This scatterplot shows video game critic ratings over time, with each point representing a game released between the mid-1990s and 2010s. The visualization displays a line path connecting the data points to reveal trends in average critic scores across years. The code uses D3 v5’s `scaleTime` and `scaleLinear` to map the axes, and the `csv` method to load the Kaggle dataset. Data points are filtered and sorted chronologically before being rendered as an SVG with a maroon line, using the `line` generator and `curveBasis` for smoothing.