What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

November 4th, 2025

After work last night, I played N64 racers with one of my friends, on Switch Online. It was a good guide to games I need to unlock stuff in from here! Ridge Racer 64, Wave Race 64, F-Zero X and Iggy's Reckin' Balls are pictured below, but we played some Extreme G and Excitebike 64, too. It was a nice sampler platter! I'd never played most of these and was really impressed by the one track we played of Wave Race 64 and how fun it was to explode and die in F-Zero X. On the other end of that, Excitebike 64 was less fun than I remembered, and Iggy's Reckin' Balls was much more irritating than I could have possibly imagined.

Less pleasantly, I've been having trouble with my heart racing when I go to bed, making it tough to sleep, so I played Meteora's Mystic Merge to try to get 100% relaxed. It worked decently enough, and I could get to sleep without being haunted by the thought that I would imminently die from my heart exploding. I didn't get any new achievements, but that was the point.

November 3rd, 2025

Last night, I hit the end of KOF Sky Stage, a King of Fighters shmup, using the credit limits the game gave me starting off. This was one of the first shmups I played years ago, when I first got my PSP, and at that point I thought I wasn't having fun because I was bad at shmups. Now that I've played a few more and spent some more time with the genre, I just don't think this is a very fun game. There are a lot of shmups I want to clear as every characters, on a lot of difficulties, or with one credit. For this game, clearing it once is going to be enough. I am going to delete it off of my XBox and be free.

Earlier in the day, I saw a super casual hidden object game I wanted in the Switch eShop. I'm trying to be responsible, even about buying cheap games, so I decided to see if I could buzz through a similar game I already had first. I went with Snug Finder, which is kind of a speed based hidden object game. The first half of it was pretty fun, even though the time gimmick kind of falls apart as soon as you know where everything is. There's only 6 to 10 objects on every screen, so it's too easy to memorize after just one go. I'm still looking forward to going back for the rest of this, though. It's pleasant.

November 2nd, 2025

My internet is out, which is getting frustratingly common, so I'm posting from my phone again tonight. I dabbled in a lot of fighting game arcade modes last night, with five of them being in the Game Boy version of Battle Arena Toshinden. My only rule for myself here was that I couldn't use unlockable characters until the game gave me the go-ahead, so I targeted those "secret code" messages first. I got them both and did a slightly excruciating boss playthrough as Gaia, then an extremely cheap feeling one as Uranus. Even playing as the flying character myself, it just felt a bit unfair! I also cleared the standard playthroughs for Eiji, Kayin, and Sofia.

I also dug into Nitroplus Blasterz, a very goofy crossover fighter that's been languishing on my PS4's hard drive for years. Most of these girls are from visual novels, so I don't know their deals, but it's bright, quick, and snappy to play. I got through Super Sonico's playthrough last night, since I knew who she was and she had cats as weapons, and Anna's, too, since I felt like a robot maid run was good to finish off early on.

I might splice screenshots in if I can get online later. (Note from November 3rd: I have in fact added those screenshots now! I am having fun with free photo collage apps on my tablet.)

November 1st, 2025

Last night, I was super wiped out and spacy, so I did some of the worst fighting game arcade mode playthroughs of my life. I kicked off with the Genesis version of Virtua Fighter 2, because I'm making the most of my Switch 2 ownership, and proceeded to get poor Akira kicked in the face until he fell over time and time again. This is such a clumsy version of VF2, but I'm kind of fascinated by it! I will likely come back to it sooner rather than later.

I started really tanking after that. I played a bit of Touki Denshou Angel Eyes, which I'd bounced off of before because I felt like the final boss was brutally unfair in an unfun way. Though years and miles seperate me from that last attempt, I felt exactly the same way last night.

From there, I decided to try a Switch indie fighter called Mofumofusensen and got so overwhelmed by the big sprites and loud music between matches that I just kind of shut it off halfway through my run. This seemed super neat, and had really distinctive presentation, but I was too tired to take it all in last night. That is not the game's fault at all.

A little after that, I played a round of Spartan Survivors and fell asleep. It was a bad run, but excellent sleep.

October 31st, 2025

Happy Halloween, everyone! I'm having a pretty bad after work crash tonight, so this will be a lazy post to close out October. One of my friends linked me to Spartan Survivors yesterday, a Halo-themed free Survivors-like. My first round of it was surprisingly great, but I lost internet after work and didn't play it again.

After I lost internet, I went into a few rounds of W.A.N.D. Project with an unpleasant attitude. It was fun, though, and it finally clicked with me how I ought to be playing. I might tackle this from here.

I'm playing fighting games tonight, because I am filled with the need to kick things. Tommorrow's post might be a mess to kick off November.

October 30th, 2025

I felt out of sorts and overwhelmed last night, so I wanted to play a smaller Survivors-like game. I ended up trying Kitty Survivors: Rogues of Catmere, which is cute and has some interesting symptoms! I like that there's pet collection nonsense going on, and am interested to see how the weapon crafting goes, too.

Right before going to sleep, I was gripped by the feeling that I needed to play some Tetris 2, too. I went with the SNES version, because this is the one I had as a kid. This game is not so much Tetris as it is Dr. Mario with less convenient pieces to play with, but I enjoy it. I like the cheerful aesthetics, and when I was in grade school, I loved that some of the pieces were sparkly. I was an easily impressed 7 year old.

October 29th, 2025

Last night, even though this is not a screenshot of it, I tried one of the new update stages in Vampire Survivors. Nothing against that, but I also realized I could use an attack area up item to make Giovanna's cats big, so I spent most of my gameplay trying to make the animal-based weapons as large as possible and being very satisfied with my menagerie. It was a really fantastic gaming session.