but the game never ever forces you to deviate from the path you're on. You play the game as you want to play it. 

That's not entirly true. My first main goal. Was to get the map fully revealed. You can't do that. Unless you have a minum of 5 hearts, 2 stamina upgrades, some fire, And do the aka lab fire quest. I still had to do things in a certain order. Or was being blocked off, the way I wanted to do the towers. 5 hearts, mainly to deal with 1 hit kills. Or to bypass winter clothing/peppers.

Frustrating? lol I don't care what Jim or anyone else thinks about the game. Someone merely asked me why I thought he was biased and I answered. As stated in my first post, people can just ignore him and move on after reading the review, which is what I do. As for your points. 

1-I personally made it through every area of the game without worrying about one hit KOs. A few of the boss characters can do that to you, but you're not really encouraged to fight them. The strongest enemies are probably the guardians and the lynels, I did Zora's Domain as my first dungeon and killed the Lynel rather than sneaking around him, even with only 6 hearts he couldn't kill me in one hit. I assume the guardians can early in the game but it's definitely rare. 

2-I'm aware he mentions the fire, which is why I said you're rarely in an area where you can't start one. Even when scaling mountains, there are still plenty of shelter to start a fire, you may have to deviate a bit from your path, but you never have to completely jump off a mountain and go to an inn to pass the time. I honestly don't think anyone playing the game does that...that's extreme hyperbole. 

3-"Too many times does Breath of the Wild paint its players into corners rather than encourage “varied” playstyles. Too many times does Breath of the Wild force its players into performing mundane tasks or sidetrack their way out of the experience. Too few bosses are anything approaching memorable or exciting, while we’re at it."

This is the quote I was referring to. Again, just not sure how this can really apply to this game. I guess if you really are gliding to an inn every time is starts raining....sure, but seriously, who does that?

4-He says you will lose track of the shrines....that HEAVILY implies that you can't track which ones you've completed. I'll apologize if I'm interpreting that incorrectly but I don't understand the complaint otherwise. 

I definitely didn't claim he said things that he didn't say, and since you can seemingly find the quotes I'm referring to for each point, I clearly read the review. I'm all for open debate but you can cut the condescending stuff out of your post. If you don't see anything wrong with his review, more power to you. I certainly see someone trying to exaggerate or create problems that aren't really there. 

Yeah, I shouldn't use words like 'never', but it's true 99 percent of the time. the game does not force you to go off path. You may need certain clothing to access certain towers, but that's part of the path to accessing them. You do not need a minimum of 5 hearts to activate the towers, you CAN do it with 3, it would just be very difficult. Obviously if your goal is to go to every region of the world without ever upgrading, it will be very difficult, but you still can do it. You can fight Ganon right after the tutorial, but it would be very difficult to win. 

Obviously if you set some really difficult challenges as soon as you start the game, it will be much harder to do them without upgrading. I don't believe it's impossible though, save for maybe one tower that seemed rather difficult to scale (even then, there may be a way around it using the surrounding area. 

Yeah, I shouldn't use words like 'never', but it's true 99 percent of the time. the game does not force you to go off path. You may need certain clothing to access certain towers, but that's part of the path to accessing them. You do not need a minimum of 5 hearts to activate the towers, you CAN do it with 3, it would just be very difficult. Obviously if your goal is to go to every region of the world without ever upgrading, it will be very difficult, but you still can do it. You can fight Ganon right after the tutorial, but it would be very difficult to win. 

Obviously if you set some really difficult challenges as soon as you start the game, it will be much harder to do them without upgrading. I don't believe it's impossible though, save for maybe one tower that seemed rather difficult to scale (even then, there may be a way around it using the surrounding area. 

Honestly it is a bias. You can prefer musuo game but still put bias aside. You can honestly hate a company and do the same. I hate EA but if someone asked me to play a game of theirs I would put my hate of EA aside.

No. The endless tower, in the minning area, is impossible. With zero stamina upgrades. Same goes for the central tower. You must defeat the guardians. Unless you can fight with no proper arrows. You'll be cut off. The games forces you to find upgrades. If you try the towers, over everything.

 but the game never ever forces you to deviate from the path you're on. You play the game as you want to play it. 

At the point where you accuse a reviewer (or anyone) of having bias and providing "blatantly incorrect information" in a review, then no, you've moved far beyond "open debate." If you want to make the argument that he's exaggerating the flaws with a game, fine. But the difference between the former and the latter is one is going after a person's journalistic integrity, which is just a step below a direct attack on a person's character, whereas the latter is simply arguing how much a certain flaw affects a person.

And perhaps the biggest thing to note in that line (going to group all of these points together to save time) is that just about every response here is based on your personal experience with the game. At the very most, you can say that his skill level makes his review not as applicable for the average gamer (although I've watched quite a few people play this game, and, along with my own playthrough, I think I'm pretty safe in saying you're in the minority for never worrying about getting one hit KO'd). But the accusation of willfully providing misinformation as a result of bias is nothing short of baseless.