What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

King of Fighters XIII: Global Match (Switch)

April 7th, 2024

It's the start of a new week, and I want to get back on top of things. Lately, I've been killin' it with crafts- I finger knit an entire bedspread sized blanket yesterday- but am way down on reading and studying, instead choosing to just kind of space out. I need to figure out how to do goal setting that doesn't involve eviscerating myself and then getting upset when I fail at goals no one else is even aware I had. It's doable, I'm sure of it!

Yesterday was fun, though. One of my brothers gave me some cans of King of Fighters '97 soda, which struck me as very funny. It also got me thinking about the series enough to turn on King of Fighters XIII: Global Match and start up the story mode. I'm not super competitive, so I appreciate a nice story mode in a fighting game. This one isn't bad, but I never finished it back in the XBox 360 days, when KOF XIII was originally out. It'll be fun to see more.

I kept on my grind with Lil Monster, too, and got some vaguely mysterious story bits in last night's session. I selected a map spot at the top of a mountain where, with some briefly stated distress, my monster had to fight a clone of itself. The background fog then cleared, I got a piece of a gem for my trouble, and nothing else was said. The bare bones nature of this game makes everything that happens feel super enigmatic, and it kind of rules.

December 10th, 2023

I'm still moving towards feeling better than I did Friday, which is nice. Yesterday, I played Fashion Dreamer for a few minutes right after posting here. I just made a few outfits for other players and NPCs, so it was brief and low impact.

Way later, I played a round of survival mode in King of Fighters XIII: Global Match, too. I used to have KOF XIII on XBox 360, and jumped back in here, years later, with way more retained skill than I'd expected.

Today might not be a big game day again. I'm feeling crafty, want to do some reading, and am going to go see The Boy and the Heron tonight. It should be a calm day.