Completely missing the point

[Wolf Kanno]

I've had a few over the years on forums, but sticking to more acceptable target opinions:

There is a review on a well know faq site for FFVI which basically gave it a low score because it stole the plot from BoFI, which is kind of laughable because "stopping evil empire from reawakening old doomsday power" is not only been around since the 8-bit era for RPGs, but it's only the plot of the first half of the game and frankly I feel saying VI is just a redo of Secret of Mana's plot is more accurate. Of anything, fan reviews often feel like this, especially when they're going out of their way to trash talk a game.

Egoraptor's Sequelitis series is usually pretty insightful, but I have to disagree with his one on Castlevania versus Simon's Quest as watching it again recently made it feel less like "Simon's Quests design is awful compared to the franchise in general" and more "Castlevania is an action platform title with level design, and the Metroidvania style games are bad because they miss this point because the series is meant to balls hard". Throw in the fact that playing both titles back to back, I have to strongly disagree with his stance that the first game has better controls and was purposely designed the way they were is also not terribly accurate. Granted, he does bring up several valid points as to why Simon's Quest has issues (bad translation that makes the game impossible without a guide, excessive grinding, and a silly lives system" but I feel like he missed the point about the appeal of the more exploration aspect garnered by the games design which is actually the real appeal of Metroidvania titles.

As for my own times of missing a point, there was one really painful time where I read too much into a guy's post and thought it was sarcasm when he was actually being pretty serious and he kind of did a real humiliating response to cut me down for it. I think it had to do with the conclusion to the Xenosaga series.

Not so much missing the point but not really considering the possibility was one I had on this forum concerning the whole "Tidus is a dream" plot point, which I still stand by the fact I feel it's a contrived and ultimately pointless twist designed to simply let him steal the spotlight from Yuna at the end, but I think it may have either been Levian or Mister Adequate explained it s more of a poetic concept that made the impact a little more bearable for me.