What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Evangelion: Shin Gekijoban 3nd Impact (PSP)

March 12th, 2024

Today, I have allergy itching so bad I don't feel like I can think straight, so this won't be a very long post. I played another four stages of Evangelion: Shin Gekijoban 3nd Impact, though. I didn't hit any new gameplay types last night, so better appreciated what the game was doing in terms of using different playstyles to reflect characters' interior states and the tension of battles. This is better than I expected it to be.

I played a run of Balatro, too, tragically losing in ante five when I played a hand I'd meant to discard. I was trying to play a deck optimized for hands three cards and lower, but didn't feel like I was having a ton of luck with it. Even if I hadn't blown things by hitting the wrong button, I think I would have lost soon after.

March 11th, 2024

I was super wiped out yesterday, so I did crafts while watching movies and the Oscars rather than playing many games. After that was over, I was really tired. I did play games for a few minutes, though. Since I'm going to go to one of the theater shows of End of Evangelion next weekend, I felt like it would be fun to play Evangelion: Shin Gekijoban 3nd Impact (pronounced "sound impact") this week. It's a rhythm game from Grasshopper Manufacture, jumping off from the Rebuild movies, and it tries to do a lot with the standard rhythm game setup. So far, I've done four stages, all with totally different playstyles, and all of them felt pretty intuitive. I'm gonna get wrecked when the difficulty picks up, but it's really enjoyable so far.

After playing that for around 20 minutes, I didn't want to do anything other than go to bed, so I did.