What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

November 16th, 2025

Last night, I started playing Final Fantasy VII, which I've only played the first hour of before. One of my friends was doing a replay of it and made it seem super fun, so this seemed like an ok time to tackle it. I only played for 30 minutes last night, so I'm still pretty well in the opening. It'll be cool to play this for myself, though.

Before bed, I played some of the save-point-free Vampire Survivors, properly getting into the Balatro DLC. I'm not sure if I like the new stage yet, but Jimbo is a fun new character to use, and I like the new stat boost pickups, too.

I did some minimal play in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, too. It was nice, and I got a few achievements taken out, too.

November 15th, 2025

I'm still so sleepy tonight! I had a blood test this morning, so I had to get up kind of early. It's weenie of me, but it's thrown my whole day off.

Yesterday, I sat down for about two hours and jetted through the Game Gear version of the first Sonic the Hedgehog. I knew it would have some different levels from the Genesis version, but I didn't expect it to have so many different worlds. So much of this game was in lovely pastels, and I loved all the fruits and vegetables around in the jungle levels! It had some hassle spots, but I was not too proud to save state through them, leading to my having a lovely time. I'm glad I finally played this!

I played a few more rooms of Labyrinth, which is still an enjoyable notebook game. My character took a lot of hits yesterday, but maybe my next play session will be luckier.

I used a morning break during yesterday's long work day to play Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku, too. It was a nice break from spreadsheets, but overall kind of a bad idea. It did not help with my ability to stay awake and focused afterwards, though, so I'm probably not going to do this again.

November 14th, 2025

I worked a long shift today and didn't sleep well last night, so I don't know if this post will be coherent or not. I'll do my best either way!

Yesterday, I got a bundle of little notebook games I'd ordered in the mail, called PaperApps. They seem very cute, and I started in on them with one called Labyrinth, which is kind of an elaborate choose-your-own-adventure styled like a first person dungeon crawler. I really enjoy this so far! The art and flavor text is fun, and I'm loving mapping out the rooms I've visited, which is to the left in my "screenshot." It'll be hard not to buzz through this very quickly.

As far as video games go, I got curious enough about the Simpsons tie-in to download Fortnite and wander around Springfield. I only played a couple of matches, but it was kind of fun! I think I'll probably come back to it for a couple matches at a time, but I don't know that I'll commit to battle passes right now.

Other than that, I was just on my normal path. I played quite a few standard puzzles in Kemono Friends Picross, feeling like I needed to target finishing this game in an orderly fashion before I got so tired I just started doing random puzzles. It was a relaxing time.

I kept up with Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku, too, getting two achievements for the night. I hope this is doing some good, but it's still a decent time if it's not.

November 13th, 2025

I'm posting late tonight because I ran errands, worked late, and then got way too into a cute little pen and paper game I'll write about tomorrow. I tried an overwhelmingly popular online game, too, which seems logistically daunting for this blog. It's not, really. I'm just tired and overthinking things.

Yesterday was low impact gaming, though. I decided to go back to Kemono Friends Picross, knocking out 9 puzzles. This is such a breezy, penalty-free game, but I think that's kind of nice for night gaming.

I chased achievements in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, too, and did pretty well. I felt good about the exercise I got.

November 12th, 2025

This week is tiring for no reason, so I'm in low gaming mode right now. I played The Casino on Switch last night until it lured me to sleep. I like the achievements in this, since they add some sense of accomplishment to the pretend-money gambling. Mostly, though, I was just playing this to zone out.

I didn't want to play Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku, but I did some stretching and the shortest exercise to keep myself from giving up. It was not nothing!

November 11th, 2025

I didn't do much gaming last night, so this'll be a quick post! I tried Sine Mora EX for a few minutes last night, then very confidently decided it was not the game for me. That doesn't happen very often, so it was interesting. Some of the mechanics are cool- I like the idea of slowdown as a weapon against bullet swarms in a shmup, and using time as health, with the ability to regain it by shooting down enemies, is also neat! I didn't vibe with the story, though, especially not as black screen text dumps between levels, and the levels felt a little tedious to me. Not every game is for everyone, so I don't feel too badly about this.

I also had a pretty decent session in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku. Achievement hunting is making this a bit more fun, so I'm not having as bad a time as I was my last run at it!

November 10th, 2025

I am feeling very sleepy and nervous tonight, but I played a lot of stuff yesterday and am going to do my best posting here. One of my big game goals yesterday was to get back up and running with Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku. I'm going to Disney World this winter, and I'm worried I'll be too much of a slug and slow the rest of my party down. Maybe it's useless, but I feel like it could help to play fitness games. I'd like to buckle down and get all the achievements in this one, and I'm so serious about it I even made a checklist. It was kind of a standard play session, but I'm going to try my best.

I was still on my game finishing quest, too, so I started My Bakery Empire, a mobile type game I paid 20 cents for and thought I might be able to beat quickly. It does not seem like I'll be able to beat this so fast, but I do think I'll come back to it. It's very ok for this type of thing, and it lets me buy clothes. It will be fine for a game to help me sleep.

I did, however, finish Summer Paws, which was a cute and lovely hidden cats game. I liked spinning around the little dioramas to find all the sleeping kitties, and a lot of the scenes were very charming. Finding the sleeping cats made me repeatedly think of David Letterman warbling "midnight, and the kitties are sleeping~," but there's much worse fates than to be reminded of old late night talk show bits by a hidden object game.

I also tried I-Chu: Chibi Edition, an offline version of a discontinued mobile game. I'm tired now, so I'll write more about this later, probably.