See that's what you're failing to understand. The issue isn't with the mere existance with the stamina meter, the issue is with how its implemented. It's with how quickly it drains and how it recovers that makes it truly annoying. It honestly feels like my three year old niece can run longer than link can without having to stop and catch her breath.

If that life bar had you dying if weak enemies in the game hit you one or two times, and forced you into say, wearing super heavy armor that forces you into playing the game in a way that you find tedious and annoying, you'd probably have a problem with that too.

This is the same douche that says it is morally right to pirate all Nintendo games.

This all started with you giving viv shit for having an opinion that differs from yours, not vice versa. You're the one showing the lack of respect for Viv's point of view.

Reviews in general are pretty subjective to what the reviewer puts value in... If you usually agree with Jim in what he thinks about most games that he reviews then your gaming values are probably in line with his opinions. But just from what I've played of BoTW and knowing what he has given other Zelda games in the past let alone XCX. I can't help but think that this was a review to be on the edgier side of the map.

But everyone is entitled to their opinions and in the end it shouldn't deter people from enjoying the game!

Typical fanboy action... And 7/10 isn't even a bad score, it looks like a realistic opinion to me. Remember when the Uncharted 4 4/10 score happened from Washington Post? That was really an unrealistic score, but 7/10 is not that far away from reality like the Washington Post review of Uncharted 4.

It happens. Can't really do much when 12 year olds can get easy access to ddos tools

i mean, that's it I guess. Clearly my post was directed at you specifically. Of course. It couldn't possibly be directed at anyone else.

Based on his review history, he seems to just be scoring games the opposite of mainstream to drive attention and get traffic. Well, now he has traffic so he should be happy.

He tested the game a bit here and there between other games before the 9th, but he did not dedicate any real play time until about March 9th, rushing through the story between the 9th and the 11th (when he beat it.) Hence his complaint about shrines makes sense. He wanted to rush through the game so that he could give its predetermined review, but having to do shrines made that harder. 

As others have said, they saw all of this coming before the actual review -- he telegraphed it on twitter and in his podcast.

Not surprising at all :p