What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus (Switch)

December 7th, 2024

Last night, I decided it was time to finish Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus, so I played it for nearly two hours until it was over. This was actually a fine little hidden object adventure game with a goofy story, but I just got tired of the Christmas theming as I played. Last night, I cleared out the main story and unlocked a bonus story, which took about an hour to get through and exposed the poor state of healthcare for gingerbread men. It was a nice, laid back time, but I'm glad I have it finished, too.

Other than that, I did a short workout in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku, in which the opening stretched mysteriously stopped halfway through, dumping me into a normal workout. It was fine, and everything worked after that, but weird.

I kept up with Infinity Nikki, too, though I was really sleepy by the time I logged in. I pretty much just went to the stylist's guild to do a little story stuff and collected a bunch of flowers. It was fine!

December 6th, 2024

I wanted to throw a pot of soup together this morning rather than post here, so I'm doing this during my "lunch" break. I didn't play anything too out of the ordinary yesterday, though. I kept going with Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus, and as I broke into a cop car and prepared to battle the Ice Queen, it occurred to me that I actually have no idea when this game will wrap up. I'm still pretty amused, so that's fine.

I played another half hour of Infinity Nikki, too, which I'm playing on a timer due to a tendency towards awful motion sickness in 3D games. I wasn't sure I'd enjoy this, but it's fun so far! Movement feels nice, even running on a tablet so underspecced that the game asked if I was sure I wanted to try running it, and I like collecting stuff to make cute dresses. I'm excited to play more.

It's a little less exciting to write about, but I cleared the second part of the 0 event in Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade, too. My party's getting pretty good, since I've had killer gacha luck, and the event rewards only boosted me further. There's already another event running, though, which I'm hoping to clear out this weekend or early next week. This game is a nice time killer.

December 5th, 2024

Last night was even colder than the night before, so it still wasn't a great game night. With the help of some hot beverages, though, I downloaded and started in on Infinity Nikki, which has big PS1 vibes on my tablet. I could move over to my Windows gaming machine for this, but I honestly like how crunchy and pop-up-laden it looks on my mobile game tablet. I only played for about 30 minutes, so I'm just getting used to the controls right now. It seems fun so far, though.

Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus was the real star of my game time last night, though. I lost allies. I made milkshakes. I did some logic puzzles that would have been much easier were I not strolling through this game half asleep. With the fate of the holiday season hanging in the balance, I hope to finish this tonight.

December 4th, 2024

There was a nasty wind cutting through my apartment last night, so I didn't want to play video games so much as I wanted to curl up under a stack of blankets and sleep. Eventually, I did just that, but I played a few more screens of Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus first. I did all the classic holiday activities- escaping the dungeon, hang-gliding past tornadoes, chucking water balloons filled with anti-freeze at an elf trapped within a cursed snowman- and inched closer to the end.

December 3rd, 2024

I was still a little tired yesterday, so I went to bed early and played a pretty decent chunk of Yuletide Legends: Who Framed Santa Claus, another victim of my desire to see what's going on in the world of casual Christmas games. This is just a hybrid hidden object game and super basic point and click adventure, and aside from some really weird and disturbing facial animations, it's completely fine. I'll probably finish this tonight, since things seemed to be wrapping up.