What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Lil' Monster (Miyoo Mini+)

April 15th, 2024

Trouble sleeping and unjustified stress were bothering me yesterday, so I didn't accomplish much. Before bed, I played Lil Monster for a while and had some game mechanic breakthroughs. First, every time you reclear a league, you get the same prize, so I'll be able to spam the C League to get the double-powered attack gem until I max it out in my deck. Second, your character's affection stat controls its speed in battle, meaning that if it's at 100%, you can sometimes attack three times for every turn the opponent gets. Neither of these facts makes the game less grindy, but they do let me target my grind a bit better.

I also built this little not-lego bookstore that strikes me as fine, I guess. The street lamp out front has a charming, old fashioned look, but I felt like this one maybe had too many stickers.

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.

April 6th, 2024

It took hours of level grinding, but I cleared the lowest level set of arena matches in Lil Monster last night. From here, I think my next step is going to be more grinding, across the same single screens where I summon my own opponents. This game is pretty tedious, and I really went off on it last night. Plus, I lost a couple of story battles in random spots and can't get them back to try again! I'm weirdly determined to press on, though, in part because my monster friend is an excellent little cat. For today, I think I have a way to stack my attack deck with some better moves ahead of the next tournament. It just takes more grinding.

I also built another little off-brand Lego flower, but this one kind of sucked to snap together! I like the color, but I don't feel like the pieces connected well. It wasn't too bad, though, and it's cute.

April 5th, 2024

I'm doing a quick post during a break from work today because Target pharmacy lost my insurance information and trying to avoid paying 100+ dollars for a prescription made things too eventful this morning! Everything worked out, and the pharmacy staff was super nice, but it did not take away from my general feeling that I'm not doing so hot lately.

Last night, though, I built a cute little flowerpot off-brand Lego to try to relax. This one was almost definitely from AliExpress, and I'm super fond of it! It was easy, but still looks decently impressive.

I kept playing Lil Monster, too, but only did level grinding and some experiments with monster summoning. Tonight, I'm hoping to get levelled enough to win the C League at the battle arena.

April 4th, 2024

Being awake is too hard, so today's post'll be short due to my failures to get out of bed. Last night, though, I was working on making a blanket and became fixated on the idea of figuring out Lil' Monster, a Game Boy Color game my family had gotten cheaply out of a bin at Wal-Mart and then totally failed to decipher. It is a somewhat confusing game, but in an hour last night, I got further than I'd ever been in it. I'm disappointed that I have to work instead of level grinding in this today.