Shizuka Rin Takes Slay the Spire 2’s New Character from First Look to a Clear

NIJISANJI — Shizuka Rin, a first-generation Nijisanji streamer, played Slay the Spire 2 on Friday morning with the game’s newest character, the Fool, which arrived in an update released that day. She noticed the update as she opened the game, and she finished the stream, which she billed as a short one, with a cleared run.

The Fool is a musician who fled to the Spire, and the character fights with a bow. Rin learned the system as she went. An arrow sits in an enemy until it is pulled out, which takes three attacks or a kill, and until it returns she cannot use the character’s arrow-firing cards. “If you don’t have arrows, having lots of cards that fire them doesn’t help,” she said, working through the first fights. The deck also fills with Sorrow and Joy, status cards the character creates and converts.

“Symphony is strong, isn’t it? They’ll nerf it, and soon.” — Shizuka Rin, on a rare card

The card that drew the most remark was Symphony, a rare card that damages every enemy. She called it strong and predicted it would be nerfed. Later she suggested building around it while using arrows mainly for blocking. After a first run she started a second from the beginning, choosing the lowest difficulty because she judged a higher ascension too hard on a first try, and kept going to the end of the stream.

Chat greeted the new character with a mix of good-morning messages and guesses about how the arrows worked. Six Super Chats came in over the stream. Rin signed off by saying she might play again that night or might rest, and thanked viewers for spending the midday hours with her.