What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Infinity Nikki (Android)

January 30th, 2025

I should have posted sooner tonight, but I had my nose in a coloring book as I tried to clear some of the stress out of my brain. There is no reason why I should feel under pressure, since things are honestly going pretty good today, but I finished dinner and felt absolutely panicked.

Last night, I balanced out bad vibes by overdoing it with mobile and free to play games! I got back to Infinity Nikki while I was on my exercise bike, and had an extremely pleasant, laid back time. I am honestly not sure why I quit playing this, because I do like it! My attention span just sucks.

I meant to just do dailies in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, but I got kind of stuck trying to figure out where the requests from other campers were and played longer than I'd meant to. The menu popped up for me once, but I haven't found it again and feel a little frustrated. Maybe no one needs anything right now, but I could have sworn my camp caretaker asked for a clothing item I couldn't quite craft yet. Oh, well!

I kept up with the story in Wuthering Waves, too, and am still enjoying it. It was mostly just story stuff- I don't think I left the building I was camped out in at all- but that was fine. I just went to sleep rather than having a longer play session.

December 8th, 2024

Yesterday, I finally tried Sonic and the Black Knight, and don't have too much to say about it so far. It doesn't seem that bad for a late 00s Sonic game or a motion control heavy Wii game, but it's not that great, either. I had a decent time with the first few levels, though, so I'll keep going.

Later on, I played some Metal Slug Attack: Reloaded while chatting with a friend, too. I had to quit and go to bed when I got so tired I couldn't remember how the game's interface worked, and it wasn't even that late! I made some decent progress, though, getting through all the first side stories for the different armies and getting back to the main campaign.

I did some very minor play in Infinity Nikki, too, mostly just burning off all my free gacha pulls and playing with the dress up features. It was fun, but I made no progress.

December 7th, 2024

Last night, I decided it was time to finish Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus, so I played it for nearly two hours until it was over. This was actually a fine little hidden object adventure game with a goofy story, but I just got tired of the Christmas theming as I played. Last night, I cleared out the main story and unlocked a bonus story, which took about an hour to get through and exposed the poor state of healthcare for gingerbread men. It was a nice, laid back time, but I'm glad I have it finished, too.

Other than that, I did a short workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, in which the opening stretched mysteriously stopped halfway through, dumping me into a normal workout. It was fine, and everything worked after that, but weird.

I kept up with Infinity Nikki, too, though I was really sleepy by the time I logged in. I pretty much just went to the stylist's guild to do a little story stuff and collected a bunch of flowers. It was fine!

December 6th, 2024

I wanted to throw a pot of soup together this morning rather than post here, so I'm doing this during my "lunch" break. I didn't play anything too out of the ordinary yesterday, though. I kept going with Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus, and as I broke into a cop car and prepared to battle the Ice Queen, it occurred to me that I actually have no idea when this game will wrap up. I'm still pretty amused, so that's fine.

I played another half hour of Infinity Nikki, too, which I'm playing on a timer due to a tendency towards awful motion sickness in 3D games. I wasn't sure I'd enjoy this, but it's fun so far! Movement feels nice, even running on a tablet so underspecced that the game asked if I was sure I wanted to try running it, and I like collecting stuff to make cute dresses. I'm excited to play more.

It's a little less exciting to write about, but I cleared the second part of the 0 event in Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade, too. My party's getting pretty good, since I've had killer gacha luck, and the event rewards only boosted me further. There's already another event running, though, which I'm hoping to clear out this weekend or early next week. This game is a nice time killer.

December 5th, 2024

Last night was even colder than the night before, so it still wasn't a great game night. With the help of some hot beverages, though, I downloaded and started in on Infinity Nikki, which has big PS1 vibes on my tablet. I could move over to my Windows gaming machine for this, but I honestly like how crunchy and pop-up-laden it looks on my mobile game tablet. I only played for about 30 minutes, so I'm just getting used to the controls right now. It seems fun so far, though.

Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus was the real star of my game time last night, though. I lost allies. I made milkshakes. I did some logic puzzles that would have been much easier were I not strolling through this game half asleep. With the fate of the holiday season hanging in the balance, I hope to finish this tonight.