What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?
September 2024
September 30th, 2024
I'm doing a quick post this morning, but'll probably pop back in later to do some setup for October. I'm cutting it close, but have been painfully lazy and sluggish this month.
I got kind of swamped by cooking and a D&D night yesterday, so I only played mobile games. Like usual, I spent the most time chipping away at quests in Wixoss Multiverse, feeling delighted by the turn based havoc my little anime girls can wreak before hitting another steep levelling wall.
I played more than just the daily login on Cardcaptor Sakura: Memory Key, too, but not a ton. This game is so cutscene heavy that, even though it's low intensity, I really feel like I have to be in the mood for it. It's cute, but maybe slightly too idle an idle game.
September 29th, 2024
I feel like last week, I did an extremely bad job of accomplishing things, as I did the week before. I want to try to turn that around next week, but don't have the world's highest hopes that I'll be able to. Still, I'll give it a shot! I have a somewhat big, at least conceptually, cross stitch project I want to try, and plan to get back to studying Japanese well, too. If I don't pull it off, though, that's okay, too!
As far as games go, I continued my inexplicable dedication to Wixoss Multiverse yesterday, plodding through piles of "give us money!" menus to make my anime girls rush murder towers and fight dinosaur riders.
It wasn't a major games day, so other than that, I did some extremely bad play in Pokemon Puzzle League while I was sleepy.
I cleared some item merging missions in Prison Noctis, too, but felt somewhat frustrated that my little merge board was getting cluttered. I think the game wants me to buy storage so I can tidy it up, but I don't intend to do that.
September 28th, 2024
I had a little bit of energy back last night, but used all of it reading. I really got involved in A Night to Remember by Walter Lord, which is a very readable history of the Titanic's sinking. It's so crazy to think about how, even though 1912 seems so long ago, it was recent enough that I can click on my Kindle and pour over interviews with the survivors. History is neat!
I finished up The Big Bundle by Max Allan Collins, too, which was an efficent and tense true-crime based noir, and on the comics front, buzzed through The Perks of Being an S-Class Heroine, which, so far, is a charming reincarnation story. I'm really fascinated with how these reincarnated heroine, saint, and villainess stories iterate on each other to, past just being ripoffs of one another, develop their own internal logic and genre conventions at such a quick pace. Plus, I like to read fluffy brain candy, so it's easy to indluge.
Anyway, I know this isn't a books blog, but it's kind of fun to share sometime. On the games front, I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary. I started in on the new weekly events in Wixoss Multiverse, clearing all that I could without tossing real cash at the game.
I played a few levels in Pocket Quest, too, getting a weapon that could inflict burn damage and feeling massively powerful in my tile matching exploits.
September 27th, 2024
I'm still feeling draggy for difficult to divine reasons, but did play Sims 2 Pets on DS for a few minutes last night, after all my mobile game logins were cleared. I got in the mood to play a life sim sort of game, but realized that I hadn't played Sims 4 since starting this blog and had already done my five new game pages for the month! 'Twas quite tragic.
Last time I tried Sims 2 Pets, I was baffled and unimpressed, finding the whole thing totally incomprehensible. Last night, my play session went way better. It felt a bit slow paced and empty, but straightforward and decently easy to follow. I wish more clients had come into the vet clinic during the couple days I played through, but since they didn't, my sim got lots of chances to try and fail at cooking cheese in a skillet. That's pretty much what I wanted, so it was okay.
September 26th, 2024
My enthusiasm is low today, but I'll get through it. I just played Cardcaptor Sakura: Memory Key some more last night, past a daily login level, flipping between being a little bored and having a pleasant enough time as I went. I think that's my mood rather than the game, but I'm still hoping for enough pep to pick up a console game in the next couple days.
September 25th, 2024
I was somewhat busy yesterday, so my only notable gametime was with Cardcaptor Sakura: Memory Key, which I saw in the Google Play store and instantly downloaded. So far, it seems like another systems laden mobile game with gacha and clicker elements, but it's so cute, and the production values are so high! The little chibi recreations of bits of the anime in story mode are so lovely! It doesn't seem great so far, but the presentation is pretty top notch. I'll see where this goes.
September 24th, 2024
Yesterday wasn't a big video games day for me. I played a 12 minute exercise in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku before work, which wasn't bad.
After work, I did have Wixoss Multiverse running for quite a while. I got a decent amount of level ups and made general progress, which was okay. It was a good thing to have on in the background.
