What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Refind Self: The Personality Test Game (Switch)

October 12th, 2024

I had a pretty long gaming session last night, which was very nice and served as a good brain reset after a somewhat stressful week. Usually, the play sessions I'm writing about here are between 15 and 45 minutes. Last night, I played games for closer to five hours. It's not something I should be doing all the time, but it was nice, and my stress is so low today I might try to deliberately set up at least an hour or two for gaming on days off where nothing else is going on.

My biggest accomplishment last night was getting the story ending in Refind Self: The Personality Test Game, which I really ended up liking. It's a pretty slow paced and small, but open ended game, with quite a lot to do within each run, and I felt like it did a pretty good job of tying the personality test conceit to the story. After I got the real ending, I did a fourth playthrough to smash things and gamble, which was also satisfying, and played the bonus content quizzes, too. This was a good impulse buy, and I can see returning to it in the future.

Eight RPGs (though this fits the definition loosely) remain until I hit my goal of twelve for the year.

I got really close to the end of Archlion Saga, too, hitting the last chapter. So far, I wouldn't say this is anything amazing, but hitting all the main bits of a JRPG at mach speed is kind of charming. Plus, I like that my party's plucky elf girl mouths off a bit to my party's morally compromised spellcaster with hair worthy of a shampoo ad. Dark subject matter aside, the whole thing is kind of cute.

I spent some time with mobile games, too, especially Bleach: Soul Puzzle. I'm actually hitting some decently difficult match-3 puzzles in this, and even though I know they're "just give us a few bucks for some special items!" money pits, I'm satisfied to be clearing them cash-free.

Like I wanted to yesterday, I ran through some story chapters in Cardcaptor Sakura: Memory Key, too. They're just little summaries of the anime, so I don't have a ton to say about this, but it's an ok game to chill out with.

My worst idea of yesterday, though, was to zone out with Wixoss: Multiverse before bed. I cleared all my daily goals, the goal lists for two seperate events, and several plays of a virtual claw machine before just flat out falling asleep. It was honestly excellent.

There's no way I'm going to play this much today, too, but I do at least want to finish off Archlion Saga today. Aside from that, I'm gonna do some crafts and hope for a lovely day!

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 7th, 2024

Yesterday, it occurred to me that of my goal to beat 12 RPGs in 2024, I have, if I am being generous with the definition of RPG, cleared 3 of them. Because of that, I got really set on figuring out how I can clear 9 RPGs in less than 3 months yesterday. It was unproductive, but fun to consider.

Also unproductively, I kicked off a new RPG yesterday, starting Metro Quester. I intended to play it just a little, and played for two hours. It's a very bare bones dungeon crawler, but I felt really hooked by it! I don't know how much I'll play it during the week, since it's hard to put down and sleep is somewhat important, but I'm looking forward to playing it more.

I finished my first hour or so gameplay loop in Refind Self: The Personality Test Game, and think that it's interpreting a quick reading speed as my being ultra decisive. I have at least two more loops I want to do before calling this one cleared, since there's still stuff I want to explore, and since there's a turn based battle in this, I'm classifying it as an RPG. I feel more powerful that way.

Early in the day, I also played Space Battleship Yamato: Voyagers of Tomorrow while I was refusing to get out of bed. I really did not want to get up, so I made decent progress in repairing my ship. This is the true value of mobile gaming.

October 3rd, 2024

I did not do great at gaming last night! Other than running through login bonuses in my many mobile games, I started Refind Self: The Personality Test Game, an indie game I'd thought looked interesting in the Switch eShop. I only played it for a few minutes so far, but it is interesting- you go around a little RPG-ish world and decide what to do, and every action you take influences how the game reads your character's personality. Once you take enough actions, that playthrough ends. I'm looking forward to playing more, but want to kick butt at getting stuff done today, too, so I'm not sure how that'll go for now.