Jelly Hoshiumi Plays Girls’ Frontline 2 for the First Time, and the Gacha Doesn’t Cooperate

PHASE CONNECT — Jelly Hoshiumi of Phase Connect played Girls’ Frontline 2: Exilium for the first time on a 190-minute stream, and the game’s gacha recruitment ended the night without handing her the character she was after. The streamer said she picked the free-to-play tactics game because she had heard it fit the theme of her new outfit and could be enjoyed without spending money.

She opened by saying she was late but that OBS had not crashed, then ran into a string of sign-in prompts before the game loaded. Chat called the stretch “sign in simulator.” Once in, she compared the first missions to XCOM, the turn-based tactics series, and said she wished more games dropped players straight into gameplay.

“I was just skipping her dialogue like she didn’t matter because I thought I was going to see her again. I would listen to her more if I knew she was going to die in the next 30 seconds.” — Jelly Hoshiumi, after a character she had been talking to was killed in the opening chapter

The story chapter drew the biggest reaction early on. A character she had been talking to died within moments, which she called traumatizing and then turned into the stream’s best line. Later, in a pre-battle screen that lets players borrow another player’s support character, she picked Klukai, who cleared an entire map on her own. Jelly said she had only used the mechanics she was given, and she kept borrowing supports through the night.

The recruitment screens took up much of the second half. After spending the beginner tickets, she chose a character from the beginner list, then kept drawing weapons rather than characters, including what she called “another purple gun.” She said she had heard the guaranteed pull came at 80 and that her progress would roll over to the next banner, and that she was saving what remained for an anniversary banner. Her last 10-pull produced another weapon. “I’m not putting money in this game,” she said, adding that she might finish the grind off stream so viewers would not have to sit through the story.

Chat sent 57 Super Chats and Stickers, and a few of them led to a detour when Jelly tried removing one viewer’s message mid-stream and the room debated whether the sender would be refunded. She also said that a new Jelly Talks episode, in her new outfit, would follow, and signed off by sending viewers on to other streams.