What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?
October 2024
October 31st, 2024
Happy Halloween, everyone! This isn't going to be a very good post, but as a big supporter of cats and sweets, I support today's holiday.
Last night, I played a ten day loop in Metro Quester, knocking out two bosses and getting some more exploring in. It was fun, but not super notable.
October 30th, 2024
I had enough energy last night to play a tiny bit more of Everdark Tower, chipping away at my RPG clearing goal. I had fun, and got a good new party member, but wanted to go to sleep after fifteen minutes or so. I'm hoping to be able to play a little more of anything tonight.
October 29th, 2024
Yesterday, a mix of work busy-ness and internet connection issues that made it hard to get on top of said busy-ness left me burnt out by the end of the day. I made spaghetti and looked at lists of games I could someday play, but had no real intention to tackle anytime soon.
Instead, I ended up trying Royal Merge through Google Play Pass, and briefly felt the power of bulldozing through in-app purchases on a heavily monetized mobile game. It was a little boring, though, and way too pushy about what to do next if I paused for more than a second, so I already deleted it.
October 28th, 2024
I was mildly social yesterday, going to a D&D session and voice chatting with a friend after, so I didn't really play many games. I did mess with the "instant play" games on my phone a bit before bed, though. I did a few levels in Pixelint, which is calm, cute, and relaxing. The pixel match "puzzles" aren't very hard, but I'm still pretty early in the game, too.
I tried one called Water Sort Quest, too, since I've seen lots of ads for these test tube color matching type games before and was curious. The water pouring sound effect drove me a bit crazy, and I thought it was slightly boring, too. I still have a shortcut to it on my phone for now, though. It might not be bad for work breaks.
October 27th, 2024
I got in a couple play sessions of Metro Quester yesterday, making it to the last area, but was too tired to stubbornly refuse to go to bed and, consequently, could not make it very far into that last area. I have to do stuff today, so my new target is going to be to finish it by next weekend. My clear 12 RPGs for the year goal is not going well.
October 26th, 2024
I spent the morning doing some grocery shopping and cooking, so I'm working on this post as some buffalo wing chili simmers. It smells really good, but I want it to cook a while longer, so I'm doing my best to be patient! Sadly, the bruchetta I made is for later, too, so I also can't have that as I wait.
Anyway, I care more about food than video games right now, but I did play Metro Quester for a while last night. I'm really close to the end of the game, and had wanted to clear it last night. Staying up that late seemed like an extremely poor idea, though, so I'll probably try for it today.
I plodded along in So I'm A Spider, So What: Ruler of the Labyrinth, too, clearing the ten level quest on the first two difficulty levels. There's no story or anything, so it feels like a really strange setup, but I guess it saves on background assets.
October 25th, 2024
My sleep was extremely bad last night, so my main goal today is just going to be getting through everything.
Last night, I made some decent progress in Metro Quester, exploring quite a lot and beating another boss. I quit because I got too tired to keep going during a supply stockpiling run, but since I couldn't sleep anyway, I kind of wish I'd just kept playing.
I used So I'm a Spider, So What?: Ruler of the Labyrinth as my fidget toy for yesterday and am actually pretty pleased at how idle an idle game it is. I made distinct progress, with many numbers going up, without paying much attention to it, and got piles done as it ran. I was happy with it.
October 24th, 2024
I was generally unenthused last night, so games-wise, I just played some of Everdark Tower before bed. I kind of like that the dungeon I played threw puzzle after puzzle at me, and hope the rest of the game is the same way.
October 23rd, 2024
Even after my post last night, I could not get it together, so I ended up just letting some mobile games run. I tried the new G123 game, So I'm A Spider, So What?: Ruler of the Labyrinth, and it seems to be a different thing for their anime games so far. I didn't mind it, and it was cute to dress my spider up, so it'll stay on my tablet for now.
I let Magical Circle Guru Guru: Stardust Memories go while I did dishes, too, and levelled up some of my party in the game's endless menus besides that.
I'm still feeling super scattered, but hopefully I can be a little less of an unproductive mess today.
