How the Review Roll Works

Every Review Roll ends with a score out of 20. Books, games, albums, films and anything else I get my hands on all get the same treatment, so here's the scale.

1 Critical fail
2 Near Disaster
3-4 Hanging on, just
5-6 Meh
7-8 Has its moments. Mostly elsewhere
9-10 Fine. Perfectly average. Nobody's complaining
11-12 Decent. Would roll again
13-14 Properly good. Clear some shelf space
15-16 Great. Tell your friends
17-18 Brilliant. Tell strangers
19 Almost there, stay on target
20 The holy grail, the nirvana, the reason for living, the greatest thing to happen since the last greatest thing to happen

A few ground rules:

• A 10 is a shrug, not an insult. It means perfectly average. Plenty of good things live there.
• Scores are personal. They reflect how much I enjoyed something, not a scientific measurement.
• A 20 is very rare. Don't expect to see one often.

Every review shows its score with the label, like "14/20: Properly good", so you don't need to check back here.