Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon does not feel like a game you play; it feels like a game you complete. There is no challenge, there is no true engagement, and there is no fun involved. It's just a chore to be finished and crossed off. It is the very definition of a 5/10 game: it is playable, it does not have any glaring flaws, but it also is not in the slightest bit engaging or entertaining.

"A few neat tricks, but several significant flaws." Good: Brilliantly flexible level design; a varied, fun skillset; incredible subtle details; unique additional challenges; the right approach to multiple endings. Bad: Cripplingly restrictive controls; a terrible save/load structure; awful plot, story, and exposition; overly transparent choice system; too little action.

"Gambles, but loses." Good: Impressively satirical; well-implemented reactive and interactive battles; decently and properly varied gameplay; a strong ending. Bad: Inconsistent moral choices that sabotage the entire satire of the game; demands too much suspension of disbelief; poorly developed characters in a character-driven game; subpar for its genre; a strange ending.

"Like eating lobster: a tasty treat in such a difficult shell that it's barely worth the effort." Good: Incredible, well-characterized cast; compelling, twisting plot; a well-implemented interactive narrative. Bad: Too often plodding and boring; glitchy frame rate; a deceptively narrow story tree for the interactive narrative; not nearly enough gameplay to carry an entire 15-hour game.

"Woah." Good: Breathtaking beautiful cooperative element; brilliantly minimalistic controls leveraged for compelling gameplay; beautifully subtle gameplay cues; breathtaking atmosphere; perfectly sized; amazing attention to detail; incredibly invisible execution. Bad: The occasional glitch; gameplay experience partially contingent on the quality of your randomly-assigned partner.

"A failure on its own, and an even greater failure for its franchise." Good: The series' best melee combat; a strong naval sidequest. Bad: Everything else; ridiculous, unforgivable, distracting glitches; completely squanders opportunities for historical connections; a boring, meandering, anticlimactic plot; a loss of the series' gameplay, themes, and appeal; a boring, forgettable cast; none of the series' typical magic.

"If it ain't broke, improve it." Good: Strong level design; stronger world map design than recent releases; interesting new power-ups and level features.Bad: No killer app or uniquely distinguishing feature; borrows far too much (basically everything) from its predecessors; sorely outdated.

"A one-trick pony -- but it's a very good trick." Good: An undercover cop dynamic that reframes every element of the game; gameplay competitive with other recent open-world releases; a sufficiently different setting. Bad: Overly generic and unoriginal gameplay; subpar storytelling of an otherwise good story; lack of polish.

"Undoubtedly the best mobile game since Angry Birds." Good: Enormous amount of content; incredible and varied level design; amazingly polished mechanics; a fair currency system; an engaging achievement system. Bad: Lack of a short-form mode; although it’s a casual game, it can’t be played in short sessions.

"Another instance of EA's commitment to authenticity over fun." Good: Ridiculously authentic in every way, from gameplay to the long-game to the aesthetics of the environments. Bad: Authentic at the expense of being fun, and an absence of some of the franchise’s typically more fun game modes.