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The scoring is determined partly, like this:

-10- Overall, I like it as much as any game I've played.
Example: Super Mario RPG.

-9.5- Would be one of my favorite games, but there's something I don't like about it.
Example: Shadow of the Colossus (I don't love the feeling of the action.)

-9- I think it's great, but it doesn't do as much as some other games.
Example: The Lost Vikings. (Probably one of the best made games, but you just go from puzzle level to puzzle level.)

-8.5- Like the last one except there's something wrong with it.
Example: Super Mario 3D Land. (Half of it is too easy/a little boring.)

(For reference: there are only about 75 games I'd put at this point and above.)

-8.0- I really love it, although it's not exactly the kind of game I enjoy.
Example: Elevator Action Returns (I just kind of don't like stage-based arcade games.)

-7.5- A game I would choose to play in my free time.
Example: Pac-Man.

-7.0- If forced to, I would play this game and have a good time.
Example: McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure.

-6.5- If forced to, I would play this game and have an alright time.
Example: Castlevania (NES).

-6.0- If forced to, I would still play this game but I'd have a bad time. I'd only still play it because it's interesting for some reason.
Example: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

-5- If forced to play this game, I would sit in silence.
Example: The Lion King, for SNES (and all of the terrible licensed games I played as a kid).

-4 through 1- A game I truly dislike, at different levels of objectively incompetent design. Example: Metroid: Other M.

Obviously scoring everything is kind of silly, a lot of this just has to do with the type of games I like. But I understand games better when I think about exactly how much I like or dislike them and why.