What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

The Sims 2 Pets (DS)

September 27th, 2024

I'm still feeling draggy for difficult to divine reasons, but did play Sims 2 Pets on DS for a few minutes last night, after all my mobile game logins were cleared. I got in the mood to play a life sim sort of game, but realized that I hadn't played Sims 4 since starting this blog and had already done my five new game pages for the month! 'Twas quite tragic.

Last time I tried Sims 2 Pets, I was baffled and unimpressed, finding the whole thing totally incomprehensible. Last night, my play session went way better. It felt a bit slow paced and empty, but straightforward and decently easy to follow. I wish more clients had come into the vet clinic during the couple days I played through, but since they didn't, my sim got lots of chances to try and fail at cooking cheese in a skillet. That's pretty much what I wanted, so it was okay.

August 31st, 2022

It's the last day of August, and I have another game finish to report today, with the stunning conclusion of Mahjong Stories: Vampire Romance! This game got screamingly tedious, since the layouts just got more and more tiles instead of getting more difficult, but the story didn't have a bad ending, as far as things go. The game overstayed its welcome by a mile, and I'm glad I'm done with it, but it wasn't awful. Plus, I'm at 3 of 10 games cleared for my goal now!

I tried to get a little further in Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight after that, and got two social events and a trophy, which was pretty good. I'd forgotten how motion sick I got trying to find the cards in all of the characters' rooms, so I don't intend to do a lot of those in a night, even if I unlock them. Finishing games is somewhat satisfying, but puking isn't.

With my mahjong game done, I then tried to find another game to play before bed and guessed incorrectly. The Sims 2 Pets might be something I pick up again later, but last night, it did not click. I think that this, in large part, may have been because I didn't know how Sim creation would go and I felt like I did a bad job with that. The control felt really imprecise, too, which was driving me crazy dealing with the titular pets. Regardless of the reasons why I'm abandoning it for now, though, I'm going to try one of the DS My Sims games instead tonight.