October 22nd, 2024
I couldn't get it together this morning, so my post today is really late! I did office work, had dinner with family, and then spent 40 minutes browsing a Humble Bundle of Disney cookbooks like a sophisticated adult, and am finally here. Luckily for me, I don't have a ton to write about tonight. I mostly played digital pinball last night, and finished up the achievements for the retro Farfalla table in Zaccaria Pinball. It was fun, and satisfying to see my high scores fall into place as I figured out how to play well!
After that, though, I tried a much lower scoring retro table, Time Traveler, that I think I'll struggle a bit with from last night's attempts. That's not a bad thing, but it feels super easy to not even hit 1,000 points, let alone 20,000.
I kept Merge Pixel running as I tried to get some stuff done last night, too. I made decent progress dragging and dropping this game's little guys, moving ever further away from the halfway point and closer to the end.
October 21st, 2024
Last night, I did some stockpiling and exploration in Metro Quester, clearing the boss I was having trouble with and running into some issues with the next, possibly optional one. I'm pretty steadily able to beat the random battle monsters that gave me issues my last play session, though, so levelling up my party and their weapons does help. This is maybe just a matter of patience.
I tried another pinball table launcher last night, too, going with Zaccaria Pinball on Switch. It had a deal where you could get 40 "retro" tables, which seem very simplified, for 2 dollars, so I picked that up and proceeded to waste tons of time on one called Farfalla. These tables aren't super exciting, but they actually seem like they could be great for before-bed gaming. I'll see how it goes!
October 19th, 2024
I'm so glad it's the weekend! Nobody wants to work anymore, especially not me!
I was kind of wiped out last night, so I didn't play much. I did a 10-day loop in Metro Quester, beating a boss I'd been having some trouble with and doing some basic exploring. I found another boss on my travels, but think I'll have to do some equipment hunting and modifying to defeat that one.
I played Magical Circle Guru-Guru: Stardust Memories for a while right before bed, too. I have a lower strength party member right now I was thinking about replacing, and unlocked a lil' cat version of one of the mages just in time to try slotting her in! She should be easy to level up, so I'll see about doing that whenever I give this its next proper play session.
October 18th, 2024
I was still a bit tired yesterday, so I mostly just played Kafka's Metamorphosis, a mobile-only visual novel integrating a retelling of The Metamorphosis with a fictionalized story about Franz Kafka's life. I played the first fifth of this last night, and it's more straightforward than I wanted from something about Kafka. The stuff about his bad relationship with his abusive father feels over-simplified so far, too. I'm definitely going to finish this, though, because I am too curious not to see it through.
I let Magical Circle Guru-Guru: Stardust Memories run next to my desk while I was working, too. I did not accomplish anything this way, but being able to occassionally look over and see tiny people running about kept me on task.
October 17th, 2024
Today's post will be quick, both because I slept too much this morning and because I only played Metro Quester yesterday. I think I'm a little past the game's halfway point now, and since I got an EXP share item and a party member with the skill to double item finds, I'm in the midst of some resource and equipment stockpiling until everyone hits the current max level. It's an immensely satisfying grind.
October 16th, 2024
I did not end up feeling great after my doctor's appointment yesterday, so my only gaming past daily logins on mobile games was with Cardcaptor Sakura: Memory Key. I had a pretty nasty fever, so I'm fuzzy on what, precisely, I accomplished, but according to this screenshot, I made Sakura play recorder on an old timey pirate ship and the game was pretty into it. It all seems very sensible.
October 15th, 2024
I just got back from a doctor's appointment, donut time, and the grocery store, and am very happy I have the next two days off work! It's like having a bonus weekend tossed in the middle of the week. I don't have a ton to post about here today, though. I did a ten days of exploration loop in Metro Quester last night, and found a key so I can move forward. Once I picked which locked door to go through, I got another key, which was very nifty, but not the most exciting gaming experience to recount. I'm itchy to play a bit more today, and since I strongly doubt anyone will try to stop me, I probably will.
October 14th, 2024
I've got a strange week ahead, but goal #1 is going to be to get through today's work without too much overtime!
