Maybe the game just sucks.

Make journalism great again.

That was honestly kind of painful to watch. I get not everyone is good at these type of games...but I really wouldn't have posted this video in that case. Watching the guy fail to jump for like two straight minutes made me actually anxious...I wanted to take the controller from him!

This stuff is platforming 101 and it's grueling to watch. I really hope this person isn't doing the review on it.

To be fair, I have had games where something looks quite easy to platform and it isn't. Maybe the tutorial part was just a misstep. Like I'm playing Nier Automata right now and I went to this really cool canyon but when I tried to get back to the bridge I kept falling at the waterfall part.

Shoot Em Up's also aren't as common nowadays.

This is why we have tutorials in every fucking game these days are people who act like they never played a game before. I miss when games like Mega Man X or Castlevania taught you everything about the game in the first level with its game design. You learned everything you need to know to play the game in the first level of Mega Man X. It was brilliant game design. I am so tired of games holding hands. It's so bad these days every single game has a button prompt for the simplest things like opening a door. In Mario 64 I didn't have a button prompt to open a door. Older RPGs I knew to just open it. They didn't coddle you. Now we have morons like this guy and Polygon who have no idea how a video game works. It's embarrassing.

I don't have time to watch the whole video, but maybe the controls just suck? I have played countless platformers where the character just never does what you want him to do because of piss poor controls. Just yesterday I played God of War and there were these twisting things with blades on them you had to climb on the path of Hades. It was simple as fuck in theory, but the controls in this section were so awkward. Kratos all the time made tiny steps to the top or button, resulting in getting hit by one of those blades. Took me like 15 minutes to beat that part, although it was easy as fuck in theory.

Well, I remember a while back Angry Joe bitching and raging about difficulty of Risen 3 combat, although there's nothing wrong with it and he just plain sucked at it...and he's quite famous "reviewer/influencer" who supposedly knows how to play games.

This is painful to watch, especially from someone calling himself a game journalist. These people obviously never touched a gamepad before.

So, when is the first satire video being released on how Polygon is looking for employers?

Poly: "So, we are looking to increase our staff. We are in search of professional videogame journalists. What's your experience in those games? How long have you been in the scene?
Guy: " I've only done board games so far".
Poly: " That's close enough. You got the job!"
Guy:. :D

Unfortunately, not really. The guy spend a minute and a half on the very first tall jump in the tutorial.
It was NOT a matter of doing the right thing but not finessing the controls. It's quite clear that early on
he DOES achieve the necessary tall jump without managing the Dash which the tutorial text spells out.
What does he proceed to do? NOT repeat the tall jump and try to finesse the Dash again...
He proceeds to repeatedly try low jumps smashing into column, despite that obviously not going to work.
Nothing to do with controls, he simply was dull headed and unable to focus on WHAT THE GAME SPELLS OUT.

He writes in article how he assumed you killed things by jumping on them like in Mario... 
Yet when that didn't work and he died, he didn't change his actions, but kept repeating same bad tactic.
That's just not the sign of somebody who is truly paying attention to the game he is playing.
He was on autopilot from some memory of playing Mario as a 10 year old or something.