The thing is, he's not reviewing a property that's decades old. He's reviewing a game that was released August 13th. Games get old, and some age more poorly than others. To not point out the poor aging of mechanics and level design he perceived in this title would be dishonest.
Games that are "this old" aren't reviewed at all. At least not in any official capacity.
Furthermore, reviewing through nostalgia and rose-colored glasses is reviewing with a bias. Nostalgia isn't a measurement of quality. Nostalgia is a personal reaction to something that you were once fond of. Since this site is called "gamespot", and not "duckspot", the percentage of the audience who shares such nostalgic memories of the original game is likely to be rather small.
Finally, the creators have already taken liberties updating this game. They've changed the control scheme for one thing. If they could update something like that, they could also implement other modern mechanics in order to increase the quality of the experience. However, since they've chosen not to do that, you've got to deal with what's in front of you, which is exactly what Tom did.
@mos2000 So, a new game should be scored by how it good it would've been in the past? Instead of the actual experience it provides?
Car enthusiasts are just that: enthusiasts. If you want to know what a Duck Tales enthusiast thinks of this game, maybe you should visit the Duck Tales fan club.
I think the story is Ellie's to a much larger extent than Joel's. She's the sole driving factor of the games story, and her journey is learning what the world was, what it has become, her place in it and how to move forward.
Joel's story isn't about how his life is impacted by the death of women, it's about him continuing to be a lost cause, a grizzled survivor shaped by 20 years of misery, and projecting his "reason for surviving" onto Ellie due to the circumstances they're in.
By the end, she has been forced to see and do some horrible, awful things, Joel knows he can trust and depend on her in a pinch, yet he still chooses to keep the truth from her for selfish reasons. He's just as dismissive of life, death and the rest of the world as he was when we took control of him 20 years into the outbreak.
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