What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Selfy Collection: The Dream Fashion Stylist (Switch)

April 10th, 2024

For the past two weeks or so, I haven't been feeling my best, and clearly the worst part of this is that it leaves me short on content for my daily posts. I got a blood test, my favorite, set up for early next week, but until that's done and someone takes a look at it to switch up my prescriptions, my gaming here may be super unfocused.

Last night, I went with playing Selfy Collection for a few minutes before bed, and I got a little frustrated that, even though a lot of the NPCs wanting outfits want cheap, casual clothing, the only clothing shop open to me sells formalwear. It feels strange to have a wardrobe of party dresses and be grinding for the ability to buy T-shirts.

February 13th, 2024

This is going to be a quick, pre-work post, but I'm glad to be doing a morning post at all! I don't have any blood tests before going to the office this week or next, so I feel less stressed about time. Last night, I worked on grinding some of the basic, non-story missions in Selfy Collection, which is not necessary. I just wanted to be able to buy some of the nicer shop items before moving on, and this proved to be a fairly easy way to do it. My outfit variety isn't fabulous so far, though, leaning too hard on ultra-pricey formal fashion, so I might move forward soon just to see if I can get more shops open.

February 12th, 2024

I was a little out of sorts yesterday, and wanted to play something relaxing. Because I'm a sophisticated adult, I redownloaded Selfy Collection: The Dream Fashion Stylist, onto my Switch. I played this a little when it first came out and was only in Japanese, since I used to play TinierMe, a now-defunct social game that used the same avatars this game does. Back in TinierMe, I was a free user, so it's mildly satisfying to play this over 10 years later and rack up the paid gacha style items.

Now that Selfy Collection has an English translation, I wonder if I might be better off playing it in Japanese. It's a story-based dress-up game, so it's not massively complicated. The translation is so bad, though, that some of the mission objectives are slightly unclear! I am going to keep up with this, since I like that it's got a steadier structure than Fashion Dreamer, and the chibi style is really cute. Still, the translation, at least so far, could be a lot better.

I also gave Sweet Witches, a game I picked up for a few cents without knowing a thing about it, a try. One of the witches you can play as has a chicken hat, so it is good. By more normal metrics, though, it seems fine. It's an arcade-y game where you have to cover specific ground tiles to plant flowers, and it moves quickly with some really nice sprite animation.