User blog comment:The Redundant Button/Misfortune Made Her Sword - Chapter one up!/@comment-5470513-20170722032437/@comment-31705228-20170722042340

I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! Unfortunately I can't claim it being my first attempt at writing (that was a cringe-tastic horror story I don't like to dwell upon), but my double-stacked bookshelves are a pretty good testament to the second.

I was kind of on the fence about including so much of Kayaba's speech, though, so I am happy to see that it was well recieved. I'd seen it summarized down to one or two sentences in other fanfics and it just felt ridiculous in them... I think I had that last bit about the 100 floors in there originally, but I might have cut it when I was axeing out chunks of the monologue. Oh well. I can't offer too much in the way of a defense for starting on the first day of the game, though, beyond my thinking it was an easy place to begin and an excuse to avoid having to introduce better than a dozen characters all at once. I do promise that the story moves its focus away from the canonical events of SAO after the first few chapters.

Hopefully I can do better about distinguishing each of the characters in later chapters (there's too many of them for that not to be a problem if I can't...). But thank you very kindly for the review, and I hope you enjoy where the story goes!