But they have to justify the gyro controls of the WiiU controller somehow. Or else they become like a redundant, useless aplication of such controller.

This clearly did the opposite. They should have done something else.

That's a surprisingly generous score. They better not be as soft on Color Splash or there will be tidal waves of flames!

If they think it's warranted with such score, that's how they will feel. They played the game for some amount of hours and gave the score they gave so I'm not sure if it's for generosity sake. It probably would've been a little higher to make it generous. Heck none of us has played it yet so why is it generous? 

Hmm, a bit lower than I expected. I thought it would get a 75-80 metascore.

Everything beats the Wii abomination. It's dead for good reason.

Though I'd rather use trash Wii controls than the gamepad gyro.

But I'd rather use superior dual analog controls than any of that garbage and just have something else on the bottom screen like a control panel or something actually neat.

Giant Bomb gives the worst review of the bunch on a Nintendo game... big surprise. Their bias knows no bounds.

for being honest?

I think writing an article about how shit the game is (which is a review in itself in a way) and his decision to not review it was the wrong thing to do. Which is a bad editorial decision. Deciding not to review the game, in consultation with his boss, is no problem at all. I'm sure his employer didn't just say, "OK well we'll pay you anyway and you can just go blob for those hours instead." People talking like the guy is being paid to do nothing. I'm sure he's still got to use those hours productively for his employer, and perhaps his employer decided his hours would be more productively used on other things.

Perhpas Ploygon thought it needed to give its readers a reason why a game like SFZ isn't getting reviewed.  It's a high profile Nintendo IP, so you'd expect a major publication to review SFZ. But perhaps just not reviewing the game and being silent is the better option here.

Weird, I though it was widely accepted that Wii Nunchuk + Wiimote is the best for shoot'em ups like Sin and Punishment XD. I guess it's a matter of tastes. I really can't think of any better control scheme in those shoot'em ups rather than the Wii controls, and I'd really like that they have implemented that in SF: Zero. But I guess they're trying to differenciate the WiiU from the Wii. It's a shame... I think they should give options for everyone. Standard controls, Wii controls, WiiU Gamepad controls... They could update the game with this, the same they did with Pikmin 3 when they added the new touch controls.