I was quite opposed to many of his criticisms. I played the game to 100% completion (except for the Hero Mode thing), and I liked it a lot. Sure, there were some enormous flaws. Fi, for example, put a huge contrast to a game that actually had some good puzzles. I would see a puzzle and get an epiphany and feel smart for realizing the way through, but then comes Fi and straight up gives me the answer. What's the point in puzzles if you don't need to think.
And the motion controls did act up a few times, like with The Imprisoned where you had to smash down on it's phallus like horn, but every time I swinged down the controller was thinking "Up? All right then, whatever you say". Almost made me lose the boss battle when I was doing Boss Rush and were on the last boss.
But the game still remained good, partly because there was a generally good number on sidequests as well in comparison to other games which were more for the people who wanted the neat bonus stuff, but mostly because it felt more immersive than most games and I felt really invested in the story and it's characters, whereas with say, Ocarina of Time, next to all characters felt like copies on copies on copies. And while the combat was a bit annoying at times, it was still as enjoyable as always and a nice refreshment from the usual "Press B to slice into pieces".
