I love it when Yahtzee reviews an obviously bad game, just to let off some steam (NOPUNINTENDED!) and to use such wonderful tricks of phrase, like stretching out the way to say "shoot fish in a barrel". It's like this game couldn't decide if it wanted to be Sons of Anarchy or that Tim Schaefer-mad LucasArts game. I haven't watched many Let's Plays of bad games; are they as hilarious as Yahtzee described?
As for the Last of Us backlash, I think it came down to personal taste, and Yahtzee's didn't go for a game trying to transparently be "art" by shooting for the "True Art is Depressing" and "True Art is Angstsy" tropes (whose pages I will not link here for the good of your productivity today). For that matter, I've seen one of my friends play it at his house, and it doesn't appeal to me at all, and from what I heard about the ending, it's a waste of my time spent playing more fulfilling and entertaining games. If Yahtzee didn't already cover Games as Art in one of his Extra Punctuation columns, I think this is fodder for a future one.