What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

April 2025

April 3rd, 2025

I was too sleepy for much gaming yesterday, but I did play a little bit of Fire Emblem Heroes. I come back to this mobile game every few years, but upon this return, I'd totally forgotten how to play! Luckily, it gave me a returning player sort of questline, with some five-star characters to balance the power creep that had gone on while I was gone. I am not proud, so I will do the beginner-style quests to get my bearings again.

April 2nd, 2025

Today is my birthday, and I am very sleepy because of wind and storms keeping me awake last night. I stalled out on this as long as possible so I could zone out for a bit. Last night, though, I just played Dragon Cliff, an idle-ish RPG I'd gotten cheaply in a sale. I'm starting to get the hang of this and have a nice time. If I continue playing it once every other month, I should have it done in a few years!

April 1st, 2025

Today got off to a weird start! I've been having weird dreams lately, so I was looking at my Neocities feed this morning and saw "this website," but with a different screenshot on it. My first thought was, "Oh, I played this in a dream where I go to a weird abandoned shopping mall and I'm not awake yet, but I'm in a different dream-zone. Got it!" I then clicked on it and it was Skep's website, so I realized it was probably not a dream, but did briefly assume it was an early "birthday prank," the normal thing everyone does and that I'm certainly experiencing annually. I realized it was an April Fools Day joke pretty fast from there, but it was a longer journey than it needed to be.

Aside from my being impressed that it was a pretty detailed and personalized match to this site, screenshotted below for posterity, I can't say enough nice stuff about Skep's site, which you can visit by clicking on these words! It's one of my favorite sites on here, and has a lot on offer: classic Chinese literature, pasta sauce, lizard noir, booze, and more! I can't recommend the site strongly enough, especially the fantastic in progress Romance of the Three Kingdoms piece.

Anyway, it was cool, and I was excited.

My gaming last night was not so exciting. I got really tired and decided that it would be a good idea to see if I could 20cc, or 20 credit clear, Space Harrier. I couldn't, as I am terrible at Space Harrier, but I did have a lot of fun. Tonight is the final night of Astro City Mini week for me, and I'll probably just give this another shot. I hit level 14 last night, so it would be nice to at least match that tonight.

I also tried Power Rangers: Dino Thunder for Game Boy Advance on my Miyoo Mini+ because I was in a weird rabbit hole after watching some Kamen Rider on Sunday. It's not very good, but it's also excellent. It's a mediocre beat-em-up/platformer where a guy tells you to believe in yourself over and over and then you can spam summon a dinosaur mech to kill everything on screen ten times straight. I didn't play this for a massive amount of time, but I felt I was truly gaming.

Before bed, I played some more of Kemono Friends Picross, but it's picross, so for today, I have no real notes on it. I clicked on some boxes and made some little pictures of anime girls.