What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

DIY "Shareware Disc of Switch Software" Adventure

ASMR Slicing (Switch)

January 27th, 2025

It's not a video game, and it's from today, but I was doodling and it got out of hand, leaving me with a Bulma I'm vaguely proud of. I bought the bottom tier alcohol markers I used here for coloring books, and they look so sharp and smooth! Sure, they'll fade, but they were fun to use here. Anyway, since this is my web space, I'm showing off a bit.

I did play a lot of games yesterday, though, which is why this post is so late. I polished off ASMR Slicing yesterday afternoon, finding it to be a strange and confusing, but ultimately pleasant, little time waster. It wasn't amazing, but I can see coming back to it if I'm having trouble sleeping.

With that finished, I got a little too much faith in my dicier looking 20 cent games, and tried one called Frozen Honey. Usually, I can find at least some fun in any game, and think I am fairly positive about video games! This, however, was the rare game that I violently dislike. You fill up a bottle with candy and goo, freeze it, and then give it to bad celebrity caricatures. They then either take a selfie with it, breathe fire, or puke. Normally, I think I'd be a little impressed by a game where I can make Indiana Jones vomit by giving him licorice, but not this one. It's boring, the graphics are janky, it's a little gross, and it's so low on content that I got all of the base game unlocks in an hour or so.

What really bothered me, though, is that the "VIP" customers in the game require you to buy DLC items to get a perfect score on their desserts. This is clearly aimed at kids, so it seemed really predatory to require DLC like that. I stand by my feeling that these Switch mobile ports are good for game preservation, but that can have as many bad sides as good.

Speaking of predatory, I ignored events and let them stack for too long in Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade, so I got to tackling those yesterday. Yesterday, I worked on a boss event, which is a format I tend not to enjoy. I fought Jogo a couple dozen times, setting the game to run while I did other stuff, then realized I didn't care and turned it off. I got a lot of nice prizes, but story events are more fun.

I started Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, too, because Frozen Honey made me lose faith in video games as a hobby and I wanted to play something made with some level of care. I fell asleep before I could do much, but it seemed nice so far!

I also picked up and tried a shmup with a Survivors-style weapon upgrade system called Randomax. What I played was really fun, but I lost track of time and had to shut it off suddenly, so it was only 30 minutes or so. I am also getting sick of writing, which is a big risk of a post this long. I'll have more to say about this game later!

January 26th, 2025

I'm going to get back to playing shmups today, after rethinking my approach to them. I just want to be more able to enjoy the games, and playing on a schedule was not very enjoyable as a newbie. Trying to figure out what I could clear within a week to do a switch-off was driving me crazy, and I was overthinking scheduling rather than playing on top of that. If I play every day without worrying so much about perfecting a specific game, I think I'll definitely get a bit better at the genre! For now, that's more important to me than perfection.

Yesterday, though, I only played super casual stuff. I started and finished 100 Space Cats within the space of ten minutes, finding the art in this one to be much lazier than the cat placement. If nothing else, these free cat-finders are usually at least cute, but this one just looked scribbled! I was a little surprised by it.

After that, though, I started Find All 2: Middle Ages to continue finding objects, and it was much better. The staggered lists of things to find in this series makes it more fun, and this is closer to a normal hidden object game, with multiple stages and some side activities. It'll take a few sessions to knock this game out, and I'm satisfied with that.

Before bed, I felt kind of wired, but was too dizzy to do much, so I dug into my 20 cent Switch eshop stash to find ASMR Slicing. I am always a little glad to see mobile games like this in a form that won't disappear when their servers shut down. You cut random stuff with weird blades, and that's it. There are "challenges" sometimes, asking you to cut things to the right weight, or get a certain number of slices out of an object. They're not difficult, though, so this is pure fluff gaming. I got to guillotine a cake, so of course that was good, but this is very minimalist and strange. I'm going to try to polish it off today.