What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

July 3rd, 2025

Last night, I tried to see how far I could get on 4 credits in Castle of Shikigami, and I did really poorly! It's almost like anxious exhaustion isn't a good state of mind for improving at a video game.

I was slightly more successful when I tried Hidden Shapes Lovely Cats, a calm, small scale cat themed puzzle game from Steam. I'm an easy mark, so I liked it, and it helped me get to sleep. It'll be nice to play more of this.

July 2nd, 2025

I am still not doing my best, and that is ok. I played another 8 or 9 rounds of Castle of Shikigami last night, and did much worse than I had the night before. A big part of that is that I'm trying to figure out when to use my ranged attacks vs my melee ones, so there is still progress being made. I'm trying to sort out how I want to chase the Steam achievements here, too. I need one clear on each difficulty as each character, but only one 1CC, or one credit clear, per difficulty overall. I'm thinking of chasing a four credit clear as each character, then deciding who to use for my 1CC attempt after that. I'm probably just overthinking things, though.

I played a round of Meteora's Mystic Merge to relax just before going to sleep, too, and it worked okay.

July 1st, 2025

I had another bad round of nervousness keeping me awake early this morning, despite nothing being wrong, but I had a blood test this morning and was able to get some information and help. I should feel better in a couple weeks! It seems like a long time from here, but I'm glad.

Last night, I was able to relax some playing Castle of Shikigami. I'm pretty bad at it, but can consistently clear the first stage within one credit. Yes, I am doing this on Very Easy mode, but progress is progress! I'm looking forward to playing more in a few minutes!

June 30th, 2025

For the past couple of days, I have been waking up at 5 in the morning sick to my stomach nervous, but nothing at all is wrong. It's very frustrating, and I can't figure out how to get past it! I know I will eventually, but being in the middle of a stretch like this is not super fun. Tonight, I kind of want to zone out with some shmups, since those make me feel calm, and see if that helps at all.

Last night, I got stuck into a Survivors-like called Cat Survivors, which was a little repetitive and didn't feel very different from run to run. You can basically get every weapon on every good run, so I wasn't thinking too much about making good or interesting character builds as the power-ups started to fly in. It still really hooked me, though, and I spent a few hours clearing all nine stages. I don't feel like I'll be done with it until I get 100% of the Steam achievements, but that's just because I'm still having fun. Once I'm feeling a little sunnier, I'll come back to it.

June 29th, 2025

I got myself too stressed out over some stuff that didn't matter to sleep well last night, so I'm really tired today. Yesterday, I was too fixated on doing little crafts to play a ton of games, though, which is lucky right now. I did a bit of grinding for arcanas and, by extension, trophies, in Vampire Survivors, which was fun.

After watching a couple of movies, I played some of the collection stages in Hello Kitty and Sanrio Friends Racing, a game which is demanding increased precision and track memorization to nab 100% of the cupcakes required for a perfect score. I kind of just want to make the Little Twin Stars zip around in a little car more than I want to 100% this game, so I'm not overly worried about it on any front. I'm sure I'll play it again in a month or so.

June 28th, 2025

Tonight, I have a crazy headache, but luckily I don't have too much to write about today! Yesterday, I was really tired, so I just played a few puzzles in Picross S: Genesis and Master System edition before trying to sleep. There were some people setting off fireworks near me, so the sleeping didn't go so well. That's hardly Picross's fault, though.

June 27th, 2025

I have been feeling a little overwhelmed by how many games I have lately, so I am trying to stop buying games and finish some of what I've got at the moment. I know that it's kind of silly, but that and my current Picross fixation led me to buckle down and finish Charm Studies last night. I don't know why this took me so long, other than an inability to focus! It's a very short, charming game, and I liked it quite a lot. Some of the puzzles in the epilogue, I felt like I had to fudge them to get the solution, but I was pretty tired last night, too. It's hard to judge a game on my puzzle solving abilities when I'm bad at thinking.

While I was at it, I found all of the 100 pandas in Where Pandas, too. I only have one more hidden creature game from this developer and am a little disappointed I burned through them so quickly! They always have some decently hidden animals and cute art.

I played Vampire Survivors for a couple of rounds, too.

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