What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Summer Paws (Switch)

November 10th, 2025

I am feeling very sleepy and nervous tonight, but I played a lot of stuff yesterday and am going to do my best posting here. One of my big game goals yesterday was to get back up and running with Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku. I'm going to Disney World this winter, and I'm worried I'll be too much of a slug and slow the rest of my party down. Maybe it's useless, but I feel like it could help to play fitness games. I'd like to buckle down and get all the achievements in this one, and I'm so serious about it I even made a checklist. It was kind of a standard play session, but I'm going to try my best.

I was still on my game finishing quest, too, so I started My Bakery Empire, a mobile type game I paid 20 cents for and thought I might be able to beat quickly. It does not seem like I'll be able to beat this so fast, but I do think I'll come back to it. It's very ok for this type of thing, and it lets me buy clothes. It will be fine for a game to help me sleep.

I did, however, finish Summer Paws, which was a cute and lovely hidden cats game. I liked spinning around the little dioramas to find all the sleeping kitties, and a lot of the scenes were very charming. Finding the sleeping cats made me repeatedly think of David Letterman warbling "midnight, and the kitties are sleeping~," but there's much worse fates than to be reminded of old late night talk show bits by a hidden object game.

I also tried I-Chu: Chibi Edition, an offline version of a discontinued mobile game. I'm tired now, so I'll write more about this later, probably.

September 21st, 2025

I'm having some trouble getting going today, but I got a pot of applesauce on to cook and am posting here now. I'm on a very underwhelming roll!

Yesterday, though, I did manage to get some games wrapped up. I tossed a couple hours into getting all the unlocks bought in Candivity, which was a perfectly ok experience. I felt like I was actually starting to get good at it by the end, but the way the pieces kind of moved on their own still bothered me. This wasn't something I really minded playing, but I'm relieved to have it done.

I finished off Cat Survivors by the end, too, getting 100% of the Steam achievements. By the end of the game, I was so overpowered I could stand in one place until a stage event went off, in most cases. No one forced me into the final grind. I just had some misguided determination here. The main part of the game was definitely more engaging, though.

Right before bed, I played a couple of stages of Summer Paws, a 3D hidden cats game. It had been so long since I did the first bit of this game that I totally forgot how it worked. It's not super complicated, though, so I caught on fast and got to cat-finding. The camera controls in this are a bit touchier than I'd like, but it's super cute, too.

March 24th, 2025

I had a doctor's appointment at 7:40 this morning, which is much earlier than I am usually up, so I am zoning out right now. Yesterday, though, I played many games. In the afternoon, I got it in my head that it was time to finish the arcade modes in Tekken Advance. Gunjack was my first character, and that went pretty badly. I had to use my most continues of the whole game, as Gunjack is sluggish and not fun to play as. I got my clear, though, and that was what counted.

After that, though, I ran through as Hwoarang, who is my most frequent Tekken main. I obliterated everyone in that run, and it was good and satisfying. Kicking is fun.

From there, I unlocked Heihachi and did my final run, which was solidly fine. Overall, though, I was pretty impressed by this game. It's simplified, with a small roster and some repeated backgrounds and music, and the AI is really weak. It looks and plays like Tekken, though, which is really cool for the Game Boy Advance! It's not perfect, but I'm glad I took the time to replay this. It was a really good time.

I also had a decently long Sims 4 session, which went chaotically. My main Sim died of a metorite, so she lost her job because ghosts can't work fast food in this game. She's a ghost astronaut now, to get her revenge on the space rocks, so she's fine, as far as being dead goes. I moved another Sim into the house to help pay the bills while that career got up and running, though, and then made all the girls grind their logic skill through game after game of poker to progress in the time limited quest. I'm going to keep going with this tonight, but don't particularly think it'll go smoothly.

I also started a hidden cats game on Switch called Summer Paws, where you spin little diorama islands to find sleeping cats. They are round, cute and good cats, so I'm eager to play more, despite some control weirdness.