Well, the former IGN editor, Filip Miucin, has been the definition of disgraceful reviewer as he had been plagiarizing others' reviews of the games he had been assigned to review. I'm sure that the internet personalities who review games as the individuals had bought and played them before coming up with a script to say out in front of the audience based on their experience. Certain reviews may contain other contents that occur before, during and after them like an imaginary scene of the reviewers enacting whatever that is going on from the games they review. However, this is the professional game review company like IGN we're talking about here since the professional critics are assigned the games to review in a professional way as well as to give the scores based on their professional experience although they're obviously given the review copy of the games so perhaps, the game quality may or may not be great enough.
When mentioning reviewing products based on experience, it looks like Filip Miucin had been stealing other reviewers' experiences and then claiming their reviews as his and this had been going on during his employment at IGN but nobody is paid to plagiarize others' reviews like that. The worse thing is, he even had the guts to deny his admittance that he plagiarized the others' reviews in his twisted apology video and then the gaming news YouTubers came up with the new videos regarding his update. It's an epic shame on him and there would be lawsuits against him for plagiarism if job termination wasn't enough of a serious consequence.
I had seen the previous cases of plagiarism in professional game development like there's one mobile game whose theme song was a plagiarism of Claris' Connect, the other mobile game that contains stolen assets from other contents like the ones from DDLC/Heart Thumping Literature Club as if the plagiarism had been going on for years or even the on-going plagiarism of Nintendo content-like assets with Fla**y B**d and its clones with the original being discontinued not because of lawsuit from Nintendo or some sort but rather, the sole developer realized that it ruined his life that he decided to take it down although he's rather pissed over the endless clones of his creation. But in case of Filip Miucin, formerly from IGN, it's an epic DISGRACE to the company themselves. In fact, it's also already disgraceful to everyone else as well.
One past thought, I had the imagination of what the fictional cartoon character reviewing the game standing in front of the viewers with the screen behind them was like but then, to today's standards, they would probably fall under Virtual YouTuber category with that character being known as the Virtual Reviewer. I don't know who's going to come up with that but at least, it's a very different kind of Virtual YouTuber character I thought of to differentiate from the real life independent game reviewers. Another original idea to make a difference will be to have the same character review a different kind of games.
The reputation of IGN had become a little bit worse than before probably because of Filip Miucin but you can hope that the other professional critics come up in their own words and experience in a honest way.
