It’s been a long journey. I’ll try and keep this brief.

Several months ago, I encountered two people who immediately impressed me with their tolerance and generosity. I was very new to the idea of internet message boards and was more than a little overwhelmed. Fortunately, both of these men were willing to help. The former, using an avatar I didn’t recognize until months later (it was a Trigun avatar), routinely showed up to provide support and encouragement. The latter, a somewhat engimatic man who I fondly called SilverDrag, had the great responsibility of organizing the community’s blogs into some sort of order, including smiting the least useful ones. I remember him because he never once gave my work such a mark, recognizing it as a man finding himself rather than the ramblings of a deranged troll.

I’ll skip most of the next couple of months and simply say I eventually felt it was time to move to a different site. I knew both of these men had accounts here and figured it was worth a try. So after a few minutes fighting with the sign-up process (it was one in the morning and I wasn’t thinking straight), I became a member of Gamer Limit under the username KyoShiranui. I hope people like it. It’s easier to pronounce than my old one at least.

Now, since Gamer Limit is a gaming site and this is what passes for an introduction blog, I’ll go into my exploits in that arena. I started gaming around a decade ago when I discovered Age of Empires 2, an RTS game I would happily play for hours at a time. For most of the next couple of years, I was in the odd position of being a PC-exclusive gamer, mostly focusing on RTS games, business simulators, and other games where I could have fun trying to keep track of a whole rack of things at once. Occasionally I would jump in on a friend or relative and use their systems for a while, becoming at least familiar with FF7, Star Wars: Battlefront, various Advance Wars games, and the early forms of Pokemon. Like any gamer, I also experimented with a few other genres, trying out Neverwinter Nights and finding I preferred the pen-and-paper version better.

This didn’t change until two years ago, when my family purchased our first console, the Nintendo Wii. This was my first experience with console games in their entirety, and I’ll say I wish I hadn’t missed everything that came before. While I tried a bit of everything we had for the system, including Wii Fit, mostly I played Okami. It was one of those games that just resonated for whatever reason. (To clear things up, it’s also the source of my username, not the Fatal Fury series like many seem to think.)

As of current, I no longer have access to the Wii, at least not until break. I now own a DS, however, which honestly I should give more use. I also have a halfway decent PC that I bought factory-built with my student discount, though in hindsight I should have built the damn thing myself. My current favorite is Team Fortress 2, which I’m willing to play at almost any hour, and I’m eagerly awaiting the release of Supreme Commander 2, the first RTS game I’ve played in quite some time. Also on my list of prospectives is StarCraft 2, finally ready after thirteen years of waiting, and Okamiden, which can’t come soon enough. Don’t judge me.

That about wraps it up, to be honest. I’ll just say I’m glad to be here, in a place that seems to balance gaming news and opinion with actual gaming and community. Hopefully we’ll get along fine.