What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Money Puzzle Exchanger (Switch)

August 1st, 2023

It's a new month, and I want to start blogging somewhat cheerfully. I talked about this some yesterday, but for August, I want to take the time to return to some of the games I set aside a while ago without finishing, whether it's to make progress in a game I'll eventually come back to later, give things a second chance, or just to remember why I dropped the game in the first place. Maybe it's not very productive, but since it's a plan that takes advantage of my poor attention span, I'm all for it.

Last night, I felt really burned out after working a bit late and not being able to turn my brain off for hours afterwards. I picked Money Puzzle Exchanger back up as a relaxing puzzle game and promptly got destroyed, as it's a decently difficult game. Once I got settled and reacclimated to the currency rates, I got destroyed again, just a little slower. I like this game- the uneven amount of pieces that you have to match up (as in, you need five 100 yen coins to change them to a 500, but only two 50s to change to a 100) is an interesting snag in the puzzle game formula. I also feel like it is slightly beyond my power to get good at it, which is fine.

After that, I went back to Jarataire RPG for some easy before bed gaming and picked up a couple of the stage two wind element monsters. Now that I've hit stage 3, I don't recruit everyone in my first match against them, stretching things out a bit.

I am very tired, but I'm gonna try to go to McDonalds for breakfast before my office day and see if I can think past work to stay peppy.

February 10th, 2023

It was still hard to focus and do stuff last night, though I did make a very good lentil stew. The leftovers await me today, I'm mildly excited. I did play a round of Money Puzzle Exchanger before bed, though. It went okay, though I still have a good way to go before I'm remotely good at the game overall. I love when the screen overloads, though, and the combos just start flying, clearing so many coins away at once. It pushes good brain buttons.

February 2nd, 2023

I spent way more time looking at vintage cross stitch and embroidery stuff on eBay last night than doing anything of note, so this will not be a great post today. I did spend a few minutes playing Money Puzzle Exchanger on Switch, though, which is a puzzle game I've given a few chances since first playing on PSP. In it, you match up Japanese coins to bring them up a value- so, five 1-yen coins become a 5-yen coin, two of those become 10 yen, and so on, up to 500 yen. The variable amounts of each piece that you need to match make this game interesting, and I'm sure the key to the whole thing is over combo-ing the 1, 10, and 100 yen coins that are only good for matches of five pieces or more. It's fun, and the character designs are cute, so I'd really like to get the hang of this someday. Redownloading the Arcade Archives port onto my Switch turned out to be a fun idea.