Kurea Shuri Recruits Psaro in Dragon Quest IV, Then Runs Out of Time Against the Evil Priest

VARIUM — Kurea Shuri played through the sixth chapter of Dragon Quest IV on Friday, reviving Rosaly with a flower said to bloom once in a thousand years and bringing Psaro into her party. She then lost three times to the Evil Priest, and the nine-hour stream ended before she could try again.

It was the seventh stream of her blind playthrough of the PlayStation version, the extra chapter that opens after the main story’s credits. She opened by hunting for a Metal King, a rare monster that pays out huge experience, and spent the first stretch wandering and leveling without finding one. She revisited the dream scene of Rosaly’s death, then dropped into the new dungeon opened by a hole in the town of Gotside and came close to a wipe there before escaping with a return spell. Her first Metal King finally appeared at about the 1 hour 40 minute mark, and the win paid out 30,000 points.

“I’m frustrated, so I’m going to do my best and get my revenge.” — Kurea Shuri, signing off

A church she found deeper in the game let her warp back to the area at will. Nearby she met a pair of monsters quarreling over whether the egg or the chicken came first, lost to them once, and beat them on the next attempt. As thanks they told her the flower had bloomed. She laid it on Rosaly’s grave, Rosaly came back to life and asked to be taken to Psaro, and after a long search through the castle area, including a hidden door that held a Sage’s Stone, the party reached him. Rosaly’s tears broke the hold of the power he had taken on, he regained himself, thanked the party and joined it. Shuri was delighted with his skills.

She then went back to the church for repeated fights against the quarreling pair, earning a shield and a sword and finally a level for Psaro. After selling spare gear to buy him metal armor, she took the party to the Death Palace, where the Evil Priest admitted he had lured Rosaly away to push Psaro to ruin. The party was wiped out, and after leveling on Liquid Metal Slimes, which raised the hero to level 43, it fell twice more. With another stream to prepare for that evening, she called it there.

Shuri said the next session would probably be the last for the game, and that she would work on levels and equipment first. A rematch the next day, Halloween, was likely, with a Halloween event on her schedule that evening, and she said she would announce it with a new stream. In chat, the Metal King win brought a flood of cheers, and the Evil Priest’s habit of acting three times in a turn drew groans.