What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Hello Kitty & Sanrio Friends Racing (Lenovo Legion Go)

August 4th, 2025

Yesterday, I decided to see if I could get Hello Kitty and Sanrio Friends Racing over and done with. It wasn't very fun! The race opponent AI was so bad that I won the final race when every single one of them got stuck on a hill. Keroppi drove past the jam-up on the last lap, and then I watched his little car turn around to join them in the purgatory of gentle slopes. The boat controls made the apple collection missions on water really miserable, too, with turns that were difficult to control and godawful terrible drifting.

The graphics are cheerful and sunny, though, and as a proud cute-stuff-liker, I have to admit that I really liked a lot of the track details. The vehicle colors were all vibrant, all the characters got cute little race outfits, and it was all just very colorful and pleasant to look at. It's a shame it wasn't actually fun, but I can't say there was nothing I enjoyed here. I just wish all these cute designs had been used for blind bags and stationery, not a rubbish kart racer.

That being said, the slowness of Hello Kitty and Sanrio Friends Racing makes the 20 tedious missions a lot more doable than the unhinged speed at which Supersonic Tank Cats operates. I kind of like the races in Supersonic Tank Cats, but the controls are not well suited to the precision collection missions require, at least on Switch.

In non-racer gaming, Ad SHOOt got patched on Switch, so I gave that another try. It actually fixed up a lot of the slowdown issues I'd been having, so I got to the stage 3 boss in one credit last night. I do think the gimmicky bosses are more fun to play than the stages, so I'm not sure if I want to try and one credit clear this on easy yet. There's still enough slowdown present that I think I'd have to pick this up on Steam for a real chance. It's fun, though, so for now, I'll just enjoy it.

June 29th, 2025

I got myself too stressed out over some stuff that didn't matter to sleep well last night, so I'm really tired today. Yesterday, I was too fixated on doing little crafts to play a ton of games, though, which is lucky right now. I did a bit of grinding for arcanas and, by extension, trophies, in Vampire Survivors, which was fun.

After watching a couple of movies, I played some of the collection stages in Hello Kitty and Sanrio Friends Racing, a game which is demanding increased precision and track memorization to nab 100% of the cupcakes required for a perfect score. I kind of just want to make the Little Twin Stars zip around in a little car more than I want to 100% this game, so I'm not overly worried about it on any front. I'm sure I'll play it again in a month or so.

June 8th, 2025

I totally wasted my weekend and am very salty with myself about it! I didn't feel good yesterday, so I should be nice to myself, but I haven't done any crafts, or read, or watched movies, or even played games that well. My to-do list for the week is a total lost cause, too. I'm going to do this post, do my next weekly to-do list, go to a night movie, and still be kind of mad at myself. It'll help me get a little bit back on track, though.

Yesterday, I was feeling a little sour that I couldn't play the new Mario Kart because shopping is too hard nowadays, so I picked up Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed on Steam. It booted upside down and the configuration menu crashed it, so I refunded it on Steam and then picked it up on XBox. It was fun, but I kind of had a headache and only played a few races.

I did try Hello Kitty & Sanrio Friends Racing on Steam, which was much worse, but seems like it'll be an ok sleepytime game once in a while. I really like Sanrio, so the cuteness balances the jank for me. Kerropi's eyes seemed unsettling, though, like they were the wrong shape. It was a weird thing to be forced to consider.

My mood was really sour before bed, so I bounced between games in my Steam library until I landed on Mega Man X Dive Offline, a port of an old mobile game. I only played this a little, but it seemed ok even through my general disdain towards the state of my guts at that point of the day. It'll be fun to try this again when I'm feeling better.

I want to get back to some RPG gamin' this week, but I maybe won't accomplish that tonight. I'll see what happens!