I would actually put that sentence the other way around;

The Last of Us did receive the same level of critical acclaim as Skyward Sword and Mario 3D World.

I did enjoy the game quite a bit. It didn't get boring for one second and I loved to play around with echoes and stuff. My only complaints would be that it is in fact a little easy and also quite short. Then again, I played A Link to the Past right after Echoes of Wisdom (because the map reminded me of the game, lol) and I always had ALttP in memory as a pretty long game. Turns out I got through that game in half the time it took me to finish EoW. It was a little harder though.

Anyway, since I don't have too much time for gaming anymore, I'm not even mad about games being a little relaxed and short. I actually enjoy it. It took me months to finish TotK. But I can understand if there are people who are upset about it. 20 years ago I sure as hell would not have liked a game like this. But that was when I got fresh out of school and played games for like 6 hours a day or something.

You can't please everyone but ultimately, I would argue that EoW is very well made and doesn't have too many real flaws aside from stuff that comes down to personal taste. Oh, btw I didn't miss having a sword for one second.

I had 3 major complaints:

1) too many echoes, most were worthless. If nothing else needed a quick select for the key echoes.

2) zelda needed to be able to attack directly. The sword meter was expired too quickly. Watching echoes battle, especially with awful AI, was boring.

3) Dungeons were meh. LA's dungeons were much better.

Game is solid, I enjoyed it. 7/10.