User:AlyxCooper

Hey all, I'm Alyx Cooper, just Alyx, just Cooper, or just Aly all work perfectly as well. ^^

So, a bit of a bio about me: I was born in the early 90's, as you know, when Spyro was first gettign onto its feet. I started playing games 1-3 when I was about 7, and by 8 I had beaten all of them. I was especially addicted to the first, and soon beat 4 memory cards worth of files on it, did some speedruns, took a lot of screenshots, got the OSC, all of it. I also did the same with Ripto's Rage and Year of the Dragon, and soon will be starting up some video and text walkthroughs of those first games. I'm currently studying the background art (and makign a bunch of my own!) and making remixes of a lot of the original music (Mainly things like Jaques and Haunted Towers, two of my FAVOURITE level designs including background and music).

I also started playing a lot of Crash Bandicoot around the same time, starting with CTR, then with the first three games, and stopping at Crash Purple. Wonderful games, definitely, probably some of the greatest modern sidescrollers out there, and definitely a challenge. Like Spyro, sadly, I feel they've gone downhill.

Personal opinion about the games: Obviously amazing. But they went to pot after Insomiac sold out the titles and merchandise. The only games that really survived the sale were A Hero's Tail and Enter the Dragonfly (to a degree). After that, I hated nearly all of the later games, aside from things like Spyro Orange and Crash Purple (because it was a corssover of my two favourite game series) and Attack of the Rhynocs for GBA.

Aside from that, I'm a composer, I worked in germany for an opera for a couple of years, I also freelance draw (Mostly concept art but a bit of anime and manga here and there for extra cash), and am working on a short novella. I love meeting new people and hope to become a regular personality around this wiki, so by all means, talk to me, get to know me, and we'll be great friends.

Happy playing!