Since I'm assuming that I'm the reviewer in question, I thought I'd clarify what I meant - it wasn't so much that reading a confessional written from a different perspective helped because it was a confessional written from a different perspective, it was just that each additional story that I read in the Final Fantasy universe taught me a little more about the "canon," if that's the right word, which was helpful. While I can't say for sure, both because I don't know the Final Fantasy universe at all and because I've read only a subset of the confessionals (a couple of the more recent ones from Paine's perspective, the first four from Paine's perspective, and the first two or three from Nooj's perspective, in that order), my sense is that the confessionals probably work just fine as stories without the context of the other confessionals, particularly for those who are already familiar with the Final Fantasy universe. (That is not to say that the confessionals don't add to each other - I went to read the Nooj's confessionals (do I have his name right?) after reading the Paine confessional that ended with them having sex by the pond, because I really wanted to know what Nooj thought about that.) For me, it is the lack of knowledge of the Final Fantasy universe that is the real barrier to understanding the stories. Speaking of which, is there somewhere I can go to read a summary of the basic elements of that universe? And I did like your stories, even with my limited understanding of the Final Fantasy universe - I think they do a really good job of establishing an emotional connection between the reader and Paine.