What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Bleach: Soul Puzzle (Android)

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 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 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.