Amanogawa Shiina Takes Slay the Spire 2’s New Character on a First Run After a Save Scare

PHASE CONNECT — Amanogawa Shiina of Phase Connect spent about two and a half hours of a 3 1/2-hour stream playing the new character, the Fool, in Slay the Spire 2, a roguelike deckbuilder, and finished the run’s closing fight near the three-hour mark. She said it was her first time with the character and that she was glad the update had arrived, calling the series one of her favorite games.

The session got off to a rocky start. When the game loaded, her progress appeared to be gone, and she asked chat whether it had deleted her data. Chat suggested the cause, among them that the beta branch keeps its own saves. She switched the game to the public beta branch and relaunched it, and the new character appeared.

“I may be Chinese, but I ain’t a laugh factory.” — Amanogawa Shiina, answering chat’s repeated jokes

She built a deck around the Fool’s arrow and attack cards, weighing the route map for elites against her health, and talked through each card choice aloud. Along the way she took a relic that copies every card added to her deck, and traded for another at a mid-run event. After her last fight the game unlocked new content and ascension levels, which she read out as the screen showed them.

Before the game she spent about half an hour talking with chat. She described a nightmare in which she married a character from the anime Gintama, held a meet and greet that her management attended, and was then forced to graduate. She also asked viewers not to bring up other streamers unprompted, saying not everyone is comfortable being talked about on stream.

Chat sent 26 Super Chats and Stickers over the broadcast. Shiina said she is easing back into streaming after a tiring stretch and planned to play Nikke on her iPad the next day.

She closed by reading out the paid messages and raiding another streamer.