1: People do buy games for multiplayer values.
2: It can be beaten on harder difficulties.
3: It did help define a genre
4: It's a N64 title of course the graphics are a bit blocky.
5: The cutscenes don't matter as long as the story still flows as he himself said it does.
This guy is obviously not a veteran gamer and just some journalist they hired to review old games.
Heavy Vibes