What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

The Gladiator (Switch)

April 12th, 2025

Last night, I wanted to try to clear a beat-em-up, so I turned on The Gladiator in the IGS Arcade Collection, a set of Taiwanese arcade ports for Switch. It's a bothersome game collection, with bad sound and game screenshots blocked, but I liked the game anyway. It had cool sprite art, good character variety, some fun boss battle dialogue exchanges, and nice combat, too. I decided I wanted to take a little more time with it, so I set it aside after two levels and will go back to it when I have a decent chunk of time.

I did some more Mega Picross puzzles in Kemono Friends Picross, too. I'm starting to get the hang of the "this number stretches two rows or columns" patterns, which makes me feel smarter than it should.