Tokiwa Kaname Clears Rule-Obeying Game Zettai Junshu After Two Hours of Slip-Ups
The Palette Project streamer said she had expected to break the rules to finish, but found that keeping them was the hard part.
BRAVE GROUP — Tokiwa Kaname of Palette Project (Brave Group) cleared the rules-based puzzle game Zettai Junshu (絶対遵守, “Absolute Compliance”) on Sunday, in a stream that ran a little over two hours. She said afterward that she had expected the game to end quickly unless she broke its rules, and that obeying them turned out to be the difficult part.
She opened by joking that she is about two millimeters contrarian: tell her to do something and she stops wanting to. The game’s rules, as she read them out, were to follow every instruction on the red-circle signs, find the elevator with the red door, descend, and escape the building. She compared the setup to the horror game Exit 8. Its first prohibition was a voice limit so strict that ordinary speaking counted as screaming, and she moved her microphone away from herself to get through it.
“I thought it might end quickly unless I broke the rules, but just keeping the rules honestly was really hard.” — Tokiwa Kaname, after finishing the game
From there, each room posted a new ban: running, crouching, standing still, looking back, speaking, touching things, stepping into light. A violation ended the attempt with a “prohibited act confirmed” message. Kaname ran during a round of Daruma-san ga Koronda, the Japanese children’s game similar to Red Light, Green Light, and was caught by a stalker, a giant chaser that chat called the “boss banana,” and a trap she had been sure the game had not set. She noticed that one four-digit code kept coming up and tried it first in later rooms, which worked.
She reached the ending after about an hour and 45 minutes, then asked viewers to go back and read the final puzzle, a letters-and-arithmetic riddle she had forgotten to capture. Chat worked through it with her, and she declared the game fully cleared before the stream ended. The game’s creator appeared in chat afterward, and she thanked them. She also thanked the four viewers who sent Super Chats.
Chat spent the opening minutes teasing her over the strict voice limit and ended the stream applauding the clear.
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