Jim Sterling & The Great Zelda Review Controversy

As long as you keep your finger on the pulse of the gaming industry, it should be fairly obvious what the meat and potatoes of this article is going to be about. Gaming critic and controversy lightning rod Jim Sterling recently posted his review of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and his score of 7/10 – a rating of ‘good’ going by the definition in his personal review policy – garnered a, shall we say, mixed response from some fans of the long running Nintendo franchise.

[UCForce]

Every times, people got triggered of everything. "Sigh"

[Enigma_2099]

I actually agree with him about the weapon durability system. Some games do a better job with that mechanic, but I have NEVER liked it.

[ChickeyCantor]

I haven't played it yet, but from what I've seen, aren't there several ways of killing an enemy?

[nitus10]

Many games allow you to experiment with different ways of dispatching an enemy. Whether your character will survive the experimentation is dependent on how fair the gameplay is. This is why I like the Souls/Bloodborne series since the games can be brutal but they are always fair and every time you die it is always your fault.

[annoyedgamer]

There is a controversy? Pretty soon a game developer stubbing his toe on the edge of his desk with be a controversy.

[rocketpanda]

I would call a bunch of special Zelda snowflakes taking down an well known personality's site down for many hours because their 10/10 games dropped a whole 1% on metacritic controversial. Flooding his comments section calling him all the curse word you could think of and death threats.

So what constitutes a controversy in your eyes then?

[Athos]

Judging by the lack of input in this thread, it must not have been that controversial all along. Nobody cares.

[Princess_Pilfer]

Tell that to the people who DDOS'd his site and flooded his comment section with stupid comments and death threats.

[mamotte]

Should I tell that to all the people? Like, what? 20 people? And how mane hackers do you need to make a DDOS attack? Like, a zillion?

[KwietStorm_BLM]

There is no controversy. It's just geeks being overly sensitive geeks.

[rocketpanda]

Those sensitive geeks created the controversy.

[Darkfist_Flames]

consider the fact that hes one of the few who talked about how awful many of zelda mechanics is, if those same mechanics were on another game or new ip, you'll find many giving it a 7(and hardly an 8), or dont give a f*** at all.

[Gazondaily]

Lol keep telling yourself that

[Elda]

Just let it go already...smh.

[Artemidorus]

Not interested in weak liberals getting butthurt because a reviewer thinks slightly different.

I think the game is an 8.5 myself.

[ninsigma]

Only just read the review this morning. It's fairly spot on imo and it's not even overly negative. It's not like he craps all over the game or anything. Not something to get in a fuss over let alone DDOS the site (though that could have just been one person for all we know). All the annoyances he had, I also felt when playing. Honestly though, the game really isn't for me. It didn't click for me and I didn't enjoy playing it so I got rid of it. I'm actually surprised too because I was looking forward to playing it and liked what I saw of the game beforehand.

[JunMei]

7/10 is still a good score, so I don't know why people are complaining so much.