| Mummelmann said: So he gets shit for Zelda score because it was too low and now he gets shit for the MK score because it's suspiciously high. He can't get a break from the conspiracy corps, it seems.  |
the Zelda review was for attention. If you read his review its fairly poor in terms of reasonable criticism. His biggest complaints are essentially that he doesn't like that the weapons break and all of the traveling. Weapons breaking is in itself not objectively something terrible, its a developer choice and hardly particular bad when compared with some survival games.
the traveling around? for an open world game you can get around quite quickly in BOTW, with the glider and whatnot.
The problem people have is that the Zelda review comes off as staged for attention and shallow. He doesn't have a LOT of negative things to say despite giving it a 7, and seems to deliberately sort of ignore a lot of the positives.
I think the BOTW review was a combination of knowing he'd get a lot of attention because everyone else was praising it, a lot of attention because his fanbase has really enjoyed his videos shitting on Nintendo, and lastly maybe a bit because Jim historically seems to enjoy the Zelda format (smaller world, big dungeons).
a lot of it just doesn't come off at genuine with that. I'm sure the Mario Kart 8 review is somewhat more genuine but then again after him being OCD and quite critical of VERY few things in BOTW, that he might do the same with Mario Kart 8. So much for that. Inconsistent
