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In this serving of byte sized banter with a side of gaming goodness. We catch up with Alyxa the kitsune about Metal Gear Solid for the PS One.

Take it away, guys

— Squidge

So, hi, my name is Alyxa.

I am a voice actress. I haven't done a lot of voice acting stuff, though. In Portuguese, by the way. European Portuguese. Not in the thick of Brazilian Portuguese. I'm also a VTube streamer on twitch. I go by Alyxa the Kitsune - that's A-L-Y-X-A underscore T-H-E underscore K-I-T-S-U-N-E. Okay. I was trying to see if I had forgotten any letters. I did not.

And I actually started streaming. My first stream was actually playing Metal Gear Solid. And it also created, like, this funny nickname among my followers, which is Glitter Fox.

— Alyxa

I was a bit, because my boyfriend played the games, like, way before I started playing them.

I'm playing the whole series for the first time in my life. I've never previously played anything Metal Gear Solid related. I knew some memes, that's all I know. The extremely famous and extremely overused alert sound.

But I will never forget that there was this one time when I was having a very anxious moment of thinking, "oh, well, is anything even worth it in life?" And my boyfriend is actually like, "there's this video game series that I really like, and this character actually says something like this," and I'm pretty sure he was talking about Metal Gear Solid Two. I'm pretty sure he was talking about Metal Gear Solid Two, now that I think about it. And just a few months ago, he decided to replay the whole series again. And I was like, "okay, but I really need to understand, why does he like Metal Gear Solid so much?" And so that's how I decided to play the games.

So I was a bit ready for the amount of story and information that was going to be dumped on me. I was not ready for the extreme amount of information that was going to be dumped on me. Yeah, the lore is quite extensive, especially because when he was playing, I wasn't paying that much attention, so I couldn't really like I was picking this and that and that information over there, but really basically almost nothing.

But then I started playing, I was like, "oh, that is a lot. That is a lot."

— Alyxa

You gave me, like, a week to think about this, and it's still hard to choose just one character.

So imagine if this was, like, about the whole series and not just the first game. I would be like, "I don't know. I would need a month think, at the very least," because every single character has something that's I wouldn't say, like, lovable about them. Like, not all of them are lovable. I mean, you got [Revolver] Ocelot, for crying out loud.

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But everyone has something so interesting about them.

Like, I love Mei Ling and all the Chinese sayings that she has that are also connected to things that we have to do and that we should do.

I also love Sniper Wolf because I cried when Sniper Wolf died. I cried when she died, and I was not expecting that. I saw my boyfriend playing, like, the whole first game, and I was like, "okay, Sniper Wolf died." But when I played it, it hurts. Because when she was talking about her past and how she suffered, I'm like, "I was not ready for this. I was not."

And then there's Otakon. He kind of sounds like the comic relief, which is also good, but I don't know, there's something so enduring about him.

— Alyxa