What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Archlion Saga (Switch)

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.