Ichinose Uruha and Noa Reach an Abrupt, Black-Screen Ending in REANIMAL

VSPO — Ichinose Uruha of VSpo finished the two-player horror game REANIMAL with Noa on Wednesday, and the ending caught the pair and the audience off guard. After the story’s final scene, in which her character was thrown into a well in what looked like a ritual, the screen went to black, and the game returned to its main menu.

The session picked up where an earlier one had stopped. Early on the pair freed a whale by fitting it with an eye, then fled a flooded town, where Uruha’s character gave birth to a creature that grew quickly. It later ate the companions the pair had helped escape. Later stretches included a sniper who landed a shot on whoever was spotted, which forced one player to draw fire while the other ran, and a tank section followed by a driving stretch in which the camera made the road hard to read.

“Let’s invite each other again whenever there’s a good game.” — Ichinose Uruha and Noa, as the stream wound down

Afterward the two checked whether the game had other routes and learned it had no branching, only a hidden ending that adds a short scene. They then read an interpretation site and went over theories about the ending, including that the rabbit mask and a rabbit’s shadow tied back to Uruha’s character. They also looked at achievement rates and found that the rare ones, such as shooting each other, had been unlocked by only about one in ten players. Uruha said the game took about four hours in all.

Chat reacted to the sudden finish with remarks that it was over too quickly and asked whether that was really the end. There were nine paid messages during the stream. Near the close the two said they would like to play horror together again, with Uruha saying games that lean fantasy over realism suit them better. Noa signed off, and Uruha said she would start a chat stream after dinner, adding that she had read Dragon Ball up to volume 17.