What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

November 20th, 2024

I'm really zoomed in on manga and a horrifying book about Rosemary Kennedy right now, so I am not doing much in depth gaming the past few days. I also just finished petting a cat for two hours, which would be really top notch stuff were it not for my cat allergy. All of this is my own fault, but I love books and cats and, therefore, regret none of it.

Anyway, last night I tried an aesthetically chaotic object matching game on Switch called Clutter 1000. Casual games don't usually have such an overwhelming and vaguely baffling personality, so I was pretty instantly sold on this one. I'm not sure what is going on or why, but it is calming and confusing at the same time. I'm looking forward to matching more things before bed tonight.

November 19th, 2024

I read for quite a while after work last night, so in terms of games, I just played the first half of the latest story event in Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade. It was a nice night that makes for lame blogging.

November 18th, 2024

Last night ended up being a little crazy, so I just played some of the side story content in Metal Slug Attack Reloaded before bed. These seem like they were past in-game events, so it's nice to see them preserved like this after the mobile game's servers were shuttered.

November 17th, 2024

Today, this post is late because I was out doing some nice stuff with family members! As a result, I am rather sleepy and kicking myself for playing so many games yesterday.

My gaming variety was pretty wide yesterday. I downloaded and finished a super-casual Steam freebie called 100 Christmas Cats where I just found 100 cats in a line drawing of a little Christmas town. It only took a little over half an hour, some of that which was my figuring out the zoom controls. It was cute, though, and I got 100 Steam achievements from it. I downloaded nine more of these, because they're free and have cats, so please enjoy being bored by more descriptions of this nonsense in the future.

I spent quite a bit of time with Metal Slug Attack Reloaded, too, gawking at the sprite art and levelling up my units. I'm getting a better grasp on how to approach the tower defense stages, simple as they are, but I wish I could level my units past level 10! Hopefully, I'll hit a player rank that lets me do that soon.

Over on my Miyoo Mini+, which I'd unproductively left on my craft table, I turned on a Game Boy Advance game called Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Big Break because I have some nostalgia for Tiny Toons. I then, in a pleasant surprise, found myself getting whupped by a Treasure beat-em-up. It feels like a simple base game, with some depth to the support system, which lets you call out a second character to attack. Launching tiny enemies up in the air to ram them into bigger ones was extremely satisfying, too. I'll probably give this another shot, but it was a bit more than I wanted to deal with last night.

As if all of that weren't enough, I buzzed through some of the story mode stages in Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade during and after lunch, too. I was satisfied with my progress.

I'm probably not going to play a ton of games tonight, as I am dozin' off already, but I'll be back tomorrow with some sort of post!

November 16th, 2024

I am having a craft day to try and relax today, so this post is slightly later than normal. I am not super concerned about it, though.

Yesterday, I felt pretty frustrated with Hidden Cats: Magic Forest, so during my lunch break at work, I told myself that if I couldn't find the last cat I'd left off with the night before, I would drop the game. The cat, of course, was just sitting under a tree, waiting to be clicked on. I'm slightly satisfied that I finished this, and up until the last cat, it was pretty laid back and relaxing. The controls kind of sunk it, though, so I'm not sure I really liked it that much overall. Still, it's fine to play a tiny, chill game sometimes.

I absolutely played the crap out of Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade, too, clearing the map event and trying to level up my party members. The event rewards were pretty nice, so I felt like in terms of the game as a whole, it was worth my time. The "wow, nice job, kids!" ending was so lame it made me laugh, too, which I appreciate.

I'm off to try and finish a couple of small cross stitches and see if I can get a decent feeling of productivity!

November 15th, 2024

Last night, I made myself play Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku to try and get myself to regain some energy. It didn't work, but it was somewhat fun. I don't feel great when I don't exercise, so I want to get back to playing fitness games.

I played a small hidden object game on Steam called Hidden Cats: Magic Forest for longer than I should have, too. It was relaxing and pretty, but the camera controls were so bad that I thought I was repeatedly getting stuck and crashing the game! I'm almost done with this, but after a few frustrating hours and reading some disheartening "sometimes the counters and hint buttons don't work" community posts on Steam, I don't know if it's worth the trouble.

I am very tired and don't want to get through today, but I have to. I wish the best of luck to all of you in your various endeavors today.

November 14th, 2024

I'm just back from errands this morning and doing a quick post before work. I wish I had a little more pep!

Last night, I picked Metal Slug Attack Reloaded back up because I was thinking too much about offline versions of mobile games. I made a little progress, and got somewhat bored with the loads of gacha pulls I had to do to build my team. It wasn't bad, though. This is really low stress to play, so I might keep at it a bit longer this time.

I chipped away at the "map event" in Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade, too, which mostly consisted of me setting auto battles to go and doing other stuff. It required no skill, and my numbers did not really go up, but it seemed like the most effective way to grind for event items.

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