First Zelda BotW Review in and...its Not Looking Good...

[Goodnightmoon]

Kai_Mao said:

Robert_Downey_Jr. said:
It's really hard to judge Nintendo games based on scores. They tend to be inflated with reviewer nostalgia with these older franchises. Nintendo has made some classic games and recently too, but I find most of the time I have to watch the videos of them playing to see if it looks interesting or not. This one looks like a winner from previews but I do hate the weapon degeneration. Always hate simmish stuff like that in games, especially open world ones.

Just curious what games do you trust being good if they're reviewed well?

I get nostalgia is a factor, especially for Nintendo games. But I would like to think that critics (and hopefully gamers as well) can judge games on their own merits and not bring nostalgia too much into the overall perspective of the reviewed game. Games like Mario Galaxy, Smash Bros. Wii U, Pokémon Sun and Moon, A Link Between Worlds, etc. appear to more than deserve their high scores and sales. 

Not only that, but also everyone says this Zelda feels radically different from any other in the saga so... how is nostalgia working there? Specially since nostalgia can backfire big time when you make huge changes and fans start to feel like the game is not what they were used to.