I played Prison Noctis for a bit today, too, getting the truly bizarre pay-to-win screen I've included below. The slightly off translation and AI-seeming hands in this art really make it something special. I think my girl accessed the new merging screen that triggers this screen by finding a massive heroin stash, though, so maybe it's appropriate somehow.
September 23rd, 2024
I had to get up early for a blood test today, and, as always, I was unable to sleep because I knew I'd have to get up early. I am so sleepy it has become physically painful. It's okay, though. I've got this.
Yesterday, past my daily mobile game check-ins, I played a few Miku Exercise songs in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku. It was somewhat satisfying.
I kept going with Pocket Quest, too, and am having a pretty good time with it. It sounds like a backhanded compliment, and maybe it is, but this game was definitely worth 20 cents.
September 22nd, 2024
I am having an extremely difficult time the last few days and have no idea why! I'm trying to get back on track today, with some grocery shopping and meal prep to follow this post, but it feels super challenging.
None of what I'm posting about here is too bad, though. I built a tiny not-Lego of a computer while watching Youtube yesterday morning, and was very satisfied with how cute and 90s it is. The tiny bits might make it hard to display, since I have too many cheapo tables with lattice tops, but I'll figure that out.
I was a little too tired to do much gaming yesterday. I did play an hour or so of Wixoss Multiverse. This week's special character is really good, and I'd love to be lucky enough to gacha her, but don't think that's gonna happen. I'll play through her weekly missions, though, and see if I get anywhere.
I tried one of the Switch games I bought for 20 cents a few months back, too, called Pocket Quest. It's a pretty basic match-3 RPG, but I'm happy with that for now. Casual games are valuable in times of inexplicable tiredness.
September 21st, 2024
I got a late call at work last night and had some noisy apartment building drama after that, so today, I'm too fried to even touch my coffee. I might go back to sleep after posting here, but'll at least take it easy if I don't.
I did build a little not-Lego set last night, of Anya from Spy x Family hanging out by a building facade. I like both parts of this set, but am a little confused by it as a whole. The character figure is cute, but it seems like a really plain main model choice. I'll put the building facade up on my Lego shopping street, though, and keep Anya out for future crimes against IP.
Yesterday was a total wash in terms of gaming, though. I played Diamond Painting ASMR a little right before bed, to knock myself out, but wasn't particularly engaged with it.
I don't know that today is going to be a better day, but it should at least be a less stressful one.
September 20th, 2024
Yesterday, I started to feel a little better than I had been after work, so I decided to "catch up" on the fitness games I hadn't been playing earlier in the week. This was a terrible idea, and by the end of it, I could barely function enough to brush my teeth. I did make it through, though, and am a bit proud of that. I started last night's mistake of a fitness journey with Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star, where I got in a plain, low level daily workout. As far as things went, this was fine.
After a short break, I popped back over to my Switch to play a standard workout in Fitness Circuit, which makes me slightly miserable on a good day. By the end of the session last night, I was sweating so much my forehead burned, which I don't think is a great sign.
I was really bought into the idea of fully catching up on my workouts by then, though, and also pretty tired, so from there, I bounced to Fitness Boxing feat Hatsune Miku. I just did three song routines here, and it was easier to get through than Fitness Circuit. The songs were very high energy, though, and by the end of it, even though I made it through, my scores were not stunning. Still, I felt kind of accomplished by the end.
Apart from all that, I did spend some time level grinding away at Wixoss Multiverse, levelling up a bit without making much overarching progress. It was a pretty typical mobile game session.
September 19th, 2024
I'm doing another quick post today, but hoping to get back on a better track today! I cleared the level-up challenge I'd been stuck on in Wixoss Multiverse, which was nice.
I also played a few minutes of Diabolic, a simple indie dungeon crawler I had started and abandoned on Switch, mostly level grinding.
September 18th, 2024
My post today is just going to be on mobile games, since my game time was limited again. I did continue to keep up with Wixoss Multiverse, where I got assigned as my circle (or guild) leader. I don't know why, unless the previous leader just failed to log in for a while, but I changed our icon to a cat. I'm still so stuck on my level 70 to 71 level up battle, though, that I don't feel like a fit leader. Probably I don't have to do much, though, so I'll see what happens.
I played King of Prism Sparkling for a few minutes right before bed, too, since I hadn't done that for a while. Since I'd been logging in daily, I had plenty of in game currency to throw around, and it was a satisfying feeling. Right now, I'm trying to improve my profits and grind for EXP by raising my little "junior" idols, but there's so many ways to go about levelling up in this game that I don't think it matters.
