According to Metacritic, this game is pretty good!

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Mr. Fister said:

Severance said:

Whoever looks at Meta Ratings to find a game to buy is flat out dumb.

Not necessarily. Metacritic is how I wound up getting Cave Story (It had a score of 90, which is pretty high for a WiiWare title).

People who try to use Metacritic as a way to justify their fanboyism are the dumb ones (as in "lol, my game got a 89 and yours only got 85, that game sux!)

I believe Severance is noting the individuals who look at the Metarankings on aggregate sites then immediately decides a game with high scores is what they are looking for and dive in for a purchase, without doing any kind of sensible research on the game itself.

In your situation with Cave Story, it appears as though you were only made aware of the games existence (or it's quality) through Metacritic's high average. Not that you specifically searched for a game to buy, stumbled across it and then immediately decided it was what you wanted.