Listen, Ratsalad, if you're such an authority on what constitutes A Good Review and what games might rightly be termed "masterpieces", why don't you write some reviews yourself instead of finding fault with reviews written by other people, so that they can "benefit from the criticism"? Even if you are being helpful in pointing out flaws in a review, has it ever occurred to you that it is a bit of an ungrateful attitude to take? Reviewers spend time (and often it's quite a lot of time) preparing and writing those reviews that you and I read and more or less take for granted. The least we should do is to show some respect for the reviewers' work. Of course that still puts us in a position to disagree with it, but it certainly does not put us in a position to lecture somebody who - unlike us - has actually made a valuable contribution to the site (as opposed to rather unproductive squabbling on our part) and to act as if we were his English teachers.
Leave the reviewer alone and start discussing the bloody game, for God's sake.
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