I love the failed attempt at spinning this like Nintendo fans are attacking Joe for giving the game a 9/10, when it is fans of other games attacking him for giving it a 9/10 in his YouTube comments. Sorry, try again guys!

I think his review is fair considering his really only big complaint is that he feels like they didn't really flesh out some of the lore/characters with it being 'post apocalyptic' and essentially that Breath of the Wild sort of assumes you've played the other Zelda games and already have a pre established understanding of a lot of Hyrule's happenings with Ganon and such

Joe says himself he's never played a Zelda game before this.

So I think that criticism is logical, the game does sort of just throw you in without necessarily going mega deep into the history of Hyrule and or lore. the big N is probably assuming a lot of people have played other Zelda games

I was sort of expecting a bitter low score considering Angry Joe seems to have been really pissed at Nintendo for a while regarding Nintendo of Japan's strict online regulation over posting Nintendo gameplay

9/10 is solid as hell as a final score for someone who A) never has played Zelda and B) someone who frankly has some resentment towards Nintendo 

ya nah it seems like it caused to much confusion, and I'm really sorry for that so I'll recommend you a mid strength beer, and a panadol instead.

if you buy a Zelda game and don't even get more than half way through its sort of tough to consider you a serious 'Zelda fan'. just saying. Arguably Breath of the Wild's buildup of gaining allies and (eventually) beating Ganon is a big part of the experience.

its fair if you didn't like the game, but generally we should try to be objective when reviewing games. OBJECTIVELY speaking Breath of the Wild does a lot well. Its just plenty of people may not like an open world game that focuses more on having fun with its physics engine AND exploring, rather than the traditional slightly more linear 'dungeon to dungeon' aspect of Zelda.

I  do stand by the concept that its hard to take someone's opinion of a game who only played half of it anywhere near as seriously as someone who does a complete playthrough of a game. Especially with a game as expansive as Breath of the Wild.

Although also, arguably, because Breath of the Wild is so open ended and you CAN do a lot of things in any order- if you didn't finish the game or accomplish a lot of things- how would you even KNOW that you were halfway through?

at any rate its just sad people bitching and whining when someone like Angry Joe likes the new Zelda game. He has no incentive to lie about it, in fact if anything one would expect him to be a bit biased AGAINST Nintendo games considering the war he's had with them online regarding 'fair use'.]

You're allowed to not like something but to claim that reviews are biased or unreasonable because of your subjective opinion is just silly. As an example: I don't really like The Witcher 3 all that much  PERSONALLY but objectively I will admit that its a great looking game with a lot of unique solid gameplay. I wouldn't say its great reviews weren't deserved just because I personally don't enjoy it that much. Same should apply to you haters and Zelda. Its a game that does a lot well. if its not your cup of tea that's sort of irrelevant in terms whether its a good game or not.

When the people giving favorable reviews have fully detailed reasons for why they like the game in their comments compared to the single sentence:

He never played a Zelda game before? That's really surprising.

I can't believe some of the people in the comment section who are mad because he gave it a high score. I watched plenty of angry reviews to know joe is pretty fair when he reviews games. if he gave the game a 9/10 then he genuinely felt the game deserved 9/10.

I disagree, if someone goes into Dark Souls 3 and mindlessly mashes buttons because that's what they enjoy it's still the wrong mindset even if that's what they prefer. They can do that as much as they want but don't be too surprised if the game becomes more and more punishing trying to play that way.

They can have a different mindset sure but it doesn't mind it's the ideal or optimal mindset to go into a certain game with, having the optimal mind set doesn't mean limited in approach either as many BOTW players approach the game differently the main common factor in the game is that they adjust their play to still respect what is optimal.

He says it himself in his Zelda playthrough that the gamers mindset is always to shit on anything that gets amazing scores. Its kinda true.

Tagging, thought he was not going to bother with Nintendo reviews :p