Maemi Tenma Hopes to Finish The World Ends With You Next Stream After Fourth Session

PHASE CONNECT — Maemi Tenma of Phase Connect (Phase 01 - OriginS) played the fourth session of her The World Ends With You playthrough on Sunday, carrying the story into the third week of its in-game calendar and saying she hopes to finish the game in her next stream.

The stream began with roughly an hour of *zatsudan*, or chat talk, while she worked out where to fit the chat window around the game’s two-screen Nintendo DS layout. She covered her backlog, which she said hovers around 200 games and never shrinks, and said she hopes to try hack-and-slash games some day but is “zeta slow” at getting through games. Asked about a recent favorite, she named Metaphor: ReFantazio, praising its world-building and its ending.

“My backlog is ever growing. It’s never going to go down. I’m always going to have 200 games. Always.” — Maemi Tenma, on her game backlog

Once the game began, she said it had been a month since her last session and that she had forgotten how to play. Boss and mission fights in the early going went badly while she relearned the game’s pin-based combat, and she found she had left the difficulty on easy. By the fourth hour she was clearing missions, dressing her character in mismatched gear to build up his stats, and working through a story turn that ended the previous in-game week. In the last hour she picked up a new partner and had to learn that character’s card-combo fighting style, saying she had never played Puyo Puyo to compare it to.

Chat filled the stream with her emotes and reacted to the backlog talk with jokes about too many games and too little time. The stream drew 32 Super Chats, among them a long run of “water delivery” messages that she told viewers to stop fighting over.

Closing the stream, Tenma said the game could be finished next time, though a collab playing Among Us with other Phase Connect members is on her schedule and the timing will decide it. She said she would set up a waiting room for the next stream.