Washu Asuka Clears Rule-Following Game Zettai Junshu on the Last Floor, First Try

NORI PRO — Washu Asuka of Nori Pro cleared the rule-following game Zettai Junshu (絶対遵守) in just under three hours on Monday, taking the final floor on her first attempt. She had spent a long stretch of the stream stuck on the lower floors before the last room finally went her way.

The stream began as a plan for her Monday chat stream. She had wanted to try the game, which was drawing attention among streamers, and handed fellow Nori Pro member Kumagaya Takuma a thumbnail she had made for it. The two then started at the same moment in a side-by-side race rather than playing together. There was no penalty: whoever finished first could simply go to bed earlier. Neither knew what the game contained, and before starting they agreed that taunting each other through viewers was fair play. She said the author’s estimated play time was 90 to 150 minutes.

“I cleared it on the first try. Thank you, arrow. Thank you, banana.” — Washu Asuka, just after clearing the last floor

In the game, the player rides elevators down through a building, and each room posts rules, such as not running, not stopping or not looking at something. Breaking one brings up a message that a prohibited act was confirmed and sends the player back to the start of the floor. Asuka counted the floors down from 10 and reached floor 5 at a quick pace around the one-hour mark. Below that, the rooms mixed in puzzles, passwords, a game of Daruma-san ga Koronda (the Japanese version of Red Light, Green Light) and a banana that made her slip, and she repeatedly failed rooms she said she had understood. Partway through, Takuma joined her call to say he had already cleared the game.

She reached floor 3 for the first time well past the two-hour mark and floor 1 shortly before the two-hour-and-forty-minute mark. The last room combined a banana, a laser and a blue-arrow rule. She kept moving through it and cleared it at once, then said she was relieved to finish in under three hours rather than the five some players had taken.

Afterward she said that each failure had become a note for the next attempt, and that she planned to hand the thumbnail to other Nori Pro members. She also announced a karaoke stream with traditional audience calls for the next day at 10 o’clock, ahead of her first in-person fan meeting on Sunday, Nov. 15.