What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Sonic Runners Adventure (Android)

October 5th, 2022

Yesterday, I had a doctor's appointment that was basically helpful, but I also had 4 vaccines at the end of it, on top of starting a new medication. I am so wrecked I cannot even sit at my desk to do this post today. It got a lot over with at once, though, so it'll save me trouble in the long run.

First off with games yesterday, I immediately regretted my "no new games for a few days challenge" when I ended up playing Sonic Runners Adventure in the waiting room. I did make incremental progress, but that doesn't mean I enjoyed it.

Before bed, I also tried to play Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, but ended up only having good grip on the Switch controller for one level. This, of course, was also incremental progress, but I did enjoy it here.

This post technically being done, it is time to go stay upright long enough to cook and eat some lunch.

September 30th, 2022

I'm doing a quick before work post today. I woke up and couldn't breathe, so I had to take my inhaler and am having trouble sitting still, which is great with eight and a half hours or more at my desk ahead. Oh, well.

I kept after getting all of the socials cleared in Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight last night. Today's screenshot shows easy mode because I was using it to play with some of the challenge modifiers. Getting the trophy for "note speed fluctuates" and "note paths waver" was disorienting, but it was an interesting way to play!

I wanted to go to bed after playing that for a while, but felt too unsettled to sleep and played a couple rounds of Sonic Runners Adventure. I still kind of hate this game, and didn't even bother grabbing a screenshot without my phone's volume controls visible. It did the job and got me tired enough to pass out, though, so it has its uses.

September 16th, 2022

Today, I'm doing a quick lunch break post while I microwave some frozen kung-pao broccoli from Aldi for lunch!

I picked Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney back up last night. I'd been feeling kind of anxious about being able to focus on it without a lot of free time or energy, so I set it aside for months. I still don't feel great about all that, but want to play games I enjoy and just went for it. My save file was right at the start of the third trial, though, so I just decided to roll with it. So far, so good!

I played Sonic Runners Adventure for a few more minutes, too. This game is miserable and I should probably delete it off my phone. Look forward to another update on it soon!

September 14th, 2022

My current tiredness is impossible to defeat, but I got another game cleared last night! Macbat 64 puts me halfway to my goal of 10 games cleared, but even though I'm happy about the progress, I wish the game had been longer! Macbat 64 was really weird, cute, and charming, and I wish it had at least a few more levels to explore. Last night, I cleared all the bonus material alongside the main game in, again, less than an hour. The same developer did two Toree games, though, so maybe more Macbat is ahead, too.

Aside from that, I also got the SD card I ordered in, letting me set up cheats and screenshots for my Retron 5. I played some more of Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose with infinite lives on, mostly because I'm too lazy to save state scum upon my failures. It was fun, and I was very pleased with how easy the screenshot feature was to use. I'll have to play around with the NES side of this system, too.

Lastly, I played a little more of Sonic Runners Adventure before bed. I don't actually like this game, but it's on my phone, so I keep playing it. Maybe someday I shall clear it and be free of this curse.

September 9th, 2022

I'm still at low power. I played Sonic Runners Adventure for about half an hour before bed, feeling put off by the unique way that it is somehow simultaneously too easy and too hard. Do endless traps and projectiles requiring pinpoint precision count for anything if you can spend easy-to-earn rings to immediately revive?

Before I set my "beat ten games" to buy the next one goal, though, I had put in three pre-orders- for the 3rd NIS Classics set, an imported physical copy of Idol Manager, and a Genesis Mini 2. Idol Manager came yesterday, and I'm so tempted to try it! I have to be up early for a busy weekend tomorrow, though, so it's probably a bad idea.

September 6th, 2022

Today'll be a quick lunch break post. I was feeling kind of uneasy about what to play last night, even though there's no reason to worry much about video games, so I ended up not doing much interesting at all.

For longer than I intended to, I played Sonic Runners Adventure on my phone. The screenshot here is from my first round of play, in the world 2 flying levels, but I ended up picking it back up when I couldn't decide what else to do and doing some of world 3, too. I feel like I'll clear this game within another couple of play sessions, but don't feel super enthusiastic about that at the moment.

After that, I played My Sims more, getting my town up to 3 out of 5 stars by the end of the play sessions. It's getting a little tedious, and I'm starting to just ignore the tourists I pass on the road, but in turn, it's helping me sleep better after playing. This game is truly a double edged sword.

August 30th, 2022

I had big video game plans last night, but got sleepy, went to Subway, and totally abandoned them! Instead, I decided to give another go to a couple games that have only popped up in one post here. Today, though, I got up early fearing an internet outage during work. Since my internet is working, I have nothing to stress about on that front and the time to detail my incremental progress before my shift.

After some daily life stuff last night, I went and laid flat on my back in bed and played Sonic Runners Adventure for a few levels, which I hadn't touched since my train ride earlier this month. Freed of being stuck on an Amtrak train, I have to say that this game is barely engaging, and the level layout is super repetitive. Also, despite seeming pretty basic, it crashed my phone. I unlocked Charmy the Bee, though, which was super cute, and got a small feeling of "wow, I'm great at this game" for getting a lot of three star ranks on levels. I'm just glad this is something I could, theoretically, finish.

My trouble for the night started after that, when I went to play Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight. My internet went out just a couple minutes before I clicked the PS4 on, and the machine didn't want to do anything. It threw up error messages when I turned it on, the game was tough to start because it wanted to check for DLC, and I couldn't check my trophies easily after getting during gameplay. Once I got everything up and running it was fine, at least until the system stalled out when I tried to put it to sleep. My goal was to score one social event, so I played a couple songs and pulled that off. I'm actually over half done with this, so I might stick with it. It's fun, and getting all the social events seems doable.

Last, and certainly least, I finished another set of puzzles in Mahjong Stories: Vampire Romance, leaving me two stages from the end. I met the vampire, and, after seeing all of his minions die at the hands of my mahjong solitaire skills, he decided that the best way to defeat me, the master of tile matching, is with, of course, more mahjong solitaire. I don't think he's great at problem solving.

August 14th, 2022

I'm posting from a train station lounge today! My last train was 17 or so hours long and I got off of it super dizzy, so, since I wasn't feeling well, I paid my way into the VIP lounge (which wasn't that bad) for the four hours between trains. I leeched their coffee, oatmeal, and off brand vegetarian cup noodles while reading an entire child star memoir (I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy for anyone who wants to know the precise level of class I am dealing in) before realizing there was wifi in here. Now, I'm doing this blog post to kill a few more minutes until my next train arrives.

I wanted to play Idling Idol on the train yesterday, but I'm not experienced enough with Steam to have realized I would have needed to put it in offline mode! Instead, since cell reception was spotty at best, I ended up playing a cheap game I'd loaded onto my phone a couple weeks ago, Sonic Runners. I was so woozy from the train rocking back and forth that I had trouble parsing what was going on in the game, but, since it was a really long ride and I wasn't quite ready to sleep, I played long enough to get full stars on world one, unlock and fully level Shadow, and start in on the same level of completion with world 2, only with slightly more frustration since it sucks to play as Tails in this game. It's not a particularly good game, I don't think- it's maybe a little too simple, and the unlocks can get taken care of a little too quickly. As a time waster, though, it's fine.

Only one leg of my journey remains! I've got this.