Jim sterling gives Mario Kart 8 Deluxe a 9/10.

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mountaindewslave said:

Darashiva said:
It's honestly starting to get quite ridiculous how far people will go to try and justify that he still has some nefarious anti-Nintendo bias. Over the last few years he's given Majora's Mask 3D, Hyrule Warriors Legends and Smash Bros. for WiiU a 9.5, he gave Xenoblade Chronicles X, Kirby: Planet Robobot and Super Mario Maker a 9, but because he didn't quite like the new Zelda as much as people wanted he's now a Nintendo hater.

well he certainly doesn't like Nintendo as a company, but that doesn't mean he doesn't like their games. Two different things.

I think the Breath of the Wild review was obviously for ATTENTION, not because he hates Nintendo. the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe score potentailly validates the odds of the BOTW review being for exposure.... from an objective standpoint I'm not sure how you give a port, even if great, a better rating than something that is technically and fundamentally as solid as Breath of the Wild (and ambitious to boot)

It just comes off as a bit of a middle finger in terms of review scores and kind of hard to believe, for him to make the claim that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the first 'great' game on the Switch. 

He didn't review MK8 as a port, but as a game. As a game MK8 Deluxe has very few drawbacks and is an overall enjoyable experience.

BOTW is a solid game that does a lot of things well but also has a lot of issues that unnecessarily distract and drag down the whole experience.

Why wouldn't he score BOTW worse than MK8 when MK8 has barely any negative points but BOTW has multiple very strong negative points?

Is it so hard to grasp that someone would have less fun with a tedious open world game with certain mechancs that drag down the experience than a very good Kart Racer? Especially considering that there are a million open world games already out there which do some things better while there isn't really an experience just like MK.

Is BOTW somehow inherently superior just because it's a different genre? Is it not allowed for a Kart Racer to have a better score than an open world game?