Toono Oto Beats Seymour on First Try, Then Loses to Yunalesca in Final Fantasy X

VARIUM — Toono Oto of Varium beat Seymour, the boss who had stopped her in the previous episode, on her first attempt in Monday’s first-time playthrough of Final Fantasy X. She then lost to Yunalesca, the last boss she took on, and ended the stream of more than eight hours without a win.

Oto opened by showing viewers what about six hours of off-stream leveling had bought. She scrolled through the Sphere Grid, the game’s character-growth board, pointing to higher HP, new spells and abilities, and armor she had modified to resist status effects such as Zombie and Petrify. She said she had saved about 130,000 in the game’s currency along the way. In a cave on Mount Gagazet, a spirit that offers a summon for a fee rejected her offer of 100,000; Oto took the price to be 250,000 and left to fight Seymour first, while chat picked up the spirit’s “pocket change” line. Seymour fell on her first try about an hour and 40 minutes in, and chat filled with applause. She said one of his attacks came close to wiping the party and would have killed all three characters had it landed harder, and she credited the training.

“Next time, I’m definitely going to win.” — Toono Oto, as the stream wound down

Later, inside the dome, she worked through a floor-panel puzzle by stepping on panels one at a time and remembering which were correct. A guardian boss followed that punished any character standing in front of it, which meant moving party members between positions mid-battle. The party was wiped around the 4-hour-8-minute mark, which Oto called her first game over of the day, and it took repeated attempts and heavy damage from summoned creatures to finish the fight just after the five-hour mark. She said a run of dog-themed Super Chat stickers had lifted her spirits, and later named the guardian as the enemy she disliked most that day, ahead of both Seymour and Yunalesca.

Yunalesca came at the end of a long cutscene. In the first attempt, Oto cast Haste while a Reflect effect was active on one of her own characters, so the spell bounced onto the boss, which stayed hasted through all three of its forms and wiped the party in the third. Chat asked whether the lesson was to watch out for Haste. She worked out how to strip the haste herself, then returned, stole potions that doubled the HP of two characters and reached the third form again around the 6-hour-38-minute mark. An instant-death attack ended that attempt too. Oto said few of her characters carried gear that guarded against it, and by her estimate she had taken about half of the boss’s health.

With her head “no longer working” after hours of boss fights and puzzles, Oto stopped around 3:30 a.m. her time. She said she likes to puzzle out fights herself rather than ask chat for answers. She plans to resume on Wednesday at 8 p.m. with a rematch against Yunalesca.