Astral City Mini
A professional Japanese-to-English localization editor (and former game journalist) candidly appraises the text, audio, and design of video games. What ideas do they reflect? What feelings do they evoke? What lessons do they teach? And why will Geoff Keighley never in his wildest dreams bag an icon like Miss Piggy?
- Created by Derek Heemsbergen
- Located in United States
- March 2025
- Free
Recent posts
July 31, 2026
In the near-decade I’ve nurtured the belief that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is the ugly outlier of its superlative Xeno -brethren, I’ve stopped a few times to wonder if I’d been overly harsh in my appraisal. A creeping fog over my long-term memory had left only vague distaste on my palate. I remember…
June 29, 2026
2010 was the year of my first byline as a game journalist. It was some humble news article, I’m sure, on RPGFan —a lovely site still run by lovely people. I was young and hungry then. I had not yet wrung myself dry debating whether games could be art. I’d thought the answer obvious, having laughed…
May 17, 2026
Other realms aspire to pulse with Vana’diel’s breath of life. In the twenty-four years since Final Fantasy XI ‘s inception, no other game—not even Final Fantasy XIV —has anchored me so convincingly in a digital world. Fidelity notwithstanding, Vana’diel’s sense of place is unmatched. Its staggering…
