tl;dr? Yes - game reviews are very, very, highly, massively, HUGELY subjective things. Give five people the one game and you’ll likely get five different opinions.
Give five reviewers one game, however, and for some reason a lot of people expect some weird kind of group-think to come to the fore, and everyone of them should have the same impression, and offer the same score, and keep things nice and simple.
Thing is, games aren’t simple, and neither are reviewers, no more than anyone else. What are simple are review scores, and I think they’re the real issue here. It’s very easy for readers and publishers to - rather ironically - judge a review by the score given, not the justification for that score. It’s almost like the hundreds, sometimes…