What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

ImageStriker (Lenovo Legion Go)

July 16th, 2025

I'm late posting tonight because I don't actually want to post tonight. It's not so bad, though! I got a lot of sleep catch up last night, and I'll do well tonight, too.

Last night, I thought I'd stay up too long if I played Deathsmiles, so I played Image Striker instead. I really like this game, but the difficulty spike at stage 5 is crazy! Dodging the wall is harder than it sounds. This game also crashes every time I get a game over, which is a bit discouraging.

I played a little bit of the retro tables in Zaccaria Pinball, but only for a few rounds.

After that, I pulled out the "time to go to sleep" big guns, played three rounds of Vampire Survivors on quick play, and slept for 8 hours straight. It was great and I am absolutely starting here tonight.

March 4th, 2025

I'm super sleepy tonight, and am posting after some classic coming-home-and-spacing-out. Luckily, my gaming wasn't very wild yesterday. I tried a free Steam shmup before bed, called ImageStriker. It's from the same developer as Raging Blasters, Terarin, and there definitely are similarities. It was very enjoyable, too. I kind of got wrecked in stage 5 last night, since I was having trouble not ramming my ship into walls. It was fun, though! I'll be happy to play more of it.

Other than that, I just kept up with the stuff I've been playing. I put another half hour into Lost Grimoires, in which I rescued a king and seemed to launch him out of a hole in the ground in a minecart. I'm curious to see how tonight's play session goes.

I also did another Super Smash Bros Ultimate playthrough last night, clearing classic mode as Samus. She's an excellent character, and probably one of my favorites in the series. My true excitement, however, came from unlocking Incineroar, a weird and large cat Pokemon! Incineroar isn't even close to the best cat Pokemon, but I'm still pleased to have any sort of cat in Smash Bros. I'm not sure if I forgot it was there, or if I just never knew. Still, a cat is a cat.