Suzuhara Lulu Clears a Haunted-Arcade Horror Game on Friday the 13th After a Bad Ending
Following the landlord’s instructions led to a bad ending; the second try, using the memo found in the arcade, freed the spirit and ended the story well.
NIJISANJI — Suzuhara Lulu of Nijisanji (MahiLulu) played through the horror game Okugafuchi Shopping Arcade (奥ヶ淵商店街) on Friday the 13th, finishing with the good ending after first landing on a bad one. The stream began at 11:30 p.m. Japan time and ran about three hours and 24 minutes.
The game casts the player as a young employee of a real estate firm whose landlord client orders a visit to an abandoned shopping arcade rumored to be haunted. The task sounds simple: place a box in a house and follow a memo. Lulu searched the arcade’s shops for keys, work gloves and hairpins for picking locks, saving at the red telephones along the way. Diary entries left in the shops told of the arcade’s decline, and she said the ghost of a woman was drawn to anyone who made noise. When the ghost appeared, she had to hold her breath with a button press, and she was caught several times along the way. Cats and the many-eyed figures in the shops drew her reactions, and she later called the cats both a comfort and a source of scares.
“This is the ending I was hoping for. I’m glad.” — Suzuhara Lulu, on reaching the good ending
Near the three-hour mark she worked out a dial-lock puzzle built on a riddle about the hours of a clock, entering 0639 after several wrong tries. Later diaries described how a village head had held a woman and her child captive and sealed her spirit in a box. Lulu reacted to the account with disgust at what had been done.
Her first ending, which she took for a happy one, turned out to be a bad ending, with the landlord’s instructions leaving the protagonist blinded. She went back, compared the landlord’s memo with the one found in the arcade, and concluded that the order of steps mattered: light the candles in the ritual room, carry the flame to the shrine candles outside, then place the stone in the sealing box. On the second try the spirit was released, and the epilogue showed the protagonist’s life improving.
Lulu called it the true ending and said she was glad to have seen the bad ending as well. She closed by saying she would probably return to The Legend of Zelda in her next stream.
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This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.