User:VinchVolt
Hey, I'm VinchVolt, Volt for short. My pronouns are they/them. You might know me on some other NIWA wikis as Bowserbros (a username I came up with when I was in middle school; took me until college to come up with my current moniker, lol). I don't have any specific focus with my edits, and just make whatever changes spring to mind whenever I browse a given wiki. I'm also into quite a lot of Nintendo series (and a few non-Nintendo ones too), and I'm glad to say that Kirby is among them.
My first Kirby game was Kirby: Squeak Squad, though truth be told, I've only played a certain handful of games in the series so far. Aside from Squeak Squad, I've also completed Kirby's Dream Land, Kirby's Adventure (and Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land), Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby Super Star (and Kirby Super Star Ultra), Kirby's Dream Land 3, and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. I've also played a some of Kirby's Block Ball, Kirby's Pinball Land, and both the Game Boy and SNES versions of Kirby's Star Stacker (though I've played a lot more of the SNES version).
I'm kinda biased towards the Shinichi Shimomura-directed titles (barring Nightmare in Dream Land, since I strongly prefer the NES original). They were my introduction to the idea of Nintendo games with stronger story elements (even if I didn't play them until getting Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition my first year of high school) and they feature some of my favorite characters, settings, and music in the series. If you ask me what my favorite soundtracks on the SNES are, the first two I'll list will probably be Dream Land 3 and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. I've been meaning to check out the more recent games thanks to the countless good things I've heard about most of them, but just never got around to it; the closest I got was clearing the New Challenge Stages in Dream Collection.
Outside of video games, I've also been a big music person for as long as I remember, though it wasn't until college that I started listening to more than just video game music, lol. My love of video game music was a big factor in shaping my music tastes, which includes artists and genres that influenced a ton of different video game composers (e.g. Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yello, Jean-Michel Jarre, etc.). My tastes aren't limited to artists with implicit or explicit connections to video game music (I could go on for ages about, say, Talking Heads and R.E.M. if pressed), but the way I listen to video game music does a lot to inform how I listen to other music, and vice-versa.
