What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Ninja JaJaMaru: The Ninja Skill Book (Switch)

January 5th, 2024

I was tired yesterday, so I spent about ten minutes playing Ninja JaJaMaru: The Ninja Skill Book. It's not nothing!

January 4th, 2024

I went to bed early last night because I had a morning blood test, but then panicked about needing to sleep well to get up early and only slept three hours. I should have posted here sooner, but I went back to bed after the appointment and failed to sleep for another two hours. Now, with a latte in hand and my laptop open, I am forced to tackle the day.

There's not a lot to say about my video game time yesterday, though. I played Ninja JaJaMaru: The Ninja Skill Book for about twenty minutes and went to bed once I got to a new town.

January 2nd, 2024

My time management was poor this morning, so this is going to be a short post. I kept going for another hour in Ninja JaJaMaru: The Ninja Skill Book, and learned a spell to turn enemies into riceballs. This is my new favorite RPG status effect.

I played five credits in Time Gal yesterday, and did a lot better than I expected. It's an enjoyable grind so far.

In the interest of clearing games, I also went back to Planetarian, since there's no easier clear than a visual novel with no choices to be made. It's interesting, but I'm still not totally sure what I think of it.

January 1st, 2024

Happy New Year, everyone! I'm excited to be doing my first post of the year, and I have some very arbitrary gaming goals for 2024. My plan is to beat one game a month in each of the following categories: RPG, Game Pass, and Other Stuff. The key to pulling this off, I think, is going to be trying for a better attention span when I start a game and cleaning up my backlog of enjoyable games I started and abandoned. I'm not sure I'll make it, but it'll be fun to try! (I'm also going to try for watching 100 movies, which I did manage last year, and reading 100 novels, both of which should be easier.)

Even though I'll be doing some dropped game cleanup, I wanted to start the year with an RPG I thought might be short, just to get off on the right foot. Naturally, I went with Ninja JaJaMaru: The Ninja Skill Book, a newly localized Famicom RPG I picked up in a Switch eShop sale. It seems like a pretty blatant Dragon Quest ripoff so far, but I'm not so bothered by that. I'm curious to see how this one goes!

I played another 3 continues in Time Gal, too, and am enjoying getting better at the game bit by bit. After getting the same opening scene a few times in a row, I was surprised to see that it was actually randomized, but that's not much of a hurdle.

I also built another not-Lego building, which was intended to be a Pepsi store. It didn't come with any decals, though, so I slapped on some Urusei Yatsura stickers my friend sent me and rebranded it as the Lum store. I don't know what the purpose of it is, but clearly, it's the cornerstone of this somewhat shady community.