Yakumo Beni Starts JUDGE EYES Blind, Her First Story Game in About Two Years

VSPO — Yakumo Beni of VSpo began a first playthrough of Sega’s JUDGE EYES: Shinigami no Yuigon on Monday, a detective game she had never touched and a story-driven title she said listeners told her was her first in about two years. She said she did not quite believe that herself, but that heavy story games had been rare on her channel, and she played for more than four hours.

Beni said she had asked members in the VSpo server for a recommendation, and Uruha answered within a minute or two. She had never played the Yakuza series (Ryu ga Gotoku), whose creators she had learned made the game. She tried a keyboard and mouse, then switched to a gamepad, and chose Normal difficulty after chat told her it could be changed midway. She said she would move up to Hard if it proved too easy.

“Uh-oh. I’ve got to fight, or I’ve got no money. Let’s fight.” — Yakumo Beni, with her in-game wallet empty near the end of the stream

The game casts the player as a former lawyer turned private detective in the Kamurocho district. Beni’s early hours were tailing missions, which she played with open nerves, and street fights, where she picked up skills and learned to guard and throw objects. Later the detective took on the defense of a yakuza executive arrested over a killing: she questioned people on the street, tracked down a club manager and scouted a rival gang’s front company with a drone. She also picked a lock, posed as an air-conditioning repairman to get into the building, and brawled her way to a gang member who told her the club had been empty at midnight.

Along the way she wandered into an in-game mahjong parlor. She said she had only played a mobile mahjong game before, paid the entry fee, and lost it all. By the closing stretch she had no money left for records or cigarettes and went looking for fights to earn more. Eight Super Chats came in during the stream.

Beni ended the stream after saving, saying she wanted to see the story through this month. She had recording work the next day from daytime into the evening, so she said she might continue then if she was not too tired, and otherwise on a later day.