Little to not at all relevant. Since the last gen, the amount of fanboys turned journalists have made most reviews biased in one form or another.
Word of mouth is far more important to me, talking to actual people who own a specific console who have played the game ON that console.
Personally, I think sites like metacritic are useless and should be discarded and even outright mocked.
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