Zelda BotW: Can It Actually Score a 98/99 on Metacritic? GOAT? (Based on previews)

[FloatingWaffles]

It's possible, but I don't think it will hit that high. I would guess 95-96 range.

As others said in this thread already, there will always be those sites that give lower reviews just because they know it will gain attention/clicks and that could bring down the overall ranking usually.