What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

December 5th, 2025

I'm getting back to building some model kits today! One of my co-workers got in my head about the importance of panel lining to being a real Gunpla builder, but with my hand tremor, I couldn't get the lines straight, even at my most careful. It made me feel inadequate and fake, and sucked all the fun out of it. I followed another webmaster on here, though, Plamo Freaks, and they did a post about tackling a kit they were afraid to approach. The photos they posted of it looked amazing, and even though I even do plain, out of the box builds, it reminded me how much fun it can be to see a kit come together!

Today, I started back up with a kit of a Sega Saturn, thinking it might be easier than a mech. I messed up some of the stickers already, even though I'm only three steps in, but that's ok! It's really neat to see everything pop together, and I'm excited to finish it.

My gaming last night was somewhat less interesting than this, at least to me. I did a couple of runs in Unfair Flips, getting the same bad end both times.

I made up for that with a really excellent run, at least by my standards, in Meteora's Mystic Merge. I almost got two of the largest possible piece merged, but didn't quite make it! I'm sure I can someday, though.

December 4th, 2025

I said in last night's post that I needed to clear some games to get icons off of my Legion Go's desktop, which I was serious about. I started that quest with a run of Unfair Flips, getting the last bad ending I needed for a full achievements run. I'd say that this game is my nemesis, but it's nice to chill out and flip the coin while I'm watching TV.

After that, I tried Out of Sight, a diorama style hidden object game. I thought this would be short, since it's free to play, but it's got 20 levels! The mouse controls were a little funky for me, but this is nice so far.

I also played and finished Hidden Cats: Snow, and found all 100 cats in five minutes. Aside from it being very easy, I was also tired enough to find the meows upon finding a cat weirdly unsettling.

I finished the night grinding levels a bit in Ani Idle, but this was not a good going-to-sleep game. It's pretty laid back, so I can't put my finger on why I felt that way, but it just didn't succeed at that for me. That doesn't mean I'll quit, but it does maybe relegate this game to daylight.

December 3rd, 2025

Today, I bought a bundle of cozy games, but alas! My Lenovo Legion Go's screen is full of game icons, and I need to finish some of them before I download the games I got today.

Holiday Survivors is probably not going to be one of the games I clear in this quest, and that's fine! It's a weird, dirt cheap little Christmas themed Survivors-like, but it doesn't seem to have any permanent character upgrades. It felt a bit slow to me, but I got better at it as I played last night. I do think I will play through it all. This genre is relaxing, and I'm ok grinding through anything that's even competent within it. I just don't really feel inclined to rush through it because of seasonality.

December 2nd, 2025

Last night, I played a bunch of online matches in Pokemon Puzzle League and Panel de Pon, but since it was just 2-player matches and I'm also super sleepy, I don't have a ton to say about that. I forgot to take screenshots, too.

I played Picross S: SNK Classics & NeoGeo later, finding joy within the color puzzles. I love this game.

December 1st, 2025

I'm super sleepy, so this will be a bit of a short post. Yesterday, since I knew it would pop up for the first post of December, I tried XMas Shooting--Scramble!!, a Christmas themed bullet hell shooter. I didn't beat the first level yesterday, but I feel like I can. It's weird and festive, and the first level boss is an anime girl who came at my anime girl Santa with a cleaver. Video games are neat.

I also did a 30x30 puzzle in Picross S: SNK Classics & NeoGeo, and it was great. I wish more of my Picross games had really big puzzles in them.

November 30th, 2025

My focus was horrible yesterday, so today's post is skipping a lot of shmups that I waffled between for five minutes at a time. Some days are like that. I did, however, beat Silly Bandz, which I guess is technically an accomplishment. After clearing the final stage, I realized I had more little bracelets to unlock. I don't want to spend a lot more time playing Angry Birds without the good bits, though. It was enough to clear all the levels and roll the credits.

Past that, I actually did spend a decent amount of time on Final Fantasy VII. I got through Wall Market and got dropped through a floor into a dungeon zone, which was satisfying. It's cool to play things I've heard about for years and get better context for them.

After doing my aforementioned skipping from shooter to shooter, I settled on spending time on a Steam port of Deathsmiles. I didn't pull off any fantastic feats last night, but I wasn't having to continue until late in stage 5. It gave me unfounded confidence.

I did a stack of puzzles in Picross S: SNK Classics & NeoGeo, too, which was a pleasant way to get myself to sleep.

November 29th, 2025

For whatever reason, I really did not want to post today and ended up procrastinating a lot. It's snowy and I just want to be asleep. Yesterday was low intensity for games, though. I tried Card Storm Idle, a free clicker game for XBox, and kind of liked it. It's irritating that it doesn't have any AFK functionality, meaning the numbers only go up while the game is actively running. On the other hand, though, the benefits of prestiging and going back to the start are generous enough that it's not bothersome to have to prestige early and often. This is shovelware for sure, but I'm still mostly in favor of it. It was good background noise for craft time.

I tried Dragon Pinball on XBox, too, and truly have no thoughts on it at the moment.

Before bed, I played My Nintendo Picross: Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess for a while, too. I'm very pro-3DS at the moment, and this was a decent excuse to use one.