You really can't go by gamerankings, it's including too much, like for instance VC titles. Gamespot tends to rank the old games high, like Paper Mario scored over a 9 while they tend to skew much lower then 2% on titles like Metroid and Zelda TP. If you look at some these big franchise titles they rate more like 5-10% lower. I think they are bias toward the general industry standards, no midi music, voice acting, better graphics, they tend to get frustrated with Nintendo not moving along. So I think that comes out a little there. But even though I disagree with their review, I also like that they come down on these games. Seriously i want the next Zelda to push the envolope and if everyone gave it a 10 then what would Nintendo's motivation be to make the game better?