September 17th, 2024
Today will be a quick post! I kept up with Wixoss Multiverse before bed last night, chipping away at the events to try and get levelling materials. While I was doing some Pokemon Stadium style "select your party members from a list" fights the other day, I realized you get a bonus with three party members of the same "type," which is helpful in figuring out what party members I want to level up next. I still haven't picked yet, though.
I got started on the medium difficulty level of the story mode in Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star, too. It's not more difficult so far, but it does take longer.
September 16th, 2024
Yesterday was really busy, and today will be, too. I put a small amount of time into Wixoss Multiverse last night, where my "girls who can set you on fire" party concept is starting to take shape. I feel like I need better overall attack, since chipping away at opponents with burn damage isn't quite enough to win, but I can continue to refine this nonsense.
For my daily workout game, I played Walk It Out! for a while, alarmed at how angry the game's yelling little girl trainer was that I haven't played daily. My attention span isn't good enough for that sort of business, so she can yell at me forever.
September 15th, 2024
Last week, I was really feeling overwhelmed and under the weather, so I didn't finish my craft goals for the week. I made a run at clearing them yesterday, but decided it wasn't worth stressing myself out so much. I'll try again for next week, though!
I did play a lot of video games yesterday, though. I was in the mood to play something really dumb, so I started Oneechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad, on my XBox. I'd gotten this super cheap in a sale, and so far, it is very ridiculous and very satisfying. It bothers me that Aya, my zombie stabber, is wearing a boa into zones where zombies are on fire. It seems like a really unnecessary safety risk! I'm having a great time so far, though, and looking forward to more mindless slashing.
I also spent a lot of time in Wixoss Multiverse, where I'm trying to rebuild bits of my party. I am often losing matches due to being set on fire, so I have decided that rather than finding a way to guard against this, I just need all the girls on my team also setting my opponents on fire. Honestly, it's not going stunningly well so far, and at the moment, I feel I am grinding to make things slightly worse for myself. If this fails, though, I'll just think about other setups.
Before bed, I turned on Honkai Star Rail for the first time in a while, and promptly got lit on fire there, too. My RPG girls look very stylish, but they're way too flammable! For now, though, I have a new character I gacha'd that I want to level up, so I went back to try the Simulated Universe subquest to see if I could gather any materials there. After the boss set me on fire until I died, though, I shut the game off and went to sleep. I'll see what I can do about that today.
I did a daily workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, too. No one was on fire in this game and honestly that's a little lame.
September 14th, 2024
Today, I'm really fighting to be productive! It's not working the best, but I am certainly making an effort!
Yesterday, I was not at my most productive, but I did clear the story mode in Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star on "light" mode. I'd feel accomplished, but I have two more difficulty levels to tackle from here. When I clear the top level, then I'll be excited.
From there, I was back on mobile games, and, yet again, really zoomed in on Wixoss Multiverse. It looks like three in-game events kicked off yesterday, and I want to see if I can make any headway in them. My progress on the daily tasks they tossed out was good last night, so it might end up going ok.
I spent a lot of time on Merge Prison, too, though I frittered away more time on the merge screen than in the story parts. It made for some nice, low-pressure mobile gaming zone-out time.
September 13th, 2024
I overslept this morning, hence the late afternoon post. It's Friday, so I'm not too mad at myself.
Last night, I cleared Doomsday, the free expansion to Super Kiwi 64. The final boss level had a nice challenge boost without being too frustrating, and the item-collecting level just before that had nifty space Western vibes. It was a strong set of extra levels, and I'm glad I finally remembered to play them! Now I just need to steel myself to go back and finish off Toree 2...
I played my daily fitness game, too, with a light workout in Fitness Boxing 2. It was a little boring, and I really dislike the front-back step exercises, but I made it through.
I ran Merge Pixel for a lot of the day, too, actually making notable progress! I'm still not as close to the end here as I'd like to be, but since I'm just using this to focus, it's hard to care.
September 12th, 2024
I'm still feeling draggy, but am also still plugging away at everything. I started yesterday with a round of Walk It Out!, to see how much of a hassle it would be to use the Wii balance board for before work fitness gaming. It wasn't a problem at all, so I'll probably get another Wii game in my rotation for next week.
Past that, I didn't have a ton of energy for games after work. I did, shockingly, get the special character for the event I'd been grinding out in Magical Circle Guru-Guru. It was a pleasant surprise, and I'll probably take her out for some meaningless slaughter with the rest of my party soon.
I played some more of the story in Prison Noctis, too, and found a drug addict's dead body and some food for a cute lil kitty in the same room. This tonal whiplash did nothing to dissuade me from playing mobile games.
