Heather Alexandra's saved articles

To “loosely” go along with one of Gita’s comments, I personally would be less likely to play a game if I knew the character was gay. Read more

I loved this fight so damn much even though by the time I got to it I was crazy over leveled for the place in the story. Read more

The Aranea fight was the best one in the game for me. Really wish it hadn’t been just the one. I also wish Aranea had more scenes focused around her. She’s not as badly thrown aside as the other guy, but her motivation is just all over the place and I feel like they cut out basically everything leading up to her… Read more

“They have hidden their identity from the world. All that matters to them is the art of mimicry. Their obscured nature lead to more reasonable theories at first.” Read more

I think the OoT Rick Roll was the best. This? Eh, pretty great way to troll fanboys I guess, but will drive many insane. And the worst part is, I bet the TriForce is actually in the game files some where. Read more

I agree, dead rising 3 and seems 4 removed a lot of the elements that i used to love about the first two games. Read more

Been following this game for awhile as Suda 51 is kinda my favorite. I love everything about it. The UI though... Read more

Monetizing people who try to cheat the roguelike’s purpose doesn’t sound nefarious to me. Sounds like people who enjoy a true rougelike won’t mind this. Read more

Heather, this was fantastic. Thank you for doing the research and putting this together.
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Another one I didnt think of mentioning, but some arcade boards used what are basically suicide batteries. If the batteries stop working, the games stop working. Out of desparation, people started to replace some batteries, like Street Fighter 3 boards, while the arcade board was powered! One mess up, and their game… Read more

Amazing write up Heather, thank you so much for spreading the word! If anyone has additional questions I’m available on Twitter as “superfamicom” and happy to answer them. https://twitter.com/superfamicom Read more

Youll also have issues with battery leaks. Not big issues typically, but odd things happen and then your games doesnt work without extensive repairs, maybe. Issue with console hardware too, look at the Xbox clock capacitor. Read more

I’m a historic preservationist (albeit an architectural one), and a lot of the problems you are describing here are also problems we have preserving significant material culture like buildings and landscapes as well. Like video games, building styles tend to be forgotten or taken for granted until they are gone and… Read more

Got banned from Club Penguin once for cheating. Club Penguin, people.
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As someone who has been studying Japanese for about 2 years now and is a huge nerd, I would absolutely love something like this. Fingers crossed Read more

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought about Skies of Arcadia during tough times. The scene between Vyse and the kid in the slums of Valua, where the kid says the world is what’s around him and it’d take a miracle to change that. Naturally, Vyse promises a miracle. And delivers. Read more

Glad to see Mandelin/Mato featured again on Kotaku, not only does he do great translation work but he writes cool stuff about it too. Not only in his Legends of Localization blog (linked to here) but he’s started a Legends of Localization book series - the original Zelda was the first released and Earthbound should be… Read more

Your comfort is not worth my silence. Read more

“This isn’t like that one scene in 08th MS Team. You know the one I’m talking about. When Norris Packard shows up in the Gouf Custom and...no?”

One never stops getting better at writing, and you’re already very, VERY good at it. Read more