What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

November 13th, 2025

I'm posting late tonight because I ran errands, worked late, and then got way too into a cute little pen and paper game I'll write about tomorrow. I tried an overwhelmingly popular online game, too, which seems logistically daunting for this blog. It's not, really. I'm just tired and overthinking things.

Yesterday was low impact gaming, though. I decided to go back to Kemono Friends Picross, knocking out 9 puzzles. This is such a breezy, penalty-free game, but I think that's kind of nice for night gaming.

I chased achievements in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, too, and did pretty well. I felt good about the exercise I got.

November 12th, 2025

This week is tiring for no reason, so I'm in low gaming mode right now. I played The Casino on Switch last night until it lured me to sleep. I like the achievements in this, since they add some sense of accomplishment to the pretend-money gambling. Mostly, though, I was just playing this to zone out.

I didn't want to play Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku, but I did some stretching and the shortest exercise to keep myself from giving up. It was not nothing!

November 11th, 2025

I didn't do much gaming last night, so this'll be a quick post! I tried Sine Mora EX for a few minutes last night, then very confidently decided it was not the game for me. That doesn't happen very often, so it was interesting. Some of the mechanics are cool- I like the idea of slowdown as a weapon against bullet swarms in a shmup, and using time as health, with the ability to regain it by shooting down enemies, is also neat! I didn't vibe with the story, though, especially not as black screen text dumps between levels, and the levels felt a little tedious to me. Not every game is for everyone, so I don't feel too badly about this.

I also had a pretty decent session in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku. Achievement hunting is making this a bit more fun, so I'm not having as bad a time as I was my last run at it!

November 10th, 2025

I am feeling very sleepy and nervous tonight, but I played a lot of stuff yesterday and am going to do my best posting here. One of my big game goals yesterday was to get back up and running with Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku. I'm going to Disney World this winter, and I'm worried I'll be too much of a slug and slow the rest of my party down. Maybe it's useless, but I feel like it could help to play fitness games. I'd like to buckle down and get all the achievements in this one, and I'm so serious about it I even made a checklist. It was kind of a standard play session, but I'm going to try my best.

I was still on my game finishing quest, too, so I started My Bakery Empire, a mobile type game I paid 20 cents for and thought I might be able to beat quickly. It does not seem like I'll be able to beat this so fast, but I do think I'll come back to it. It's very ok for this type of thing, and it lets me buy clothes. It will be fine for a game to help me sleep.

I did, however, finish Summer Paws, which was a cute and lovely hidden cats game. I liked spinning around the little dioramas to find all the sleeping kitties, and a lot of the scenes were very charming. Finding the sleeping cats made me repeatedly think of David Letterman warbling "midnight, and the kitties are sleeping~," but there's much worse fates than to be reminded of old late night talk show bits by a hidden object game.

I also tried I-Chu: Chibi Edition, an offline version of a discontinued mobile game. I'm tired now, so I'll write more about this later, probably.

November 9th, 2025

I kept up with my quest to clean up some of my Switch games I'd started yesterday, starting by finishing off Purrfect Rescue. I didn't really love this, since the cats were too scribbly to easily identify as cats. I did like the idea of having one special cat per stage, having you find the items to catch them across different stages, but it needed something slighly more. This wasn't unplayable, but it wasn't my favorite cat finding experience.

I also went back to Roller Katz BF: Episode 1, which is the first few levels of one person's vision for a Dreamcast, or, more specifically, Sonic Adventure style platformer. It's very janky and difficult to control, and the story is never going to be finished, which is disappointing! I had a lot of fun with this regardless, though, and think it's cool that someone went for it and just put this out there. Plus, I got hit by a train a bunch of times and then shot a robot pirahna. I had fun!

Originally, I wanted to clear three games yesterday, but I wasn't feeling great last night and gave up. From there, I played a few rounds of Vampire Survivors and went to sleep.

November 8th, 2025

I had a weird gaming day yesterday. I played stuff way earlier in the day than normal, tackling the Retro Achievements on a game called Reels of Fortune. It seemed really funny to play another slot machine game, but it wasn't all that interesting overall. This was made for an open source console called Uzebox, though, and that does seem interesting. I might try to learn more about it later.

I tried a very simple, slippery feeling Atari 2600 Touhou homebrew, too. It wasn't awful, and I do want to achievement hunt in it a bit more, but it didn't have my attention for long yesterday.

I'm trying to be more responsible about game shopping and had some stuff I wanted on Switch, so I decided to try and clear off some games I had started on there and Switch 2 so I could do a spot of shopping. I finished off Snug Finder first, which I thought was a decent little hidden object game. I think it needed something a little more to make the time-based scoring work as more than "well, I know where all the stuff is so I'll just run it again right away," like moving objects between runs. That's basically my only complaint about it, though, especially for two dollars. It was cute.

I played some of Purrfect Rescue, a hidden cat game I'd bounced off of in seconds a few times before. The cats are really scribbly in this, so it's harder than usual to tell what is or isn't a cat, and they're extremely tiny, too. There's some simple adventure game elements going on here, too, but it wasn't enough to get me to play more than one stage of it last night.

November 7th, 2025

I started playing around with Retro Achievements in Retro Arch yesterday, which is allowing me to "finish" some strange old and homebrew games. I kicked off with Slot Machine for the Fairchild Channel F, which is actually what got me on this path. I started out wanting to play one of the weird Evangelion pachislot games for DS and just gradually got less and less ambitious until I was playing a very simple slot machine from 1980. It was a nice game to zone out with, even if there wasn't anything particularly innovative or interactive going on with it. Plus, now I've cleared a Fairchild Channel F game, thanks to the achievements, and that's kind of a neat step back into gaming history!

After that, I went through the achievements in an Atari 2600 version of Katamari, which was a blast! It focused more on being playable and fun for Atari than it did on recreating everything perfectly, looping between item collection levels and ones where you dodge the King of All Cosmos shooting lightning at you. It wasn't really like a normal Katamari game, but it was a small, cute and fun 2600 game that played to the system's strengths. I was glad I tried it.

My before bed game last night was Bishoujo Battle Cyber Panic!, because I clicked on the wrong icon on my desktop and just kind of rolled with it from there. I'm still so confused by all of these PG-13 anime girl games being super casual fluff, but this is Qix, and I like Qix. I'm sure these girls are from other games, but I would prefer to imagine that they're just mom game enthusiasts, popping up half dressed and heavily armed to cheer people on in old arcade games played at a leisurely pace and mahjong solitaire matches.