05-27-2017, 07:41 PM
It’s been too long since I’ve done one of these! I’m not that great at it, so let’s see how it goes.
I’ll do a beat by beat reaction thing, and then give my more in depth thoughts at the end. No promises I’ll have much to say since judging isn’t my forte, but it’s worth a try I guess.
Also, I haven’t read any other reviews, simply so they don’t affect my opinion, so if all I do is reiterate stuff 5 other people already… I’m sorry.
Anyways, on with the review!
Family of Steel - Man of Fire by Proto Man
I haven’t read much from the Family of Steel series, largely because there’s so much of it. It’s Alex’s biggest work after all! I believe I read the Tangled Green one, but that was so long I have a hard time remembering it.
However, I have read some of his other works in previous book club, and he’s shown himself to be quite a talented writer from those, so I’m expecting this’ll be pretty great!
- And this picks right up from a cliffhanger. I saw Alex post a link to the previous topic, and I should have skimmed through that first, but I’ll manage
- So I guess the Proto Man himself is off in Camelot chasing shadows while other robots chill around in lava land. Alright!
- Oh Okay! This is like taking place in an entire different verse, got it!
- The first post gives off a very episodic feel. This is very much an episode of a TV show rather than a stand alone story. It’s really fun when writers on this site could pull that off. ^^
- Dialogue between the robots are very pleasant. I enjoy bubble man the most! I wonder if Proto has gotten to facing him yet…
- So we cut to proto. I like the idea he was just wearing chainmail through his entire journey in Camelot. Does he always wear disguises?
- I always forgot to describe the whole weightlessness aspect of going through gates whenever I come across one. Always like how other writers tackle those.
- And Proto putting on useless clothes. XD I love doing that joke in Guu posts, just point out the pointlessness of some of the actions of the characters. Particularly how Guu chooses to breath or use her eyes, even when she doesn’t really need either to get around. Heck, the fact she even walks when she can fly. I love that kind of humor, I guess Alex does, too.
- Fire Man sounds like quite the cave dweller. Kind of curious what kind of boss he’ll be like… I mean, obviously a lot of fire…
- Pez dispenser, hahahaha. Nice mocking the odd designs of the odd games. Yeah, there are some odd choices in those.
- Also, I like the idea of lava rivers with populations in them. Would like to do a story about them sometime… assuming Proto doesn't get to it later in this story.
- Huh, on one side, those dumbass gem hunters was being reckless, but on the other, burnt them alive. It’s a fairly good conflict so far.
- Though, a little confused why he’s trying to reason his way out of fighting Proto when in a previous post, it sounded like he was planning to stop Proto from interfering with his brothers. Even if his reasoning worked, it would of only stopped the prodigal from attackIng HIM, it would have done jack towards getting the red robot from hunting the others. Then again, maybe I’m missing something.
- Oh, interesting. So Proto was simply inflicted with the ol’ “Multi-verse confusion.” I didn’t know he fell victim to that. Well, everyone has to come to terms with that one way or another I guess. Glad to see it handled well though.
- Maybe I misread a previous post, I should reread the one with Heat Man’s plans. One sec.
- Okay! Yeah, I did misread it. I guess Heat Man is hoping Proto’s confusion would get him to back off for a while, make him second guess himself.
- Suddenly, a cyborg russian…
- Was this before the rules on NPC primes became more exact or is this guy one of Alex’s NPC Primes? Now that i think about it, I he could be one of the site NPCs, I’d have to check on that…
- Escape the volcanic eruption time!
- Proto and Fire Man have a nice little heart to heart about the Omniverse. The two have some interesting perspectives on the place.
- Don’t know how I feel about the russian guy. Not sure if he was foreshadowed in previous topics. I won’t complain too much about it, he may have been mentioned before and the fact I’m jumping in the middle of this arc is kinda my fault.
- HEAT MAN NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
- I have to admit, I never would have predicted the direction this story would take. If you told me at the start of this that Heat Man and Proto would form a truce and then get attacked by a cyborg russian… well, that wouldn’t shock me too much as this is the Omniverse, but still.
- FIGHT!
- Combat so far is alright, better than what I could put out xD
- Okay, this fight just becomes downright brutal, good job.
- Final post, just going to run through this one in one go.
- Well, there goes Proto’s han D:
- HEAT MAN TO THE RESCUE! WOO!
- Huh, seems I’ve grown a bit attached, that’s another plus for this work.
- Well, it’s kind of sad to see Fire Man sacrifice himself to give Proto another power. I’m guessing he was kind of doomed anyways.
Well, I’ll have to say, that was an enjoyable read! My favorite aspects were the dialogue, the relationships between the different robots, the episodic feel of the whole thing. The cyborg russian felt like he came from nowhere, but again, maybe he was introduced somewhere else… Like I said, I did kind of jump into this in the middle of an arc.
