What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

May 19th, 2025

I got mega burned out during work today, both because of work and some errands I was absolutely failing at, so this will not be my most in depth post.

Yesterday, while I was in the backseat of a car zipping around Chicago, I started Isekai Rondo, a simple RPG lovingly poking fun at anime and light novel tropes. It's cute so far, but I only played for half an hour or so. I haven't even really battled yet.

I played some Vampire Survivors before going to sleep, too. It was fun!

May 18th, 2025

After my post yesterday, I drove a few hours for a Porter Robinson show, which was very fun, and drove back after some shopping today. As such, I am extremely tired, but in a good way! It was a fun weekend.

Because of that, I didn't play many games yesterday, but I did play a couple stages of Project Justice during some downtime. I'm a little rusty, since I haven't played it so much since the Dreamcast days, but it's so cool to have this on my Switch!

My sister and I also passed DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou back and forth before the show, making weird faces and swearing at our failures. It was fun!

May 17th, 2025

Last night I chatted with a friend and worked on a puzzle instead of playing games too much, which was really good! This will be a quick post today.

I worked on the Jujutsu Kaisen puzzle a bit more, and am finding 1000 pieces to be overwhelming in a good way. My progress now is slow, but it'll pick up!

I played Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star for a little bit to force myself to exercise.

Before bed, I played a run in Hero of Fate, too. Finishing the run crashed the game, but my progress saved, so that was basically fine.

May 16th, 2025

My 100 games in 100 days goal is over because Capcom Fighting Collection 2 came out and I'd rather kick some heads right now. 40 games in 40 days was honestly pretty good, and I'm sick of finding cats for now, so I make this choice with no shame.

Last night, Capcom Fighting Collection 2 unlocked on my Switch at 11pm, so I finished what needed to be done and dug into it, starting with Capcom vs. SNK: Millenium Fight 2000. I'd played the kind of budget-release PS1 version of this a lot, Capcom vs. SNK Pro, so I was really impressed by some of the stage effects! One of them had a lot of fire in the background, with a light effect on the sprites, and it was so nifty! Plus, this game is so fun and feels so nice and smooth to play! It's not even my favorite game in this collection by a mile! It is crazy to just have all of these games on my Switch. I'm a very happy camper.

Fighting games are bad for before bed, though, so I also tried Hero of Fate, a Survivors-like with a lot of story bits and cutaways to mini-quests. I got too sleepy and shut it off before finishing a run, but I'm looking forward to playing more of this. It's weird and feels a bit off, but it's interesting, too.

I also need to get back to daily exercise, so I played Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku for 15 or so minutes. It was a little boring, but basically okay. I figured out my arm was bothering me on one side when I was playing this daily because one of my legs is just a tiny bit shorter than the others, so I jammed a weird jelly thing in my sneaker on that side and am getting back to it.

May 15th, 2025

I spent today antsy for it to be tomorrow, which is not a particularly good way to focus. Capcom Fighting Collection 2 comes out tomorrow, and I'd apologize for the content shift that represents in advance if I were actually sorry, which I am not. I'm also going on a brief quest this weekend, which I'm really looking forward to! I'm considering doing a travel page on this website, so I can finally post some photos of my Minneapolis trip and whatever else I end up taking. I'm not sure how to organize it, though, so I've been stalling out.

Anyway, I was dead tired last night, so my biggest gaming time was spent on What Lurks Below, an itch.io clicker. I'm really liking how some of these indie clicker games use the inherent repetition of the genre to build this unique sort of dull tension, and the color and sound design in this one added a lot of vibes on top of that. It was neat!

After that, I zoned out for a while and then played Baking Time for ten or so minutes before bed. I was so wiped out I don't really remember anything about this play session other than it making me want a lemon poppyseed muffin.

May 14th, 2025

I'm really sleepy for no reason tonight, but last night, I cleared 100 Korea Cats before bed, another Steam cat finding game. It was very all right. I always like when these games let me switch between color and lineart, since the new perspective makes it easier to find some cats when I get stuck.

I played a very short session of Dragon Cliff, too, clearing a few little quests before falling asleep. I want to farm some gold for an item I couldn't quite afford last night if I play it at all tonight.

After I tossed the bad Strawberry Shortcake puzzle back in the box, I got out a much nicer Jujutsu Kaisen one. This'll be the first 1000 piece puzzle I tackle on my own, but even from the 10 minutes I spent on this last night, I can tell I'm in for a better time already.

May 13th, 2025

Yesterday, I did some catch up in my 100 games in 100 days quest, getting me to 39 games in 39 days. I achieved this by digging away in the itch.io incremental/clicker game mines. In Little Dig Game, I sacrificed many virtual lives to this dig. It was very enjoyable, though, with a more cohesive mix of story and gameplay mechanics than I expected, some solid jokes, and a satisfying, surprisingly tense ending. It was probably the best clicker game I've ever played, and well worth the hour or so it took to play it. I didn't expect anything as good as Little Dig Game was out of yesterday.

That's not to sell the other games I played yesterday short, though! Dreamcore95.exe was stylish, with some interesting stacking item generation mechanics, and a relaxing gameplay arc. I zoned out for an hour or so after work with this, and it was kind of what I'd needed that night.

Coffee Drinker was simple, but funny, and was the only thing I played yesterday with a prestige/restart-with-bonuses mechanic. It made me feel like I'm not really doing enough to escalate my own caffeine habits, but it's okay to stay modest in my goals.

Idle Farm Tiny was the shortest and simplest of yesterday's clickers, but that was fine! I got to cut the heck out of some wheat, and it was fun.

Past that, I did do some before bed Switch gaming. I tried Armed 7 DX in my quest to decide what shmup I'll focus on next, but the aiming mechanic was kind of driving me up the wall. There's a lot to like about it, so I don't think that's a dealbreaker, but I need to come to grips with how to both move my mech and aim its gun. Probably, turning it on before 1am is going to help a ton with this.

I played Baking Time a little to unwind, too. It was a nice capper on a day of numbers going up.

Offline, I did work a little more on the Strawberry Shortcake puzzle I complained about yesterday, and my feelings about it did not include. The flimsy pieces were really bothering me, and by the time I noticed there was no variety to the piece shapes, I'd had it. I considered keeping this going, but instead, I boxed it all back up and put it on the shelf. Maybe I'll try it again later, but I don't want to deal with it right now.

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