Fure Pulls Rere, Then Grinds Rank to 700 in Browser Game Bakwan ID

AKA VIRTUAL — Fure, of AKA Virtual (0cGenesis), spent an 88-minute stream on Monday playing Bakwan ID, a free fighting game that runs in a web browser, and ended it back at a rank of about 700 after losing that mark once along the way.

The plan was set at the start: draw characters from the game’s gacha until Rere, a character the community had been asking for, came up, and only then start ranked matches. Fure said Rere was reportedly the strongest character at the moment and would soon be weakened, so players should use it while they could. The first pulls produced other characters, including two teachers, and Fure grew visibly impatient. Rere finally appeared around the ten-minute mark, and Fure switched to it. Chat had spammed the character’s name in the opening minutes.

“It’s not a loss of skill, it’s a loss of level. A loss of grinding.” — Fure, after losing to a level 50 opponent

Matches in the game are decided by entering number sequences quickly and accurately, and much of the stream was Fure counting aloud through them. Fure repeatedly blamed the game’s font for making the digit 7 look like a 1, and joked about being unable to count. Early on, Fure accepted friend requests from viewers and played them in friendly matches, losing a few to opponents at much higher levels, including one at level 50. By then the friend list was full, and Fure said all requests would be accepted once the developer raised the cap, hoping for 1,000. An in-game gift from the game’s admin arrived mid-stream.

Fure set a goal of 500 rank points, reached it close to the one-hour mark, and was nearly at 600 when a run of losses dropped the score to about 550. After a viewer suggested playing full screen and zooming in, Fure tried it, found the screen too large to follow and returned to a smaller, square window, saying the smaller view made the game easier. Fure reached 700 on the way and then lost ground again before climbing back to about 700 by the end. Fure’s win rate stood at 78 percent. The leaderboard’s top scores were above 7,000, and Fure sat around 137th.

Chat was divided between encouragement and calls of “noob.” Fure answered that anyone mocking would see the name on the leaderboard once the stream ended, and said later ranked play would happen off stream, probably on a phone, which Fure thought was easier than a PC.