So reviewers are docking Smash 10 points or more for no reason?

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spurgeonryan said:

radishhead said:
Reviewers have always docked points for handheld versions of games - Vita suffered particularly hard on that

I cannot speak on vitas behalf, but I can say this review above is suspect and I can bet most others can give little reasons as well. In this review they did nothing but heap on the praises, but then thought some costumization limitations was worth ten points? So what if we cannot give mario a beard or change a control scheme thirty different ways!

This is a pretty common thought process, but video game review scores are not supposed to start at 10 and then things wrong with the game bring it down from there.  They are meant to start low and then good things about the game will make it better.  You don't have to have any specific detriments for a game to be a 9 (a fantastic score by the way), you just were having a great time instead of a mind breakingly amazing one.