As I may have said before, pursuing this My Sonic Fan-girl Chronicles project was a way for me to heal after I watched that video about the Sonic.exe computer game. I wanted to rebuild my appreciation of Sonic—not that I didn’t have it already but, just to strengthen it I guess. I had chapters of different points in my life where I first played a new Sonic game, and I looked forward to updating Cyborg Haven with these posts. But lately this project didn’t seem so important to me. I hate to say that. And what’s worse:
I haven’t played a
console Sonic game in months. Not
even Sonic Rivals 2 on the PSP.
This year, new
priorities came up that are related to my new career, and for that my Sonic
writing project suffered. I still want to continue writing it. I really want to write about how I got
interested in Shadow the Hedgehog and what I thought was so cool about him back
then, in 2001. Shadow still deserves a
special post about him from me because though I love all three hedgehogs to
pieces—Sonic, Shadow and Silver—Shadow is ultimately my favorite. I at least want to do that before I stop
writing more chapters.
Maybe it won’t necessarily
be part of the project, but since I haven’t been playing any other video games
lately, then from time to time I would be writing mostly about my memories
playing Sonic games. I still have games
like Prince of Persia (2008) and Devil May Cry 4 that I can return to
playing and write about when I do. And I
can’t forget NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams,
because I love NiGHTS as well and still
vow to someday get the NiGHTS into Dreams
HD on Steam (I don’t have a Steam account; I plan to get one after being a
little more financially established).
Perhaps along the
way I can also share links to YouTube videos that contain content from video
games I’ve enjoyed, or soundtrack songs from games I appreciate the music
from. Sonic Unleashed has plenty of that. I love the soundtrack to Sonic Adventure 2 as well, especially
Shadow’s stages, Knuckles’ stages, and even the music for Rouge’s stages
too. OMG, I can’t forget Final Fantasy VII too!! Maybe also I might share links to music
tracks from video games I haven’t played but have heard some of the music and
appreciate the musical score, like from Journey
or Assassin’s Creed. And of course, if there is news about any new video games coming up such as Final Fantasy XV, Kingdom Hearts 3, or a new Sonic game (or even the Sonic Boom cartoon, y'all!), I'll write my thoughts on those too.
No question I still
appreciate video games. Even though I am not playing them as much as I used to
before I changed my career, I want to share the joy video games give me with their gameplay, their stories, their music and their characters.
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