What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Love Rebirth (Android)

January 2nd, 2025

I'm still under the weather today, and having some internet issues, too, so this is kind of a late post. I've slept a lot so far today! Yesterday, though, I played the first cat game of the year, 100 New Year Cats. Disappointingly, the title is a lie and this just featured more Christmas cats. For a "find 100 cats" game, though, this was fine. Being able to switch between color and lineart for the image was nice, helping me find the full set of cats pretty quickly. It was on the easier side for one of these, but not as low-effort as some have been. It got 2025's cat games off to an ok start.

I was pretty happy that even not feeling well, I managed 30 minutes in fitness video games last night. Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku was a bit much for me yesterday, but I managed 6 or 7 minutes before giving up.

I got the rest of my half hour done in the more easygoing Walk It Out on Wii, which only required me to walk in place. I tried to unlock a lot of music along the path last night, but want to try to find and unlock some of the time change options tonight. Since it's linked to real time and I tend to exercise at night, I don't get this game's island in the virtual sunlight that often! It'll be nice when I can.

Other than that, I just played mobile games. I cleared the map event I was working on in Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade and pulled the limited SSR that goes with the event with a free ticket. My gacha luck is so good in this that it makes me worry I will face a bad luck reckoning in a part of my life that actually matters.

I zoned out a lot with Love Rebirth, too, moving the story forward very incrementally while matching tons of stuff. It made for perfect head cold gaming.

January 2nd, 2025

I'm still under the weather today, and having some internet issues, too, so this is kind of a late post. I've slept a lot so far today! Yesterday, though, I played the first cat game of the year, 100 New Year Cats. Disappointingly, the title is a lie and this just featured more Christmas cats. For a "find 100 cats" game, though, this was fine. Being able to switch between color and lineart for the image was nice, helping me find the full set of cats pretty quickly. It was on the easier side for one of these, but not as low-effort as some have been. It got 2025's cat games off to an ok start.

I was pretty happy that even not feeling well, I managed 30 minutes in fitness video games last night. Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku was a bit much for me yesterday, but I managed 6 or 7 minutes before giving up.

I got the rest of my half hour done in the more easygoing Walk It Out on Wii, which only required me to walk in place. I tried to unlock a lot of music along the path last night, but want to try to find and unlock some of the time change options tonight. Since it's linked to real time and I tend to exercise at night, I don't get this game's island in the virtual sunlight that often! It'll be nice when I can.

Other than that, I just played mobile games. I cleared the map event I was working on in Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade and pulled the limited SSR that goes with the event with a free ticket. My gacha luck is so good in this that it makes me worry I will face a bad luck reckoning in a part of my life that actually matters.

I zoned out a lot with Love Rebirth, too, moving the story forward very incrementally while matching tons of stuff. It made for perfect head cold gaming.

January 1st, 2025

Happy New Year, everyone! I'm starting 2025 with a nasty head cold, but also with some enthusiasm. I want to play a lot of games with cats and keep up better with fitness games this year. I don't know how successful I'll be, especially with fitness games today, but it's worth a shot!

Yesterday, I was extremely tired, so I mostly played mobile games. Years ago, before starting this blog, I played Superstar JYP, a K-pop rhythm game, a bit. Last night, I was somewhat surprised to see the game series was still running and wanted to play a bit. I'm on an aespa kick right now, so I went with Superstar SMTown this time, but it's just the same game with a different tracklist. That's probably fine, and I imagine I'll chug along doing dailies for a little bit, get bored with it, and quit. Sometimes it's fun to peek in on a game like that.

Over in Love Rebirth, my protagonist got murdered last night and travelled back in time to her college days. Being the good sport that she is, she's still ok with spending hours matching tiles because her peers need tiny purple shorts. I'm glad I am not in grad school anymore because I would be very tempted to write a thesis on narrative dissonance in mobile games.

I started the current map event in Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade, too, but don't have a ton to say about it. It's still satisfying to clear all the little stages that pop up, but it's not different from past map events at all. It is gaming that is simply just there.

I did a daily workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, too. I was a little distressed because I wasn't feeling well and it gave me an extremely difficult and tiring song exercise. I don't know if I have the power to keep my streak up in this today, with yesterday's experience in mind.

December 30th, 2024

It's not very exciting to post about, but I had a utility gaming Sunday yesterday. I did a lot of fitness game stuff, since I picked up the Wii balance board compatible Dance Dance Revolution and played it for quite a while. It bothered me some that it focuses so heavily on western top 40 over more standard DDR music, but it worked way better than I expected! There's maybe a few too many actions, but I had a lot of fun once I got into it. I was pretty awful at it, but I'll improve!

I did a single 9-minute workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, too, since I didn't want to lose my streak in that. It was fine, but I maybe overdid it.

After getting overwhelmed and blowing off as much as possible last week, I did some weekly to-do list management in Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, too, getting a new pet and appreciating how much an actual mouse helped with managing and controlling this app.

I kept going in Love Rebirth, too, feeling slightly surprised at how long the dailies take to do in this game. It's fine that it's that way, but it would be a pretty big time sink to merge little items until I'd earned 450 coins every day. I don't think I care enough to play at that level.

December 29th, 2024

I was enjoying a nice Christmas yesterday, so I didn't do too much gamin'. I did pick up a new trashy mobile game, though, called Love Rebirth. I've been frustrated because Prison Noctis erased my progress and I can't get it back, so I wanted a new board-based merge game to kill a few minutes at a time. Love Rebirth looked similar, and it is, down to the artwork. It has a lot less suspiciously-AI-esque hands on the splash screens, so I'm guessing this is the game that got knocked off. I also like that the main character is somehow getting her wild, soapy revenge on her husband for sleeping with models by wearing ever-so-slightly mismatched outfits to galas and giving tons of people little pairs of purple hotpants. Plus, it has a more stable seeming account system. It's very silly, but it gets to stay on my tablet.

I also played Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku for a while, trying to keep my streak going. I only did one free workout and the five-minute stretching session, but that's definitely not nothing! It was okay.