The Games I Played in September

 Ok, it's the last day of September. Let's do a gaming audit.

Mr Bean and my own character, 'Simple Dog', just got married in Tomodachi Life.

 
Recently, I watched a video by HamsterButtocks (powerful username), in which she 'replaced doomscrolling' with playing games on her 3DS. It's a pretty long video, and in it, she details a week of spending all of her downtime gaming.

Something about this video really struck me, and so I was inspired to carve out some time to spend playing games every day, and in particular to do it on my 3DS - partly to enjoy an end-of-the-month summary of my activities in the wonderful, holy Activity Log.

I also played Birth by Sleep pretty extensively on my PS Vita, however, so we'll start with that.

The dwarves are about to encounter a spiky-haired twelve-year-old.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is a strange game. You play it three times, as three different characters whose stories intersect. I can't comment on that too much yet, as I've only just finished the first playthrough as Dull Guy Terra, but I generally enjoy the gimmicky, inventive ideas like this that the series is so fond of. I liked the drops in Dream Drop Distance, after all. And after playing the first few minutes of the Ventus playthrough, where he meets the dwarves from Snow White and has to chase them down and attack them (they deserve this), I believe that I am also a fan of this gameplay mode.

Here are the gorgeous Terra playthrough stats:

Fascinating.

Now, let's move on to the 3DS. 

There were three games that I spent most of my time on here. Tetris (classic good stuff), Hyrule Warriors Legends (seems... ok), and The Smurfs.

Almost seven hours of gaming... she's crazy!

 
Yes, I spent three hours and twenty-one minutes playing the 3DS Smurfs game from 2015, and it was, in fact, my favourite one.

 
It's a simple game where you re-build the Smurfs' village via a series of mini games, and I got pretty into it. Those mini games were compelling despite their extreme simplicity, and when I rolled credits I was pretty satisfied. It's literally fun. You don't get it. You're not brave enough to get it.

The killer has arrived.

 
Hyrule Warriors Legends felt a bit dull, mostly on account of the extremely lengthy missions, but not helped by the game causing a major crash on my 3DS. I've heard that Hyrule Warriors is better on other systems, so that might be the best plan for any future forays into this one, but I am curious: what can I feed these pet fairies? I need to know.

#MyFairy

 
Finally, I did try 'Puppies World 3D' on the 3DS, where you can adopt a cute toy poodle, but truly all I did was name this poodle 'Gromp' and then close the game. So the Puppies World remains, as of now, a relative mystery to me.