The whole concept of the story just felt really... not like Naruto at all. In this fic, despite there apparently being no real differences between this setting and the Naruto canon, apparently here Orochimaru is a wise and benevolent leader, the Sound ninja of Oto are a bunch of really cool dudes, Tayuya is a soppy, dere-dere romantic and Konoha is SO utterly lame, dude. It was all tell and no show and I was never really convinced that there was any reason why Naruto would remorselessly betray Konoha, resulting in its annihilation and the massacre of its people. I just couldn't suspend my disbelief that much. It basically just made him seem like a treacherous, backstabbing, shallow, petty douche and completely undermined the character. This fic simply doesn't work.
Didn't like it.
The whole concept of the story just felt really... not like Naruto at all. In this fic, despite there apparently being no real differences between this setting and the Naruto canon, apparently here Orochimaru is a wise and benevolent leader, the Sound ninja of Oto are a bunch of really cool dudes, Tayuya is a soppy, dere-dere romantic and Konoha is SO utterly lame, dude. It was all tell and no show and I was never really convinced that there was any reason why Naruto would remorselessly betray Konoha, resulting in its annihilation and the massacre of its people. I just couldn't suspend my disbelief that much. It basically just made him seem like a treacherous, backstabbing, shallow, petty douche and completely undermined the character. This fic simply doesn't work.