User blog comment:CrookedShades/Fan fiction!/@comment-1932315-20140114075114/@comment-5002456-20140116173241

Before adressing any of the critique, thank you for taking time to give me such a long, structural and in-depth review. On to the critique: as for it being "a slice of life" story, that was excactly what it was originally intended to be. I worte the entire thing in a few hours when I was bored; I didn't intend it to be more than a oneshot story, so as for proper character developement, It didn't seem necesary at the time. Later I decided to expand upon it. Right then I decided to make a series of different stories with each of the three main characters of the first chapter as the protagonist. I had also decided to make a Red Line story arc aswell although nothing from that front have yet to materialize. The story was going to be three Reich stories and three Reds stories that would all culminate in one or possibly two wrap up stories. The intention for writing it wasn't as much as to tell the story of a set of characters, but to tell the stories of the nameless soldiers that we, the players, gun down in drowse, or however that saying goes. Yasha, Ivan and Dima aren't the protagonists themselves, but viewpoints that I can tell the story of the soldiers around them, the real protagonists... or that was the original intention anyway. By the third chapter I've gotten into some proper character developement for the protagonist, so I just threw that concept out the window didn't I.

So as the bottom line, I never inteded it to be the opening salvos of a great story that would chronicle the experience of the unsung heroes of a pointless war, but a short story that could stand on its own. As a last note, my overall writning style is very much inspired by Glukhovsky's, and I just tacked on a bit more for this one in an attempt at making it feel more "Metro." God, I'd never tought I'd use that word to describe a writing style.