What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Steam Spring Sale '25

Cat Survivors (Lenovo Legion Go)

July 7th, 2025

My gaming focus was pretty rubbish yesterday. I spent probably a little over an hour with Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour for the Game Boy Color, played in a very above-board fashion. I got really into it in the moment, swearing profusely when the AI opponents used the item that turned me into a frog, and beat the basic quest. There's quite a bit more to do- that was only a third of the game, and there's a full track I haven't unlocked. Thinking about it today, though, I'm not sure if I will ever play it again. It's totally fine, but I am unmotivated.

From there, I was going to make a run at clearing my last two achievements in Cat Survivors. Instead, I played one run, got really sleepy, and then went to buy a pizza.

My other gaming was right before bed. I'm having trouble making a shmup click as "what I want to play" right now, so I played Dodonpachi Saidaioujou for a little bit on novice mode. This wasn't quite it, either, but I was having fun with it. I might just be in a weird headspace right now.

I finished off the day with Super Mario Kart, which I hadn't played for ages! I'd beaten the first two 50cc cups on Nintendo Switch Online a couple years ago, so I jumped right into the third cup very poorly. I ended up doing some time trials of the two tracks that gave me trouble, and did improve my times. It's not likely those improvements will hold up once a stack of AI racers are throwing things at me again, but it did make me feel better. Plus, I like the music in the game so much! It's just fun to play, no matter how poorly I'm doing.

June 30th, 2025

For the past couple of days, I have been waking up at 5 in the morning sick to my stomach nervous, but nothing at all is wrong. It's very frustrating, and I can't figure out how to get past it! I know I will eventually, but being in the middle of a stretch like this is not super fun. Tonight, I kind of want to zone out with some shmups, since those make me feel calm, and see if that helps at all.

Last night, I got stuck into a Survivors-like called Cat Survivors, which was a little repetitive and didn't feel very different from run to run. You can basically get every weapon on every good run, so I wasn't thinking too much about making good or interesting character builds as the power-ups started to fly in. It still really hooked me, though, and I spent a few hours clearing all nine stages. I don't feel like I'll be done with it until I get 100% of the Steam achievements, but that's just because I'm still having fun. Once I'm feeling a little sunnier, I'll come back to it.