You've got it all wrong.

There was anger because these reviewers couldn't beat the game. If they can't beat it, it's dumb. (I also did notice that some reviewers would mention, "I WANTED METROID" in their reviews, although I'd hope that wouldn't sway their scores.)

I am sad to see that  critics aren't so impressed by dat  beautiful fur. :(

I like TF better than 3D World, so I'll say that the reviewers who rated it low, tried to send a hint to Retro "do anotha METOROIDO!!!!""

I'm happy with their choice to do TF, but would also absolutely love if they'd do another Metroid someday. No hurry though (since the general opinion here seems to be that Metroid wouldn't do jack shit to Wii U sales).

Edit: Also because they probably couldn't even beat the game. I love the difficulty.

Well... I would say Mario 3d world was better than DKC just in the fun aspect imo just cause it looked better in terms of presentation and almost felt like Mario Galaxy in terms of the levels and gameplay

But probably the reason from what I can tell by reading some of the reviews was that the game was too hard and some deaths felt like trial and error sorta deaths rather than skill based deaths but idk, I didn't think that was the case but many reviewers disagree

i havent played DK, but i guess Mario's brand is just too big

Revenge for not making Metroid Prime 4?

User meta scores are useless, and people really didn't want retro to do a DK game again so probably feel apathetic towards it.

From many of the lower scored reviews it was stated that it's too hard. I find it a similar level of challenge to the old DKC's personally. A couple mentioned something about lack of variation in levels or poor designs. So far I have been pleasantly surprised by the levels, so it must just come back to personal preference with those because there doesn't seem to be any level design flaws that I have noticed, other than some are quite challenging which is what I have come to expect from DKC games.

3D world is better.

Hey that was easy.