Rock, Paper, Shotgun critical Preview and Skill Up response

I am absolutely all for hearing differing opinions on games. I have said in the past, and continue to hold true, that I would prefer my games have both negative and positive reviews, or at least reviews that point out the negatives and positives, as I feel that helps me determine what things I would like and also what things I would not. That being said, I feel the issue people have with this preview is not that it is negative, but that it comes across as a bit hate-filled.

He describes the setting as "horribly familiar" when A. I don't think familiarity is always a bad thing and B. The setting is over several planets, all of which seem to be very different from one another, and after only the first "few hours" I don't think it's fair to comment on the setting of a game like this. The bit where he describes the first few hours as a "gruesome tread through the most trite bilge of the previous three games" is also very smack-you-in-the-face. He goes on to describe the writing as "outstandingly awful," the UI as "designed to infuriate in every possible way," the combat as just "fine," and the planet-scanning mechanic as "dreadful." The point here is that he describes essentially every aspect of the game as, not just bad, but AWFUL, other than the combat which he says is "fine," somewhat begrudgingly it seems by comparing it to some medieval RPG with wizards and ninja, as if the system hasn't always been this way?

The point is, a preview comes off as just a bit off when not only is everything bad, everything is VERY bad, and vise-versa when everything is just AMAZING. It's hard to not see some bias when even when a game is being complimented on something, it's only very slightly and there is still some negative caveat, and the same is true with gushing positivity. Either way, I don't deny this guy his opinion on the matter, I just think this preview needs to be gone over with a critical eye and taken with a grain of salt, like all previews/impressions/reviews.