User talk:JemiLoke97

Introduction
Hi! I'm a fan of Sonic since February 2011 and I have made several contributions to this Wiki as a Wikia contributor before I signed up. Everyone at home and on the internet addresses me by my nickname, Jemi (pronounced as Jamie or "jay-mee"). I'm a Singaporean Chinese girl and I was born on 5 october 1997. In Singapore, Sonic is recognised as a gaming icon, but the people here don't talk about him everyday.

Fan history, thoughts and feelings
Well, it all started when I discovered that my favourite gaming genre was action-adventure platformer games. But I realised that nowadays, alot of people (especially my classmates) liked casual point-and-click games such as Diner Dash, Farm Frenzy, etc. Those kinds of games are okay, but they didn't really appeal to me. I wanted action, but not fighting an enemy all the time in a match; I wanted adventuring and exploring around and overcoming physical obstacles, but it'd be boring without enemies out there to stop you. During December 2010, I found out about the PC game Jazz Jackrabbit and it's sequel, Jazz Jackrabbit 2. They were kinda old games made back in the 90's, so I got hacked full versions of the games. They were a blast, but I wanted to play games of a franchise that is currently active and isn't dead. Then I heard on the internet that "Jazz Jackrabbit is like 2D Sonic with a gun", and "JJ was inspired by Sonic", etc. So started researching all about Sonic by reading up & watching playthroughs of the games in chronological order. Well, almost all the games. Mainly the 3D ones. I loved the gameplay of Sonic games, but I still didn't know what Sonic (and his friends') personality was like. And I was very confused about what the Chaos Emeralds were, why was Shadow like this, why does Sonic treat Knuckles this way, why were Sonic & Tails as close as brothers (despite the age gap), and the list goes on... So, to clear things up without having to read tons of info from Wikipedia and elsewhere, I decided to watch all the English episodes of Sonic X. By then, it was February 2011, and I had a somewhat better idea of what Sonic was all about. So, I obtained a PC copy of Sonic Mega Collection Plus, Sonic Adventure DX, Sonic Heroes and Sonic Riders (I only had the PC at that time). I played the 2D games first, but I started to feel dizzy. Then, I played the other games in chronological order (as listed. By the way, I used the keyboard to play as I was more of a PC gamer at that time). Sonic Heroes was my favourite. Then, my interest for Sonic died down a bit because I had finished all the Sonic games for the PC & I didn't have a gaming console. But I didn't let my love for the games and the characters completly die down.