What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

August 30th, 2025

Today I am trying to do a number of tasks, one of which is this blog post. After this, only baking a cake remains. Yesterday, I had bad Friday night burnout and did a single run in Vampire Survivors before falling asleep. It was ok! I'm glad I could get to sleep without a ton of trouble.

August 29th, 2025

I'm really crashing tonight, so I'm just getting this post done and'll build the new game pages I need tomorrow. I was going to skip screenshots, too, but I tried an arcade shmup, Rabio Lepus, and could not bear to skip sharing the boss I fought. I did try the PC Engine version of this game before, but I need the ability to credit scum to git gud at this game.

I wanted to do some cat finding, too, so I played Hidden Cats: Ice Cream Day. The cats in this game were extraordinairly small, which I guess is a valid way to hide them. It was simple and cute.

August 28th, 2025

This is really lame, but I was too sleepy for much gaming last night, too. I did play a few rounds of Bishoujo Battle Mahjong Solitaire, which was pretty excellent. I wasn't paying a ton of attention to the girls on the side of the screen, but I think one of the girls threw on a wedding dress because she was impressed by my ability to match two tiles. Not that I'm not decent at mahjong solitaire, but she should aim higher.

August 27th, 2025

I got overtired again last night, but I wanted to play a Sonic game. I ended up trying Sonic Mania and had a blast with the first three levels! I might start over as Knuckles the next time I play, though. I just want to do that.

August 26th, 2025

I was really tired yesterday, so I went through my backlog to find kinetic novels for a low skill experience. I went with Weeping Willow, which has been on my Switch for a while. It must have been super cheap at some point. Despite the animal ears and fantasy setting, it's a pretty pulpy little noir thriller so far. The grammar is janky in this, and I'm not sure if it's bad writing or a bad translation. Between the bribery, the gaslighting, and the potential for dames to do people wrong, though, I'll happily zip through this. A dime novel style mystery is a treat, whether it's in a game or in a musty paperback.

August 25th, 2025

This is brutally lazy, but I had a crummy day at work and then ate too much spaghetti, so there's no screenshots today. I played a lot of games yesterday and I lack the energy to transfer and edit everything.

Yesterday, I set out to get the last two Steam achievements in Cat Survivors and finally get it off my plate. I got one, but the final achievement requires a lot of grinding. Right now, I'm playing the same level over and over, and I have so many upgrades it's not challenging anymore. I burned out fast.

Once that happened, I decided I was just going to chip away at some of the other Survivors-likes, or bullet heaven games, I have on hand. I got Replik Survivors, a more wave-based game going, but it kept crashing mid-run. Losing progress was much worse than being a little bored, so I gave up on that pretty quickly.

From there, I grabbed my Switch to play a bit of W.A.N.D. Project, another wave-based Survivors-variant. This game just doesn't click with me, though. The combat portions are fun, and I like the magical girl vibes, but the chip-based upgrading eludes me and makes me feel a bit dumb. I'll keep coming back to it, though. It's just neat enough that I want to hit my stride in it.

I did click with Legendary Heroes Survivors when I grabbed my Legion Go again. It uses a very RPG-ish progression and stage system, and I think that works well with this genre. Since I was moving through stages at a good clip, it had a nice feeling of progress. Plus, it had some cute monsters.

The last one I did a run in was Carrot Survivors. I like this one and think it's funny, but it makes me feel kind of overwhelmed and sleepy. I might take that knowledge and start using it to put myself to sleep at night, but last night, at 8pm, it just put me off games for the rest of the evening.

August 24th, 2025

Yesterday, between some time at an amusement park and watching a nearly 3.5 hour movie, I got really fixated on Kero Kero Keroppi: Let's Play Together!, an arcade game I remembered defeating me at Chuck E. Cheese when I was a kid. It turns out that it seemed difficult then because it's an incredibly unforgiving 50 seconds of gameplay, coated in kid-friendly cuteness to get piles of game tokens. I made poor Keroppi trip over so many barrels last night and still haven't cleared it, let alone gotten the "perfect" ending. I know I can do it, though I'm less sure that this quest is good for my mental health.

I also played a little more of Meteora's Mystic Merge before bed. It was relaxing!