User:Sam Strife 58

Basic Info - I'm a fan of anime/manga, video games, history and astrology.

Since 2009 I've been into tropes, though eventually I became disgruntled with the TV Tropes website due to its heavy censorship, clique mentality & the obscene dictatorial power abuse at the hands of its administrator (some guy called Eddie).

Yet I still liked the concept of tropes, so I looked for an alternative. Luckily I found it here, and I'm so glad this site exists to keep the true spirit of tropes alive, without corruption.

These are a few of my favorite things

Video Games=
 * Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - The first video game I ever played, as far as I can remember.
 * Sonic 3 and Knuckles
 * Shadow the Hedgehog
 * Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back - Was my first game for the PS1, for years was my favorite platformer
 * Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped - Spent even more time playing this one. The Relic challenges eased me into speedrunning.
 * Crash Team Racing - It blew Mario Kart out of the water with its superior controls and sense of speed. I still think it's great.
 * Crash Bash
 * Crash Twinsanity - The last decent Crash Bandicoot game (that I know of).
 * Medievil - IMO one of the most underrated games on the PS1. The atmosphere, the soundtrack,... Tim Burton would approve.
 * Pokemon Yellow - A birthday present in 2000 for my Gameboy Color. It's what really got me into RPGs for the first time.
 * Pokemon Emerald - I got Emerald after Diamond (I lost interest in Pokemon throughout Gen 2 & 3). Overall Hoenn is quite fun.
 * Pokemon Diamond - Brought back my interest in the Pokemon series, as it did for many other people. Though the Gen 3 games weren't bad per se, it was still sort of a Dork Age for the series, due to Pokemon's fad status fading a bit, and because kids who grew up with Gen 1 & 2 were in middle school during Gen 3 when it was suddenly no longer "cool" to play Pokemon, therefore Gen 3 largely got the shaft amongst somewhat older fans. Then Diamond/Pearl resurrected the series. The Sinnoh games deserve special mention for pulling that off.
 * Pokemon Soul Silver - Still my favorite Pokemon game of all time. Made me realize what I'd missed out back in the day when I skipped out on the Johto games.
 * Pokemon White - I like Unova. I still don't understand the comments regarding the new Pokemon. Sure, an ice cream pokemon is silly, but it's not like earlier Pokemon games didn't have similarly stupid concepts (Exeggcute is a bunch of floating rotten eggs, Grimer/Muk is a pile of goop, etc). By comparison, an ice cream cone isn't that bad.
 * Pokemon Black 2 - A direct sequel to Black/White, which is a nice idea. This time there are pokemon from previous generations available throughout the whole region, probably because people complained about the newer pokemon. Funny, the series always gets criticized for repeating the same formula over and over, then when they actually try something new with Black/White (by having a full assortiment of new pokemon instead of just rehashing older ones, along with other features), people criticize them anyway. I for one give it a thumbs up. They did a good job.
 * Pokemon Omega Ruby