Fair review. I'd give it a 9 personally. Did you 100% the game? I really thought the stat tracker was a cool idea. I always wondered how many power ups or coins I had gotten throughout my playtime.
"Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. When I am a child, creating, I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child."
Shigeru Miyamoto