Gurenbatsu Maru Can’t Get Past the Police in Twelve Minutes, Vows a Rematch

.LIVE — Gurenbatsu Maru spent most of a Monday-night stream trying to break out of the time loop in Twelve Minutes, the 2021 adventure in which the same 12 minutes of an evening repeat, and ended it without getting past the police officer who keeps coming through the door. She said she would take it up again on another day.

The streamer, of .LIVE’s first generation, warned viewers at the start that she was extremely sleepy and might nod off. She opened the game by going through the apartment, where she found a baby’s outfit meant as a surprise gift, and nearly spoiled it. When an officer arrived and spoke of a killing eight years earlier, she realized that the earlier events were repeating and that she had to stop them from happening.

“I’m sad, but I’ll take my revenge soon.” — Gurenbatsu Maru, closing the stream

From there the stream became trial and error. She tried to slip sleeping pills into a drink, called the police early, pulled together photographs, a pocket watch and a book to convince the other character that the day was looping, and found that nearly every route ended with the officer overpowering her. “I want to beat that police officer,” she said as she worked through the later attempts, then checked and noted that the game saves automatically when a loop ends.

Chat followed along with each failed attempt. Viewers laughed when she pointed a knife in an odd direction while trying to intimidate her on-screen wife, and called out “I can’t win” as the officer won again and again. The stream drew six Super Chats.

Near the end she announced that she would be off on Tuesday and would play a Blue Archive gacha stream at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28.