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If it’s not good enough to be a 7, it’s an 8

This week the Electronic Wireless Show celebrates the 7/10 game. Yes, we know RPS doesn’t have scores but the 7/10 is as much a feeling or a way of life. It’s those games that are a bit jank at the same time as being a bit genius, the ones that you love even though they’re a bit rough around the edges. Plus: more fish anecdotes, and how the TV show Friends could have been improved (the answer isn’t “delete Ross”, sadly).

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This turns out to be a topic that’s very close to VidBud Matthew’s heart, and the podcast opens with a discussion on what makes a 7/10 a7/10, you know? Really, a lot of it is a gut feeling, which makes it difficult to define. We then move on to discuss some of our favourite 7s, both recent and older, and in classic Nate style, Nate makes a spicy take.

This week’s big question on Twitter was: what are your favourite 7/10 games?

Did we do our FNAF’s book club this week? Signs point to no, but you’ll have to listen to find out for sure.

A screenshot from Skryim. The player character, in basic leather armour, stands on a plateau on a snowy mountain. They are looking up into the sky, where a dragon is in flight and turning to face them.

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LinksBiology Twitter opened a can of worms this week.

Nate argues thatSkryimis a 7. We rebut. Check out theSkryim reviewfrom way back in 2011, and then it’sfirstandsecondaddendums (addenda? Addendii?) for more.

Matthew gets us back in firmer 7/10 territory withSherlock Holmes: Crimes And Punishment. Luckily,Crimes And Punishments survived the purge of Frogwares games.

I threw my spear at the pig ofVampyr, Dontnod’s cool vampire RPG wrapped in a wonky action game. Check out thereview, and then rejoice in the fact thatit got a story modeso you don’t have to worry too much about the combat.

Matthew also makes the case forBinary Domain, whichJohn Walker (RPS in peace) reviewed. In classic RPS style,Binary Domainis on our listof best action games.

And finally, here is Alec’s list ofcelebrated 7/10 action games.

This week Matthew recommendsThe Big Picturefilm podcast (particularlythe dad movie episode), Nate recommends getting someAmazon frogbit, and I recommend taking a deep dive into some weird fandom events with Eldena Doubleca5t’sWhen Posting Goes Wrongseries on YouTube.