It's easy to criticize something when you spend hours creating a space where only your own beliefs are given any time; eventually any crackpot judgment looks reasonable in that environment.
Needless to say, I think he's full of ****. Final Fantasy VIII is probably the third best Final Fantasy, and certainly it blows away the poorly-translated, boring game FFVII was. The game has silly parts!? GASP! I never knew!
Seriously, is VIII really any sillier than VI, maybe the most universally praised game of all time? VI had a boss coming out of a painting, a Yeti, Gau the wolf boy being introduced to his aristocratic father, an empire being led by a wheezy old man controlled by a clown, and a general who was able to sing a climatic opera piece with no training whatsoever. Except that opera scene is also one of the most moving scenes in the history of gaming. Except that behind all the sillyness was a story that was actually about something.
This guy is an asshole and a curmudgeon who wasted hours of his life continuously talking and complaining about something just so he could have a few hours of tape where he could just complain and complain and complain without anyone telling him to shut up. He also seems to be completely unable to get the idea of what fantasy is. The garden was floating the whole time, is it that much of a stretch that it could move? Really? Oh wait, I forgot, you don't like contrary opinions. They make you feel like you're an asshole who complains just cause he feels like it. We can't have that, now, can we?
This guy would criticize Totoro for being too unrealistic. This guy would bash the Empire Strikes Back and Firefly if he felt like it and claim they were poorly written. He's just an asshole, ignore him, let him be an 85-year old man in peace.
