Well that’s possibly not fair on them, I believe their exact words were "not innovative enough" and "basically LittleBigPlanet meets Spiderman". Said comments were, however, based solely on the fact that it was 2.5D and had that strong swinging mechanic which put it directly up against the former title.
Possibly arguing semantics there but lets just say when I saw the Trine video there was a certain bit of hands being thrown up in the air and loud sighing. :D