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I think both critic reviews and user reviews are useful tools in making up your own mind. It's not a matter of looking at an aggregate number and deciding to buy something, it's a matter of taking the best and the worst reviews from both sources and comparing them - see what lines up, see what's wildly different.

For example, I bought Plants Vs Zombies: Battle for Neighbourville after looking at the Metacritic reviews from both critics and users. Things lined up pretty well - fun, interesting character design, large PvE areas, a bevy of offline and online content, but with a capped 30fps on Switch and less content.

I wouldn't have had the same experience with the Last of Us Part II, because the reaction to that game was nuclear from the first full trailer of Ellie kissing Dinah. Actually discussing that game, talking about pros and cons, was impossible for the longest time. In the end, I thought it was a high 7/10 with Ellie and Dinah's relationship being a highlight and the ending fatigue being a significant downside. But the game was either a 10/10 for being the closest that a game has gotten to cinema yet, or a 0/10 because Joel dies and Abbie is too buff for the amount of food she eats as revealed by an in-game meal chart and because it's a shoehorned woke pile of shit that ruins everything that was great about the first game. There was no winning that argument, and it was next to impossible to actually find a reasonable dialogue and compare positive and negative points without running into some sort of buttfuck crazy extreme.

But for the most part, taking both critic and user reviews into account is a good way to inform yourself. Compare reviews, see what lines up and make your own decision.