Metacritic is just a average of what many different reviewers say. Just because metacritic says it's a good or bad game, doesn't mean you'll like/hate it.
Metacritic is less "definitive word" and more of a higher form of review. Reviews don't reflect the views of everything, and the same can be said of review aggregates. It would be thoughtless to say it doesn't matter at all- the same thought process could be applied to ALL reviews, and it would become difficult to decide what we should try out if there were no reviews on them. Most of the time, people who naysay do so for personal reasons (their favorite game was slammed, for example).
Take reviews and metacritic with a grain of salt, but don't ignore it. Keep in mind everyone has biases, but that not everyone acts on them. And always know what YOU like. It doesn't matter if that game got a 26 on metacritic- if you like it, then it's good for you.
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