What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Elevator Hitch (Mac)

February 4th, 2024

Yesterday, my guts were the enemy, but between our battles, I did end up playing a lot of games. I probably spent the most time messing with Fashion Dreamer while I was chatting with a friend. I met my goal in the current event, got a character set up for whatever the next event will be, and actually got a few new NPCs pulled in while I was playing offline mode. Somewhat shockingly, I also reached my next "influencer level" and got a lot of new outfit patterns. It felt like a very productive gaming session, and I'm hoping to finish this in-game event today or tomorrow.

In the afternoon, I think that I figured out what I needed to be doing for a good ending in Elevator Hitch, but the game started crashing on startup when I was set on trial-and-erroring through it. It wasn't my favorite gaming moment, but I'm sure it'll be fine the next time I decide to play.

While my crock pot dinner finished cooking, I played Yakuza 0 for a while, too, and got back onto the story track. Even though I did do a couple of sidequests, most of my playtime was spent rushing from convenience store to convenience store to fulfill very specific liquor orders from the game's homeless community. I'm still not done with it, but I'll get that quest easily knocked out in my next play session.

January 30th, 2024

This is a super late post, but I'm feeling super down today. I got home from work and didn't even have enough energy to eat for a couple hours, which hasn't happened for a while, but at 9 or so I got enough pep to microwave some Bibigo dumplings and eat something. I'm still kind of blah, but posting here has already started to give me a little more energy.

Yesterday, I was having a weird game day. One of my work friends lent me a copy of Panzer Dragoon today, which I knew was happening in advance, so I thought it would be funny to play Panzer Dragoon Mini, the Game Gear entry in the series, as "preparation." I still think that, in concept, it's a little funny, but it's such a boring little game! I got through two levels and felt somewhat crushed that I was only a third of the way through. Usually I can find something to like in most games, and I do think the digitized sprites in this are charming, but it was not very fun. Anyway, I'll almost definitely play it again out of misguided determination.

The other game I played yesterday, Elevator Hitch, was more engaging. I've gotten a bad computer-usability issue sorted, so I went to itch.io and downloaded a few visual novels to play through. This one is about guys on an elevator that's not taking them anywhere good, and I got them horribly killed a few times last night. The little word doc I'm keeping says I got four endings, and if I can't get up enough enthusiasm to do anything else tonight, I'll probably try for at least one more ending in this.

I am done posting, and am going to try to cheer up enough to sit on the floor buried in cute fleece blankets to try playing real Panzer Dragoon. If I can't, though, that will be ok!