Yesterday, I kept plugging along at my RPG quest with a decent play session in Metro Quester, where I was briefly worried that I softlocked myself. Instead, I think I have to break dozens of blocks of debris to move forward. I'm not sure that's better, but it is at least a clear goal.
Right before bed, I also played the first ten or so minutes of Archlion Saga's companion game, Everdark Tower, too. I don't know that it's counted as a sequel, but there's already been some reused sprites and music within the first 15 minutes. Still, I'm curious to see where it goes.
I let Magical Circle Guru-Guru: Stardust Memories run for a while as I did other stuff, too, making some rare progress in the overall quest. I'm not as sure how to level up effectively in this as I am in some of my other mobile games, which would be disheartening if I cared even a tiny bit more.
October 13th, 2024
Yesterday ended up mostly being a cross stitch day, but I did take the time to finish off Archlion Saga. As an RPG made to be quick and easy to finish, it was rushed and shallow, but that was kind of fine. It was fun to buzz through a big RPG story at such a quick pace, it had that classic "wow, this party member is really overpowered, and this one is useless" feeling, and I always like some brightly colored pixel art. It's a fun concept, and I've got another of these I'm really looking forward to playing.
Seven RPGs remain until I hit my goal of twelve for the year.
October 12th, 2024
I had a pretty long gaming session last night, which was very nice and served as a good brain reset after a somewhat stressful week. Usually, the play sessions I'm writing about here are between 15 and 45 minutes. Last night, I played games for closer to five hours. It's not something I should be doing all the time, but it was nice, and my stress is so low today I might try to deliberately set up at least an hour or two for gaming on days off where nothing else is going on.
My biggest accomplishment last night was getting the story ending in Refind Self: The Personality Test Game, which I really ended up liking. It's a pretty slow paced and small, but open ended game, with quite a lot to do within each run, and I felt like it did a pretty good job of tying the personality test conceit to the story. After I got the real ending, I did a fourth playthrough to smash things and gamble, which was also satisfying, and played the bonus content quizzes, too. This was a good impulse buy, and I can see returning to it in the future.
Eight RPGs (though this fits the definition loosely) remain until I hit my goal of twelve for the year.
I got really close to the end of Archlion Saga, too, hitting the last chapter. So far, I wouldn't say this is anything amazing, but hitting all the main bits of a JRPG at mach speed is kind of charming. Plus, I like that my party's plucky elf girl mouths off a bit to my party's morally compromised spellcaster with hair worthy of a shampoo ad. Dark subject matter aside, the whole thing is kind of cute.
I spent some time with mobile games, too, especially Bleach: Soul Puzzle. I'm actually hitting some decently difficult match-3 puzzles in this, and even though I know they're "just give us a few bucks for some special items!" money pits, I'm satisfied to be clearing them cash-free.
Like I wanted to yesterday, I ran through some story chapters in Cardcaptor Sakura: Memory Key, too. They're just little summaries of the anime, so I don't have a ton to say about this, but it's an ok game to chill out with.
My worst idea of yesterday, though, was to zone out with Wixoss: Multiverse before bed. I cleared all my daily goals, the goal lists for two seperate events, and several plays of a virtual claw machine before just flat out falling asleep. It was honestly excellent.
There's no way I'm going to play this much today, too, but I do at least want to finish off Archlion Saga today. Aside from that, I'm gonna do some crafts and hope for a lovely day!
October 11th, 2024
Yesterday, I spent a lot of my non-work time playing games. It wasn't so practical, but it helped clear my brain out after a long day.
I ended up playing a lot of Pokemon Polyhedral yesterday, since I didn't think I'd have a lot of time for it again until early next week. It was fun! I caught a lot of Pokemon, which felt nice, and doubled up on a trainer battle at the end, actually winning one of them! My Squirtle levelled up enough that I can use an extra hit dice for it, too, which will come in handy. If I play this again tonight, I might tackle my first gym battle.
Before bed, I played another chapter in the super-breezy Archlion Saga, dealing with some easily resolved tension with an elf village and getting my first party member. It was solidly fine.
