A 7/10 is basically a complete failure, so why didn’t reviewers take my feelings into account before publishing their scores?

  • Also, I don’t know the difference between game journalists and game critics,

    Neither exist in any meaningful format? There’s clickbait game stories and people who halfass review games, but it’s well under 1% who meet the bare minimum standard to qualify as anything resembling a journalist or critic. Games coverage is way worse than the people reacting to it.