What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

July 18th, 2025

I'm having a small adventure this weekend, hence the early post. I did play a couple of stages of a new shmup on Switch last night, called Ad SHOOT. You fight companies that put unskippable ads in front of videos in it, and I was pretty impressed by the art and voice acting! Some of the slowdown, I'm less impressed by so far, even as someone who isn't really bothered by performance issues. I'll see how this goes in later levels, though, and I do wonder if the Steam version runs better.

July 17th, 2025

My sleep was so bad last night that I went to Wal-Mart and got some sleep aid to try tonight. I've been laying awake until 3 and waking up at 6 a lot lately, which has made my work days mega difficult. Sadly, Vampire Survivors did not help me escape that fate last night, but it was still fun! I'm still doing Quick Plays just so I don't have to think too hard about what I'm doing.

I took work off tomorrow, but probably won't play too much tonight. It's more important to get some good rest again!

July 16th, 2025

I'm late posting tonight because I don't actually want to post tonight. It's not so bad, though! I got a lot of sleep catch up last night, and I'll do well tonight, too.

Last night, I thought I'd stay up too long if I played Deathsmiles, so I played Image Striker instead. I really like this game, but the difficulty spike at stage 5 is crazy! Dodging the wall is harder than it sounds. This game also crashes every time I get a game over, which is a bit discouraging.

I played a little bit of the retro tables in Zaccaria Pinball, but only for a few rounds.

After that, I pulled out the "time to go to sleep" big guns, played three rounds of Vampire Survivors on quick play, and slept for 8 hours straight. It was great and I am absolutely starting here tonight.

July 15th, 2025

Today, I was so tired that I was nodding off at my work desk, so this won't be a very exciting post today. It's been really hard to sleep through the night the past few days! I was pretty tired last night, too, though. I played Deathsmiles for a little bit before bed, on my Switch. My longer run last night was pretty good until the last stage again, at which point I absolutely crumbled. I used a ridiculous amount of credits to beat the final boss! From here, I might need to grind out this last stage in training mode if I want my one credit clear. I'm not sure how robust those training options are, but I'll see when I'm feeling a little peppier!

July 14th, 2025

Yesterday, I kind of vegged out, so my screenshots for today's post are rubbish. I watched a documentary about pinball on Saturday, so I ended up re-downloading Zaccaria Pinball on my Legion Go. I thought that it being heftier than my Switch might make it feel better to play, but hadn't really taken into account how good the rumble would be, or that it just flat out runs smoother. Plus, it has over 4900 achievements on Steam for some God-knows-why reason, so I redownloaded the cheap retro tables and dug in. I didn't focus in on any one table yesterday, but when I get to the score challenges, I'll be a little more specific here. Video pinball is so cool!

I'm trying to play some shmups every day, just to relax and clear my brain out, so I played the PC version of Deathsmiles a little. It has enough different from the Switch version that I'll keep it on its own page. This version has achievements, and the Switch version has some mysterious extra characters, so I'll just keep a different focus for each.

I also started Rusty's Retirement yesterday, a cute bottom-of-the-screen farming game with robots, but I forgot to take a screenshot! I had it on for hours while I did chores and crafts, so I'm kind of frustrated with myself here. I's okay, though. I'll come back to this.

July 13th, 2025

I slept super poorly last night, so tonight's post will lack zest. I tried Super Dimension Fortress Macross II, an old arcade shooter yesterday, though. It is a score attack style shooter, where you need to hit a certain amount of points to go to the next level, and I really enjoyed it! It's kicking my butt so hard I can't clear the beginner set of stages on easy, but that just means I have nowhere to go but up (and, within the game, probably to the right).

I played a couple pretty good rounds of Meteora's Mystic Merge before bed, too. It's the perfect game to play and let your mind wander while wondering how long it would take your area to turn into a wasteland ruled by roving bike gangs if you've just been watching Mad Max movies.

July 12th, 2025

I'm really spacing out for it being fairly early in an uneventful day! I did go get Vietnamese food for a friend's birthday, and stopped at Dollar Tree after, but there's nothing high intensity about any of that. Oh, well! It's ok to be a little out of it on a weekend.

Last night, I played some more of Ketsui: Deathtiny, grinding away at the lowest difficulty option on the super in-depth training mode. I cleared stage one with no hits as both planes, but it took more effort than I'd care to admit for the full stage run! It was really satisfying to get there, though.

I tried Akai Katana Shin, too, and got my butt kicked hard. I am not sure what I should be doing when I swap between shooting with a plane and a magic flying person yet, and not sure if now is the time to start juggling this game. It's very cool, though! I'm sure my lack of an attention span will bring me back here sooner rather than later.

July 11th, 2025

Last night I was being a big dork and realized that I could just pick up Ketsui Deathtiny: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi as a PS4 download rather than importing a physical copy and did just that. I played the G-Mode Archives port of the flip phone version of this a lot a couple months ago, so starting it up for the first time had a strange "Wow, this is what this game is supposed to look and sound like!" feeling to it.

Gameplay-wise, though, they were a lot more comparable than I expected. I started in Super Easy mode, just out of a lack of confidence, but got my 1CC on my first try. It felt really good! One of the trophies in this game is for clearing Super Easy mode with no deaths, though, not just no continues, and I imagine the f-bomb will be dropped as often as my pilot's auto-bomb as I chase that goal.

At any rate, I like Ketsui. The music is neat and it makes me feel relaxed, so I'm looking forward to playing a ton of this.

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