Christian’s Reviews > The Starfighter Invitation > Status Update

The middle portion of this seemed to drag so much, though I kinda understand it’s for worldbuilding and game immersion purposes. But really, I want more conspiracy and a lot less grinding!

I really like this! I’m glad I picked this back up after a while. It’s very similar to the MMO experiences I’ve had, down to the anime discussions, only with much nicer game tech!

Now this feels more like the story of a video game ARG. I used to play a lot of mobile gacha games, and that forum transcript in Chapter 4 could have been taken directly from Reddit or Resetera’s mobile gacha thread. Story of my gaming life!

After reading Chapter 1, this feels so much like the beginning to a classic video game creepypasta story (like Pokemon’s “Come Follow Me”) in that it reads like a fully researched nonfiction book. Very well written so far.