What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

December 2024

December 11th, 2024

Yesterday was busy, and I'm kind of between games right now. Last night, I just went through my Switch to see what I could finish to clear out some memory and landed on Bucket Crusher. It's boring, but it put me right to sleep, and for that, I am grateful.

December 10th, 2024

I felt really tired and down last night, so I just played casual cat games. I ran through Cats Hidden in Christmas on Steam, which was pretty satisfying for a free find-the-cats game. The cats were actually hidden in a lot of cases, and it had a color mode that unlocked after finding all of the cats in the standard lineart mode. It was still fairly easy, but I'm fine with that.

I played some more of Neko Pang, too, feeling like the difficulty between stages is wildly uneven. It's another free game, so again, that's fine, but it did make the balance feel strange.

December 9th, 2024

I had another utility gaming Sunday yesterday. My weekly upkeep in Spirit City: Lofi Sessions was pretty minimal, but I didn't do well at this last week! I felt too burnt out to turn it on for most of the week, which is kind of pathetic. It also led to my missing some of the smaller, less "weekly" tasks I needed to do that I would have seen on a paper to-do list, leading to my rushing to finish stuff on Friday and Saturday. Overall, it was fine, but I'm going to try to check in on my lists for at least five minutes a night this week. This isn't a cure-all, but I still think I can make it work.

I did a daily workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, too, which was uneventful. I just felt like I needed to get up and move around a little.

As far as less purposeful gaming goes, I played another free hidden cats game, Hidden Winter Cats. It was the hidden object equivalent of the Waldo standing on the beach by himself, "Waldo's not even trying anymore!" joke from the Simpsons, so I found all 100 cats in less than 5 minutes. It wasn't a bad five minutes, but it was excessively slight.

I did some more cat themed casual gaming with Neko Pang, one of the Samsung instant play mobile games, before bed. I actually liked this one. It's just an obstacle-clearing match-3 game, but a very cute one. I did hit a difficulty spike before falling asleep, but I'm going to try and beat the stage that stopped me again today. This was definitely the better of my two throwaway game experiences yesterday.

December 8th, 2024

Yesterday, I finally tried Sonic and the Black Knight, and don't have too much to say about it so far. It doesn't seem that bad for a late 00s Sonic game or a motion control heavy Wii game, but it's not that great, either. I had a decent time with the first few levels, though, so I'll keep going.

Later on, I played some Metal Slug Attack: Reloaded while chatting with a friend, too. I had to quit and go to bed when I got so tired I couldn't remember how the game's interface worked, and it wasn't even that late! I made some decent progress, though, getting through all the first side stories for the different armies and getting back to the main campaign.

I did some very minor play in Infinity Nikki, too, mostly just burning off all my free gacha pulls and playing with the dress up features. It was fun, but I made no progress.

December 7th, 2024

Last night, I decided it was time to finish Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus, so I played it for nearly two hours until it was over. This was actually a fine little hidden object adventure game with a goofy story, but I just got tired of the Christmas theming as I played. Last night, I cleared out the main story and unlocked a bonus story, which took about an hour to get through and exposed the poor state of healthcare for gingerbread men. It was a nice, laid back time, but I'm glad I have it finished, too.

Other than that, I did a short workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, in which the opening stretched mysteriously stopped halfway through, dumping me into a normal workout. It was fine, and everything worked after that, but weird.

I kept up with Infinity Nikki, too, though I was really sleepy by the time I logged in. I pretty much just went to the stylist's guild to do a little story stuff and collected a bunch of flowers. It was fine!

December 6th, 2024

I wanted to throw a pot of soup together this morning rather than post here, so I'm doing this during my "lunch" break. I didn't play anything too out of the ordinary yesterday, though. I kept going with Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus, and as I broke into a cop car and prepared to battle the Ice Queen, it occurred to me that I actually have no idea when this game will wrap up. I'm still pretty amused, so that's fine.

I played another half hour of Infinity Nikki, too, which I'm playing on a timer due to a tendency towards awful motion sickness in 3D games. I wasn't sure I'd enjoy this, but it's fun so far! Movement feels nice, even running on a tablet so underspecced that the game asked if I was sure I wanted to try running it, and I like collecting stuff to make cute dresses. I'm excited to play more.

It's a little less exciting to write about, but I cleared the second part of the 0 event in Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade, too. My party's getting pretty good, since I've had killer gacha luck, and the event rewards only boosted me further. There's already another event running, though, which I'm hoping to clear out this weekend or early next week. This game is a nice time killer.

December 5th, 2024

Last night was even colder than the night before, so it still wasn't a great game night. With the help of some hot beverages, though, I downloaded and started in on Infinity Nikki, which has big PS1 vibes on my tablet. I could move over to my Windows gaming machine for this, but I honestly like how crunchy and pop-up-laden it looks on my mobile game tablet. I only played for about 30 minutes, so I'm just getting used to the controls right now. It seems fun so far, though.

Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus was the real star of my game time last night, though. I lost allies. I made milkshakes. I did some logic puzzles that would have been much easier were I not strolling through this game half asleep. With the fate of the holiday season hanging in the balance, I hope to finish this tonight.

December 4th, 2024

There was a nasty wind cutting through my apartment last night, so I didn't want to play video games so much as I wanted to curl up under a stack of blankets and sleep. Eventually, I did just that, but I played a few more screens of Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus first. I did all the classic holiday activities- escaping the dungeon, hang-gliding past tornadoes, chucking water balloons filled with anti-freeze at an elf trapped within a cursed snowman- and inched closer to the end.

December 3rd, 2024

I was still a little tired yesterday, so I went to bed early and played a pretty decent chunk of Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus, another victim of my desire to see what's going on in the world of casual Christmas games. This is just a hybrid hidden object game and super basic point and click adventure, and aside from some really weird and disturbing facial animations, it's completely fine. I'll probably finish this tonight, since things seemed to be wrapping up.

December 2nd, 2024

I didn't feel great yesterday, so I just did utility-style gaming. I messed with Spirit City: Lofi Sessions quite a bit, redecorating my in-game room for Christmas and streamlining my to-do list by swapping a lot of my weekly tasks over into the daily habit tracker.

My muscles were kind of sore, so I played a daily, standard-length workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, too. It was not fun and I wanted to quit mid-session, but it was good for me.

December 1st, 2024

December is off to a sleepy start for me. I should have posted sooner, but I was reading the Boss Fight Books entry on Bible Adventure cover to cover instead, and after that, I dozed off for a few minutes. It was good, but maybe a spot unproductive.

Last night, though, I just played Model Debut #nicola for a while. I hit some text boxes I had to dictionary scum my way through, so it was maybe 45 minutes of reading in Japanese to ten minutes of gameplay. That is not nothing, though, so I'm not upset about it.