Yeah, I think people are orgasming over it so much because it's a Naughty Dog game. They seem to get a free pass for pretty much anything -- even lying about how their game's AI was going to be. NO REVIEWER mentioned this!
Yeah, I know. Either their getting paid off by the publishing company to give them high scores (seen some accusations here and there) or they are fanboying real hard. Either way, almost every review I have seen on this game has been a 10/10, only a couple giving it a fair score of 7.5 or 8.0, and those sites got totally crapped on too. It's like big review sites are afraid to say the truth just to save face.
The AI
was indeed horrendous, level design was average, and controls were real clunky. I played more of the Remastered version on the PS4 at my friend's place and I have even seen low res textures in some places, particularly the background and buildings you couldn't get in to but could see up ahead. It's like they got lazy and didn't want to patch everything up and just wanted to re-release it for the quick buck because they know it'll sell well.
Another game popped into my mind that I had trouble with: Glover for the Nintendo 64. I didn't even get passed the first world in that. The controls were really stiff, the camera angle was horrible, the level design was real weird and i felt some locations looked like they were still in the beta stage, and the game was never clear on what you had to do, particularly during boss fights. What pisses me off more is that I bought that game for $50.
I also rented Superman 64 once too, expecting it to be one epic game. Holy crap, 10 minutes into the game and I couldn't take it anymore. I immediately went back to Blockbuster and demanded to exchange for another game.