That wasn’t my point. The only use Famitsu scores could possibly have is to act as a preview for future scores in the scenario that they release before the embargo is lifted, but given that they never line up with those they hold no value for that.
Instead, it’s just 4 random people plopping a number on a game without backing it up. Their opinions are certainly valid, but as a review publication it’s entirely worthless.
That wasn't your point but you keep insisting in them "not lining up", like that is a bad thing.
Current reviews landscape, and current gaming press in general, are clearly targeted to a specific consumer which cares and understands about FPS, resolutions, online capabilities, and so on. It's why you can see the exact same type of product receiving the same awards over and over in TGA events where this press has the vote.
It's like the automotive press, which is clearly targeted at automotive enthusiasts but most of the time wouldn't be relevant to the bigger audience that want to buy a car.
The moment a game comes out that doesn't align with what that same press cares about ,that game is basically "dismissed by what that same press considers what's "good" (say, for exemple, Animal Crossing or Ring Fit Adventure). in fact, if someone out of this niche of users happens to value and rate those games, they would be talking about way different aspects of them than you could read in the specialized reviews. Because what those "consensous" reviews are looking into, it's not what more casual gamers care about.
In that way, Famitsu doesn't "line up" with the specialized west press and that's a good thing because they are not targetting the same user group (culturally even) and they are bringing other points to the table that may not align with your needs for a game but may do with many other users. If they think God of War is a 30/40 and Animal Crossing a 40/40 (making up the scores here), why would be that wrong? Just for not aligning with most of the western press?
Also, not having long essays about the game going deep into all the aspects of the final products is not bad per se. Maybe the audience they are targetting are not looking for reading a five pages essay about why any specific game. They are doing their thing and that's perfectly fine. Only ones who cares about press scores lining up are the ones addicted to metacritic aggregates and call out others (mainly EDGE) when they have a different opinion.