Alana 🏳️🌈
@alanahagues.bsky.social
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Deputy editor @nintendolife.com | Formerly @rpgfan.bsky.social
Deputy editor @nintendolife.com | Formerly @rpgfan.bsky.social
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Alana 🏳️🌈
@alanahagues.bsky.social
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Hi everyone! I’m Alana and I’m the current deputy editor at Nintendo Life. You might also know me from my reviewing and podcasting days at RPGFan.
I like most RPGs, Metroidvanias, the Super Nintendo, PS1, and just about anything weird or with unique art ✨
Hi everyone! I’m Alana and I’m the current deputy editor at Nintendo Life. You might also know me from my reviewing and podcasting days at RPGFan.
I like most RPGs, Metroidvanias, the Super Nintendo, PS1, and just about anything weird or with unique art ✨
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Also: ranking art is a stupid endeavor and Not Important. These things should be personal, vulnerable. You are making a mixtape, not speaking for an industry
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Also: ranking art is a stupid endeavor and Not Important. These things should be personal, vulnerable. You are making a mixtape, not speaking for an industry
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now
It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year!
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
IGF Games I Want To Talk About 2026 – AURAMBLES
auratriolo.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now
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"Let's assume the author's issue is that generative AI is used instead of hiring human actors." Exactly. It's normal to apply your personal ethics to the media you engage with. It's also clearly drawn by the critic, allowing you to easily disagree. That's a good review.
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"Let's assume the author's issue is that generative AI is used instead of hiring human actors." Exactly. It's normal to apply your personal ethics to the media you engage with. It's also clearly drawn by the critic, allowing you to easily disagree. That's a good review.
"Political opinions should go into op eds folks" is the funniest response to a review I've read in a long time.
What do you think a review is???
What do you think a review is???
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Political opinions should go into op eds folks" is the funniest response to a review I've read in a long time.
What do you think a review is???
What do you think a review is???
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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The problem with Pokemon Z-A all taking place in one city isn’t the lack of environmental variety, it’s that the city design is not conducive to being fun. It’s a maze of walls that are shaped like buildings and hallways.
They didn’t build a city, they built a labyrinth with a city skin on it.
They didn’t build a city, they built a labyrinth with a city skin on it.
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The problem with Pokemon Z-A all taking place in one city isn’t the lack of environmental variety, it’s that the city design is not conducive to being fun. It’s a maze of walls that are shaped like buildings and hallways.
They didn’t build a city, they built a labyrinth with a city skin on it.
They didn’t build a city, they built a labyrinth with a city skin on it.
My husband continues to be thoughtful & put heart and emotion at the forefront of his DQ reviews. He's the best. Go read his work:
www.rpgfan.com/review/drago...
www.rpgfan.com/review/drago...
Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake Review | RPGFan
They use the original iterations as a baseline, but have their own identity. This largely works with Dragon Quest II, turning it...
www.rpgfan.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
My husband continues to be thoughtful & put heart and emotion at the forefront of his DQ reviews. He's the best. Go read his work:
www.rpgfan.com/review/drago...
www.rpgfan.com/review/drago...
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This morning I'm buoyed by the critique I've seen emerging for Dragon Quest I & II. Cheers to @alucarti.bsky.social, @solfleet.bsky.social, @nadiaoxford.bsky.social, @va11halla.bsky.social, @cullenforever.bsky.social, @quinton.bsky.social, Zach Wilkerson at @rpgfan.bsky.social, et al.
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This morning I'm buoyed by the critique I've seen emerging for Dragon Quest I & II. Cheers to @alucarti.bsky.social, @solfleet.bsky.social, @nadiaoxford.bsky.social, @va11halla.bsky.social, @cullenforever.bsky.social, @quinton.bsky.social, Zach Wilkerson at @rpgfan.bsky.social, et al.
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don’t make the tap the sign
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
don’t make the tap the sign
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Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️
![The Bisexual Manifesto: We are tired [the rest is redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qshfbihbl6jnwjs33ml2pjuf/bafkreigkozruksrvj2xv4m7zxnmsncasavw5m42dbb6ylnuu5uj2az4sce@jpeg)
September 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️
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Hades is 5! Anyway play Pyre
Before Hades, Supergiant's Pyre Let You Lose and Changed the Game
Endless Mode explores the infinite possibilities of games and anime, from the excitement of video games, togetherness of board games, and action of pinball, to the adventure of theme parks, exhilarati...
www.endlessmode.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hades is 5! Anyway play Pyre
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When the discourse starts
September 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When the discourse starts
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journalists can only do so much to convince readers that games are made by people, at some point companies need to let their talent talk about the industry they’re in, to communicate as if they are not in a vacuum where the only game that exists is the one in front of them
August 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
journalists can only do so much to convince readers that games are made by people, at some point companies need to let their talent talk about the industry they’re in, to communicate as if they are not in a vacuum where the only game that exists is the one in front of them
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The more our culture doubles down on the idea that arts criticism is unnecessary (and critics are the enemy), the stupider and less curious our world will become…
Devastating times.
Devastating times.
August 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The more our culture doubles down on the idea that arts criticism is unnecessary (and critics are the enemy), the stupider and less curious our world will become…
Devastating times.
Devastating times.
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Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to
August 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.
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it pisses me off so much that em dashes are a sign of something written by AI — some of us are simply addicted to em dashes and refuse to use other forms of punctuation!!!
June 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
it pisses me off so much that em dashes are a sign of something written by AI — some of us are simply addicted to em dashes and refuse to use other forms of punctuation!!!
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This rules for a lot of reasons, but especially because it dispels the myths that A.) old games were never political and B.) games like this are just stories, they aren't "about" anything. Should serve as a reminder to anyone writing about games why we should be close reading 'em.
June 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This rules for a lot of reasons, but especially because it dispels the myths that A.) old games were never political and B.) games like this are just stories, they aren't "about" anything. Should serve as a reminder to anyone writing about games why we should be close reading 'em.
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anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.
May 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.
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I made a few adjustments and reuploaded my video. You cannot silence an Italian girl from New York.
YouTube is complicit in my harassment and the harassment of others.
Please like, share, comment, subscribe, and signal boost. Thank you all <3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5mn...
YouTube is complicit in my harassment and the harassment of others.
Please like, share, comment, subscribe, and signal boost. Thank you all <3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5mn...
Hating Them Gets Me Views, Here's My Story [Reupload]
YouTube video by Alyssa Merc
www.youtube.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I made a few adjustments and reuploaded my video. You cannot silence an Italian girl from New York.
YouTube is complicit in my harassment and the harassment of others.
Please like, share, comment, subscribe, and signal boost. Thank you all <3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5mn...
YouTube is complicit in my harassment and the harassment of others.
Please like, share, comment, subscribe, and signal boost. Thank you all <3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5mn...
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If anyone wants to report on the fact that a YouTube video detailing my harassment campaign got taken down for harassment, my DMs are open and my email is easy to find.
May 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
If anyone wants to report on the fact that a YouTube video detailing my harassment campaign got taken down for harassment, my DMs are open and my email is easy to find.