Whoa, I think some people here are reading WAY too much into this. Although I don't anymore, I used to read EGM regularly and they always have a section at the back called the "Reviews Wrap-up", as mentioned, where they write brief summaries of games that didn't arrive in time for completed reviews to beat deadlines or seemed otherwise pointless to critique (ie. Mary Kate & Ashley Sweet 16).
This is NOT a review. This is simply a little blurb, and is in fact more text than they usually provide for the games in this section. They may not have had time to play enough to do a proper review before they had to go to press, or they prioritized other titles that would have been more important to their main audience. They don't have the luxury of publishing whenever they want; they have to make deadlines and the process of printing and distribution automatically hampers the speed of their coverage compared to their online competitors.
If you've never read their magazine, this process might seem unfamiliar to you, but I assure you, it is completely normal in their publication; it is neither the first nor the last time a game that someone was hoping would be reviewed has been pushed aside for reasons either of time or of priority. Just randomly flipping through some back issues shows the same treatment shown to titles such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms X, Riviera, Yoshi Topsy-Turvy, and Goldeneye: Rogue Agent. And that's only mentioning a scant few.
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