"Fun is one thing, obviously. But there's also stuff like quality of visual design, replayability, responsiveness of the controls, how engaging it is for a breadth of people, how long-lived it is. Storyline, if applicable. How well the game does what it's designed to do." It's actually a little hard to come up with criteria that work for both Smash and pinball,¹ but he's not going to admit that. They'll just get back into the noodles vs bread fight.

¹ Almost like this isn't how anything works, dude.