What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Venba (XBox Series S)

May 27th, 2024

I've got today off work for Memorial Day, and am very grateful for the day off! I was able to do some quick chores and errands before posting today, so I feel a little productive.

Yesterday, though, I was not terribly productive. I went to see Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, ate too many BBQ boneless wings from my freezer for dinner, and played XBox.

I hadn't explored GamePass for a little bit, so I downloaded a couple games to try them. First, I gave Little Kitty, Big City a shot, but it really didn't click with me. I'll probably give it another shot at some point, but cute as it is, the controls felt weird and it made me a little motion sick. To be fair, tons of games make me motion sick, so that's not really a mark against it. It just wasn't anything I wanted to mess with yesterday.

Later in the night, though, I downloaded Venba and played the whole thing in one sitting. It's a movie-length game, so that in and of itself wasn't an accomplishment, but I got really into it! It felt good when the solutions to the game's cooking puzzles snapped into place for me, and I felt like the combination of visual novel-ish and gameplay elements were paced really well. It stuck out to me as an extremely nice example of storytelling in games, and I might officially pick this up for Switch later.

Speaking of Switch, I did use mine for some utilitarian games yesterday. I did a short daily workout in Fitness Boxing 2, but felt kind of disoriented and had quite a bad time. I'm not going to give up by any means, and I'm glad I didn't give up halfway through. Still, working out sometimes sucks.

I tried to knock myself out with a few screens of Love Colors, too. It didn't really work, but it wasn't bad, either.