I''ve always looked at it like this Reviewers can be trusted if you want to trust them. You live in a world of billions each an individual (I hope) each with a perspective. If they add up to yours then enjoy the art if not then so be it. Reviewer scores I think have always been stupid. To me WItcher 3 is a 10/10 master piece. But it's sitting on what 93 Meta. While that amazingly huge for any game I always felt it should be higher. But who cares I love it 10/10
Then theres movies. John carpenters the thing to me is a masterpiece of cinema in so many ways. Yet it was Hated by most critics at the time because it was different. Now in time most people agree it's a masterpiece. Give last of us 2 time. play it, reflect on it and perhaps evolve alongside it. Then come back to it and see what you think of it again. The first time isnt always perfect even if you think it is
Here's the thing though, i.e. we're not supposed to consume
every single product out there in order to have an opinion. I don't watch every single movie just to have the "right" to pass judgement on it. I think Mamma Mia! (the musical movie) looks like a horrible experience, ergo I've never watched it. It's totally not for me. I've endured enough musicals in my life to say "no way" & nope out of that one (ditto Mary Poppins etc.).
I also think Last of Us 2 looks like a horrible experience, ergo I won't play it. I don't like the main characters, I don't like the story synopsis & I don't like Naughty Dog's increasing habit of making really slow paced narrative driven games with a "narrative" I don't enjoy (Uncharted 4, being the last example).
I also sincerely doubt anyone will be talking about The Last of Us 2 in 30 years time (let alone playing it). Movies have a long shelf life when they're classics whereas cinematic video games don't. In 2050 people will
laugh at the animations & physics in The Last of Us 2, whereas the only part of John Carpenter's The Thing which has dated are the special effects, whilst Kurt Russell is still awesome, as is the rest.