Thanks for the personal insult, makes your argument that much stronger.
I don't know for a fact that he finished it on normal, but I'm willing to accept that he did and he just didn't make it clear in the review. It's very possible he beat it on casual first, then normal, but referred to the casual ending. Doesn't really change the review to me, nor do I honestly find much issue with it in the context of the rest of the review. It read as a review of a smaller downloadable game that the reviewer just didn't connect with. If he would have mentioned the cut-scene and still had the rest of the review the same I'm sure people would still complain, this is PJ after all.
..and read the tweets, Dylan misspoke about an last epic stage, then went on a tweet about how he's pissed, about the length comment, called Daemon and intern, called IGN a web-shite, called Daemon out of touch, questioned the editors, called them crap, then admitted that there wasn't an epic unlock just a different ending, etc.
So your comment about Dylan not having an issue is false. He never did actually call out the score, but I'm betting the same text of the review with a 8.5 wouldn't have led to any of this. He claims he's passionate, this seems to be true, but I think bottom line, IMHO it's about the score, and that score being from a large site like IGN hurting his bottom line. I guess it's understandable, but in the end it's disappointing to see.