You missed the point. WadjetEye games are good even by today's standards. They replicated the good things about old-school design and took away the stuff that doesn't work anymore.
HAHAHAHAHAHA, nice joke.

Kotaku trashed it in much the same way. Reviewers are utterly incapable of considering it a time piece, it has to be a new modern game or they hate it. The Kotaku reviewer even says in the comments the game should appeal to a broader demographic than people who liked the original, when the whole point of Kickstarter is those people funding a game made for them.

This is going to happen a lot with Kickstarters and reviews.

You can't really blame the reviewers for reviewing it as a regularly released game without taking into account sentiments and nostalgia and such. The game might have largely been made for and due to those reasons (Kickstarter funding and such), but it is being released as a new game in stores.
And reviews on the major sites are mostly intended for people that are in the market for new games and as such it makes sense that a remake of a game where the original was already slightly flawed doesn't really cut it for most kids.
And the Kickstarter people probably don't care about all that since they knew what they were investing in and they judge the game on different things.
That's how I see it anyhoo.

It's worth noting that if you're going to talk about length (no, game length, shut up Larry!), LSL1 isn't a remake of a 1987 game, it's yet another remake of a 1981 game, the text-based Softporn Adventure (included in the GOG release of Larry's Greatest Hits and Misses). In that regard we should be comparing it to its Infocom contemporaries (Zork 1, 2 and maybe Deadline), in which case yeah it's still a pathetically small game.

Did you read the Eurogamer review?

They purposefully assigned a female reviewer - leaning towards the feminist code no doubt - to review the most misogynistic, navel humor extruding game in existence.

Yeah. So much for at least attempting to avoid journalistic bias.

PC Magazine has a slightly better review, but still raises the point that LSL: Reloaded doesn't bring enough new to the table.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2422463,00.asp

Personally I don't consider wadjet eye games to have replicated everything good. They are FAR too low res for my liking, particularly for their highly detailed art style. Everything ends up looking like a mess.