What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

DIY "Shareware Disc of Switch Software" Adventure

Bucket Crusher (Switch)

December 11th, 2024

Yesterday was busy, and I'm kind of between games right now. Last night, I just went through my Switch to see what I could finish to clear out some memory and landed on Bucket Crusher. It's boring, but it put me right to sleep, and for that, I am grateful.

June 6th, 2024

Last night, my games were just more of the same. In Fitness Boxing 2, I'm still after the "play all songs on fast" achievement, as well as "Do 10 Free Exercises With Janice," so I played a few stages to chip away at both of those last night. If I play again tonight, I should be able to clear at least the trainer specific challenge there, which'll be nice. I feel like 100%-ing the achievements in this game should be doable.

I played Bucket Crusher a little more, too, but think I am only good for this game once every few weeks. Rather than helping me relax last night, it just made me feel distressingly bored, so I'm setting it aside for a while again.

June 5th, 2024

I was extremely tired after work last night, so, naturally, I chased a 12-minute, top difficulty score challenge in Fitness Boxing 2. I did get the achievement for it, and am pretty proud of that, but it wasn't evidence of good planning on my part.

From there, I did a few levels in the ultra-casual Bucket Crusher, as getting to sleep fast was more important to me than a high quality game experience. It worked like a charm!

May 20th, 2024

I'm doing an early post today, and it feels quite strange. I had a doctor's appointment hours before I usually get up, and am now working hard to not go back to bed, so I can go to the pharmacy before work. My strange late shift schedule is making it easy to get things done today, but I'm so sleepy!

Anyway, yesterday I went to the Ghibli Fest showing of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, so I didn't do any big weekend level gaming. I did finally start up the new event in Fashion Dreamer for this month, a few days after it got going. The photo frames are really cute this time, so I'm looking forward to buzzing through this.

I played a little more of Bucket Crusher, too, but in the daylight, it makes me feel slightly dead inside. It was still okay for right before I went to sleep, but there's a specific time and place for games like this, I suppose.

I kept Merge Pixel running, too, making okay progress between craft time tasks. Even so, I'll feel more relieved than anything else when it's over.

May 19th, 2024

I wasn't my most interested in games yesterday, but I did get on a "making stuff" kick. There's some pretty utilitarian crochet unpictured, but I built this little Tepig model, because I love snapping the easy Pokemon kits together, and a not-lego fruit shop. Tepig longs for fruit, but alas, they are too large for any of these bits and bites to be filling!

Games-wise, my game buying freeze is forcing me to reach back into shovelware I bought in the past, rather than scouring the Switch eShop for new garbage to buy. Last night, this led me to Bucket Crusher, one of my fifty 20 cent pickups from the April Qubic Games sale. My idea when I threw that ten dollars to the wind was that, if I played each 20 cent game for 20 minutes, I'd at least get some interesting posts out of it. I've already breezed past that with Bucket Crusher, which is a fine knock-things-down-until-I-fall-asleep game. It does bother me that the structures you knock down are just pixels rather than having physics to them, meaning you can take a stripe out of the middle and the top doesn't collapse. It's still kind of satisfying, though. I will come back to this.

My Merge Pixel saga continued, too, but I did not make a lot of progress because I didn't care enough to run it for a lot of the day. I'll keep going today, since it feels momentous to be over the halfway line.