I have come to trust, rely and care less and less about 'professional' reviews, not just for games, but almost all things. I've even come to be leery about certain things (like movies) that receive top marks, for suspicion that the reasons for which they were so highly touted have no interest to me at all. At the very least, unless I see universal abysmal ratings (e.g 1 or 2 out of 10), I ignore the numbers and rely solely on what is written. In this case, though, a review of something fresh into EA is more of an indictment of the person doing the review than the game being reviewed. Don't give a number (what is a 10 for EA supposed to look like anyway?) and give a consensus of a given subject rather than ones one narrow experience. For example, the claim that "Baldur's Gate 3 is rough and messy and often feels like it is just barely hanging together" is not consonant with my experience at all. Maybe it is with his. Not mine.
I really like your use of "consonant" there. Well done.
