What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

April 24th, 2024

I'm super tired today, so this is a somewhat late post, made during a work break. Yesterday was a somewhat not-normal day, so I played a lot more video games than normal. Knocking another set of event missions out in Fashion Dreamer was my main goal, and I achieved that quite easily. I really like this bold blue cherry background for character photos, and had been looking forward to scoring it.

I also scored a copy of Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition and did a lot of violence. I'd played the start of this before on Wii U, but hardly remembered any of it. I think I'd unlocked Young Link in that version, but am not even 100% sure about that. I'll see what happens, though! Playing this again was fun.

I played some Love Colors to try to get to sleep, too, but got too sleepy to keep playing without actually being able to sleep. Oh, well.

April 23rd, 2024

I'm doing some family stuff today, so this is a quick lil' post while I get some stuff together! I just played some Fashion Dreamer last night after zooming in on crafts, getting well over halfway through the monthly event. I should have this cleared by the end of the week!

April 22nd, 2024

I'm heading into a week with a strange setup today, and I can't decide if I should feel extra motivated at work today, having tomorrow off, or not motivated at all. I'll see how it shakes out!

Last night, I picked up a Pokemon model kit, this time of Zekrom, that I'd gotten frustrated with before. It had seemed to me that the pieces didn't fit, and I was going to give it up for lost. When I got to work on it for the second time, though, I had no problems at all. I wonder what my problem was? Past problems aside, I'm glad to have this done and know that the kit wasn't busted. It's so strange, though.

I kept plugging away at Fashion Dreamer's monthly event, too, but got waylaid by one of the in-game events where an NPC goes to your showroom. It's cute when it does that, and gives the game an extra flash of personality.

Today, I'm hoping for at least a mildly productive Monday.

April 21st, 2024

I actually have a somewhat busy, in a nice way, day today, so I tried to do a bunch of chores before posting here. After lunch, I'm going to go see Spy x Family: Code White at a local "bigger than a normal screen, but not by any means an IMAX, don't get your hopes up" theater, and after that, it's a Dungeons and Dragons night. I play as a barbarian, so I keep reminding myself to remember to use rage tonight. These constant reminders probably won't work.

Anyway, my current gaming goal is to finish Pikuniku before it leaves Game Pass at the end of the month, as it is fun and I'm not sure why I put it on the back burner. I did a couple boss fights last night, using my total lack of pine cone kicking skills to take out some robots, and felt like I was really moving the story along fast.

I did a couple of mission sets for the monthly event in Fashion Dreamer, too, and am hoping to get this event done this week. If I actually play it instead of messing with offline mode, that should be super attainable.

Before bed, I also filled in ten images in Love Colors to relax and knock myself out. It worked, and I actually slept decently. Having something as slow as a pixel color-by-numbers game on hand is sometimes magical.

April 20th, 2024

Last night, I hit a major logic gap in the design of my little city not-Legos. Why would a designer worry enough about retaliation from Fanta to put a Fento sign on their fake store, which is honestly way more unfortunate in today's society, but then straight up just use the McDonalds golden arches on the next building in the line? I respect it, and put tiny McDonalds on display next to my KFE, to make the chicken (?) establishment look even shadier. Still, it seems so strange! This delighted me.

I took longer than I expected to build the two little storefronts, though, so from there, I just did some offline outfit grinding in Fashion Dreamer for some quick, relaxing before-bed gaming. Today, I'll get back to the monthly event.

April 19th, 2024

I really overslept today, so this is going to be a quick post. I cleared Donut County last night, though, and it was really delightful! The complexity curve of the puzzles was really natural, and I thought the last area and final boss were a very good cap on the whole game. I'm glad I finally stopped stashing it and played it. Now, I just have to bring myself to do the same for poor Sayonara Wild Hearts.

I also built this copyright safe not-a-Uniqlo for my little block city street last night. I think HSANHE is the block brand, from the instructions, but I really liked this one. It's so cool how you can see all the tiny, abstract mannequins and clothing racks through the clear front doors.

April 18th, 2024

Yesterday was calmer than the day before had been, but I suffered a major lack of productivity due to not feeling well. I did try a couple new-to-me games, though, and felt pretty satisfied with them both.

Years ago, when I was still teaching overseas, I picked up Donut County in a Switch eShop sale and then proceeded not to play it for fear of "wasting" it. I'm trying to defeat this weird mentality, so I re-downloaded this last night and it was super fun. It does feel very lo-fi Katamari, especially the sound effects, but a bigger focus on puzzles gives it a pretty different feel. I also thought it was funny, which helps. I'm glad I didn't keep stashing this and'll probably finish very soon.

Over on my XBox, I downloaded Harold Halibut through GamePass, since I thought the stop motion graphics looked neat in pre-release press. The look of it is impressive, but I also thought it was really low key and relaxing to play, at least so far. I'm looking forward to playing this a bit more, too.

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