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Complete Harry Potter and the Dawn of the Dead by Erised Burning - HP/Buffy/Resident Evil - M

Discussion in 'The Alternates' started by Zevrillion, Mar 12, 2007.

  1. Dareycow

    Dareycow Fifth Year

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    I really enjoyed the story, but there wasn't much of a plot line between chapters. Its like the author wrote one chapter, then sat down the next day and decided what to do with the next chapter. None the less I loved it, and would of been one of my favorites if it didn't have such a shitty ending.

    2.5 / 5
     
  2. Boo

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    Great crossover. Never played the RE games but i could follow easlily enough. The ending was kinda plain. Hoping for a sequel.
    The whole Stargate and LoTR crossover would be hard to merge with all this.

    3.5/5
     
  3. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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    Been a long time since I read it but 4/5 from me. Pretty well written, enjoyable and had some sweet action. End was a bit wtfish, but so are the rest of Erised's fics.
     
  4. Magus

    Magus Groundskeeper

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    I thought this was excellent. First fic that had me up reading into the early hours of the morning in ages. The action was excellent, it had decent (and most importantly, believable) characterisation, and Faith. Plus Zombies. What's not too like?

    My obvious concern is that the epic scope the author picks up at the end of the fic means a sequel will never get off the ground, which is a shame. Still, a damned good read. Recommended to all.
     
  5. Rhys

    Rhys High Inquisitor

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    Arg, I really don't know what to say here. The universe merging between the three crosses was done fairly well, and keeping Slayers relevant in a world of titans is no easy task. However, this sorta reads like a really good bad fanfic.

    The writing will stream along, not exactly masterfully but certainly competently, and the plot will develop nicely, and then every once and so often we get a WTF-Asspull OOC moment. There's Kingsley's training regimen, the regrettable Molly incident, the First Evil just being misunderstood (which I might have liked, if it was the only asspull in the fic), and the most shitty of the asspulls, Faith going all homicidal on Harry for no good reason. Dawn and Xander seem to serve little purpose in the fic except to be other Buffy characters.

    Plenty of other things are unexplained, such as the state of Giles' betrayal, and more importantly, what the fuck happened to Willow. For that matter, it was pretty cheap when her wards got OMGpwned. The lead in to a massive Megacrossover sequel essentially means it's unfinished, since the sequel will never be written.

    I have to give this fic a 3/5, as there were too many little things that bugged me. I didn't not-enjoy reading it, but I got a sort of queasy feeling in my head from doing it (And honestly, the uterus comment and similar, WTF Erised).
     
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