I’m a Finnish gamer who has his core interests in art. Those interests carry over to how I perceive video games and how they’re made.
I once took a chance to do game reviews for the biggest Finnish hobby-based console gaming site, but unfortunately that chance had it coming. I’ve never been good at handling rapid sequential changes and at the time KonsoliFIN was unluckily undergoing such, and because of it I quit. At the same time I also managed quit gaming altogether, but continued to follow the development of Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft in the industry. Over this period I bought the PS2 once more but shortly after I was without a gaming system yet again.
That was still last-generation and now finally, after a couple of years later I bought my very own next-gen machine. However, the new wave of gaming seems different, the year 2007 was definitely good for gamers but I sure didn’t feel it. There’s something about games and gaming these days that’s missing, or something else that riddles gaming. I’m here to find out how gaming is developing through my eyes and to write about it.
Writing has become a sort of passion for me over the years that have passed since the reviewer position, but back then I didn’t have the skills to properly do it. Even if I had the chance to be a reviewer at the same place or even elsewhere, I probably wouldn’t take it. I like to do things with my own pace. Being able to relax and write for the heck of it is much more enjoyable. Maybe someone will read this blog, maybe not, but finally I’m writing something and it feels pretty good.
Someone might wonder why I write in English and I have an answer for that. Although I spent a brief time reviewing games in Finnish, I’ve always felt that English is more natural to me. It was an opportunity to develop my writing skills and vocabulary, which it did. But now I’m doing the same thing in English, except most people can actually read what I write, which makes it more interesting. I guess that might explain a bit of the fact that I’m married to an American. Go figure.
