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

[Darashiva]

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. 

From what I understand, he simply enjoyed Mario Kart 8 more than BOTW, hence the higher score. He didn't review MK8 as a port of an older game, but on its own merits simply as a game, especially since he hadn't reviewed or really played it before to any notable decree. Also, Zelda being technically and fundamentally solid doesn't mean that every aspect of the game is going to be enjoyable to play. I haven't played the game myself, so I can't say how things like the weapon durability or the various other complaints I've heard would affect my enjoyment, but I can certainly understand how it would do so to some people. Also, being an ambitious game is in no way indicative of its overall quality, and is no reason to give a game a good score. Plenty of games with great ambitions have turned out to be absolute rubbish in the end.