Anyways, I am quite satisfied with this. Thanks for providing us, Alex!
I’ll do a beat by beat reaction thing, and then give my more in depth thoughts at the end. No promises I’ll have much to say since judging isn’t my forte, but it’s worth a try I guess.
Also, I haven’t read any other reviews, simply so they don’t affect my opinion, so if all I do is reiterate stuff 5 other people already… I’m sorry.
Anyways, on with the review!
Family of Steel - Man of Fire by Proto Man
I haven’t read much from the Family of Steel series, largely because there’s so much of it. It’s Alex’s biggest work after all! I believe I read the Tangled Green one, but that was so long I have a hard time remembering it.
However, I have read some of his other works in previous book club, and he’s shown himself to be quite a talented writer from those, so I’m expecting this’ll be pretty great!
- And this picks right up from a cliffhanger. I saw Alex post a link to the previous topic, and I should have skimmed through that first, but I’ll manage
- So I guess the Proto Man himself is off in Camelot chasing shadows while other robots chill around in lava land. Alright!
- Oh Okay! This is like taking place in an entire different verse, got it!
- The first post gives off a very episodic feel. This is very much an episode of a TV show rather than a stand alone story. It’s really fun when writers on this site could pull that off. ^^
- Dialogue between the robots are very pleasant. I enjoy bubble man the most! I wonder if Proto has gotten to facing him yet…
- So we cut to proto. I like the idea he was just wearing chainmail through his entire journey in Camelot. Does he always wear disguises?
- I always forgot to describe the whole weightlessness aspect of going through gates whenever I come across one. Always like how other writers tackle those.
- And Proto putting on useless clothes. XD I love doing that joke in Guu posts, just point out the pointlessness of some of the actions of the characters. Particularly how Guu chooses to breath or use her eyes, even when she doesn’t really need either to get around. Heck, the fact she even walks when she can fly. I love that kind of humor, I guess Alex does, too.
- Fire Man sounds like quite the cave dweller. Kind of curious what kind of boss he’ll be like… I mean, obviously a lot of fire…
- Pez dispenser, hahahaha. Nice mocking the odd designs of the odd games. Yeah, there are some odd choices in those.
- Also, I like the idea of lava rivers with populations in them. Would like to do a story about them sometime… assuming Proto doesn't get to it later in this story.
- Huh, on one side, those dumbass gem hunters was being reckless, but on the other, burnt them alive. It’s a fairly good conflict so far.
- Though, a little confused why he’s trying to reason his way out of fighting Proto when in a previous post, it sounded like he was planning to stop Proto from interfering with his brothers. Even if his reasoning worked, it would of only stopped the prodigal from attackIng HIM, it would have done jack towards getting the red robot from hunting the others. Then again, maybe I’m missing something.
- Oh, interesting. So Proto was simply inflicted with the ol’ “Multi-verse confusion.” I didn’t know he fell victim to that. Well, everyone has to come to terms with that one way or another I guess. Glad to see it handled well though.
- Maybe I misread a previous post, I should reread the one with Heat Man’s plans. One sec.
- Okay! Yeah, I did misread it. I guess Heat Man is hoping Proto’s confusion would get him to back off for a while, make him second guess himself.
- Suddenly, a cyborg russian…
- Was this before the rules on NPC primes became more exact or is this guy one of Alex’s NPC Primes? Now that i think about it, I he could be one of the site NPCs, I’d have to check on that…
- Escape the volcanic eruption time!
- Proto and Fire Man have a nice little heart to heart about the Omniverse. The two have some interesting perspectives on the place.
- Don’t know how I feel about the russian guy. Not sure if he was foreshadowed in previous topics. I won’t complain too much about it, he may have been mentioned before and the fact I’m jumping in the middle of this arc is kinda my fault.
- HEAT MAN NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
- I have to admit, I never would have predicted the direction this story would take. If you told me at the start of this that Heat Man and Proto would form a truce and then get attacked by a cyborg russian… well, that wouldn’t shock me too much as this is the Omniverse, but still.
- FIGHT!
- Combat so far is alright, better than what I could put out xD
- Okay, this fight just becomes downright brutal, good job.
- Final post, just going to run through this one in one go.
- Well, there goes Proto’s han D:
- HEAT MAN TO THE RESCUE! WOO!
- Huh, seems I’ve grown a bit attached, that’s another plus for this work.
- Well, it’s kind of sad to see Fire Man sacrifice himself to give Proto another power. I’m guessing he was kind of doomed anyways.
Well, I’ll have to say, that was an enjoyable read! My favorite aspects were the dialogue, the relationships between the different robots, the episodic feel of the whole thing. The cyborg russian felt like he came from nowhere, but again, maybe he was introduced somewhere else… Like I said, I did kind of jump into this in the middle of an arc.
Anyways, I am quite satisfied with this. Thanks for providing us, Alex!
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