In my personal experience reviews are pretty important. When I started playing videogames I usually asked my parents to get me games based on licenses as a kid. Star Wars games, Two Towers, Batman Begins, the early Harry Potter games. I don't regret any of those purchases and with very rare exceptions these games were all fun, but I was very clearly a casual gamer who didn't really get to see what the best of the industry could do other than having Smash Bros. Melee. When the Wii came out and I was buying games with my own allowance money instead of my parents deciding to get me a game every now and then I started paying more attention to reviews, and that's a big part of why I bought games like Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime 3 and saw what games could be. It was reviews that saved me from getting Far Cry Vengeance after seeing the misleading cover box at a Gamestop. It is reviews that got me to check out games like Portal, Mass Effect, and Bioshock in the 2010s when I finally got a computer powerful enough to run them. I've seen games get fantastic reviews that I think are overrated like pretty much anything by Naughty Dog, and plenty of 7-8/10 games that are as worthwhile as a 9/10 game, but for the most part I've learned to tell if a reviewer has similar tastes to me and therefore how much I'd be likely to agree with them about a game.
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