Nekota Tsuna Defeats Kaneshiro in a 5½-Hour Persona 5 Royal Stream
Along the way she found that changing the protagonist’s outfit swaps the battle music, and she tried the game’s fusion alarm system.
VSPO — Nekota Tsuna of VSpo defeated the boss Kaneshiro in part 5 of her Persona 5 Royal playthrough on Sunday, in a stream that ran 332 minutes, or about five and a half hours. The title promised a serious heist, and she said at the close that the day had been a robbery rather than a phantom-thief job.
She opened by explaining the late start. She had meant to stream earlier, she said, but fell asleep after lunch and woke at 8 p.m. By the time she finished watching another broadcast it was 10 p.m. She also said she had a singing engagement the next day and had been practicing for it. In the first minutes, which were the busiest of the night with 127 chat messages, viewers joked that her voice had an echo on it.
“The fusion when the alarm went off was so much fun that I want to come back to it. I felt a huge dopamine rush.” — Nekota Tsuna, near the close of the stream
About 14 minutes in, a story scene in which Niijima’s Persona awakens drew the day’s second-busiest burst of chat, with 102 messages in one minute. Around the 1:07 mark the game unlocked Showtime, a team attack that two characters perform together. She noticed that the music changed after she swapped the protagonist’s outfit, asked whether the costume decided which track played, tried outfits tied to earlier games in the series, and then switched back to the Persona 5 costume.
Near 3:57 the game introduced a fusion alarm, which she described as strengthening results while making accidents more likely when fusing repeatedly. Around 4:12 a fusion went wrong and she could not skip past the result. Chat called it an accident and a bad roll.
The Kaneshiro fight began in earnest around 4:50, against a pig-shaped mechanical unit, and she laughed through the boss’s lines. Chat was laughing too in the 4:51 minute, with 92 messages. The boss was down by about 5:07. She closed the stream around 5:30, thanked viewers for the five paid messages that came in, and said she would read the Super Chats sent when she unveiled her new outfit during a chat stream, or after an Apex session she had planned. The stream drew 5,627 chat messages in all.
This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.