Zelda BotW: Can It Actually Score a 98/99 on Metacritic? GOAT? (Based on previews)

[Goodnightmoon]

Faelco said:

It will also depend on the importance of graphics for each reviewer.

I'm watching the Gamekult live preview right now, and he's saying a lot of great things about the game, but also complains about the textures and models being "fugly", an unstable framerate and the game looking too washed-out ("white filter on the screen everywhere during the day"). He's comparing it to the first Dark Soul: great game but with a bad technical part, and calls it an "almost low budget game" graphics-wise (lots of compromises to make it run on the Switch). He also had quite a bit of trouble with the controls and the Joy Cons (because of the triggers) and didn't really like playing on handheld mode ("even worse than the Vita in the hands"). Not sure how it will affect the score.

But according to him it took a lot from Shadow of the Colossus and other good bits of plenty of other games and dit it really well, so it should have a great score anyway.

All the previews I read all highlight how amazingly beautiful the game is anbd how surprisingly gorgeous some zones are, that's the first one saying otherways, I don't think is gonna be a problem at all.