So I largely agree with this video, but come on, DA2 is a seriously bad game. If you actually enjoy DA2 you have to seriously overlook the blatantly game breaking bugs, the awful practice of exactly copying and pasting dungeons (I counted the exact same dungeon set up with only enemies swapped out SEVEN TIMES, SEVEN). If you want to enjoy a shitty game, that is your prerogative, but from a scholarly, logical, critic view, there is no way that anyone can seriously give DA2 a perfect score unless you are merely acting in hyperbole. DA2 is a shining example of the shit practices that EA commits, killing originality and quality for a yearly cash out. Hell, DA:O has BETTER textures than DA:2, if that alone, the fact that a sequel has worse textures that the original, does not scheme corporate cash in or rushed, I do not know what does. Furthermore, DA:2 leaves out massive time gaps in the story to be told by a party member who I never used since he cant become a mage and thus is a useless party member since mages are OP in the Dragon Age combat system. So I ended up feeling like I was playing merely a side character and had no direct investment in the story.
Other stupid shit like the party AI being completely broken in several circumstances. Most of the party AI bugs are not apparent unless you are playing on the hardest difficulty and actually have to micromanage your party completely, things like your party moving up in a dungeon after you gave the stop command. DA:2's numerous issues killed all the immersion in the game for me. DA:2 is the only game that I have actually said out loud "fuck this game," and uninstalled it.
DA:2 is a blatantly rushed game, it is in no way a shining gem of a game quantitatively nor qualitatively. So you can see why there would be massive back lash coupled with claims of corruption when someone would give a bad game a perfect score, again, you can like bad games, but don't give them a perfect score when you can not break that score down nor defend it. I do understand that this post is basically the exact same thing about what you are talking about, but view it from a journalistic integrity perspective.