Tropers / Gosicrystal

Hello, Gosicrystal here. Joined the website on a kinda curious date (June 9, 2016 — if you've played Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, you know why) and have been editing a lot since then. Among my contributions, I have added trope and work examples, corrected bad indentation, commented out and filled Zero Context Examples (just a trope and a character, for example), folderized example lists, improved example sorting... Lots of things.

My hobbies are video gaming and drawing. And of course, TV Tropes. I spend a lot of time every day in YouTube, too. My favorite YouTubers are RanguGamer (yeah, I speak Spanish) and Pharaoh2091.

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Favorite videogames

• Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane. The gimmick is Ace Attorney + magic in a fantasy world. It may sound like an uninspired ripoff, but don't judge a book by its cover. Its writing is top notch and its characters are enthralling, more so than those from the trailblazer in my opinion. The art and music are also really good. Spells add an interesting twist to murder mysteries. Seriously, if you liked Ace Attorney, you need to play this.
• Fire Emblem games are indisputably my favorite of all time. They marked a turning point in my gaming life. Special mentions go to:
  • Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade. People say the story is boring, but I think it's pretty good. It taps into the familiar while spinning it in new directions. The gameplay is weird for sure, but charming.
  • Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. Nintendo apparently gifted it to me as per the Ambassador Program in 3DS. I had no idea what I was getting into, but boy did I discover a great franchise. Anime + Chess + RPG = Fun.
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: Being a fan of Time Travel plots, it was obvious I would be interested in a game with a "Groundhog Day" Loop mechanic. I had heard and seen the virtues of this jewel on the internet, but I really understood just how good it is when I played it myself. It's one of the most artistic and abstract installments of the Zelda series; a masterpiece that combines despair, determination, death, grief, and hope brilliantly with its gameplay, visuals and soundtrack.
• Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective: A mind-blowing Nintendo DS game with a really good plot, adorable characters, good music and interesting gameplay mechanics. Plus, it has Time Travel, a theme I love!
• Minecraft: Definitely one of the best games ever made, and still improving. Letting you create the world you want with its simple mechanics is absolutely unique.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations: The third game of the main Ace Attorney series. It's a peak of quality that some may say has already been surpassed by Investigations 2, but which I treasure in my mind as the best Ace Attorney ever.
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: A game that has created a lot of controversy but which has gotten to me with its beautiful graphic style and OST. It feels like a fresh wind in the franchise.
• Arc Style: Baseball!! 3D: This is a not-too-good casual baseball game with bad music and stupid AI, but I have spent hundreds of hours having fun playing with my custom characters. Seriously, playing with Expies of characters from Ghost Trick, One Piece and Pokémon is a joy, as long as you know how to make them look alike!
• Mario Super Sluggers, which I absolutely love but can't play because I have a PAL Wii U and the game will only work in an NTSC one.
• Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors: A visual novel that inspired horror on me, but which I grew very fond of by the end of it. Seriously, it needs to be known better.
• Portal: Puzzle solving with portable worm holes? Shut up and take my money!

Tropes that apply to me

• Favorite Trope:
  • Absence of Evidence
  • He Who Fights Monsters
  • Xanatos Gambit
  • Red Herring
  • Chekhov's Gun
  • Chekhov's Boomerang
  • Foreshadowing
  • Time Travel
  • Loophole Abuse
  • Once More, with Clarity
• Pet-Peeve Trope:
  • Smart People Wear Glasses. I can't understand how there are people in real life who automatically think that a person with glasses must be smart. It just means that they can't see well. Period. They could be a dumbass and still wear glasses.
  • How We Got Here. Seriously, just go in chronological order. I despise being presented with a climactic 20-second scene at the beginning and then see "72 hours earlier". I just don't like going from climax to anticlimax like that. I can deal with this trope only if the episode is In Medias Res and the flashback showing how they got there is presented late in the episode and briefly.
  • The Unreveal and Ambiguous Ending. I guess I'm just a curious person who likes to be told everything. I don't like unresolved mysteries after a work ends.
• Troper Types:
  • Trope Editor. Most of what I do in this wiki is fix indentation, comment out zero context examples and give them context, fix typos, evaluate whether a spoiler tag is overly long or short... That kind of things.
  • The Advertiser, if you couldn't tell by the "Favorite videogames of all time" section. If a work that I like doesn't have many wicks, I'm happy to create them.
  • The Art Museum Curator. I check Image Pickin often to see what new threads arise and how can I help to choose a better pic for any given page. Crowner voting and giving my thumbs up/down to proposals are the things I do most, although I sometimes reply to lateral issues and trains of thought someone else posts.

Pages that I have launched

Tropes

• Joke and Receive, to cover one of the targets of misuse of Accidentally-Correct Writing.
• Temporary Online Content, a cousin trope to Permanently Missable Content which the folks in Trope Repair Shop thought was needed.

Works

• Arc Style: Baseball!! 3D
• The Empty Turnabout
• Pharaoh2091
• Mario Super Sluggers

Character Sheets

• Triangle Strategy - Kingdom of Glenbrook
• Triangle Strategy - Grand Duchy of Aesfrost
• Triangle Strategy - Holy State of Hyzante

Wicks I have moved due to TRS threads

• Absolute Cleavage → Navel-Deep Neckline
• Accidentally Accurate → Accidentally-Correct Writing and Joke and Receive
• Asskicking Equals Authority → Asskicking Leads to Leadership
• Authority Equals Asskicking → Rank Scales with Asskicking
• Bonus Boss → Optional Boss and Superboss
• Buxom Is Better → Buxom Beauty Standard
• Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy → Too Bleak, Stopped Caring
• Gag Boobs → Boob-Based Gag
• Lost Forever → Permanently Missable Content and Temporary Online Content
• No, Except Yes → Distinction Without a Difference

Tropes I have provided the image for

• Shades of Conflict

Likes

• Chicken. Especially fried. Especially battered. Especially paired with french fries.
• Peach juice
• Vanilla ice cream
• Horchata (a non-alcoholic drink from Valencia, Spain). It's way too good.
• Video Games. Except Horror ones.
• Let's plays
• Everything that has to do with the production of fiction, which is a reason why I joined this wiki in the first place.
• Learning about logical fallacies and argumentation
• Orchestral music. But not classical pieces!
• Video Game soundtracks and remixes
• Colors? Blue and yellow, in that order.
• Time Travel. I find the concept fascinating.

Dislikes

• Cannelloni
• Alcohol of any kind
• Smoking
• Dubstep music