You might be wondering why you clicked on this post, and honestly, I'm just as confused as you are. I'm new around here, just discovering the place, and I like what I've found. I figure if I'm gonna make friends, I'll have to just tell you guys a few things about myself.
My name's Lucia!
I'm 34!
I've been playing Nintendo my whole life. At least, the very first memory I have of my life is of my first time playing Legend of Zelda on NES. I was sitting on my dad's lap, watching him play at first. Then, he handed me the controller and said "okay, pumpkin, you wanna try?" At my tender young age of three, I found something... something magical that I've never let go of, even though now I'm an adult with adulting that needs to be done on the daily!
I'll start with a fact tied to that last bit I shared a moment ago - I'm still very much into the Legend of Zelda, as was my father until he passed this year. The series was "our" thing, and like passing the torch, I now share it with my kids. My 13 year old is obsessed with everything Breath of the Wild, my autistic 11 year old can't get enough of the Oracle duology, and my infant son is currently teething on an 8bit Link chewie.
Other things to know about me as far as my gaming history? My passion in gaming is most certainly JRPGs. I love stories. Writing them, watching them, reading them. As a little kid, I was the biggest reader! My first RPG was Shining Force from the Sega Genesis, and one reason why the game stuck out to me so much was the story was told in chapters. It felt like I was playing the story in a book (which is how the adventure is framed - Simone holds a huge book and is reading from it, so it fits even better than one might think!), and that had me hooked. From there, I tried out games like Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, Phantasy Star II, and discovered Dragon Warrior on Gameboy. I was enthralled by games that felt like novels that I got to be a part of and watch the adventure unfold. When I found my first visual novel, I latched onto that, too. Oh, boy! Stories are wonderful when they're well told! And, with video games, there's all sorts of things that help with immersion that actual books can't give me. I play more games than I read these days, but I still have my fill of excellent stories.
One story that sticks out in my mind even now is the one thing I got for my 16th birthday, and that's my favorite game to date - Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete. A 2D turn-based game with epic story scenes that unfolded in awesome anime cutscenes. I was just getting into anime then, and it blew me away. You might be wondering "waaaait, your name!" and, yeah, when I decided I wanted to change my name, I reached for my favorite gaming heroine: Lucia, Princess of the Blue Star. Her growth is... something else. Something I absolutely identify with, because of my mental conditions. Understanding human emotions is something I have always had a hard time with personally, and here was a heroine that gains her strength not by wielding a huge sword and cutting enemies down, or blasting them with super magic or whatnot, but by growing as a person. Lucia all ready HAS power untold. But getting her to use it for the good of the world means she has to understand why it's good, why the world has to be saved. What good is humanity? When we band together to do good things, we prove just how strong we are. I feel as if everyone can take something from the core of Lucia's story. It certainly did for me! And I have been hoping and praying that maybe, just maybe, we could have an updated port of Lunar 1 and 2 as a duology on the Switch!
What else is there, hmm?
Oh, right, I have a tattoo from Dragon Quest XI, of my favorite character! Sir Hendrik!
Yes I have a very deep crush and I can't hide my biases for him.
I named my kids all after video game references that are subtle enough that "normies" won't catch on and make fun of them for it later in life.
And bunnies. Just. Just bunnies. If you know of games starring bunnies, I want to play all of them! Not games where they're the bad guys, though. I don't want to hurt bunnies. I want to PLAY as all the bunnies.
...I think that's it! If you have any questions about any of this or would like to continue the discussions I've started, please write to me! Inquiries, comments, questions, concerns, and the like are all highly encouraged!
Thank you!
My name's Lucia!
I'm 34!
I've been playing Nintendo my whole life. At least, the very first memory I have of my life is of my first time playing Legend of Zelda on NES. I was sitting on my dad's lap, watching him play at first. Then, he handed me the controller and said "okay, pumpkin, you wanna try?" At my tender young age of three, I found something... something magical that I've never let go of, even though now I'm an adult with adulting that needs to be done on the daily!
I'll start with a fact tied to that last bit I shared a moment ago - I'm still very much into the Legend of Zelda, as was my father until he passed this year. The series was "our" thing, and like passing the torch, I now share it with my kids. My 13 year old is obsessed with everything Breath of the Wild, my autistic 11 year old can't get enough of the Oracle duology, and my infant son is currently teething on an 8bit Link chewie.
Other things to know about me as far as my gaming history? My passion in gaming is most certainly JRPGs. I love stories. Writing them, watching them, reading them. As a little kid, I was the biggest reader! My first RPG was Shining Force from the Sega Genesis, and one reason why the game stuck out to me so much was the story was told in chapters. It felt like I was playing the story in a book (which is how the adventure is framed - Simone holds a huge book and is reading from it, so it fits even better than one might think!), and that had me hooked. From there, I tried out games like Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, Phantasy Star II, and discovered Dragon Warrior on Gameboy. I was enthralled by games that felt like novels that I got to be a part of and watch the adventure unfold. When I found my first visual novel, I latched onto that, too. Oh, boy! Stories are wonderful when they're well told! And, with video games, there's all sorts of things that help with immersion that actual books can't give me. I play more games than I read these days, but I still have my fill of excellent stories.
One story that sticks out in my mind even now is the one thing I got for my 16th birthday, and that's my favorite game to date - Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete. A 2D turn-based game with epic story scenes that unfolded in awesome anime cutscenes. I was just getting into anime then, and it blew me away. You might be wondering "waaaait, your name!" and, yeah, when I decided I wanted to change my name, I reached for my favorite gaming heroine: Lucia, Princess of the Blue Star. Her growth is... something else. Something I absolutely identify with, because of my mental conditions. Understanding human emotions is something I have always had a hard time with personally, and here was a heroine that gains her strength not by wielding a huge sword and cutting enemies down, or blasting them with super magic or whatnot, but by growing as a person. Lucia all ready HAS power untold. But getting her to use it for the good of the world means she has to understand why it's good, why the world has to be saved. What good is humanity? When we band together to do good things, we prove just how strong we are. I feel as if everyone can take something from the core of Lucia's story. It certainly did for me! And I have been hoping and praying that maybe, just maybe, we could have an updated port of Lunar 1 and 2 as a duology on the Switch!
What else is there, hmm?
Oh, right, I have a tattoo from Dragon Quest XI, of my favorite character! Sir Hendrik!
Yes I have a very deep crush and I can't hide my biases for him.I named my kids all after video game references that are subtle enough that "normies" won't catch on and make fun of them for it later in life.
And bunnies. Just. Just bunnies. If you know of games starring bunnies, I want to play all of them! Not games where they're the bad guys, though. I don't want to hurt bunnies. I want to PLAY as all the bunnies.
...I think that's it! If you have any questions about any of this or would like to continue the discussions I've started, please write to me! Inquiries, comments, questions, concerns, and the like are all highly encouraged!
Thank you!
