What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Steam Spring Sale '25

Castle of Shikigami (Lenovo Legion Go)

July 4th, 2025

It's not very exciting, but last night, I did some character experimentation in Castle of Shikigami, still not doing terribly well. It was fun, though. I got to do some quality joystick twirling.

I played a round of Vampire Survivors to put myself to sleep, too, and it worked like a charm! It was actually really nice.

July 3rd, 2025

Last night, I tried to see how far I could get on 4 credits in Castle of Shikigami, and I did really poorly! It's almost like anxious exhaustion isn't a good state of mind for improving at a video game.

I was slightly more successful when I tried Hidden Shapes Lovely Cats, a calm, small scale cat themed puzzle game from Steam. I'm an easy mark, so I liked it, and it helped me get to sleep. It'll be nice to play more of this.

July 2nd, 2025

I am still not doing my best, and that is ok. I played another 8 or 9 rounds of Castle of Shikigami last night, and did much worse than I had the night before. A big part of that is that I'm trying to figure out when to use my ranged attacks vs my melee ones, so there is still progress being made. I'm trying to sort out how I want to chase the Steam achievements here, too. I need one clear on each difficulty as each character, but only one 1CC, or one credit clear, per difficulty overall. I'm thinking of chasing a four credit clear as each character, then deciding who to use for my 1CC attempt after that. I'm probably just overthinking things, though.

I played a round of Meteora's Mystic Merge to relax just before going to sleep, too, and it worked okay.

July 1st, 2025

I had another bad round of nervousness keeping me awake early this morning, despite nothing being wrong, but I had a blood test this morning and was able to get some information and help. I should feel better in a couple weeks! It seems like a long time from here, but I'm glad.

Last night, I was able to relax some playing Castle of Shikigami. I'm pretty bad at it, but can consistently clear the first stage within one credit. Yes, I am doing this on Very Easy mode, but progress is progress! I'm looking forward to playing more in a few minutes!

June 12th, 2025

I'm cutting my post close again, just of laziness today. I let Dragon Cliff run while I was working on some other stuff, making brilliant levelling progress while getting a little bored.

I tried Castle of Shikigami right before bed, too, and was bad enough even at Very Easy mode to feel motivated to improve. I kind of want to tackle the Steam achievement list here, but it'll be quite a long road. I'm getting better at shmups every time I play, though, so there's no harm in trying!