn't do much good, but let me just say that I think this entire collection of stories was pretty awesome. Not only well-written, but you seem to get inside the character's heads and turn them inside-out for all to see.

I'm surprised and disappointed that you haven't gotten more reviews for this...

Like that one other review mentioned, I would have liked to see Nel's reactions to some of the programmer's names, not to mention Luther himself, but oh well. Can't have everything. ^_^

And I feel the need to state this: I. Love. Adray. He is so weirdly awesome! Somehow he doesn't get on my nerves like Peppita and Roger sometimes can. I only just recently got enough Battle Trophies to get the 3P costumes, but you can bet that once I get Adray in my party again, I'll check out his.

These stories have given me much food for thought and ideas for details that I might be able to incorporate into my fics...

Oh and I should mention that I'm here courtesy of foxygirlchan. I followed her link from DA. So, feel free to thank (or curse) her as appropriate. ;)

I suppose the fact that you're tired of this story means you're never going to get into Nel's impressions of finding out the names of the Eternal Sphere programmers (or in the case of that idiotic lazy moron and conspiracy theorist Folstar, *ex*-programmer) are the same as the names of the eight Nature Deities (*please* tell me I'm not the only one who bothered to read all the tons and tons of interesting information in the two Castle Aquaria libraries... if that's why you've stopped this story already, please go read it)? Or that Blair is the current head of "Project Apris," or in other words is basically the God she worships? So on and so forth?

To say nothing of a lack of Nel's impressions of the Executioners being able to lay waste to an entire planet, and then of course what happens at the end, but I can see why those two were left out since they're arguably covered well in the entire Game. But, um, the whole "programmers have same names as the deities" (even if Nel never finds out Blair is "Apris," although I'd hope you'd write about that if you covered the Nature Deities thing due to how interesting you could make that kind of thing) thing is simply something I can't see Nel failing to notice. I was looking forward to that showing up in this story.

And it doesn't. And I've loved the story so far and it stops when there's still much more you could do. (Excepting that little remark about Maria when she was fifteen though, unless what Mirage is implying... not sure what it is and I'm not sure I really *want* to know, but I have suspicions... never really happened, because otherwise it'd be majorly out-of-character.)

Paul

"That was fun!"-Fayt Leingod
STAR OCEAN: 'TILL THE END OF TIME

This... was probably the best piece of SO3 fanfic I've ever read. On the other hand, I think it might have been the *only* piece of SO3 fanfic I've ever read, seeing as I avoid those massively OOC Nel/Albel fics, along with anything with yaoi in it, and if you took all of those away... Uhh... *cough* Yeah. Anyways, nice fic.

You know I never noticed that...HA!

And lastly that's cold...real cold! Albel cold!

Indeed most don't like her, though foolish she is like Master Yoda. You don't think their dangerous until they beat you to death.

hahahaheh God I love Adray! Awesome!

This... Was... Awesome!

I love this fanfic! I laughed, I felt ashamed at the poor worms, and I felt sad at things.

I also didn't like how they did not show Nel's suprise of the technology in the game and how the dictionary was so accurate yet the game...

I am one of the few people who read through the dictionary! I feel special!

Man, poor Peppita.

"So does this mean we've got to have Albel in our party after all?" "There's always Roger, I suppose..."

Is this how you made your group as? Or did you have Albel? It would have probably been funnier if Albel was in it, and Roger, but I suppose you're following the game.

I got Peppita in my group, and it was such a let-down to find out I couldn't have Albel on my team. D=

I found many parts hilarious! I posted some on deviant art. Shush. Of course, I directed many people here. This is such a good fanfic.

"Oh really?" "Yes, but he sometimes goes by the name 'Albel the Wicked'..."

xD

Man, this is hilarious! I can't stop grinning! I might just draw something for this. Or a mini comic for your omake.

Awesome. Just stunning. I love your writing! It's so... Awesome.

xD

Absolutely wonderful. When I saw you had posted a new chapter I decided to reread the whole story and it was just as good a second time around!

This is really great! It's funny and the characters aren't out of character (I especially love their interaction!), and Nel's POV is very credible. Keep it up!

Wow, marvellous characterization! I've always loved stories about first contact and this one certainly fits the bill. I just finished the game and am catching up on 'fics, and this one made my evening. Keep up the good work!

Ah, yes, a fic about Nel! She's not my fav character, but...anyway, is this fic kind of rushed? I can't really tell, it seems like you're making kind of a line snapshots from the game, then an actual story. But good, nonetheless! Seriously, great! BTW, is this Nel/Cliff? that's something you don't see everyday!