What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

June 9th, 2025

I am trying to get back on track today, but didn't really make many efforts in that direction yesterday. I played a couple rounds of Vampire Survivors, which did help me relax a bit.

I worked on my Bubsy puzzle after getting back from the movies, too, which was okay.

June 8th, 2025

I totally wasted my weekend and am very salty with myself about it! I didn't feel good yesterday, so I should be nice to myself, but I haven't done any crafts, or read, or watched movies, or even played games that well. My to-do list for the week is a total lost cause, too. I'm going to do this post, do my next weekly to-do list, go to a night movie, and still be kind of mad at myself. It'll help me get a little bit back on track, though.

Yesterday, I was feeling a little sour that I couldn't play the new Mario Kart because shopping is too hard nowadays, so I picked up Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed on Steam. It booted upside down and the configuration menu crashed it, so I refunded it on Steam and then picked it up on XBox. It was fun, but I kind of had a headache and only played a few races.

I did try Hello Kitty & Sanrio Friends Racing on Steam, which was much worse, but seems like it'll be an ok sleepytime game once in a while. I really like Sanrio, so the cuteness balances the jank for me. Kerropi's eyes seemed unsettling, though, like they were the wrong shape. It was a weird thing to be forced to consider.

My mood was really sour before bed, so I bounced between games in my Steam library until I landed on Mega Man X Dive Offline, a port of an old mobile game. I only played this a little, but it seemed ok even through my general disdain towards the state of my guts at that point of the day. It'll be fun to try this again when I'm feeling better.

I want to get back to some RPG gamin' this week, but I maybe won't accomplish that tonight. I'll see what happens!

June 7th, 2025

I'm trying to get back to normal after a tricky week, and it's a steeper road to climb than I'd expected. Since there were building-wide apartment inspections earlier in the week, everything superficially looks okay, but I have a potholder by my work desk, bills on the bookshelf, a big stack of dishes in the sink, and a lot of other fun to deal with. I've got two days to get back to normal before doing the whole cycle again, but it feels daunting!

Because of that, I am very much having a "squirrel away time on little craft projects between important stuff" weekend rather than a gaming one, which is fine! I did do some achievement hunting in Meteora's Mystic Merge last night, doing goofy stuff like disconnecting from the internet to force 10 games to sync, or chucking pieces straight out of the playfield. It's a fun way to play, and makes me wish there were achievements on some of the silly little games I have on Switch.

Other than that, I was pressing forward with offline projects. I finished the axolotl puzzle I'd been working on the night before. It came out really cute, I thought, but the pieces felt kind of wobbly, and it was too easy to get mismatched pieces snapped together. It's tiny, though, and it was nice that it took up so little space.

I started a less-than-official 300 piece puzzle I'd gotten from eBay, too, of the cover of the first Bubsy game on Genesis/Mega Drive. I played this on Super Nintendo back in the day, so I feel as if I am betraying my childhood to do the Sega version of the game as a jigsaw puzzle. I'm pretty impressed with this so far, though, and am looking forward to working on it a bit more.

I also worked a bit on a sticker scene, but the round backdrop and my own sleepiness made it tougher than normal for me to comprehend what I was doing. It's cute, but I felt somewhat dumb trying to piece it all together.

June 6th, 2025

Work has been a struggle this week, so I'm planning to enjoy a weekend of little activities and video games. Last night, I didn't get very far with anything. I started a new small jigsaw puzzle I had, from a brand called Micropuzzles, just out of curiosity. I got pretty far, accidentally launched it across the room when I got surprised by a text alert, and then got pretty far again. It's only 150 pieces, though, tiny as they are, so I should finish tonight.

I played some more 2048 on my Atari, too. I am getting into the swing of this version of the game, and got up to 512 in a couple of rounds last night. I don't think I'll see a 2048 tile for a while, but that's okay! I'm enjoying this.

June 5th, 2025

I got a package from Atari Age yesterday and went a bit too hard playing 2048 on my 7800+. I'm not sure about this as a good way to play 2048, aside from the novelty. When it generates new numbers, it only generates 2, rather than 2 or 4 like most versions of the game. It's a lot of fun, though, and I'm enjoying going for the 2048 tile in this version of the game! Plus, it's neat to have physical copies of weird homebrew titles. The Atari 7800+ is neat.

Before bed, I played a couple rounds of Candivity, too, because I hadn't had enough of merging rubbish. I think this is the worst of these games I have. The pieces kind of gravitate towards each other in a way I don't like that well. It has unlockables, though, giving it a concrete end, so I might press on with it so I can delete it off my Switch.

June 4th, 2025

Today's post has no screenshot because I got caught up playing a super goofy game tonight! Internet maintenance starts in 12 minutes, so I'm trying to go fast! I just played more of Sephirothic Stories last night, though, watching a cutscene and then ignoring my urgent quest to save my toddler sister for, like, some sidequests. It felt very old fashioned.

June 3rd, 2025

I was feeling bleh last night, so I just played another few minutes of Sephirothic Stories. I lost to a boss and went to level up until I could beat it, which went pretty fast. This game has a strange "garden" mechanic, though, where you can basically plant a seed, wait ten minutes, and earn 3 or 4 permanent stat boosts. This isn't a deep enough game to use this for heavy party character customization, but it also makes levelling up very fast and powerful. For something this fluffy, I don't mind the shortcut.

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