What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

February 20th, 2025

Playing fighting games before bed has been somewhat soothing, so last night, I tried Samurai Shodown! 2, for the Neo Geo Pocket. Samurai Shodown is one of my less played SNK franchises, but this was cool. It's a little more methodical than I'm used to, and I felt like in this, managing my distance from the opponent was a bigger deal than I usually treat it as. It had a decent sense of storytelling in the arcade mode, too, at least for a portable game like this. I'm done as Genjuro now, and'll probably come back to it pretty soon.

February 19th, 2025

I went back to SNK Gals' Fighter last night, because it is still remarkably cold and my Switch was the least effort to turn on. Last night's playthrough was with Yuki, the usually non-playable girlfriend of Kyo from King of Fighters. The game plays up her being a normal schoolgirl, so her moves are taking dives at people and hitting them with her schoolbag. Back when I first had this, I remember her feeling difficult to use and somewhat worthless, but I thought she was somewhat unstoppable last night. She could attack effectively without being right up close to her opponent, but isn't a ranged fighter, either, so I thought it was an interesting balance.

February 18th, 2025

Last night, rather than keeping up with One Strike, I ended up booting up Ultra Street Fighter IV, because it was super cold and it seemed helpful to let my Lenovo Legion Go get a little overheated in that situation. My family used to have plain Street Fighter IV on the XBox 360. Even though it wasn't my most played fighter then, I had no trouble jumping back into arcade mode. This game has 44 characters, so using C. Viper, one of my favorites, first will probably cause me consternation as I slog through some of the characters I like less. I'm not familiar with a lot of the roster, though, so it'll be interesting to sort through.

February 17th, 2025

I didn't end up doing much other than crocheting yesterday, which wasn't bad at all. I might post a photo of the amigurumi I've been working on once I've got a couple more done. Lately, I've been making axolotls because they're cute.

As far as games go, I ended up trying a fighting game I'd gotten free on Switch, called One Strike. The gimmick is that whoever takes the first hit loses, with no continues, and it was a pretty fantastic time! I did a playthrough as Kenji, the basic seeming sword guy, as I got a handle on the game. This took longer than it should have, but was very satisfying. Once I actually, uhh, looked at the controls to see I could dash in and out of range, the whole thing clicked for me. I just picked up the DLC to support the devs, since I'd paid nothing for this to start, and am itchy to pick it back up tonight.

February 16th, 2025

I'm in fighting game mode, due to an "art project" I'm playing around with offline, so I will maybe be doing a lot of arcade mode playthroughs in fighters for a bit here.

Last night, I got in a rabbit hole and ended up getting out my Playstation Classic for some Battle Arena Toshinden. The PS Classic uses a PAL version of the game, which was weird, as far as slightly off muscle memory went. I got used to it pretty fast, though, and set the game to one battle matches to scum my way through the arcade mode. Sophia was last night's character, just because I'd used her a lot back in the day, and I got back on board with how screamingly cheap she can be quickly. I did have fun, but I'm not sure this would be playable for anyone without nostalgia for the game. It's a bit janky, and every character is infuriating to fight in their own special way. I still have my Playstation Classic out, though, so I'll probably come back to this before I switch out which mini console I've got plugged in.

I kept up with Monster Hunter Now, too, and do think I might stick with this for a bit. My rewards from a grocery trip were nice enough that I'm excited to see what I pick up on my office days at work.

Last for this post is an update on my silly little sticker scene! I got the store floor just about done, aside from some incredibly small details I realized I'd missed this morning, and hope to finish this today. It's so satisfying to bring the whole thing together!

February 15th, 2025

I didn't play many games yesterday, but I did get a new phone. My old one, which I only had for a few years, if not less, got so loaded down with its own updates that it couldn't even run Google Maps, so I had to upgrade. It was irritating, but a new phone means I get to try new phone games. Last night, I was messing with Monster Hunter Now. It doesn't seem to count steps as a part of its augmented reality stuff, so it wasn't quite what I wanted. The Felyne are really good, though, and I've always wanted to play a Monster Hunter on the grounds of it having cat friends. I'll see how this goes over the next few days!

I'm not good at screenshots on this phone yet, so please pardon the volume controls on the side.

I kept placing, removing, and replacing stickers on my little sticker scene, too, trying to get everything at exactly the right angle. I'm not nearly done with this, since there's so many tiny details to place, and the entire shop floor, too! It's really calming and enjoyable, though. I'm glad I got a multipack of these so I can keep going when this one is done.

February 14th, 2025

Last night, I made blogging complicated for myself by starting Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. I'm interested in game history, so I'd been wanting to play one of these Digital Eclipse interactive documentaries for a while. So far, I feel like it does a nice job of putting the included games in context, and it's so cool to see how video games as a format can pull together multimedia in a cohesive, easy to follow way!

I only got to three of the games in the package last night, since I wanted to spend some time with them. I cleared a run in 3D3D, a disorienting but cool Sinclair ZX81 maze game. (This is the first game for the platform I'd ever played.) It took me a bit of time to get my bearings, since I'm not great with spatial awareness and adding vertical directions messed me up, but it was very satisfying when I finally did. This was simple, but cool

I maybe liked the included ZX81 version of Centipede a bit less, but that's because I used to play ridiculous amounts of more normal versions of Centipede as a kid. To be fair to this, it's pretty good for being based on a screenshot, and I could stick with it long enough to satisfy myself by clearing a wave. Past that, though, I didn't want to mess with it much more, and that's fine.

My last game for the night was Deflex V, a VIC 20 bouncing ball puzzle game. I actually really enjoyed this one, but went to bed before clearing a run. It was decently challenging with fair-feeling logic behind everything, it was somewhat relaxing, and it flashed and yelled weird things at me. I'm looking forward to coming back to this one soon!

That was all my gaming for last night, but tonight, I've been dealing with Friday exhaustion by putting together a little sticker set craft where you furnish an isometric room. I got a set of these just to try them and am starting off with a magical pony fashion shop, due to my mature and sophisticated tastes. I've already done more than is in this photo, since my focus is shot tonight, so I'll update this again tomorrow.

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