Recently, NakeyJakey released a video titled ‘In Defense of the 7/10 Games’, in which he explored the virtue, value and necessity of games which are typically considered not worth playing due to their middling score. As usual, I think Jakey has things exactly right; 7/10 has wrongly become a synonym for ‘mid’, when it is literally several spots above the middleground. When did we collectively decide that these average ranking games were not worth our time? True, they usually lack the polish and visual prestige of perfect 10s, but what they sacrifice in perfection they usually make up several fold…