Aragami Oga Goes From Knowing Nothing About Denshattack! to Chapter 2 in Two Hours

HOLOLIVE — Aragami Oga played Denshattack! (電車アタック) for the first time on Saturday, finishing the first chapter and reaching Chapter 2 over a stream of just over two hours. Oga opened by saying they did not know what kind of game it was, and lowered some settings beforehand because the game asks a lot of a PC.

The game is set in a near-future Japan where a climate crisis has pushed people into domed cities and trains have become the way to get around. Oga’s character, Emi, starts out delivering ramen by train and is pulled into the sport of denshattack, a mix of racing and tricks. Oga learned the controls as they went: jumping, switching tracks, sliding, surfing across water and chaining tricks for points. They called the feel exhilarating from the first run and said they had little time to look at the scenery.

“Please try it yourselves. This game is seriously fun.” — Aragami Oga, closing the stream

Chapter 1 ended at the dome with a fight against Yoshie, the top rider in Kyushu, in which the trains combine into a giant robot. Oga said the final stretch was extremely difficult and cleared it after several tries. In Chapter 2, Emi and friends traveled to the Chugoku region, where the gang Dead Ball rules. Oga cleared a run through a mine and then lost a boss fight against the gang’s leader, Madoka, which the story treated as a setback. Oga stopped there, as the story pointed toward Shikoku.

Closing the stream, Oga said they had been drawn in by strong store reviews and that the game lived up to them. They liked that retries are instant, so mistakes cause no stress, and compared the feel to Excite Truck on the Wii. Oga said they would continue the game, but that Street Fighter 6 would be their main game for now: they will play Terry in a team event on Nov. 15. They then read out Super Chats before signing off.