Jim Sterling’s site under attack after Zelda: BotW review

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potato_hamster said:

sc94597 said:

He tested the game a bit here and there between other games before the 9th, but he did not dedicate any real play time until about March 9th, rushing through the story between the 9th and the 11th (when he beat it.) Hence his complaint about shrines makes sense. He wanted to rush through the game so that he could give its predetermined review, but having to do shrines made that harder. 

 

As others have said, they saw all of this coming before the actual review -- he telegraphed it on twitter and in his podcast.

So how much does he have to play the game before he can give an accurate review?

Considering that multiple points in his review are factually wrong, enough to get the facts right at the very least. But I would argue that nonlinear, open world games need longer playtime because of how expansive their systems are. Nobody would take a review of Skyrim where all the person does is rush through the main quest in a day seriously, the same holds of Breath of the Wild. The game is not designed to be played linearly in a few sittings.