What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Idol Land PriPara (iOS)

September 3rd, 2023

I'm good today, but my focus is still super poor, so this won't be a very long post. Super Mario Odyssey was my main game again yesterday, as I got set on grabbing another five moons. Some of the gameplay tricks, even this early in the game, were pretty clever. I swore profusely while trying to pull it off, but there was a little dungeon where you have to see and then memorize the positions of invisble platforms that was really neat. To balance that, there were also a couple of immensely low effort moons to grab, with one being as simple as "the ground is glowing, ground pound it!" I'm still enjoying this quite a lot.

I went back into Idol Land Pripara again, too, and though I was able to do a lot of in-game shopping, I found myself really frustrated by the load times again. Even though it's a free app, and one for a franchise I really like, I'm pretty out of patience with it.

Today is a somewhat strange day, so I don't know what I will or won't play. Either way, though, I'll be back tomorrow.

August 29th, 2023

I can't catch a break! My glasses broke last night, so today I have the lens patched back into the frame with craft adhesive and am being extremely careful so that I can make it through my office day. Whatever my thoughts are about my work, I owe much of my success to my eyesight, so keeping my glasses intact for one more day is crucial. I shoved my glue pen in my office bag for good measure.

Because I was havin' problems last night, I just played Idol Land PriPara for a little bit yesterday. I wanted to buy the current limited coord, available with in game currency, but every time I tried I got an error code and was booted out of the game. It doesn't seem like a problem that'll build goodwill, but I wasn't super bothered by it.

I feel distressed about my glasses situation, but am going to see if I can get some mercy to come in a few minutes late in an attempt to get new glasses tomorrow. Please wish me luck!

August 27th, 2023

My energy is extremely low today, and even though I've been up for a while, I keep trying to procrastinate at doing this post. That's okay, though. My only plan for the day is to take a small trip for a movie quite a lot later, so I don't have to worry about much.

I got back into Idol Land PriPara yesterday and was pleasantly surprised that I could get some decent coords for my character without paying real money. The load times for everything were still atrocious, but a little lower than they had been on Friday. This is still more of a curiosity than anything for me.

I went back to the sticker book in Disney Tsum Tsum, too, and actually had a decent time playing. I want to clear the second card today. Rumor has it I've already been playing this when I should have been writing this post instead, but I'm not sure that can be substantiated easily.

I made another Pokemon model kit while I was talking to a friend last night, too. Lugia was today's choice, and even though I'm decently happy with the end result, I don't feel like the pieces snapped together as well as they should have with this kit. It was kind of irritating.

August 26th, 2023

Yesterday was somewhat worse than I predicted, but that's okay, it was payday. This morning, I've already been to Dollar Tree and paid my bills, so I'm now free and clear to be a bum for the next two days.

I didn't play games much yesterday, but because my focus was awful, this'll still be a decent post. I managed to get into Idol Land PriPara yesterday, a new mobile version of discontinued Japanese arcade game PriPara that has had a... troubled, I guess would be fair to say, launch. Right now, there's kind of a queue to get in, so I've been opening the app every once in a while to see if I can make it work. Yesterday, I did, and while it looks like the pay to pay mechanics might be way less brutal than I expected, the two load times it took to get into one stage exceeded 15 minutes. It ran ok once I got in, but I'd never really seen that in a mobile game before. I'm curious to see how long it takes this to get up and running nicely.

In other mobile games, I briefly toyed with the end of the month Sticker Book event in Disney Tsum Tsum. It's nothing special, but it was an okay distraction to kill a few minutes after work.

I also put a couple more levels into Endless Mode in Bejeweled 2, getting me to 21 of 280 levels cleared for the achievement. It's a good time waster, but a futile feeling goal.