What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Tiny Treasure Hunt (Switch)

February 9th, 2025

Happy Sunday, everyone! Last night, I spent a lot of time playing Himitsu no AiPri: Atsumete! Secret Memories for the Switch, which is a tie-in game for a kids' anime I've never seen! Actually, I like the overarching series as a whole, and have posted about some of the related PriPara and Pretty Rhythm games here in the past.

This one is way less of a straightforward idol game and has a lot more of a cartoon tie-in feel than those, but I am grateful for the piles of storybook cutscenes. I've got the Japanese reading skills of an American with misguided enthusiasm and no knack for linguistics, so I am playing largely for the text dumps. There are overwhelmingly colorful and poppy idol stages, though, and some mini-games I've yet to unlock, too, so this'll keep me busy for a while! Please look forward to getting tired of reading about this game.

In games I've got less to say about, I finished off Tiny Treasure Hunt while I exercised yesterday. It was a perfectly pleasant way to spend 40 minutes, and since I've got the sequel in my stash, I'll probably play that soon, too.

I also got way back into Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade. I'd only intended to do some event catch-up, but ended up playing for hours yesterday, running through side modes, laying waste to the boss battle event, and doing an unhinged amount of party optimization. I also keep pulling Megumi's basic SSR, so I guess I'll make him one of my lead attackers. I feel very tough for a free player in this!

February 8th, 2025

I've been having a very laid back day, which is really nice after the week I had! I'm gonna go buy a sub for dinner and, hopefully, play some unlocalized Switch games tonight. It's nice stuff to look forward to.

My nervousness was sky high last night, so my gaming was pretty low key. While I exercised, I played a little bit of a very basic hidden object game called Tiny Treasure Hunt. MASK, who is listed as the publisher for this on the Switch eShop, hasn't ever really blown me away gameplay-wise, but their games are really cute and charming! They take less than an hour to beat and lack challenge, but they have lovely pastels and good vibes. That's all I want sometimes. Anyway, I played 15 out of 20 of stages of this last night, and plan to clear it tonight. It'll be nice!

I kept on with Fit My Cat, too, but hit some levels with missing cats! For the first of them, I saw that a puzzle would be unsolvable without any single square cats, which are featured at the margins of the blurry screenshot below, but none were on the board! I, being reasonable and cool-headed, looked up a solution online to make sure I wasn't just being dumb, and I was not- the solutions online showed those single square cats. At that point, I thought my cat sorting quest had been brought to an early end, so I matched my own cats to the diagram, sure it would just stop forever once I failed to place the last two tiny cats. On Switch, though, it just called the puzzle finished with those two squares left empty!

It's fine, and I'm glad the game works, but also I hate it because it feels dumb to me that those single square cats are just missing! It makes the puzzles feel unfinished, and it happened again over the next few levels, too. I know this is what I get for buying Switch cheapies, but obviously, there's a version of this that works properly somewhere. I demand a patch!

Anyway, that's all for me tonight. I have run out of rage at my cat sorting game and am ready to get on with my evening. Have a good weekend out there, everyone!