I think critics give deliberately lower scores at the beginning of a new generation so they have some headroom later.
For remakes that scored extremely well last generation they don't really have an excuse to score it lower especially when it includes more content.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’