I played mobile games harder than I needed to yesterday, too. During dinner, I was zoomed in on King of Prism: Sparkling again, wanting to get my tiny idols levelled up and sent out into the world. It took a lot of tapping, but my gosh, I think my little jpegs are out to a great start in their pretend careers!
I did more than just my daily login stuff in Cardcaptor Sakura: Memory Key, too, though the current event has a weirdly infuriating jumping mini-game. Tonight, I have an excuse to binge play games for hours, and I'll freely admit that I'll be coming back to this during that time. I want to finally make some headway in the story mode, since I think I've gotten a lot unlocked chasing login goals.
That's all I've got for today, but I'll probably have a somewhat intense post tomorrow. I'm looking forward to enjoying a game night!
October 10th, 2024
I'm doing a quick post today because I had an early blood test this morning and then just went back to bed after getting back home.
Pokemon Polyhedral was my most played game last night, and I didn't play a ton. I did about seven wild Pokemon battles, including one against Mewtwo, and caught a Krabby and a Geodude. They both went to my PC's storage for now.
I also played about the first ten minutes of Archlion Saga, a little Kemco RPG designed to be short, before bed. It seems extremely efficient so far, and I am somewhat amused by it.
On the mobile game front, I got somewhat fixated on King of Prism: Sparkling while I was eating a takeout dinner. I didn't accomplish much, other than levelling up a bunch of my trainee idols, but it was an ok distraction.
October 9th, 2024
Yesterday was a little busy, so I just ended up turning on Atari Flashback on my Switch and playing five or six rounds of Night Driver. I hadn't really messed with this before, but I set myself a "get a score of 50" goal and played until I reached it. It wasn't bad, though I found it somewhat disorienting that, at least to me, the screen setup made it seem like the car was constantly driving uphill. The simple graphics really work well in motion, though. It was neat.
October 8th, 2024
Today's post will be pretty quick! I did another run of Refind Self: The Personality Test Game last night where I just touched streetlights and looked at AC units until my personality meter filled up. It was good practice for the very destructive run I'm still hoping to do. If she can poke at stuff this well, no doubt my robot girl has what it takes to become a champion jar smasher.
I did two wild Pokemon battles and a trainer battle in Pokemon Polyhedral, too. I caught both Pokemon, meaning I can start sending some to my PC, but really got wrecked again in the trainer battle. It was a good, if not short, play session!
October 7th, 2024
Yesterday, it occurred to me that of my goal to beat 12 RPGs in 2024, I have, if I am being generous with the definition of RPG, cleared 3 of them. Because of that, I got really set on figuring out how I can clear 9 RPGs in less than 3 months yesterday. It was unproductive, but fun to consider.
Also unproductively, I kicked off a new RPG yesterday, starting Metro Quester. I intended to play it just a little, and played for two hours. It's a very bare bones dungeon crawler, but I felt really hooked by it! I don't know how much I'll play it during the week, since it's hard to put down and sleep is somewhat important, but I'm looking forward to playing it more.
I finished my first hour or so gameplay loop in Refind Self: The Personality Test Game, and think that it's interpreting a quick reading speed as my being ultra decisive. I have at least two more loops I want to do before calling this one cleared, since there's still stuff I want to explore, and since there's a turn based battle in this, I'm classifying it as an RPG. I feel more powerful that way.
Early in the day, I also played Space Battleship Yamato: Voyagers of Tomorrow while I was refusing to get out of bed. I really did not want to get up, so I made decent progress in repairing my ship. This is the true value of mobile gaming.
October 6th, 2024
It's a wild morning of coffee and paying bills here, but I did get some game stuff in yesterday. I spent more time with Pokemon Polyhedral than anything, mercilessly destroying Pidgeys, which does feel accurate to the Pokemon experience, and running into legendary birds before my first gym battle, which is a bit much. The randomness of it all really is keeping things interesting, so it's not really a complaint.
I let Sims 4 run for a while as I chatted with a friend, too. I was playing as a system-generated Sim last night, because I had to see if she put books away in the same weirdly neurotic way as the one I made myself. She didn't, but sometimes a guy would come to her house and she'd flirt with them while learning to identify new fish. Sims have a lot to teach each other.
