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Goodnightmoon on 05 May 2017
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vivster said:
mountaindewslave said:

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?

First of all, that's false, game isn't perfect but not a single issue drags it down, at all.

Second, Jim dislikes Mario kart, he has openly said this several times, is not a kart racer kind of guy, he even gave a 5/10 to MK7, so... how is possible this compeltely change of mind about the franchise with an enchanted port? He didn't give any props to WiiU for Mk8, in fact he didn't even reviewed it because he didn't like Mario Kart but now this one is the game that shows how great is the Switch? Wtf? One thing is for sure, Jim makes no freaking sense when it comes to reviews, is inconsistent as fuck.