"I LOVE THIS GAME! I LOVE PUYO-PUYO!"

[dorchadas]

Right now, Genshin Impact is in the middle of the "Lantern Rite," its in-world version of the Lunar New Year--and after years of WoW and then years of FFXIV, let me tell you how refreshing it is to have holidays that aren't transparent copies of modern American holidays, even if they are transparent copies of modern non-American holidays (they've had a Mid-Autumn Festival version too)--and as is typical, there's the main quest and a bunch of minigames you can do for extra Genshinbucks. One of the minigames is a version of Puyo-Puyo, a kind of competitive block-falling game where combos of matching blocks on your side cause various penalties for your opponent. It's been very popular in Japan (and I guess the rest of East Asia) for a while, but until recently was only released in the West under other names, like Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine or Kirby's Avalanche. And I guess this is another such release, since they changed out all the characters again.

Anyway, Laila has really latched on to this game. It's hard to tell sometimes what games she'll want to watch and what games she doesn't care about, but after seeing this, maybe the key is that she loves minigames. When sashagee is playing Infinity Nikki she loves watching fishing, and when I booted up Vintage Story and she saw a river, she wanted me to go fishing in it. Once she saw that sashagee was playing this game, she settled in on her lap to watch, and I told Laila that it was called "Puyo-Puyo" and that led to this.

The subject line of this post was yelled after the video was taken. And this morning, she asked me to play Puyo-Puyo after I mentioned it while we were on a phone call with poppa and nana. She really does love Puyo-Puyo.

Comments

[aguart]

Laila is so grown up already and very cute :)

[dorchadas]

She's so big! It's hard to believe I used to be able to cradle her in the crook of my arm.