What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Dragon Warrior II (Game Boy Color port, Miyoo Mini+)

November 11th, 2023

I'm still super tired today, and a little disappointed in myself in that I skipped out on crafts entirely and fell way behind on reading this week. I'm hoping for a relaxing weekend where I can regain ground on both fronts. I'm thinking of starting a big game today, too, but don't know if I'm actually awake enough for it.

As for yesterday, I picked Dragon Warrior II back up and got my second party member. That was about it, though I did wander around to level him up a bit. I'm going for my third and final party member here soon!

I played some more of Fashion Dreamer, too, steadily increasing my designer level. I'll definitely play this a bit more today, even if it is just to use up the bingo tickets I've earned over the past few days.

November 4th, 2023

Yesterday I, as the adult sophisticate that I am, got in my preorder of Fashion Dreamer. I played it for maybe between an hour and a half and two hours yesterday, and am not super sure what to make of it yet. It might just be that I've played too many of their other games, but it feels like a lot of stuff from the developer's past games jammed together so far- the "please make me an outfit!" gameplay loop from Style Savvy, the followers system from Kiratto Pri*Chan, and the outfit design systems from some of the 3DS entries in the Pretty Rhythm and PriPara games- but I'm not sure if I care or not yet. So far, it feels a little flimsy without the inventory management aspects of Style Savvy in place, but it looks like there's some sort of progression inherent to the online world setting in single player mode, so I'm still curious to see what comes next.

I played Dragon Warrior II a little more, too, but stopped to go to sleep while it had me running around in circles to find my second party member. I'll probably go back and find him today, but the "woah, too bad you came all the way back to your castle, we told the prince you were at *his* castle, so he went home!" vibes did me in last night.

November 2nd, 2023

I'm keeping November off to a rip roarin' start here with more stories of my adventures in Dragon Warrior II. Last night, I carefully approached the cave I'd gotten destroyed in the night before, levelling up, getting the new armor and weapon, and still having quite a bit of difficulty with it. Finally, I got to the final spot in the cave, with all my items used and a sliver of HP, and realized I was in the wrong place.

From there, I took the key item from the cave, got killed in a random battle, and then figured out where I was actually supposed to go and buzzed through that cave, now delightfully overlevelled for the situation. Nothing adds difficulty to an RPG more consistently than being a dingbat does.

November 1st, 2023

It's the first post of a new month, but I'm still really struggling badly with tiredness, so it's not going to be a great post for the occassion. I'm still playing Dragon Warrior II, and tried to make my way to a cave to get my second party member last night. Once I got there, though, I got absolutely wrecked by random encounters and scurried back to level up for a few minutes. I might buy a new weapon and armor before I give it another go, too, just to mop the floor with the random battle monsters, but I haven't decided yet.

October 31st, 2023

Happy Halloween! I had trouble getting out of bed again, so this is an ultra quick post. I played Dragon Warrior II for about 15 minutes last night before falling asleep. It was a rip-roarin' time.

October 24th, 2023

My energy is super low today, but I started playing Dragon Warrior II last night. I'll talk more in detail about it later for sure.