What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

G-Mode Archives 06: Shijou Saikyou Miyamoto Julia (Switch)

March 17th, 2026

Today was exhausting, so I am making a very simple post that'll give me more work tomorrow. It'll balance out just fine.

My co-worker and I finished A Way Out last night, which was a blast. The last couple hours were wild, and pretty surprising, too. I was really impressed by a chase sequence that bounced back and forth between both players, though. It was well edited and choreographed, and had me so caught up in the gameplay and story that it wasn't until later I reflected on how hard it must be to make gameplay like that feel natural and fun. Playing an entire story-heavy game in co-op seemed like it could be gimmicky, but it didn't end up going that way at all.

I needed a new idle game to play to numb some stress, so I started Dig Deep, one of my many 20 cent Switch games. It's kind of like an interactive screensaver where you tell people to dig holes, but that was kind of what I needed yesterday.

For my RPG time, I spent some time with Shijou Saikyou Miyamoto Julia, but didn't get very far. I got bogged down by some cutscenes because my Japanese is exceedingly poor. Playing through one mission isn't nothing, though, and I'll get better with kanji the more I read!

March 15th, 2026

Yesterday, I was having a fun, but unfocused day. That led to my having RPG time too late to do the next dungeon in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team, so I redownloaded a game I'd bought years ago, G-Mode Archives 06: Shijou Saikyou Miyamoto Julia. This is a Switch port of an old Japanese phone RPG, more like Zenonia and the other stuff I used to play on iPod Touch rather than a traditional JRPG. I'll have gameplay screenshots later, since this has short missions and is good for less focused RPG time. I bought this because it was stylish, though, so last night I was snapping screenshots of the neat menu screens.

I also tried Franky, Joe & Dirk: On the Tiles, a baffling Game Boy slide puzzle game with some Dragon's Lair art in it. This dropped me into a rabbit hole trying to figure out how to solve slide puzzles, which made me feel really dumb! At least it's not sokoban.

In the morning and afternoon, I played quite a bit of Buddy and Lucky Solitaire, but forgot to get a screenshot. It is solitaire, so cute as it is, I don't feel the worst about this.