"7/10" doesn't go in imaginary quotation marks. You gave it a 7/10 Jim. That's a fact.
I don't think he's a Sony shill. I just think he has bad taste. And frankly, what is this, the fourth thread/video he's got all because he decided to give BotW a low score? I said it before, but ignoring the fact that he doesn't earn ad revenue, so clickbait serves no use to him, I imagine a thought process along the lines of, "if I give this critically appraised game a lower score, I can generate not only videos on that score, but on the reactions I am guaranteed to get based on that low score."
Also, I don't see new IP as being a wasted investment in the eyes of publishers due to the idea that it will sell poorly, but more along the lines of it being easier to make a sequel. It's easier to reuse assets and ideas generated by a pre-existing universe than to create an entirely new one, especially in the case of a game like Horizon: Zero Dawn, where the devs shifted not only to open world, but to a completely different genre. BotW proves that you can reuse existing IP and make a completely different experience. ME: A on the other hand proves that you can reuse existing IP, make it take place in a completely different galaxy, and still carry over so much from previous games in the series that it might as well be called Mass Effect 4.
I really don't think there was any worry over whether or not it would be successful. It's the Ubisoft open world formula that's been proven to sell copies of games in the past, of course it would be a success.
And that's just it. I'm impressed with the visuals, and I'm glad it's doing well. But it feels very much like a Ubisoft game, which I'm personally just not all that much of a fan of. It's repetitive, and right off the bat the dialogue and just general situations you're placed in are cringy, the worst offender being the introduction the player gets to the feature that lets you look at enemy pathing, during a sequence more basic than most stealth objectives in which you don't have this ability, all while a bad voice actor barks at you, "whoa, how are you doing this? This is impossible."
Just doesn't seem all that fair to me that it should receive 2.5 more points than BotW, largely because it's new IP, despite the fact that it doesn't do anything new with the tired old Ubisoft formula.