Is that Next Generation? Always disliked that mag due to their anti-2D bias.
I believe it was tracked down to a UK Nintendo magazine when it was posted a few years ago, maybe even on NeoGAF.com. I can try to look it up if anyone wants.
Next Generation was pretty favorable to 2D games in my opinion, they scored SOTN with four stars, Abe got four stars, to pick two from an issue I randomly opened. (Even Mega Man X 4 gets three stars, which is "good" and a "it's tempting to dismiss this out of hand but...") They would savage 3D games for being 3D just because, especially N64 garbage. I do recall them being a bit down on 2D fighters, especially ones that did small changes as re-releases.
A dirty little secret that they later admitted to when rebranded as NextGen is that all the "reviewers" were the same ones as at Ultra Game Players, PSM and other imagine media people. They just copied EDGE early on by having a "singular anonymous magazine voice" and since those people were already playing/reviewing the games anyway...