>>715843539Why aren't you showing the users score?
But to answer your question metacritic matters for GOTY because journos are the one that decide who win the goty.
Metaphore have an inflated score because people liked P5, nobody care about the game anymore compare to Persona5 that is still talked about today.
I would bet a hefty sum of money that E:33 will be considered as "one of the best recent JRPG" along side P5 and Nier Automata.