What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Spirit City: Lofi Sessions (Lenovo Legion Go)

December 30th, 2024

It's not very exciting to post about, but I had a utility gaming Sunday yesterday. I did a lot of fitness game stuff, since I picked up the Wii balance board compatible Dance Dance Revolution and played it for quite a while. It bothered me some that it focuses so heavily on western top 40 over more standard DDR music, but it worked way better than I expected! There's maybe a few too many actions, but I had a lot of fun once I got into it. I was pretty awful at it, but I'll improve!

I did a single 9-minute workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, too, since I didn't want to lose my streak in that. It was fine, but I maybe overdid it.

After getting overwhelmed and blowing off as much as possible last week, I did some weekly to-do list management in Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, too, getting a new pet and appreciating how much an actual mouse helped with managing and controlling this app.

I kept going in Love Rebirth, too, feeling slightly surprised at how long the dailies take to do in this game. It's fine that it's that way, but it would be a pretty big time sink to merge little items until I'd earned 450 coins every day. I don't think I care enough to play at that level.

December 16th, 2024

Yesterday was a much lower grade gaming day than Saturday had been. I did my weekly upkeep in Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, getting a couple more spirit companions while I was at it. It was very low effort, but that was fine.

Other than that, I buzzed through a bunch of the story mode in Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade, hoping to get some more dispatch locations and more effectively grind for items. It worked, and it was fun to finally get into the game-exclusive bits of the story. The Fukuoka campus students aren't as bad as I thought they'd be, and it's more fun to get their story than it is to plod through the manga story, but told much worse.

I also tried a game one of my coworkers was talking about called Blade of God X: Orisols. It was more action-y than the mobile stuff I usually play, but was also a little dull and incomprehensible. My character's design is cool, though, and since I'm always looking for games to play while I'm half asleep, I might try it again for that. I'm not sure, though.

I kept on with Aquarium Land, too. I'm hoping to finish this off tonight or tomorrow, but if I don't, that's fine, too. I just want to move on to my next game.

December 9th, 2024

I had another utility gaming Sunday yesterday. My weekly upkeep in Spirit City: Lofi Sessions was pretty minimal, but I didn't do well at this last week! I felt too burnt out to turn it on for most of the week, which is kind of pathetic. It also led to my missing some of the smaller, less "weekly" tasks I needed to do that I would have seen on a paper to-do list, leading to my rushing to finish stuff on Friday and Saturday. Overall, it was fine, but I'm going to try to check in on my lists for at least five minutes a night this week. This isn't a cure-all, but I still think I can make it work.

I did a daily workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, too, which was uneventful. I just felt like I needed to get up and move around a little.

As far as less purposeful gaming goes, I played another free hidden cats game, Hidden Winter Cats. It was the hidden object equivalent of the Waldo standing on the beach by himself, "Waldo's not even trying anymore!" joke from the Simpsons, so I found all 100 cats in less than 5 minutes. It wasn't a bad five minutes, but it was excessively slight.

I did some more cat themed casual gaming with Neko Pang, one of the Samsung instant play mobile games, before bed. I actually liked this one. It's just an obstacle-clearing match-3 game, but a very cute one. I did hit a difficulty spike before falling asleep, but I'm going to try and beat the stage that stopped me again today. This was definitely the better of my two throwaway game experiences yesterday.

December 2nd, 2024

I didn't feel great yesterday, so I just did utility-style gaming. I messed with Spirit City: Lofi Sessions quite a bit, redecorating my in-game room for Christmas and streamlining my to-do list by swapping a lot of my weekly tasks over into the daily habit tracker.

My muscles were kind of sore, so I played a daily, standard-length workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, too. It was not fun and I wanted to quit mid-session, but it was good for me.

November 25th, 2024

Today's post is late because I sent myself a screenshot through Hotmail, and web Outlook was down this morning. Alas, the net is but a house of cards that can tumble upon the slightest provocation!

Anyway, yesterday was fun. I had a long D&D session in the evening, but played some stuff before and after. At night, I tried a Switch game called Coffee Pack that I'd picked up for 16 cents, I think, and got pretty quickly addicted. At first, it did seem a bit boring, but once I started getting more colors on the board and saw some of the tricks to shuffle pieces around, I was locked in. It's cute, too, but the gameplay is really satisfying for me.

I got my weekly to-do list typed up in Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, too, which took away an awful, unreasonable sense of panic I'd had from dealing with my standard pen and paper list. Once I reach next Sunday, I'll be able to uncheck what's done and make some quick adjustments rather than writing the whole thing over again, which is a massive relief! I know I'm too old to be having these sorts of organizational struggles, but it's nice that something this simple has made my last couple of days feel so easy.

I did the first part of the 0 event in Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade, too. The cutscenes for it drag on and on, so I was glad to be running it during an arts and crafts session. The prizes for it are nice, though, and I'm pleased to have a slightly more powerful version of Maki on hand! I'm planning to tackle part two of this event on Wednesday or Thursday.

November 24th, 2024

I'm still draggy today, but did some super casual gaming yesterday. I'd been reading about Spirit City: Lofi Sessions on notable neocitizen Aywren's blog, and after their last post about it realized that I had a machine that could run it now. I'm really awful at focusing and paying attention to what I want to accomplish, even if I really want to get it done, so I've been making messy and overwhelming pen and paper to-do lists, which isn't fun. Typing out my to-do lists yesterday still wasn't exactly fun, but the avatar creator and collecting lil' monster friends was, so it balances.

I also played some of a Steam holiday cheapie, Anime Jigsaw Girls: Christmas, because last week I became briefly fascinated with the depths of holiday casual games and feel like I have to follow through on that. It seems short and easy, but the music is a super shrill version of Jingle Bells that really got to me after a few screens. All the girls are in front of the same background, and the pieces are cut the same way every time, so there's no challenge or effort involved. I will finish this. I just couldn't take it all in one sitting.