Yeah, its ridiculous.He also complained that the game taunts you to explore things on the horizon, but since they are so far to reach and takes time to get there, and since the stamina system limits your running speed time, its Nintendo making us "experience the frustation of toil", or something along those lines.Not to mention that he complains about BOTW systems being too real. LOL

I feel like that making a person review a genre that he dosent like(which seems like this reviewers dosent like open world games if he dosent like to take his time to reach the places on the map) is as bad as making clickbait reviews or making fake news.The media outlet will inevitably piss on a game that is simply not made for him.Its the same as if I reviewed a sports game, which I really dont like.It wont work.

That's called Clickbait review, they need attention in someway so they do something controversial.

And that's why Metacritic is an aggregrate website. it combines the reviews, too high and too low, in order to get a general view of what the critics think.

I just read The Jimquisition review, and i think it's fine. I'm fully expecting to disagree with much of what he says when i eventually get to play BotW, but his arguments are at least well structured and subjectively justified. I think i'm more understanding of this review than normal though, as i'm playing through Horizon right now and have found myself really disliking aspects that most others have been highly praising. I'm more aware than usual of just how subjective gaming can be.

The Slate review, however, i found to be quite a poor read. They spent an entire paragraph complaining about Zelda's lack of a compelling narrative, which is... well, it's silly. BotW doesn't fail at creating a deep and compelling story, it's actively avoiding it. It's a game that wants you to soak in its world, to dig up its secrets and have fun. The story being anymore than a guiding hand would work against that. Bleh.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but It looks like the game need 18 100's in order to recover it's 98 score?

What I find hilarious about the Jimquisition review is that they gave Hyrule Warriors Legends a 9.5 and Breath of the Wild a 7, I don't think this is a review you can take seriously. I get you can give whatever score you want but that just shows you've not got much creditability as a review site.

There's people saying above that he gave that review as a revenge to Nintendo and their YT politics. If true, that would be extremely inmature.

It's fine, 97 is still an amazing score regardless that most games would kill to have. Jims review is fine, the other one not so much, but those types of reviews are to be expected every once in a while for a big game just for clickbait.

Well, then I guess we shouldn't take reviews from sites from Nintendo Enthusiast, Nintendo Life, Nintendo World Report or FNintendo either, because they could be playing pro-Nintendo politics. 

Well duh, that goes without saying. But when the median score matches theirs, then they have more weight behind their claims. Their bias is at least explicit and relevant. They review games for Nintendo fans. Jim likely distorts his review because he has quarrels with Nintendo, but tries to remain with a semblance of impartiality.