What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Killer Instinct Gold (Switch 2)

October 20th, 2025

Yesterday, I spent a lot of the evening engaged in normal gaming, eating baked pears and worrying that I was being a little loud with a Tears for Fears playlist as I played the Atari 7800 version of 2048. The vibes were perfect, but I kept getting frustratingly close to the 2048 tile and cluttering up my whole screen with 2 and 4 tiles. I can't decide if this version of the game only generating 2s makes it easier or harder, but it was definitely a feature I cursed last night.

Other than that, I was in kind of a fighting game mood yesterday, so I zipped through some arcade modes in Soul Calibur 2. Xianghua went first, since my main is not yet unlocked, and that was fine.

I played as Talim a lot back when this was new, so she got the second playthrough. Her pink alternate outfit is very cute and magical-girl-ish, so I'm disappointed I didn't get a better screenshot of it. I'm sure I'll use her in weapon master mode, though.

Link went last for the day, and was probably the hardest of my three playthroughs. I'll need to get a little better with him, as I kept accidentally cancelling out my bomb throws and doing nonsense like that. He's not bad. I'm just not as used to playing as him.

After all that, I tried Killer Instinct Gold on Switch Online and got spectacularly decimated by the AI. I was somewhat persistent with it, and managed to get slightly better, but save stated my arcade run to come back later. I should be able to make headway with this game, once I better figure out how all the combo stuff works. It just didn't click with me yet yesterday.

Finally, I also played some Vampire Survivors, managing 8 or 9 unlocks and getting some new characters with them. I cleared the final bosses in the Contra and Among Us DLC stages, both of which were pretty impressive. It felt like I made some real progress!