I agree. It makes this even worse.
69 mighty (lowest is 5 points from strong)
0 strong
1 fair (1 point from weak)
It really doesn't. Sure it's 1 point from weak because it got a 7/10. if it got an 8/10 it would've been 5 points from Mighty. So what?
Consider if they had 14 steps for each rank, more evenly spaced out:
100 = Perfect (41 reviews)
99 - 85 = mighty (22 reviews)
84 - 70 = strong (1 review, gbatemp)
69 - 55 = fair
54 - 40 = weak
39 - 25 = bad
24 - 10 = awful
10 - 00 = broken
See, now the gbatemp review says the game still is a strong one.
Now, I love the game. I don't agree with the 7/10 score, but it is not my review! Honestly, I don't agree with those
41 Perfect 10 scores either. The game HAS slowdowns, I've not noticed a lot of them, but when they do happen it's only for a short while. The weapon breaking is not balanced enough. If a rusty sword or a twig breaks from a couple of blows, sure... but when I can kill 1½ regular enemy with a shining soldier's sword? That's a bit too weak.
It doesn't take away any of the fun I have with it though, so for me it's really a 9.5. I probably have some nostalgia glasses and a fanboy hat on at the same time too.
At the end of the day: 7/10 is not a bad score.