What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Meteora's Mystic Merge (Lenovo Legion Go)

July 13th, 2025

I slept super poorly last night, so tonight's post will lack zest. I tried Super Dimension Fortress Macross II, an old arcade shooter yesterday, though. It is a score attack style shooter, where you need to hit a certain amount of points to go to the next level, and I really enjoyed it! It's kicking my butt so hard I can't clear the beginner set of stages on easy, but that just means I have nowhere to go but up (and, within the game, probably to the right).

I played a couple pretty good rounds of Meteora's Mystic Merge before bed, too. It's the perfect game to play and let your mind wander while wondering how long it would take your area to turn into a wasteland ruled by roving bike gangs if you've just been watching Mad Max movies.

July 8th, 2025

I am knee deep in using jigsaw puzzles that are way too small as a stress-related shutdown mechanism, so I didn't play so many games last night. I did try Mushihimesama, though, trying to figure out what shooter I want to focus on. It was pretty good, and the bug theme gives it an interesting sort of vibe. This might be a good choice!

I played a few rounds of Meteora's Mystic Merge right before bed, too, alternating between the characters to try to get Steam achievements. I think it'll be a long road to most of them, but I'm excited to keep playing. It's very relaxing.

July 2nd, 2025

I am still not doing my best, and that is ok. I played another 8 or 9 rounds of Castle of Shikigami last night, and did much worse than I had the night before. A big part of that is that I'm trying to figure out when to use my ranged attacks vs my melee ones, so there is still progress being made. I'm trying to sort out how I want to chase the Steam achievements here, too. I need one clear on each difficulty as each character, but only one 1CC, or one credit clear, per difficulty overall. I'm thinking of chasing a four credit clear as each character, then deciding who to use for my 1CC attempt after that. I'm probably just overthinking things, though.

I played a round of Meteora's Mystic Merge to relax just before going to sleep, too, and it worked okay.

June 15th, 2025

My focus and energy are still pretty low today, and I still had a random mid-day nap, which isn't very normal for me. Today is a little better than the last few days have been, though. Yesterday was so dicey I got up, went to lunch, came home, played a bit of Meteora's Mystic Merge, and went back to bed. I wasn't doing so well at the game because I was mega sleepy, but I scored another achievement.

After my nap, I played Sonic Wings Reunion, a new shmup which I'd been excited to play. I'd seen and totally get the complaints about how crummy the graphics are here, but the thought of every possible pilot tag team having unique banter and endings was really appealing to me! So far, I am having fun with it. It has weird charm, and I think I'll be able to nab a one-credit-clear in easy mode without too much trouble. I'll have to clear it dozens of times to see every ending, so I'm going to aim for a 1CC in normal, too. Yesterday, though, I was too tired to deal with playing half decently, so I didn't really get anywhere here.

From there, I decided that as tired as I was, I deserved to play a little Vampire Survivors as a treat. Even with that, I only made it through one run, which felt crummy. It was a really good run, though- I got all six of my weapons evolved and laid waste to the lost souls of the library.

I dozed off while working on my current jigsaw puzzle, too, waking up to a very disorienting round of texts from my friends. I still got a lot of the border done, though, so it feels worth sharing!

June 14th, 2025

I am perhaps experiences burnout, so I mostly zoned out yesterday. I did start a new puzzle I'd gotten on Etsy, of the girls from The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy At All, which is a very nice high school romance manga. I like this one so far, but I've been so wiped out that I barely wanted to do anything.

I ran through some games of Meteora's Mystic Merge, too, playing until I got a trophy and then going to sleep.

June 7th, 2025

I'm trying to get back to normal after a tricky week, and it's a steeper road to climb than I'd expected. Since there were building-wide apartment inspections earlier in the week, everything superficially looks okay, but I have a potholder by my work desk, bills on the bookshelf, a big stack of dishes in the sink, and a lot of other fun to deal with. I've got two days to get back to normal before doing the whole cycle again, but it feels daunting!

Because of that, I am very much having a "squirrel away time on little craft projects between important stuff" weekend rather than a gaming one, which is fine! I did do some achievement hunting in Meteora's Mystic Merge last night, doing goofy stuff like disconnecting from the internet to force 10 games to sync, or chucking pieces straight out of the playfield. It's a fun way to play, and makes me wish there were achievements on some of the silly little games I have on Switch.

Other than that, I was pressing forward with offline projects. I finished the axolotl puzzle I'd been working on the night before. It came out really cute, I thought, but the pieces felt kind of wobbly, and it was too easy to get mismatched pieces snapped together. It's tiny, though, and it was nice that it took up so little space.

I started a less-than-official 300 piece puzzle I'd gotten from eBay, too, of the cover of the first Bubsy game on Genesis/Mega Drive. I played this on Super Nintendo back in the day, so I feel as if I am betraying my childhood to do the Sega version of the game as a jigsaw puzzle. I'm pretty impressed with this so far, though, and am looking forward to working on it a bit more.

I also worked a bit on a sticker scene, but the round backdrop and my own sleepiness made it tougher than normal for me to comprehend what I was doing. It's cute, but I felt somewhat dumb trying to piece it all together.

June 2nd, 2025

I'm late posting today just because I'm feeling lazy. Since I'm getting this post done on time anyway, I think that's okay.

I played another half hour or so of Sephirothic Stories last night, pushing the story a little further while completely destroying the enemies that had given me trouble the night before. It's always satisfying when levelling up worked, and I was able to take out a reasonably tough boss, too.

I also played quite a few rounds of Meteora's Mystic Merge, as it was Sunday and I didn't have any reason to hurry through the day. It was repetitive, but soothing, and helped me out of a minor, inexplicable panic.

June 1st, 2025

I'm really sleepy today, but it's Sunday, so that's fine. I had a short tabletop RPG session with friends to get started on a new game, Draw Steel. It seems like it could be fun, and since we're just doing a test session, it's low stress, too.

As far as yesterday goes, I wanted to play a Suika Game-ish thing on my Legion Go, so I landed on Meteora's Mystic Merge. It's based on V-Tubers, which I don't know so much about, but the game itself is 100% what I wanted! It's relaxing, cute, and totally infuriating. Plus, it was free. I might try to get all 46 achievements in this.

I kept going in Sephirothic Stories stories, too, which I'm still enjoying. It's extremely low key, and a cute little fairy made me run through a hallway of swinging blades during last night's play sessions. I died and had to backtrack to level grind, so I tried some sidequests.

Last, but not least, I did another chunk of my Jujutsu Kaisen puzzle. I don't want to sit on the floor tonight, though, so I probably won't work on it tonight.