September 11th, 2024
Yesterday was a pretty low level gaming day for me. Aside from flying through daily logins in all my mobile games, I played a regular level daily workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku before my work shift. I switched my "exercise partner" to Luka, and felt like the game was doing a pretty good job at conveying different character personalities. Details like that make fitness games more interesting for me.
September 10th, 2024
This is a pretty sleepy morning, but that's ok. Yesterday, I decided to try moving my exercise gaming to the morning, with a light workout in Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star. It was not what I would consider an enjoyable choice, but I was happy with myself for not getting back in bed to push silently dreading the day as close as possible to the start of my work shift.
Other than that, though, it was just a mobile game day. I tried another Instant Plays game on my phone, Pixelint, which is just a simple "match your pixels to the example" game. The ads aren't too intrusive in this one, with one five second one playing every three or four levels. Plus, it seems relaxing so far.
I put some time into Wixoss Multiverse again, too, feeling satisfied that levelling my party had concrete results in battle. It was not a good focus tool yesterday, though. I ended up totally putting aside the stuff I was supposed to be doing to feed my tiny anime girls.... maybe batteries, I don't know, I'm actually not paying so much attention. That's fine, though! Games are for fun and relaxation, not productivity, so that was maybe a healthier way to enjoy it.
September 9th, 2024
I'm trying to get the week off to a good start this morning, but do not feel like I'm approaching the task well. Yesterday, though, I did have a successful productivity aid in Wixoss Multiverse, which I left running for hours as I ran through my daily tasks. It was too play-intensive to use during a work day, since I'd finish a set amount of tasks every hour before letting myself play, but it helped me get through 31 tasks on my weekly to-do list, which is a new record! Plus, my tiny card girls have all sorts of fancy weapons and it makes me feel powerful.
I'm trying to get back to fitness games more regularly, too, since I'm somewhat getting out of whatever dreadful "curl up in a ball and nap" funk I'd been in. Last night, that meant I did a 12 minute exercise in Fitness Boxing 2 while I waited to go pick up Indian food, but it wasn't nothing.
I played another run of Balatro after my internet went out, too. It was bad again.
September 8th, 2024
I'm still spacy today, but having a decently productive morning regardless. It required a lot of work last night, since I'd managed my time badly during the week, but I did finish another round of cat-crafts and girl-crafts for last week! The cat was a surprisingly tricky (for me at least!) origami model, from instructions at this link on Instructables. I kept having to bounce between the written instructions and the video, but I'm pleased that I finally got it!
The cross stitch is of Miwa from Jujutsu Kaisen, which I remain too zoomed in on. The pattern is by DiscoveringArdna on Etsy, and after loading up last week, I still have a lot of her little anime patterns to make!
As for games, I scored a Wii balance board yesterday, which is good in that it allows me to exercise in increasingly outdated and dumb ways! It actually worked a lot better than I thought, though. Walk It Out! is the only game I have for it so far, and once I figured out that the balance board prefers the tile part of my floor to the carpeted part, it worked extremely well. I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes with more traditional fitness games.
I kept flailing at the event that's running in Magical Circle Guru-Guru: Stardust Adventure, too. I do not believe for a second that I am going to get the event-exclusive character, but I am getting a better grip on the game's systems and how they match up to pieces of the G123 games that make more sense to me. Leveling up just seems so much slower than this one in the others, and I can't figure out if it's just nastier about its pay to win bits or just scaled differently.
I also played two extremely bad runs of Balatro. It wasn't bad luck. I was just tired.
September 7th, 2024
I slept well last night, but feel kind of wiped out and disoriented this morning. I don't have much I have to get done today, so I guess that's fine. It would be nice to have a more functional brain, though.
Games-wise, I played a lot of Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku last night, which was a lot of fun. The rhythm game mode is integrated into the daily workouts, which is a nice way to mix things up. I ended up popping back in to play more and more of the rhythm game after my daily workout, though. It was fun!
Other than that, I just had a mobile game day. I did work on the current event in Magical Circle Guru-Guru: Stardust Adventure, but my progress is a little plodding so far. I might switch up my party some and see if that helps at all. My guess, though, is that refusing to pay in an event that seems very pay to win isn't going to work out for me in the end.
I did my weekly run at progress in Merge Pixel, too, and my numbers do seem to be going up at quite an impressive rate.
Today, I have no ambition, but do want to do crafts and play mobile games. I think I'll easily manage to live this extravagant dream.
