Articles By: vainya

Born in 1988 to very creative parents, one of which was a comic artist, Tavainya grew up under the strong influence of Japanese anime and remembers watching shows like Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z. A few years later she was having Pokèmon tournaments in her eighth grade class on the Nintendo Gameboy Color. It was then that she realized that she had a passion for games and the creative processes required to make them.
She is currently a Game Programming major with a minor in Creative Writing at Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, NJ. She has both lived and studied in South Korea and Japan and studied both language and culture. In her free time she enjoys gaming, translating Japanese game screenshots, singing Japanese songs, and writing poetry and short stories.

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Guest Review: Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Grimoire of the Rift

Guest Review: Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Grimoire of the Rift

Title: Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Grimoire of the Rift
Publisher: Square-Enix
Developer: Square – Enix
Platform(s): Nintendo DS
ESRB: E 10+
Release [...]

Guest First Look – Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Guest First Look – Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

If there was one thing that was great at VGXPO this year, it was that Nintendo had a huge presence. There were [...]

Guest First Look: Fairytale Fights

Guest First Look: Fairytale Fights

Listening to the title just made me wonder what this game is about. Since when does fairytales, something that we associate with [...]

Review: Urusei Yatsura

Review: Urusei Yatsura

Name of series: Urusei Yatsura
Licensed by: AnimEigo
Genres: action, comedy, romance, science fiction
Age rating: Teenagers
Number of episodes: 195 (I [...]

Honey and Clover (film) Review

Honey and Clover (film) Review

Title: Honey and Clover (film)
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: yes (English)
Number of Discs: 1
Runtime: 116 minutes
Sometimes it’s good to go through your closet once in [...]

Turning Japanese News 6-23-2009

Turning Japanese News 6-23-2009

I let the news pile up again. I hope to do these every week to avoid this.

Punch-Out Event at Nintendo World in NYC

Punch-Out Event at Nintendo World in NYC

I know I’m late with everything. It’s always better late than never. Anyway here is my write up about the Nintendo World Punch-Out event complete with pictures.

Peggle Dual Shot Review

Peggle Dual Shot Review

Platform:DS
ESRB: E- Everyone
Genre: Puzzle/Casual
Number of Players: 1
Publisher: Pop Cap Games
Release Date: 2-25-2009
Official Site
Buy
Do you have what [...]

Turning Japanese News 5/5/2009

Turning Japanese News 5/5/2009

Oh man I’ve missed out on a lot of news in the past week. I was trying to figure out what to [...]

Rhythm Heaven event in New York City

When I got the e-mail from Trina that said that Nintendo was having an event at Scratch DJ Academy in New York [...]