What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light (Switch)

September 28th, 2025

Nothing I try to do is quite working today, so I had to fight general frustration to get myself to post. I just want to go to bed, but that's probably a bad choice before dinner.

Last night, I spent my RPG hour with Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Sword of Light, which was fine. I don't know if it'll make my rotation right now. I feel like I accidentally killed too many potential party members, just by not really knowing how things worked, and like I should restart the whole thing. It's not bad, but I wasn't having much fun, either.

Earlier in the day, I picked Hidden Shape: Lovely Cats back up and powered through to what I thought was the end. I then found out I was only halfway through to a small amount of distress. This isn't difficult or bad, just a little boring, so I'll chip away at it a little at a time.

On the same note, I did a couple of the hard puzzles in Zodiacats, too. I'm even less excited to finish this off, so I do not know if I'll work on it very steadily.

July 14th, 2022

Last night, I mostly watched TV and tried to recover some of my old PSP games from backup. It worked in some cases, failed in others, and the old laptop I had MediaGo on smelled unpleasantly of popcorn.

After all of the PSP effort, though, I ended up grabbing my Switch and starting in on Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light. Limited time gimmick sales aside, it's so cool that we can get new translations of Famicom games in the 2020s. As neat as playing this is, though, I did a really awful job last night! I ended up dodging out of Chapter 1 after confidently organizing my party, ending my turn, and then realizing just as the enemy moved that my pegasus knight was about to get absolutely slaughtered by an archer. Alas! It'll be easy enough to avoid when I try again, though.

As for mobile games, I was lazy in Ensemble Stars again, making it through a pretty minimal amount of daily goals, even as I buzz through the outfit collecting event.

My Pikmin remain cute and good. I'll have a bit more to say about Pikmin Bloom tomorrow, and think I might try the 10k steps community event on Sunday.