What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Cat Slide Tiles (Lenovo Legion Go)

April 20th, 2025

Yesterday, I played 10 different games, which was fun while I was in it, but a little daunting now. I'm just gonna go in order, though, and start with my morning coffee over cat finding games. I started the day with Cat Search in the Wild West, which was a cut above a lot of the hidden cat games I've been playing. Most of them were just hidden with color tricks, but that was fine, and made it a little more challenging. There were also humans around in a town with cat wanted posters, and I wanted to know how the cats managed to disrupt human law and order to such an extent that this measure became necessary.

After that, I played 100 Waiting Cats, which was not super standout in any way. It was cute, and I got to find cats, but there was nothing particularly good or terrible about it.

My last game of the morning was Cat Slide Tiles, a little path building puzzle with controls that were driving me crazy. It's cute, and I played 15 of 80 levels, I think, but the touch screen tile sliding was super finicky! I will come back to this, as the puzzles are decent, but the controls make it a lot less fun.

After a small period of productivity, I picked up a cheap lunch from Taco Bell and booted Metro Quester back up. I quit this game in frustration about six months ago, feeling like I was backed into a corner with a build that couldn't beat the final boss. I just started over rather than trying to rebuild my whole party in the game's last stretch. Since I understand the game's systems better now, it's going to be a much less daunting journey, and I'm going to be more careful about what items I get, too! It's still fun, and I am going to beat it this time.

My allergies were bad and I was feeling a spot tired, so I played Rabio Lepus Plus at random on my Miyoo Mini+ before taking a longer-than-intended nap. It was challenging, but I had a lil' bunny ship and it could get a bow for its ear as a power-up! I didn't get past stage 1 yesterday, but I can see coming back to this when I'm feeling slightly less miserable.

While I had Metro Quester back on, I picked Ensemble Stars Music back up, too. The rhythm game is still fun, but sadly, I have forgotten how this game works and who the vast majority of these characters are. That won't really stop me, but it was a spot weird to consider how long it had really been since I last played, towards the start of this blog. It's cool to play this on a tablet that can handle the stage animations, either way.

After dinner, when I intended to post here, I played Luck Be A Landlord for hours. I cleared a few floors of the apartment building, and got the in-game info that if I clear any floor six times, I'll get a new item type to use, which'll be my new mission in this. It was really excessive, though! My play session in this is maybe my only actual regret from yesterday's gaming marathon. My ability to moderate was broken.

From there, I got some stuff done before hitting my final patch of gaming for the night. That kicked off with the Atari 2600 port of Astroblast, which I'd never played before and am awful at! I started to get the hang of the paddle control sensitivity and the game as a whole after 30 minutes or so, but I think it'll take me quite a lot of time to get even okay at this. That is totally fine, but I was a little shocked by how awful I was at it.

I bounced over to Switch after that, and was enough in a mobile rhythm game headspace from Ensemble Stars to try Hypnosis Mic Alternative Rap Battle: First Period. It's flat out just a Switch port of the mobile game, with event stories and 73 songs if my late night counting was correct, which is great! I think more mobile games should have ports like this, even if they are low effort cash-ins, for preservation's sake. I can't wait to put 500 hours into this nonsense without worrying about paying into the gacha or anything.

Finally, I did a few more puzzles in Kemono Friends Picross before passing out at the end of my day at excess gaming. It was an appropriate end to things.