What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

April 23rd, 2025

I'm a bit stuck in a loop with games right now. Shmups have really been helping me with my anxiety when I actually play them. It's hard to worry about work, or housing, or health when I am trying not to let my little ship/airplane/psychic teenager get hit by one of a hundred brightly colored projectiles on screen, and I need that sometimes. Plus, G-Mode Archives+: Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi DX has really nice music. Counterintuitively, I've been finding it very soothing to try to get good at this game.

Buffet Boss, for what it's worth, just kind of puts me to sleep, but that's fine, too. My bigger concern here than the tedium is that it'll end too fast and I'll have to find another game that knocks me out this fast.

April 22nd, 2025

Last night, I took a wonderous journey through all of what gaming has to offer. In 100 Istanbul Cats, I found 100 cats.

Then, in G-Mode Archives+: Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi DX, I died thrice in some harrowing, but sparkling and aesthetically pleasing aircraft battles.

Finally, in Buffet Boss, I carried a lot of buckets of fried chicken at once, certainly more than I can in real life. Gaming is magic.

April 21st, 2025

My allergies are a challenge tonight, so this'll be a pretty quick post tonight. I played Where Rabbits in honor of Easter, but despite being a rabbit finding game, it featured a rather fantastic cat. The art in this particular series of Steam hidden animal cheapies is always super cute, though, and this was no exception.

I tried out Valis II and, though it's tricky, am enjoying it so far. The version I have on my Switch is a port of the PC Engine version, which isn't a system I'm super familiar with. The cutscenes are neat, though! Plus, it's a big innovation to make a game about a young woman who is forced to jump a lot when she's objectively terrible at jumping. I'm sure it's a metaphor and not just the game being slightly janky.

I also burned more time with Luck Be A Landlord, which is the number one obstacle in the way of my productivity.

Before going to sleep, I played one of the weird stick figure guy mobile ports that cost 20 cents on Switch, Buffet Boss. It was mindless, but soothing.

I played Ensemble Stars!! Music for a little bit, too, though that was earlier in the day. I'm too sleepy to rearrange the post now, though, so it's stuck at the end of everything.

April 20th, 2025

Yesterday, I played 10 different games, which was fun while I was in it, but a little daunting now. I'm just gonna go in order, though, and start with my morning coffee over cat finding games. I started the day with Cat Search in the Wild West, which was a cut above a lot of the hidden cat games I've been playing. Most of them were just hidden with color tricks, but that was fine, and made it a little more challenging. There were also humans around in a town with cat wanted posters, and I wanted to know how the cats managed to disrupt human law and order to such an extent that this measure became necessary.

After that, I played 100 Waiting Cats, which was not super standout in any way. It was cute, and I got to find cats, but there was nothing particularly good or terrible about it.

My last game of the morning was Cat Slide Tiles, a little path building puzzle with controls that were driving me crazy. It's cute, and I played 15 of 80 levels, I think, but the touch screen tile sliding was super finicky! I will come back to this, as the puzzles are decent, but the controls make it a lot less fun.

After a small period of productivity, I picked up a cheap lunch from Taco Bell and booted Metro Quester back up. I quit this game in frustration about six months ago, feeling like I was backed into a corner with a build that couldn't beat the final boss. I just started over rather than trying to rebuild my whole party in the game's last stretch. Since I understand the game's systems better now, it's going to be a much less daunting journey, and I'm going to be more careful about what items I get, too! It's still fun, and I am going to beat it this time.

My allergies were bad and I was feeling a spot tired, so I played Rabio Lepus Plus at random on my Miyoo Mini+ before taking a longer-than-intended nap. It was challenging, but I had a lil' bunny ship and it could get a bow for its ear as a power-up! I didn't get past stage 1 yesterday, but I can see coming back to this when I'm feeling slightly less miserable.

While I had Metro Quester back on, I picked Ensemble Stars Music back up, too. The rhythm game is still fun, but sadly, I have forgotten how this game works and who the vast majority of these characters are. That won't really stop me, but it was a spot weird to consider how long it had really been since I last played, towards the start of this blog. It's cool to play this on a tablet that can handle the stage animations, either way.

After dinner, when I intended to post here, I played Luck Be A Landlord for hours. I cleared a few floors of the apartment building, and got the in-game info that if I clear any floor six times, I'll get a new item type to use, which'll be my new mission in this. It was really excessive, though! My play session in this is maybe my only actual regret from yesterday's gaming marathon. My ability to moderate was broken.

From there, I got some stuff done before hitting my final patch of gaming for the night. That kicked off with the Atari 2600 port of Astroblast, which I'd never played before and am awful at! I started to get the hang of the paddle control sensitivity and the game as a whole after 30 minutes or so, but I think it'll take me quite a lot of time to get even okay at this. That is totally fine, but I was a little shocked by how awful I was at it.

I bounced over to Switch after that, and was enough in a mobile rhythm game headspace from Ensemble Stars to try Hypnosis Mic Alternative Rap Battle: First Period. It's flat out just a Switch port of the mobile game, with event stories and 73 songs if my late night counting was correct, which is great! I think more mobile games should have ports like this, even if they are low effort cash-ins, for preservation's sake. I can't wait to put 500 hours into this nonsense without worrying about paying into the gacha or anything.

Finally, I did a few more puzzles in Kemono Friends Picross before passing out at the end of my day at excess gaming. It was an appropriate end to things.

April 19th, 2025

I have played a lot of games today, and I am going to be mad about this when it's time to post tomorrow. Yesterday, though, I was pretty reasonable. I spent a lot of time on Luck Be A Landlord, because it is fun, but didn't clear any runs last night.

I played a few easy level missions in Skycat right after work, since my lunchtime had been pushed pretty late, but got a little bored and quit.

I played Kemono Friends Picross really badly before bed, too. If this game penalized errors, I would have been on each puzzle ten seconds at a time. It doesn't, though, so I was fine.

April 18th, 2025

I was worried about the weather last night, so I played Pretty Girls 2048 Strike through to the end. It took hours, which I don't usually do on a work night, but I needed to turn my brain off. I came out of this still really liking 2048 as a battle system, though, even though I wasn't too enthused about the art. Some of the character special moves felt pretty cheap, especially the one that sorted all tiles from smallest to largest, but the final set of levels was tough enough that it stayed satisfying.

I grabbed a few stars in Super Mario 64, too. They were all decently easy, aside from my struggles with the camera, since I'm still really early in the game.

April 17th, 2025

Today was tiring and stressful. I got off work, ate a big sandwich, and played games while watching Youtube tornado coverage to try to convince myself that I won't die when these storms hit my area overnight. I'll say more about that tomorrow!

Last night, I started my latest go at finishing Super Mario 64, a fun game that gives me killer motion sickness. It's not as bad as it was on a real N64 on Switch, though, so I'm going to see if playing in handheld mode, one or two stars at a time, is doable. If I can get through this puke free, maybe I'll retry Spyro next.

After that, though, I did retreat back to 2D gaming with a couple more tries to 1CC super easy mode in Esp Ra.De. PSI. I got to the boss in stage 3 both times, for two different characters, so I felt good about getting better at this!

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