@Meanlucario
Hmm… My opinion might be a hot take, so just bear with me.
Personally, I don’t really read reviews from big review sites because out of the many people that work there, only one person will review a game and give it a score that may not correspond with fans or general audiences, and that’ll cause a ripple effect for sales, especially if the person from said review site give a game people like a lousy score simply because they didn’t like it, and that’ll cause people to stay away from the game by proxy, resulting in poor sales.
I part of the “wait-and-see” crowd, mainly because new games are expensive and I wanna get them when they’re on sale (unless you’re Nintendo and your games are still being sold for $60 after about seven-ish years), but I’m also the kind of person that would tell you “just play the game and see if you like it.”
In my opinion, you really shouldn’t rely so heavily on reviews to see if a game is good or not (unless, of course, both the critic and audience are unanimous in their belief.) The only way to see if a game is good to you is if you play the game yourself. You could either come across a diamond in the rough, or a pile of dust in the end. It’s your choice if a game is good or not to you.