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The majority of the "flaws" he is mentioning are undeniably objective flaws. His personal opinion isn't really a big factor in this review/comparison to Abes Oddysee. And when he mentions things that represent his personal opinion, it's usually well reasoned.
Putting REAL ads in a anti-consumerism themed game is a flaw, the lame motion detector solution is a flaw, so are the "steam-zones", the way jumping works (without the classic control option) is a flaw, the overdone post-processing effects are a flaw, the lack of backround detail is a flaw, factory slaves making too many casual and silly comments is a flaw, visual clues for check points are a flaw...
As far as the art direction is concerned, this is where it gets more subjective, although I think it's fair to say most people that played the original preferred the dark and gritty look and feel of Rupture Farms.
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I agree with the art direction thing, but it doesn't kill the game or anything for me. The motion detectors work fine (mostly), the steam zones are okay, the post-processing effects are pretty bad but they can be disabled, and you can't really criticize the game for its controls after they added the classic controls in.
The background is pretty detailed IMO, I don't remember a single area where the original was more detailed than NnT. In fact, I remember that the background in AO was pretty much sheet metal for half of the damn game.
And I have literally no problem with the visual cues for the checkpoints. Visual cues are good. In fact, the color-coded levers are pretty bad because of that but they're OK-ish when you disable the post-processing.
The "ads" were stupid, yes, but they weren't paid for them, they were just shout-outs to other indie devs. Also, they removed them in the other versions of the game. And yes, the mudokon chattering was annoying.
Point is, most of these are cases of "I don't like colours and neither should you".
tl;dr matthewmatosis is salty af and if I understand this correctly he hurt the game's image so much that OWI lost sales over it, which means less money for TzF which means even more complaining.