October 5th, 2024
My eyes are really puffy and itchy today, so I've been lazy about posting! I thought if I waited, and also took some allergy meds, I'd pep up and get to it, but neither really worked. That is okay.
I'd been wanting to do this for about a week now, but I got The Sims 4 going again last night. I hadn't played it since before I'd started this blog, since I found it frustratingly clunky and slow on PS4. It runs a lot better on XBox Series S, and seemed a lot easier to start up, too! For now, I made my sort of default sim, tossed her in a pre-made house, which was a nice new feature, and got started with some timed quests to befriend the Grim Reaper, which also seems like an interesting new feature. I haven't done much at all yet, though, so I'm looking forward to seeing what sorts of problems I can cause!
I did enough rounds of Pokemon Polyhedral to hit the first trainer battle, too. Non-gym leader opponents are randomly generated Team Rocket grunts, so I'm using a name generator for my Kanto's all-girl Team Rocket splinter group. They're not really that bad- they just didn't want to pick a new aesthetic after the really crime-oriented original Team Rocket fell. All of the silliness inside my head aside, rolling for the opponent's Pokemon and their respective levels led to my really getting destroyed. That'll make it all the more satisfying when I do start winning, but I was still a little mad at how horrendous my own rolls were last night.
I played Wixoss Multiverse for a while, too. Since I'd done okay in a recent event, I was able to level up a lot of my party members' skills and felt like I jumped over a difficulty spike with expert form. It was fun causing turn based mayhem and destruction, so I played longer than I'd intended.
My eyes burn so much that I might not do much gaming today. I'll have something or other to post about tomorrow, though.
October 4th, 2024
Yesterday, things felt vaguely fall-ish, which made me want to play a Pokemon game. I ended up going with a non-traditional choice, though, and picked Pokemon Polyhedral, a solo tabletop RPG that I found on itch.io a while back. Solo TTRPGs are fun, but I usually play them as creative writing aids, which I don't want to share. This one is more of a pure dice-rolling game, though, and the theme is video game-y, too, so it seemed less daunting to post about. Last night was a small start to my new Pokemon journey, but I've got three Pokemon in my party for my next round of play and am ready to burn through many brightly colored legal pads on this quest.
Other than that, it was just a mobile game day. I played quite a lot of Bleach: Soul Puzzle before dinner, finding out it's the perfect thing to play in an allergy med induced haze.
Before bed, I also checked off piles of tasks in Space Battleship Yamato: Voyagers of Tomorrow, which was fine. I play this one less than the other G123 games because it runs a little poorly on my phone, but sometimes, having it on my phone comes in handy. 'Tis a tricky balance.
October 3rd, 2024
I did not do great at gaming last night! Other than running through login bonuses in my many mobile games, I started Refind Self: The Personality Test Game, an indie game I'd thought looked interesting in the Switch eShop. I only played it for a few minutes so far, but it is interesting- you go around a little RPG-ish world and decide what to do, and every action you take influences how the game reads your character's personality. Once you take enough actions, that playthrough ends. I'm looking forward to playing more, but want to kick butt at getting stuff done today, too, so I'm not sure how that'll go for now.
October 2nd, 2024
My Neocities HTML editor looks really spiffy this morning, which I am grateful for both in terms of readability, and because it gave me a small something extra to say here. It looks like it might be a special Halloween theme.
So far, I have had an excellent start of the month for crafts, which I might share later, but not so amazing a time with games. I did play Bleach: Soul Puzzle a little more last night, but started dozing three or four puzzles in. Sleep was most important, so I just set it aside from there.
October 1st, 2024
I ended up being a little too scrambled last night for any decent gaming, but tried yet another anime mobile game. Last night's choice was Bleach: Soul Puzzle, and I actually liked it quite a lot. It's cute, and filling a match-3 screen with exploding powerups is fun and satisfying. I have a difficult to pin down suspicion that this might get shut down before too long, just because match-3 feels like such an odd genre match for shonen. That's no reason not to enjoy it for now, though.
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