Shirayuki Tomoe Clears Both Modes of Death Momotaro in One Evening

NIJISANJI — Shirayuki Tomoe, a Nijisanji virtual streamer, cleared the one-off game Death Momotaro (デス桃太郎) in both of its modes in a stream of about 106 minutes. The game retells the Momotaro folktale with a death-obsessed grandfather and grandmother, and she said a viewer had recommended it to her.

She opened with the easier Death Mode Off setting after reading the on-screen note that Death Mode On raises the difficulty without changing the story. She had said she would not play it twice. The game began inside the peach, where she dodged kitchen knives that came in from the side, then swam past sharks, and she died within the first few minutes.

“The me who beat the demon on the second run is strong, as expected.” — Shirayuki Tomoe, after winning the rematch with the grandfather boss

The hardest stretch of the first run was the fight with the dog, monkey and pheasant that the grandfather and grandmother set loose on the village. Tomoe had to lure the three into land mines and feed each of them a set number of expired millet dumplings. She cleared the first run before the one-hour mark, then took on Death Mode. In the demon-island shooter finale she found that holding the fire button down worked, after chat told her she had been tapping it throughout,.

In Death Mode the same mine section took far longer, and she set herself a 20-minute limit before getting through it. She lost to the grandfather boss once, then returned for a rematch and won it. She called the game more fun than she had expected and said its story, jokes and music were a pleasure to play through.

She also thanked viewers for 12 Super Chats. She said there would be no stream the next day and that her next one would fall on Saturday or Sunday, with an announcement to come.