What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Mermaids of Atlantis (Super Pocket)

September 8th, 2025

I got really fizzy brained and excited about playing shmups before bed yesterday, so I dug into Deathsmiles II out of curiosity. I know I played the first stage over 4th of July weekend, as is normal at a family event, but I gave it a real try last night and had an excellent time. I mostly played through the stages at the lowest difficulty, but cleared the game with the standard boss battle with just one continue. It gave me too much confidence and now I think I can get a 1-credit-clear while also beating the true last boss! It seems easier than a lot of shooters, so maybe I can.

In the morning, I also played quite a bit of Mermaids of Atlantis, really feeling like I hit some kind of groove in it. For me, it got a little easier when the blocks sped up, as I had less time to think about what I was doing. It got more fun, too! I am excited to eventually reign over bubble chaos while watching painfully slow but charmingly pastel cutscenes.

September 7th, 2025

Most of my game time yesterday was spent with the Super Pocket, which was fun! I spent some time messing around with El Viento, which seems like a cool little Genesis action game. It is fun to make an anime lady chuck boomerangs at gangsters on exploding motorcycles.

I also tried and got very locked into Mermaids of Atlantis, a cleaned up version of a NES porn puzzle game called Bubble Bath Babes. The difficulty levels were Easy, Normal, and Stacked, so they didn't work on the cleanup very hard. I am kind of enjoying this, though. The piece shapes are poorly designed, and it has a brutally unfair approach to garbage bubbles. Bad and mediocre puzzle games speak to me, though, and save scumming gets rid of the continue system while the stages themselves stay infuriating. It's a good balance!

I also finished the puzzle I fell asleep during in Milky Way Jigsaw Puzzles, but I forgot to get a screenshot of it.