What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Kirby Air Riders (Switch 2)

November 28th, 2025

I didn't really do a ton of gaming yesterday, but I was excited to start the just-released Picross S: SNK Classics & Neo Geo Editon. It's just a picross game with a lot more King of Fighters content than usual, and that's exactly what I wanted. I'm very happy with this so far.

I enjoyed some in-person multiplayer in Kirby Air Riders, too. City Trial makes me kind of motion sick, so I didn't play a ton, but it was still a nice time!

November 27th, 2025

I'm posting today while I boil up some cranberry sauce for a placeholder Thanksgiving ahead of a weekend snowstorm. I hope the snow fizzles out, but if it doesn't, it'll be some nice time off work anyway!

Last night, I got very amused that I had access to Silly Bandz for the DS and ended up playing it. I am maybe a bit too old to have been in on this trend, but I had some younger siblings that were and it seemed fun! Bright colors are fun, and it's cool for kids to have a cheerful, goofy fashion trend. The game is just if Angry Birds was really incompetent and only had 40 levels, of which I finished 39 last night. There's a lot of weird issues in this with the physics feeling off, or surfaces being sticky when they shouldn't be, so bad coding really brings down what could be a slight, but bright and kitchy game. I've gotta clear the last stage, though, as it is driving me crazy, so this game will appear here again.

I also played Kirby Air Riders for a while because I wanted to play something better. The top down races are super fun, so I played those online for a little bit! My skills are not really up to snuff for online competition, but I was having an excellent time. (This screenshot is from me messing around in training mode, though.)

November 23rd, 2025

I was really locked into Mario Kart World yesterday, so I unlocked a bunch of outfits and ran some grand prix and knockout tour races. I don't really think this is a super exciting game, but it's pleasant to play. Since I was slightly fried, it was nice to zip around in this.

Before bed, I clicked on the wrong game and ended up playing a few rounds of Kirby Air Riders out of indifference. It was still fun! I was just slightly too sleepy to care what I was doing.

November 22nd, 2025

I played as many games yesterday as on Thursday, but it feels much less egregious to write about. I played through a full non-bootleg game on one of my cute Famicom-on-a-chip systems, called Angel. It was only 10 or so minutes long, so I don't feel very accomplished, but it was amusing. It was the classic story of an angel throwing candy, booze, and drugs that speed you up at a mummy, who then must catch all this while avoiding the angel's lightning bolts. The angel seems super rude, honestly, but this did make me wonder more about what madness lies in the "original" games on these systems.

I was back at Paper Apps: Labyrinth again, and hit the game's halfway point! My dice rolls were super unlucky yesterday, so I'm having trouble saving up the gold for a weapons upgrade. I keep dying and losing piles of gold! I'm still having fun, but the final boss might be a bit tedious for me.

I tried a free idle game on Steam called Ani Idle, which is not much of an idle game so far. I don't want my character to die, so I have to be somewhat on top of getting her out of fight loops to rest. It's maybe somewhere between a clicker and a normal RPG.

Past that, I was just doing some driving on my Switch 2. I started Road Trip mode in Kirby Air Riders, which was really fast moving and fantastic! I had a great time zipping through the first set of challenges.

I kept going in Mario Kart World, too, and also had a lovely time there. Right now, I'm focusing in on unlocking all the character outfits, so my updates in this might be a bit uneventful for a while.

November 21st, 2025

I have no zip today and regret the amount of games I played yesterday. For a lot of the day, I let a very cute tower defense clicker called Slimeow Game run on my tablet. It runs in browsers, so you can click to play it here! I lost my first couple of runs, but I took things slowly and carefully and cleared it on my third. It was really pleasant, and the graphics were cute. I'm glad I stumbled across this!

I played a little more than I have been of Final Fantasy VII, too. I finally met Aerith, who seems lovely. I hope nothing tragic or catastrophic happens to her!

Other than that, I was in games for five to ten minutes. I got and tried Kirby Air Riders, which was fun, but also crashed! I don't know if I've had a console game crash for over a year, so I was pretty surprised by that, especially in such a big release.

After that, I wandered around Fortnite islands trying to find a Vampire Survivors knockoff until I got bored and wandered off to do something else.

I also kept playing Mario Kart World before bed. It remains perfect for this purpose.