The game must lack something if you have to seek challenge in mundane things like swimming and climbing.

Can't wait for the stamina bar in Super Mario Odyssey because jumping is just not challenging enough.

Adding challenge to gameplay is cheap and easy. Adding actual meaningful challenge is an art. Having to wait for stamina to recover is not a challenge, it's just annoying.

This is pretty much how I feel. Seeing an island off in the distance on the coast and then trying to find a raft and a korok leaf in order to get there was a lot more fun than diving in the water and swimming with infinite stamina would have been. Even thought it was certainly more time consuming.

This is why I brought up the old school Resident Evil games as a comparison. Resident Evil would have been faster, less menu driven, and more action packed if I didn't have to look at a map, plot out a course to the room I needed to get to, and then ration my healing items and ammo along the way. But that also destroys the thing I love the most about Resident Evil.

tl;dr I guess different people find different things fun.

Games are like all forms of entertainment a way to spend time. If a game entertains you for 20 hours instead of 10, it is a good thing. Bad would it be, if the additional time is boring. Seemingly it is for you. Seemingly not for most others.

Nah you just didn't like it =D

It's a freaken 7.

It's not like the 4/10 that uncharted got

Maybe it's that I like the game even more and don't want to be held back playing the game by meaningless waiting exercises and menu micromanaging..

I think I said something similar before, but I absolutely believe that some publications are going to think twice about giving a low score to certain releases.  Sterling doesn't have to worry about that, he runs his own website and isn't dependent on ad revenue.  What about an editor who has to explain to his boss why revenue is down, though?  What about a writer who is trying to carve out a career?

Pathetic "fans" who try to punish those who disagree with them are really just attempting to intimidate critics into not rocking the boat.  They don't want honesty, they want validation.  

It really makes me question the worth of review scores even more.  

You seem to hate that other people have different opinions than you do and draw enjoyment out of different sources than you. I said multiple times that the difference between our views are opinions, but you just try to ridicule the opinion of others. That's no discussion. You try to piss over the fun other people have because you don't have the same fun. Not cool mate.

Oh boy, I have a feeling this is gonna be a new Jim Sterling episode soon... >_>; Just why, Nintendo/Zelda fans...

You know.... Because Zelda  ;)