Sonic Boom on Wii U has a metacritic user score of 42, while the 3DS version has a 70

[painmaster212]

Have you looked at some of the user reviews? I skimmed through the Wii U version and alot of them rated it an 0 out of 10.... Games like Superman 64 and ET aren't 0s so yeah there's no reason at all to ever go by user reviews on Metacritic.