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Frolex posted...

it is unfortunately true that game reviewers making 9 the default score to every major AAA game release have trained people to have a visceral reaction to a game they like getting anything less. this does not make 7 a low score

When people call the score low, they mean it in comparison to the other scores. They would have gotten the same response if it were an 8. Stop treating things like they were in a vacuum.

Frolex posted...

I do not think kotaku is actually much invested in tryin go get nintendo to whitelist them if they're covering information from pirated version of the game. just a wild guess tho.

That's fine, they've accepted the bridge is forever burnt as I noted in the last sentence. But you understand my point here?

is jim sterling actually frequently giving nintendo games bad reviews, or is this just cope about 7 not being good enough?

Irrelevant. He generated publicity with his BotW score, is chiming in negatively on another BotW related event. So one can expect him to paint TotK in a negative light in comparison to other media outlets again to generate more publicity. I also expect another event to help paint Nintendo fanboys in a poor manner in effort to generate more publicity despite him falling off in relevance over the past years.