Hoshirube Sho Clears Rule-Based Horror Game Zettai Junshu After Repeated Failures

NIJISANJI — Nijisanji’s Hoshirube Sho cleared the horror game Zettai Junshu on Tuesday, escaping the building after a run of failed attempts. The game paid out 1 million yen on the exit screen, and the streamer called it the most on-edge game in a long while.

In the game, the player rides an old elevator down through a building, and a sign at the start of each round lists acts that are forbidden: turning around, running, crouching, stopping, meeting a pale face’s eyes, touching certain buttons. Breaking any rule ends the attempt. Each round also asks for a four-digit code, found by reading dice, playing cards, or the weights of objects, before the red-doored elevator will open. Hoshirube went in determined to break no rules, then repeatedly broke them, caught by a rolling ball, an unexpected glance and, more than once, the game’s banana-shaped hazards. Hoshirube said the difficulty climbed from the fifth round on.

“It’s been a while since I felt that on edge. Quite a lot, really.” — Hoshirube Sho, after the clear

To keep the codes in their head, Hoshirube turned numbers into wordplay, reading 1568 and 157 as short phrases and repeating them aloud. It did not always hold. Hoshirube forgot a code mid-run more than once. In the last stretch, hitting the same sequences again let Hoshirube move quickly through familiar rooms, and the clear came with the stream still going.

After the exit, Hoshirube called the game a hit, praising its graphics, the way later rounds combine earlier rules, and the unsettling faces. A hidden eye under the floor at the end, Hoshirube said, was the reason the run did not end five minutes sooner. Chat filled with applause and congratulations at the moment of the clear, and earlier had joined in on the wordplay.