A page to describe YMMV tropes for the video game/film and Review Blog: Planned All Along.
- Arc Fatigue: "Nicolas has anger issues" started in late 2014 all the way to the second-anniversary review in 2015, and did not have as spectacular an end as it could get. Nicolas admits that a lack of time to write the final parts of the review is what caused the hurry to close this arc.
- Archive Binge: While not nearly as bas as other reviewers, Planned All Along already has over 170 articles with over 2,000 words each, and that's not counting every special article as well as the Fun Stuff and Editorial articles, which have been stopped for the most part in early 2014.
- Harsher in Hindsight: In July 2014, Nicolas reviewed the movie Gamer negatively, saying that it treated gamers as if they were sex-obsessed lunatics or self-entitled jerks who would play games even if that meant real people getting killed. He defends gamers as being more decent humans than that. Then comes the end of August 2014, and a certain controversy struck the gaming industry...
- He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: Generally avoided, in part due to Nicolas trying to avert Caustic Critic most of the time, but he did negatively review some games generally considered as good, but he ends his reviews by pointing out that these are good games, as his opinion may change due to details that are only a problem to him.
- For Mario Kart DS, he hates the game due to the power-sliding mechanic, which affects everything else to an extent, but acknowledges that just about everything else in the game is great and he's actually sad he can't like it more.
- He hates many parts of the story as well as many characters in Super Paper Mario, although acknowledges that there are good elements in the plot, and he admits to liking everything else in the game.
- He started his review of Rhythm Heaven precisely with knowledge that it could receive this criticism - as a result, he makes it clear that his lack of talent in the game is his problem only, and his other arguments are actual criticisms that anyone, even good players, could have towards the game.
- The Woobie: Between having a few life problems (such as not finding a job), contemplating the horrible events in gaming, feeling "parts of himself die" every once in a while, and implications that his school years were pretty terrible too, you can't help but feel sad for Nicolas. The character, of course.
