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Heather Alexandra
heatheralexandra
Former Senior Writer and Critic at Kotaku.

same boat here, i’ve been playing the game on and off (after sinking in almost 20 hours before my series of hiatuses) and it is confusing to jump back in. there are tons of text logs in the files section of yagami’s phone that are helpful too, although reading is kind of annoying, i found them helpful to reestablish Read more

That gave me the best of chills. I remember seeing the Eternal Arcadia box set in the Dreamcast magazine and then later actually holding one in a used game store in Tokyo. Such a cool piece to have now and forever! Read more

That is awesome. A couple years ago I had a custom Music Box created that played all of the music box-like music from Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Radical Dreamers and Xenogears for my daughter, Lucca. Not half as cool as this one, though.

I’m just sad this post wasn’t about a special edition of a re-release. This Read more

Its such a fun game and it feels a little old school too at the same time, if that makes any sense. Read more

I am always just blown away by these articles—partly by the achievement and expertise required, and partly by the fact that these speed runners have the time available to study and do this sort of stuff. I want a job where I can play a Zelda ocarina all day! Read more

This is SO COOL. I love seeing these games get completely broken using nothing but the game and a normal controller. Read more

This is not “cheating” in any normal sense. In fact, many speedruns actually rely on knowing or even manipulating the RNG seed, and the effects of it. This is common in RPG speedruns - I know the early Pokemon games, and a lot of Square Enix games, have RNG-manipulated speedruns. So long as the manipulation consists Read more

WOW. The sheer amount of RELIEF in that guy’s voice when he says “This game is done. I’m done.” Breaking down into tears. Read more

I just want to say there’s something... wholesome? about the SMB1 record being recorded with a camera pointed at a screen instead of a capture card. Gets back to the roots. Read more

Yes! Was lookin for something like this for the Switch. Excited for the release. Recently got Lumines on Switch and it just blasted me back to the hours i dumped into it back in High School, back to Hexic on my Zune... Made me want more of these style games.  Read more

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The question is does Konami really have anyone creative enough left to accomplish it? Junko Kawano left in 2015. Suikoden V’s director might not even be in the industry anymore. Suikoden’s creator hasn’t been around since 3. Read more

I have all the main line games and Tactics.  Yes, yes, a thousand times yes, I want another Suikoden. Read more

Kingdom Hearts II(V.2)I, 180+5-2 Days Aftermath REdux Read more