Section: Star Fox
Genre: Psych Thriller, Time Travel, Action, Romance
Rating: Older Teen for violence, language, death thematics, sexual references and nudity.
Type: Full Length Story
Status: Twentyfour Chapters In, 150,000 words
Last Updated: May 21, 2011
Starring Characters: Fox McCloud, Krystal, James, Katt, Fara, Falco, Vivy, Cerinian OC Mahlay
Description: After the entirety of the Star Fox crew meets their death, Fox McCloud immediately awakens in his teen years through a force unknown to him. Determined to correct his mistakes of his past life, prevent the deaths of those close to him and find his true love again, whatever it may take. However, he will learn that fate and time is a tricky thing to mess with...
Review: This is perhaps the most recent entry to my list. After a bored afternoon I decided to look through my friends' favorite lists, and found this and started marathoning it through the next week, and I'm almost finished with what is up so far. And truly, it's remarkable.
The idea of time travel isn't a new topic, but the idea of living your life over again is a pretty fresh take, and Skullfox doesn't squander the potential. He creates an enigmatic story of Fox, a forty year old in his teenage body, trying to make sense of his life after he is forced to start most of it over again after his untimely death. His emotions and pain are detailed, but most notably his undying, unshakable determination to fix all that went wrong in his life. The day he wakes up, he saves his mother from certain death from Andross' bomb.
And although it is slow to build up, every moment counts in this story. Fox learns more about the temperamental tapestry that is time and life, and the story creates a literal alternate universe, where things start to change- with him, those he loves, and the course of his life. The story periodically switches to Krystal's home planet, where a force of evil starts to grow in a young male whose mind starts to corrode under the control of a mystical object, and although it's confusing at the time, it starts to all add together in an intense mid-story climax.
-"Fate
The most laughable concept in history, or something we could never hope to understand? The ideas of fate and destiny have been alive since time itself. People will bend to believe that they are drawn into their decisions by the hand of God or some other unseen force…in this most of them simply try to deal, by blaming these forces for their own mistakes. Perhaps fate does exist, and perhaps it does not, but in the end we only have ourselves to blame..."
There are some problems- the story has the tendency to jump through the progression of time almost randomly, making it hard to follow, and there are some confusing points, but the positives outweigh the negatives, especially later in the story as Skullfox's writing skills increase. It's a long read, but well worth it.
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