about me
hello! welcome to my scrappy little corner of the internet. I'm the titular faea; among other things, I'm a hobby pixel artist, a hobby game developer, and I like to write about things that are on my mind.
I mainly use this as a space to discuss videogames: things I like about them or otherwise find interesting, from a sorta-analytical and sorta-personal lens. I tend to talk about the feelings of playing games – the way its design elicits interesting thought process or emotional responses – with a general lean towards mechanics and systems. I think I have an interesting perspective, and I'd like to think that anything I find compelling enough to write about should be interesting to read :).
more directly, my two main outputs tend to be:
~ articles on specific games: these focus more directly on one specific game, or broach into other relevant topics surrounding them. they're tight, concise, and always about something I feel very passionately about.
~ faea gaming, my monthly games journal. here I talk much more casually, discuss everything I play within a given month, and tend to get just a little bit personal on occasion. it's a good time.
thanks for being here. ~♡
miscellanea
I consider myself generally very curious and open to a lot of things, but my interests and preferences in games tend to lean towards:
~ dungeon-crawlers (both turn-based and real-time)
~ arcade and arcade-style games
~ games that express their stories through play
~ anything with strong idiosyncrasies, really!
I think my tastes are still a little too in flux for me to have a strong list of favourites, but this 5x5 is a good blend of my absolute favourites and my range across different genres:
I've started to compile a list of the 1CCs and other major challenges I've completed, both for fun and as a nice thing to look back on (the games here definitely aren't much to brag about :p ); you can see these below if interested:
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Game
Clear
Date
Notes
Wild Guns: Reloaded
2P
2P01/06/26
11/05/26Doris + Annie, as Annie; team score: 2916010 (video). PB
Annie + Annie
TwinBee Yahho!: Fushigi no Kuni de Ōabare!!
Practice Mode
21/05/26
Score: 2159110 (video)
Wild Guns
Normal
15/05/26
2p, total score: 2690180 (video)
Panel de Pon
Normal
07/04/26
ZeroRanger
White Vanilla
30/03/26
Type-B II/IV/VI. A rank, no TLB
Streets of Rage 2
Normal
Normal25/03/26
17/03/262p, as Max (video)
Axel
Super Aleste
Short Game '?? Tricky'
Short Game '3!! Hyper Mode'15/03/26
14/03/26
Scramble
1-ALL
10/03/26
Pocky & Rocky
Hard
Hard
Normal
Normal23/02/26
22/02/26
15/02/26
13/02/26Rocky, deathless (video)
Rocky
2p, as Pocky (video)
Pocky
Pocky & Rocky: Reshrined
Hard
Normal21/02/26
20/02/26Free Mode (Ame-no-Uzumi)
Free Mode (Ame-no-Uzumi), Story Mode
Contra: Hard Corps (JP)
17/02/26
Browny, D-route (space station ending). JP version is much easier as it has a 3-hit health bar
Touhou Kaikidan ~ Mystic Square
Normal
10/01/26
Mima
Touhou Rei'iden ~ the Highly Responsive to Prayers
Normal
07/01/26
Hell (Jigoku) route
Baroque Shooting
22/11/25
Touhou Fuujinroku ~ Mountain of Faith
Normal
20/06/25
Reimu A. Video
Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night
Normal
07/06/25
Scarlet Devil Team (Sakuya/Remilia), Final B. Video. Have 1cced all shot types on Normal on at least Final A; this is the most recent
Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom
Normal
04/06/25
Marisa A. Video. Have 1cced Reimu A and Sakuya A on Normal; this is the most recent
Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Normal
31/05/25
Reimu A cause I didn't wanna learn Stage 4. Video
Touhou Kishinjou ~ Double Dealing Character
Normal
15/04/25
Sakuya A. Video
Touhou Gensoukyou ~ Lotus Land Story
Normal
14/03/25
Marisa A. First ever 1CC :)
elsewhere
if you'd to contact me directly, you can do so at faearie@proton.me. say hi, or something.
my dev-related creative projects can be found over on itch.io.
friends & others
I'm a part of the Warp Point video game site-focused directory / webring. you can explore other, similar sites to mine via the link, or the webring widget (which fetches a small, random selections of sites on the webring) below:
additionally, below are some of the web-spaces of my friends and other people whose work I like. it's mostly still within the realm of casual games crit, but there's some other stuff, too. if you like what I do here, go visit them, tell them I said hi.
~ https://lakespirit.love/
~ https://birthbydrip.neocities.org/
~ https://deemoncove.neocities.org/
~ https://library-past-present.neocities.org/
~ https://steelonbone.neocities.org/
~ https://www.shy.center/
if you'd like to link back to my own site on yours: firstly, I appreciate it, and secondly, you can use my button below:
