What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Pokemon Polyhedral (Tabletop)

October 11th, 2024

Yesterday, I spent a lot of my non-work time playing games. It wasn't so practical, but it helped clear my brain out after a long day.

I ended up playing a lot of Pokemon Polyhedral yesterday, since I didn't think I'd have a lot of time for it again until early next week. It was fun! I caught a lot of Pokemon, which felt nice, and doubled up on a trainer battle at the end, actually winning one of them! My Squirtle levelled up enough that I can use an extra hit dice for it, too, which will come in handy. If I play this again tonight, I might tackle my first gym battle.

Before bed, I played another chapter in the super-breezy Archlion Saga, dealing with some easily resolved tension with an elf village and getting my first party member. It was solidly fine.

I played mobile games harder than I needed to yesterday, too. During dinner, I was zoomed in on King of Prism: Sparkling again, wanting to get my tiny idols levelled up and sent out into the world. It took a lot of tapping, but my gosh, I think my little jpegs are out to a great start in their pretend careers!

I did more than just my daily login stuff in Cardcaptor Sakura: Memory Key, too, though the current event has a weirdly infuriating jumping mini-game. Tonight, I have an excuse to binge play games for hours, and I'll freely admit that I'll be coming back to this during that time. I want to finally make some headway in the story mode, since I think I've gotten a lot unlocked chasing login goals.

That's all I've got for today, but I'll probably have a somewhat intense post tomorrow. I'm looking forward to enjoying a game night!

October 10th, 2024

I'm doing a quick post today because I had an early blood test this morning and then just went back to bed after getting back home.

Pokemon Polyhedral was my most played game last night, and I didn't play a ton. I did about seven wild Pokemon battles, including one against Mewtwo, and caught a Krabby and a Geodude. They both went to my PC's storage for now.

I also played about the first ten minutes of Archlion Saga, a little Kemco RPG designed to be short, before bed. It seems extremely efficient so far, and I am somewhat amused by it.

On the mobile game front, I got somewhat fixated on King of Prism: Sparkling while I was eating a takeout dinner. I didn't accomplish much, other than levelling up a bunch of my trainee idols, but it was an ok distraction.

October 8th, 2024

Today's post will be pretty quick! I did another run of Refind Self: The Personality Test Game last night where I just touched streetlights and looked at AC units until my personality meter filled up. It was good practice for the very destructive run I'm still hoping to do. If she can poke at stuff this well, no doubt my robot girl has what it takes to become a champion jar smasher.

I did two wild Pokemon battles and a trainer battle in Pokemon Polyhedral, too. I caught both Pokemon, meaning I can start sending some to my PC, but really got wrecked again in the trainer battle. It was a good, if not short, play session!

October 6th, 2024

It's a wild morning of coffee and paying bills here, but I did get some game stuff in yesterday. I spent more time with Pokemon Polyhedral than anything, mercilessly destroying Pidgeys, which does feel accurate to the Pokemon experience, and running into legendary birds before my first gym battle, which is a bit much. The randomness of it all really is keeping things interesting, so it's not really a complaint.

I let Sims 4 run for a while as I chatted with a friend, too. I was playing as a system-generated Sim last night, because I had to see if she put books away in the same weirdly neurotic way as the one I made myself. She didn't, but sometimes a guy would come to her house and she'd flirt with them while learning to identify new fish. Sims have a lot to teach each other.

October 5th, 2024

My eyes are really puffy and itchy today, so I've been lazy about posting! I thought if I waited, and also took some allergy meds, I'd pep up and get to it, but neither really worked. That is okay.

I'd been wanting to do this for about a week now, but I got The Sims 4 going again last night. I hadn't played it since before I'd started this blog, since I found it frustratingly clunky and slow on PS4. It runs a lot better on XBox Series S, and seemed a lot easier to start up, too! For now, I made my sort of default sim, tossed her in a pre-made house, which was a nice new feature, and got started with some timed quests to befriend the Grim Reaper, which also seems like an interesting new feature. I haven't done much at all yet, though, so I'm looking forward to seeing what sorts of problems I can cause!

I did enough rounds of Pokemon Polyhedral to hit the first trainer battle, too. Non-gym leader opponents are randomly generated Team Rocket grunts, so I'm using a name generator for my Kanto's all-girl Team Rocket splinter group. They're not really that bad- they just didn't want to pick a new aesthetic after the really crime-oriented original Team Rocket fell. All of the silliness inside my head aside, rolling for the opponent's Pokemon and their respective levels led to my really getting destroyed. That'll make it all the more satisfying when I do start winning, but I was still a little mad at how horrendous my own rolls were last night.

I played Wixoss Multiverse for a while, too. Since I'd done okay in a recent event, I was able to level up a lot of my party members' skills and felt like I jumped over a difficulty spike with expert form. It was fun causing turn based mayhem and destruction, so I played longer than I'd intended.

My eyes burn so much that I might not do much gaming today. I'll have something or other to post about tomorrow, though.

October 4th, 2024

Yesterday, things felt vaguely fall-ish, which made me want to play a Pokemon game. I ended up going with a non-traditional choice, though, and picked Pokemon Polyhedral, a solo tabletop RPG that I found on itch.io a while back. Solo TTRPGs are fun, but I usually play them as creative writing aids, which I don't want to share. This one is more of a pure dice-rolling game, though, and the theme is video game-y, too, so it seemed less daunting to post about. Last night was a small start to my new Pokemon journey, but I've got three Pokemon in my party for my next round of play and am ready to burn through many brightly colored legal pads on this quest.

Other than that, it was just a mobile game day. I played quite a lot of Bleach: Soul Puzzle before dinner, finding out it's the perfect thing to play in an allergy med induced haze.

Before bed, I also checked off piles of tasks in Space Battleship Yamato: Voyagers of Tomorrow, which was fine. I play this one less than the other G123 games because it runs a little poorly on my phone, but sometimes, having it on my phone comes in handy. 'Tis a tricky balance.