What Did We Play Yesterday?

I'm continuing to putter around in FT2 and play around with landscaping. I finished the holiday questline with days to spare by achieving several of the lower-quantity milestones every day after they reset. This really worked for me, as it was non-grindy and I had a little thing to look forward to each day. I'm really glad they reworked the system this way.

One of the new items is a security booth. This allows you to set custom permissions for a plot of land. It is AWESOME. In FT, I was always wary of giving full access to the farm because I had seasonal crops I didn't want anyone to harvest. Now, you can remove permissions for a section as needed.

I also unlocked a second house. I wasn't sure how many houses they'd offer in the base game. At this stage, there's not a lot of decorations so it's more about being able to run multiple art/sculpting/cooking stations.

FT2 is all I have the bandwidth for right now. I've been playing a few minutes every day but I keep forgetting to take screenshots.

The littlest discovers make me disproportionately happy. Yesterday, I unlocked garden boxes and discovered you could put tiny trees in them.

Progress on the special event continues. It looks like I'll be able to unlock everything doing a little bit each day, which is awesome and a welcome improvement over the grind of the previous game.

It's special event time! Yay! They look cool when you harvest them!

At first I was annoyed because I hit a 16,000 solo harvesting tier which is obviously prohibitive, but I then realized the daily goals reset. It's set up this way to prevent people (not mentioning any names, aka me) from setting up autoclicker unlocking everything in a day. So if you check in each day and harvest a bit, you should be able to unlock a decent amount of stuff over the next two weeks, maybe even all of it.

I opened my farm so other people can visit, but I think I'll see how long I can ride solo. There's a probably outdated cheat engine table floating around (and there's a malware pretending to be cheats on github so don't download that). I don't think it's a coincidence the malware popped up shortly after the event started.

My brain was mushy yesterday, so I piddled around with this puzzle game. The chests are rooms that are reset, so part of the challenge can be moving the chests, or going inside them multiple times. It's interesting.

I feel like an aquarium idler should be right up my alley but this game is boring as shit.

If the fish behaved more like fish (schooling, etc) it would be interesting to watch at least, but as it is, I pop in once or twice a day, sell all my fish, and buy more. And... that's it. You can decorate your tank, and you can upgrade and buy more tanks, but outside watching fish that don't really act like fish there's not much going on here.

I've been messing around with these match-3 games. They kind of stress me out, and I'm terrible at them, but you gain stats over time and I keep coming back to it for a few minutes each night. I think I'd like to mess around more with match-3 games, but maybe one that doesn't have a time element.

I haven't played Castlevania Symphony of the Night since the late nineties. I decided to try it with this fan translation. It's aged excellently. I remember almost nothing about this game, so it's basically new to me.

I'm not sure why the stylish glasses have an intelligence penalty, but I'll take it.

You see what I have to deal with.

That first puzzle, I was like WTF. No, that was nothing. The next one pictured? That's the WTF. What even.

Picked up this Shapez-esque automation puzzle on a whim, and I'm working my way through the puzzles. Sometimes it takes a bit, but when a solution clicks, its very satisfying.

I've been having fun with the short visual novel Billionaire Lovers, which doubles as a paranoia simulator. It's about an MC who unexpectedly inherits $100 million and suddenly has a lot of hot guys in their life being especially nice and/or clingy. It's light on the romance side, but I found the reveals fun and I especially like how quickly the game can end if you're not paying attention.

My only gripe is the MC gets addicted to an annoying Gacha game on multiple routes and I appreciate they were making a point but it was tedious to RP a loot box addict.

If you like VNs that go off the beaten path, this one's a no-brainer at $3 and 2-4 hours playtime. This was an impulse buy based on title and the promise of being scammed. Would definitely get scammed again.