Kurea Shuri Defeats Estark During a Seven-Hour Dragon Quest IV Stream

VARIUM — Kurea Shuri, a streamer with the talent agency Varium, defeated the boss Estark on Monday during a stream of Dragon Quest IV that ran more than seven hours. She was playing the game blind for the first time, on original PlayStation hardware, and the stream picked up from the second half of the game’s fifth chapter.

She opened with her usual “konshuri” greeting, chatted briefly about a spicy curry she had eaten the day before, and said she planned to retrace places she had noted down on earlier visits. Early in the session she stopped at an inn in Cannaberry where a ghost is said to appear, and picked up a sword with a menacing name. She called it a likely cursed item, and chat piled on with jokes about the name.

“It’s the big Liquid Metal Slime festival!” — Kurea Shuri, while hunting Liquid Metal Slimes

The session turned around 1 hour 40 minutes in, when the hero picked up a lightning spell, the one his grandfather had been about to teach him before the village was attacked, she recalled. Allies leveled up in the same stretch, and Cristo learned the revival spell Zaoral. A little later she found a run of Liquid Metal Slimes, rare enemies that give out heavy experience, and cycled party members through the fights while she declared a “big Liquid Metal Slime festival.” Chat called it a spot for fast leveling.

The Estark fight came at about 5 hours 30 minutes. Shuri said her strategy had worked, and chat remarked that it was over more easily than expected. She noted, laughing, that a Yeti was on screen as the fight ended, and viewers ran with the joke, with one riffing on the game’s subtitle as “the Yetis who were led.”

She closed at about seven hours with an improvised skit that likened her on-stream mistakes to a mock trial at a school class meeting, and said she would like to hold a confessional session with other Varium members. She asked viewers to return for the next installment, and chat answered with farewells and a nod to the story’s next stage.