Inugami Korone Beats Galactic Racer’s Reigning Champion, With Pod Racers Next

HOLOLIVE — Inugami Korone beat the reigning champion in the championship race of Star Wars: Galactic Racer on Thursday, clearing the spot where her previous session had ended in defeat. The win came late in the second part of her playthrough, which ran about three hours.

She opened by saying the game was very hard but addictive, and that she could not play until morning that day, so she would stop wherever it made sense. Her stated goal was to get past the point where she had lost at the very last moment last time. A first run through a narrow course leaned heavily on the autopilot, and she kept returning to it, joking later that it deserved the credit. When the championship race came, she said her palms were sweating. She lost after realizing she had not been pressing the accelerator. She blamed the previous day’s Sonic sponsored stream, which used a different button layout.

“Anyone who ends up liking Korone has to like her nasal voice too.” — Inugami Korone, on her voice

She spent the credits she had earned on upgrades, taking the ramjet and drift stats to their maximum level of 15, and picked a yellow color scheme for her machine. Over the next stretch she placed bets on rivals’ results in ordinary races, hit three opponents with the Shockwave weapon for a Sebulba event, and took to the ion bolt, which confuses a locked-on machine. She accepted a head-to-head challenge from a rival and won it, which earned her an achievement for her first direct duel victory.

On her second try at the champion, she won the race, repeating “I did it” as the result came up. A cutscene followed in which pod racers appeared, and she said she wanted to ride one but doubted she could beat them because they were so fast. Her connection stuttered shortly afterward, and she ended the game portion there, saying the night’s goal of beating the stage 2 champion was met and that she would continue the story, probably next week.

The last hour was talk. She read out thanks to Super Chat senders (the stream drew 115 Super Chats and Stickers), passed on a viewer’s tip for the ramjet distance challenge, and explained how she reads Super Chats afterward. She went through nicknames viewers had asked for, saying their existing names were too cute to replace, and spent several minutes assuring chat she was not upset after a question she asked about watching two streams at once. She also said she cannot hold a long racing session because the road is hard to read and the speed tires her eyes. Closing out, she said she would not stream on the 7th, when she has a full day of work and a collab at 11 p.m., and would play REPO with Fuutan from 9 o’clock on the 8th.