In a similar vein, their Jimpressions review of Death Stranding had similar gripes, checking off a lot of their personal pet peeves - equipment degradation, convoluted, non-linear storytelling, and game mechanics emulating reality just for the heck of it, playability and fun be damned.The backlash was piled on enough that Jim had to put out a followup video further clarifying their "obsession with detail" argument. The Jimpressions review of Red Dead Redemption II saw Jim generally being annoyed by the game's "obsession with detail" despite overall liking the game, and asks the audience if things like having to eat, sleep, hunt with the proper weapons, and having realistic horse testicles was worth any possible sacrifice in regards to good gameplay.Considering the evidence Youtube presented was using The Creation of Adam as grounds for restricting on the basis of nudity, Jim hasn't ruled out the possibility the video was mass-reported by salty Nintendo fanboys). History, inevitably, quickly repeated itself, sans DDOS attacks (though their video offering a major rebuttal to assertions that they hadn't played the game enough, as well offering a case that forcing a reviewer to play a game to completion would probably make them more critical of that game, ended up temporarily being wrongfully age-restricted. And then, they played the sequel and, finding it to have both retained the fun parts and stubbornly and faithfully carried over just about all the flaws and frustrations of the original, had about the same emotional response to it in the end and gave it the same score.Incidentally, when they actually did play it, they loved it. They had, in fact, entirely stopped assigning numerical scores to games in their reviews by this point and had not even played the game yet somebody just circulated a fake screenshot ( one that misspelled Nintendo) and a fringe group of hardcore Nintendo fans didn't bother to look into it. Much to their amusement Jim was the target of this kind of backlash after "their" 7.0 score for Super Mario Odyssey started going around.Even Moviebob, an unapologetic Nintendo fanboy, called out angry Zelda fans for harassing Jim. They would go on to address these grievances in a March 2017 video. Just like the debacle their No Man's Sky review caused, Jim's website was DDOS'd by angry Zelda fans and there were also attempts from them to hijack Jim's Twitter account. Despite the fact that Jim liked the game enough to give it a 7/10 rating (or 'good', which makes the allegations even more ridiculous), fans accused Jim of either playing the game wrong or is intentionally trolling to get more clicks to their site and raise ad revenue (even though Jim's website is entirely ad free). ![]() Jim's review of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild stirred up a ton of hate from Nintendo fans due to Jim's complaints about the game's weapons durability, menus, enemies that can kill Link instantly, and being annoyed by the stamina system.While Jim Sterling may have a history of correctly predicting and calling out some of the worst trends in the video game industry to the point of declaring themselves the "Cassandra of gaming", the same cannot always be said for their takes/reviews of specific video games, which have frequently landed them in hot water with various parts of the internet.
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