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Alex Donaldson

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Favorite Games:
  • Final Fantasy IX
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles
  • Star Fox 64

151 games reviewed
80.9 average score
80 median score
75.8% of games recommended

Alex Donaldson's Reviews

Alex got his start writing about video games very young via two vibrant fan communities online. Having sparked a love for writing, especially about games, he went on to study English Language & Journalistic Studies while getting a first start at freelancing on the side. He now writes and gallivants in front of a camera for a variety of publications on and offline in a freelance capacity while also acting as the Director and Editor in Chief of the Mist Network websites, including RPG Site. He'd tell you his areas of expertise are Strategy, RPGs, Fighters, and Whiskey. Not necessarily in that order.
Mar 4, 2014

Obsidian nail South Park with one of the most faithful license adaptations ever - and make a cracking RPG to boot.

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9 / 10 - Fallout 4
Nov 8, 2015

A strong improvement over its predecessors, small issues aren't enough to hold this title back.

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Apr 12, 2016

Dark Souls 3 is a successful mechanical and thematic culmination of this beloved series, and while its console version isn't quite as smooth or pretty, it still generally performs admirably and remains a joy to play.

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9 / 10 - XCOM 2
Mar 2, 2016

Small technical issues hold XCOM 2 back, but it's still as compelling as ever.

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Jan 14, 2016

Smooth performance makes all the difference for this game, exposing its true brilliance.

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May 25, 2016

The better of the two retail Fire Emblem Fates releases, Conquest offers satisfying and challenging combat that lives up to Fire Emblem Awakening's heady legacy.

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Nov 15, 2016

Vibrant, energetic and fun in the best possible way, this is the best Pokemon game in quite a while.

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9 / 10 - Borderlands 2
Sep 25, 2012

Ultimately, it has left me hungry for more - which is probably a testament to how potent a formula this is.

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9 / 10 - Starfield
Aug 31, 2023

Starfield is wider, wilder, and more ambitious than I expected - but also shows surprising restraint in many areas. More than the sum of its parts, it's the best game of this type Bethesda has delivered.

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The fact that it has incredible value with a very modest price tag only helps that fact. How they improve on this is something I'm excited to see.

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85 / 100 - Injustice 2
Nov 20, 2017

A great port of a brilliant fighter with a staggering amount of content beyond multiplayer brawling.

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8.5 / 10.0 - Street Fighter V
Feb 15, 2016

At its core pretty much the finest in its genre, if missing some key content that'll be added via updates

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With a gorgeous presentation and smart and minimalist tweaks, it’s as charming and enjoyable now as it was in the nineties.

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Aug 28, 2019

This is absolutely a worthy successor to Nier Automata – and like that game, Astral Chain is definitely a contender for one of my favourite games of the year.

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Street Fighter 5 is easily one of the best fighting games of this generation

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By offering such a wide variety of experiences to please both handheld and docked players alike, 51 Worldwide Classics ends up a worthy follow-up to the DS Clubhouse Games in spite of its flaws. It quietly becomes another must-own Nintendo Switch title. It’s not a big-budget, mind-expanding adventure – but it’s a fun, generally solidly-constructed collection of eminently playable classics. It’s video game comfort food, and has been a delight to meander through in the present day’s isolation.

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That simplicity is overridden by originality and vigor, then – but I also know all too well that some fans of the older Paper Mario games will once again walk away a little disappointed. This is still undoubtedly no Thousand Year Door. Perhaps the next outing can bring back a little of that RPG depth – but regardless of that, this is still the best Paper Mario game in years.

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Aug 20, 2020

Whatever angle you’re coming from, it’s fair to say that PGA Tour 2K21 will likely satisfy your golf game needs.

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I still think Mario deserved a more lavish birthday celebration, but the classic titles in this collection really can’t be diminished.

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Oct 1, 2020

Squadrons feels like more than the sum of its parts. Most importantly, it does exactly what it set out to do – and does it very well indeed. It’s EA’s smallest-scale console Star Wars title yet – but also its best

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