This scatterplot tracks average video game critic scores over time, plotting roughly 100 filtered games by release year and critic rating. The visualization uses D3 v5’s `scaleTime` and `scaleLinear` axes, with data loaded via `d3.csv` from a GitHub-hosted Kaggle dataset. Points appear as semi-transparent orange circles, overlaid with a smooth maroon trend line generated using `d3.line` and `curveBasis`. The SVG rendering includes labeled axes and a title, with the data filtered to exclude missing or zero scores before sorting by year.