What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

SSX On Tour (PSP)

September 17th, 2025

When I came home tonight, I looked at the puzzle I was working on and got really set on finishing it. It has some big "empty" spaces, so it's been dragging on for a bit and I want to show it off! I like cutesy Halloween stuff, and since this is a plastic puzzle, I can pretty much use it as decor right away. Even though this is a bad photo, behold my accomplishment!

I'm still set on finishing games I've already started, and last night I landed on the PSP version of SSX On Tour. This didn't click with me the best the first time I tried it, years ago now, but I had a blast last night! Even towards the start of the game, it's got good speed, the tricks are crazy, and it feels great to get big air. The soundtrack was too good to play before bed, though! I got too hyped from LCD Soundsystem and Bloc Party and became too peppy to sleep. I might wait until the weekend to come back to this.

I tried to get myself chilled out enough to go to bed with a few rounds of Candivity, but it didn't work so well. Oh, well! I'll get better sleep tonight.

July 18th, 2022

I finished the 10,000 step goal in Pikmin Bloom yesterday! It involved a lot of wandering around, both outdoors and in malls, and I had to walk to the grocery store to achieve it, but victory was mine. There was no prize, but that is okay. It made me feel powerful. This week's goal is to beat a daily challenge, just any of them, to get a chess themed Pikmin. I'm doing the 20k steps for the week, which isn't super challenging. I don't think I could get through the 100k for the week, though, so the doable plan wins out.

In non-mobile games, I picked up my PSP and the system's port of SSX On Tour. I got this very cheaply at the local game store and thought it would be laughably bad. It is janky in parts, that is true, but I was doing dumb tricks, and Maximo Park was blaring out of the tiny little speaker, and I felt very strongly that it was, in fact, a game that rules. I will type about some of the problems more concretely the more I play, but I was really happy with it last night.

Over in Ensemble Stars, I got my title for the last rhythm game event, coming in at a smooth 48,420th, thousands better than the last event! I love the ranking titles in this game. Showing off how badly I suck to other players appeals greatly to me. Here's to a solid 50,000th place in the next event, too!