The reviewer, Dean Takahashi, stated that he "sucks at the game" and found it difficult. He also states that he's not a fan of 2-D side strollers and never knew how to properly play one and told people to ignore his review. Overall I do forgive him but they do need to find people who know how to play every type of game.
Here's the article
http://www.player.one/cuphead-gameplay-video-gamescom-dean-takahashi-119834
Because the game also needs to attract new audience, if a reviewer who barely plays 2-D had a hard time what makes you say new players won't. Besides he said he enjoyed playing it, he just had a hard time. We've all struggled with games regardless of experience.
If he's failing at the tutorial, it's obvious that his opinion isn't really going to be worth much on this topic. He may be a brilliant journalist in other fields, but someone who knows about 2D platformers is going to have a much more in depth view of the game than someone who doesn't
Kinda? If I were a dev at that conference, I'd cut him off and tell him that there's a line of gamer journalists behind him that actually know to play.
It's sad to see how some gamers became a bunch of elitist assholes. Even when you're bad at video games, you can still enjoy them (or not), based on details : story, graphics, gameplay, music... If game journalists were only PGM, casual gamers could not play any game, for they would be too hard for them (and please, don't start me with "back in my days, videos games were much harder". Yeah, they had too for you had no stories or graphics to entertain you otherwise).
Despite Dean's lack of skill (which he agrees on), he is able to have an opinion about it and says whether the game is worth it or not and why, just like you can appreciate any hobby (sport, drawing, knitting, whatever), having an opinion about that and still be bad at it. So why would it be different for video games ?
Here's the article
http://www.player.one/cuphead-gameplay-video-gamescom-dean-takahashi-119834
Despite Dean's lack of skill (which he agrees on), he is able to have an opinion about it and says whether the game is worth it or not and why, just like you can appreciate any hobby (sport, drawing, knitting, whatever), having an opinion about that and still be bad at it. So why would it be different for video games ?