What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Buffet Boss (Switch)

April 23rd, 2025

I'm a bit stuck in a loop with games right now. Shmups have really been helping me with my anxiety when I actually play them. It's hard to worry about work, or housing, or health when I am trying not to let my little ship/airplane/psychic teenager get hit by one of a hundred brightly colored projectiles on screen, and I need that sometimes. Plus, G-Mode Archives+: Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi DX has really nice music. Counterintuitively, I've been finding it very soothing to try to get good at this game.

Buffet Boss, for what it's worth, just kind of puts me to sleep, but that's fine, too. My bigger concern here than the tedium is that it'll end too fast and I'll have to find another game that knocks me out this fast.

April 22nd, 2025

Last night, I took a wonderous journey through all of what gaming has to offer. In 100 Istanbul Cats, I found 100 cats.

Then, in G-Mode Archives+: Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi DX, I died thrice in some harrowing, but sparkling and aesthetically pleasing aircraft battles.

Finally, in Buffet Boss, I carried a lot of buckets of fried chicken at once, certainly more than I can in real life. Gaming is magic.

April 21st, 2025

My allergies are a challenge tonight, so this'll be a pretty quick post tonight. I played Where Rabbits in honor of Easter, but despite being a rabbit finding game, it featured a rather fantastic cat. The art in this particular series of Steam hidden animal cheapies is always super cute, though, and this was no exception.

I tried out Valis II and, though it's tricky, am enjoying it so far. The version I have on my Switch is a port of the PC Engine version, which isn't a system I'm super familiar with. The cutscenes are neat, though! Plus, it's a big innovation to make a game about a young woman who is forced to jump a lot when she's objectively terrible at jumping. I'm sure it's a metaphor and not just the game being slightly janky.

I also burned more time with Luck Be A Landlord, which is the number one obstacle in the way of my productivity.

Before going to sleep, I played one of the weird stick figure guy mobile ports that cost 20 cents on Switch, Buffet Boss. It was mindless, but soothing.

I played Ensemble Stars!! Music for a little bit, too, though that was earlier in the day. I'm too sleepy to rearrange the post now, though, so it's stuck at the end of everything.