September 6th, 2024
It's finally Friday, and even though it's been a short work week, I'm looking forward to having it over and done with tonight!
Yesterday, Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku came out in the US, so I was really excited to try it. There's a "Miku Exercise" mode that does a lot to bridge the gap between this as a fitness game series and a proper music game that seems very fun so far! Mostly, though, having more music and trainer options makes it easier to stick with these games and get exercise. It's a bit of a boring conclusion, maybe, but I'm happy for it.
Over in mobile game fluff land, I turned on Magical Circle Guru-Guru: Stardust Adventure last night to see that it's having a proper event. I only scratched the surface of the tasks for it last night, but I'm going to try to tackle it over the next week. It's going to involve copious amounts of level grinding.
I also left King of Prism Sparkling running for a lot of the day, speaking of level grinding. It's taking longer than expected to burn through the resources I've gathered, which is fine by me.
I messed around with Prison Noctis for a decent amount of time, too, meandering through a tile match puzzle before deciding that I'll have an easier time of it if I go grind for gems in the merge mode for a couple of days. This, too, feels like a boring conclusion.
September 5th, 2024
I crashed super hard last night, so I only played mobile games. I continued my quest for ultimate power in King of Prism Sparkling, but past that, was too drowsy to accurately describe what I did during this play session today.
I also ran through a couple batches of free energy in Prison Noctis, trying to get tickets for a Mastermind style fruit sorting game. I didn't get enough to make any headway, and that is fine.
September 4th, 2024
I felt empowered by clearing Catlord last night, so I decided to tackle the free expansion to Super Kiwi 64, Doomsday. I only did one level so far, but it's more Super Kiwi 64, so I enjoyed it. It feels good to control, the level designs are neat, and it's both cute and vaguely unsettling! It looks like this is only two levels, so I'll probably try to finish this tonight.
September 3rd, 2024
I'm trying to cap the amount of new games I start this month at five, so last night, digging through my Switch library, I settled on going back to Catlord, a Switch freebie that seems quite "inspired by" Vampire Survivors. It turns out that last time I played, I was minutes away from becoming powerful enough to clear it, so last night, I unexpectedly polished it off. Once I got the right upgrades, my cat was powerful enough to stand in the middle of stage one and vacuum up cash while I got ready for bed and played mobile games, so I did that, got every upgrade, and beat every boss in all three stages. There was no ending other than my acceptance that it's time to delete this off of my switch.
Other than that, I didn't do much out of the ordinary. I played a few battle stages in Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star, bringing me two stages away from the end on the easiest mode.
I also fussed with my mobile games, spending the most time in Magical Circle Guru-Guru: Stardust Adventure. It was mostly party management stuff, so it wasn't exciting, but I am steadily doing better at some of the levelled trial battle modes.
I played more than my usual in King of Prism Sparkling, too, because that was what I turned on while farming for cash in Catlord, and that whole deal took longer than I imagined it would.
September 2nd, 2024
I only played mobile games yesterday, so this won't be a very good post. Prison Noctis is having a couple of events, so I kept popping back in as my energy refilled to clear merge screens and collect virtual trinkets. It was pointless, and it is narratively disconcerting that my protagonist will put a halt to her attempts to escape wrongful imprisonment for toy stock car races, but we all deal with stress in different ways.
I played way too much of WIXOSS Multiverse, too, mostly because my computer was on, giving me easy access, and because I didn't want to do anything more productive. I got a party member I really liked, a maid aggressively tending to plants, but since she's the lowest rarity, she's probably not very strong. Regardless, I intend to shoehorn her into my party as long as possible.
September 1st, 2024
I'm starting September with big allergies, but equally notable cheer! My first thing for today, I went back and forth about posting, but ultimately decided it would be fun. Right now, I'm trying to make use of the many, many craft supplies I have gathered, so I decided that I wanted to do at least two crafts a week- a cat themed craft and a girl themed craft for ease of sorting. To start, I just did two tiny cross stitches from an Osamu Tezuka pattern book yesterday, making the first cat of the week Jungle Emperor Leo/Kimba the White Lion and the first girl of the week Pinoko from Black Jack! They're little quickie projects for sure, but I'm still really happy with them. It'll be fun to do more!
I didn't play a ton of games yesterday, since I wasn't at home. I played Space Battleship Yamato: Voyagers of Tomorrow on my phone for a little bit, which was a good chance to shut my brain off.
I also did another of the 15-minute exercises in Fitness Boxing: Fist of the North Star in an effort to wake myself up. It didn't work, but I gave it a shot!
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