Talk:023/@comment-7706473-20140607105605

When I went in, I was rolling my eyes a mile a minute. Something about hyper-realistic gore - gorn, really - on an NES is just ridiculous and ruins the immersion of a good work; you end up thinking that the story itself is going to be terrible. It's enough to make you to put the story down for a bit if you don't have a cast-iron willpower; that, and the conversations are held in a strange format, like -so that took me a littl while to get used to. Oh, and the conclusion depends on a ridiculous bit of technology = magic for it's last 'scare'.

And really, those are my only complaints. I feel the gore is excessive and not particularly disturbing, but it takes truly artful use of the stuff to appeal to my sensibilities. Which is entirely the point of the pasta - you did a much, much better job of satirizing this sort of thing then I did; perhaps my work made it too subtle, who can say. What I can say is that the endign completely destroys the first issue I had with the story and turns it into a fantastic strength. Though I love writing creepy stories, looking around me, I can't help but feel the line between enjoying a story, and enabling a disturbing trend are very blurry indeed.

Although I think it's a bit gory to be on an easy-access wiki, I personally like the story even with the ending. No, I *really* like the story. It's not scary precisely; but what it says is very scary indeed, hits the only things that really scare me anymore. Excellent job, excellent read. Calla blossoms.