Title: Cutting the Deck
Author: cyrusII
Category: WIP
Rating: T
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4065455/1/

Summary:AU. Cards. Naruto's pretty good with cards. Well saying he was pretty good at cards is like saying "Jiraiya is a bit of a perv" or "The Hokage Monument is sorta tall". Good just don't cover it. Wanna find out how good he is? Well, you're just a click away

Good story with Naruto being a budding seal master, graduates a year early, has a couple of OFC teammates, and Yuugao as a sensei.

The writing style is kind of random in the first few chapters but overall it's enjoyable with hardly any glaring mistakes in grammer and spelling.

 

Bad spelling, bad grammar, bad OCs, bad Hitchhiker's Guide references... just plain bad.

 

Also, bad format. You need to write the author's name in the title.

 

I'm going to just put this out here. I absolutely loathe Sealing Master!Naruto fics. One of the biggest cliches in the fandom right now.

 

Eh, I still found it an enjoyable read. It elicited a few smiles while reading, plus I enjoyed the deviation with canon. I do agree though that the grammar needs improvement.

3/5.

On a side note, I really liked his Barking Trickster story. It has the same grammar issues, but I found it a fun read.

 

Bad grammar and cliche it may be, but the story was enjoyable for me.

3/5

 

Guilty pleasure is very guilty >_>

Bad spelling, grammar, annoying sometimes. But as Kens said, elicits the faintest hint of a smile and maybe a chuckle whilst reading it

2.5/5

 

My supremely fuckable english teacher made certain to point out that verb tenses should match.

Seal!Master Naruto isn't a cliche for me, because I only read a select few Naruto fics, and only three of them include the aforementioned "cliche." And two of the three haven't been updated in nearly a year. Still, something about this fic rubs me the wrong way... maybe it's the style of writing. 2/5

 

I still want to reiterate that the Barking Trickster is probably a better work than this piece.

Con: Naruto at a ridiculous age gets ridiculous power. Grammar not the best.

Pro: The author does hilarious things that I haven't seen in other stories. I really really really want to see the next chapter after the cliff-hanger. It's like diet-crack (absurd - but still has a cohesive plot).

 

Despite the poor execution, the story is amusing and at points original enough to keep me reading. The OCs aren't really that bad in my opinion, and the cliche of a sealmaster!Naruto isn't that common from what I've seen.