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I'm seeing a lot of the word "polished" in this thread as if it should be some kind of major criteria upon which review scores should be based.

It's not. We all know the famous phrase about polish. You can polish a bad game to a brilliant, gleaming shine and it's still a bad game.

Personally speaking, I'd rather have an unpolished diamond than a polished up rock any day of the week.